Has anyone made printable battlemaps for the Drangon's Demand, and are willing to share them? I'm specifically looking for Hunclay's Manor, but also for the rest of the scenario.
I'm starting the campaign up with a group that usually play Call of Cthulhu and loves that world, and the Lovecraft Mythos. I've only read book one of Dead Suns so far. Is there Any reason I should not change the Cult of the Devourer to the Cult of Azathoth ? Will it ruin anything further on in the campaign?
I'm starting the campaign up with a group that usually play Call of Cthulhu and loves that world, and the Lovecraft Mythos. I've only read book one of Dead Suns so far. Is there Any reason I should not change the Cult of the Devourer to the Cult of Azathoth ? Will it ruin anything further on in the campaign?
I subscribe to Pathfinder Adventure Path, and get them sent to Denmark every month. But every time a package is caght by customs, I get charged an extra $32 (In Denmark we pay 20% of the value of the content, plus a flat $25 per package), and even though I love my Adventure Paths, its getting too expensive. Can anything be done about this?
- Could it be feasible for Paizo to ship from within Europe?
- Could you offer a subscription option, where your sent a bundle of six books every six months, so I only have to pay for customs once? .
- have you heard of any other clever workarounds for this problem?
Is there any way to get your hands on a Pugwampi in Organized Play? Are there any classes that can get it as a familiar, or any way to summon them? Can they be bought as pets? Could you capture one and legally bring it to other scenarios?
Instead of just having the teams of the rebellion be names on a rebellion track sheet, I would like them all to be flavourfull groups that the players can relate to, that they can love or hate, and for the players to care when the teams are successfull or in jeopardy. So, I would love to beinspired by what others did to add colour to your teams. I like the bonus teams that already appear in the books, especially the tengu sisters, but I need more ideas. My own ideas are:
Advisors: A group of destitute actors, who were banned form the Opera after spoiling a live performance by altering the script, turning a harmless (and rather dull) play into a scathing, seditionous criticism of House Thrune. They are masters of both disguise and sedition, but prone to heavy drinking and a tendency to create drama within their own group.
Outlaws: A holistic gnome detective agency that has met hard times, because their lack of focus made long-term stakouts impossible, and they always tended to get trailed off when their investigations came upon more interesting crimes (think Dirk Gently). Might be imprisoned because they came close to uncover one of Barzillai Thrune's secret plots.
Rebels: A group of elderly citizens, all retired spellcasters, who have agreed that something has do be done, and that the spoiled youth of the city is woefully inadequate for the task, and need ste advise of their elders. At least on is a deaf Oracle, at least one is a paladin in a wheelchair, and one is an alchemist with some seriously shaky hands. There might be a coven of Terry Pratchett-inspred witches. All are grumpy.
Traders: A group of street sausage vendors who have spent their entire lives competing furiously, but have now united behind the flag of the rebellion after Old Owen was arrested by the opressive regime for selling spoiled rat-meat hotdogs. To their surprise they discover that they have the capacity to be succesfull entrepreneurs, now that they don't spend all their energy competing, but they still bicker and argue furiously with one another.
I can't seem to figure out when Barzillai Thrune arrives in Kintargo. I know that Lord-Mayor Bainilus is kidnapped on day -10, and the Night of Ashes is on day -7, but when does Barzillai arrive, and when does he officially become the new Lord-Mayor of Kintargo?
Does anyone know what Paizo's plans for the Face Card line are? Nothing has been released for a while, and especially the more roleplay-with-a-ton-of-important-npcs-heavy APs we've seen recently could really benefit from face cards. Has it been put to the grave?
You can either gain access to summon Pugwampis from the feat Summon Evil Monster (not legal for PFS), or from the First Worlder summoner archetype. Add some Witch lvls for the Misfortune hex. Add on the spell Ill Omen, and the magic item Pugwampi Braid. It's ridiculous, but anyone with a luck bonus ignores it completely.
So can I just say that I find it annoying how opening post mentioned they are talking about character that is mechanically annoying from gm perspective AND that it was Pathfinder Society character?
Like a lot of advice post just one of those points either giving personality/behavior advice or stuff not available in PFS <
My group is periodically degenerating into competing about making the most annoying character - from a gamemaster perspective. It's not about making overpowered characters who can eat any opponent your GM sends your way for dinner, but more about shutting down his thunder in annoying ways. I want to end this by bringing a character so annoying that noone can beat me. So I need your advice. What is the most annoying character you can create. It's PFS, and we're not talking just annoying personality. I was thinking Pugwampi-summoning Witch/summoner with Ill Omen for endless bad luck, but i believe we can do better. Give me your best shot.
But, you could also claim that the wording "the attack takes place as if the swashbuckler had never moved from the original square" means that the resulting AoO should also be resolved as if the swashbuckler had never moved from the original square.
But, why isn't Dodging Panache fully resolved before the opponent gets his attack? It's an immediate action that interrupts the opponent's attack, but after the immediate action, which grants a move and a dodge bonus, is fully carried out, the opponent gets to attack as if you had never moved.
If Dodging Panache was worded "The Swashbuckler can spend a panache point as an immediate action to get a dodge bonus equal to his charisma bonus against the attack. After the attack is carried out, the Swashbuckler can move 5 feet.", then I would agree that the move is carried out after the attack. But it is not. It is worded "when an opponent attempts a melee attack against the swashbuckler, the swashbuckler can as an immediate action spend 1 panache point to move 5 feet; doing so grants the swashbuckler a dodge bonus to AC equal to her Charisma modifier". Why, then, should Dodging Panache be split up to be carried out partially before the triggering attack, and partially after? Why even state that "This movement doesn’t negate the attack, which is still resolved as if the swashbuckler had not moved from the original square" if the movement is not to be carried out until after the triggering attack?
In my take on the ruling, this is the sequence:
1) You get attacked by bad guy
2) The attack prompts Dodging Panache. You get a 5 foot move which grants a dodge bonus. This move provokes AoO from other bad guys, which are resolved now.
3) The attack resolves as if you were still in the original square
4) Snake Style resolves in response to his attack. If the tiny monk moved into reach, he can get an AoO. If Donald the non-tiny monk moved away from reach, he doesn't get an AoO.
Also, the second attack from Snake Strike is not really relevant, as you have already spent your swift/immediate action on Dodging Panache.
Sorry for not being more thorough in my explanation of the situation. You were right in your assumptions, though.
To clarify: I agree that in any other situation, an attack of opportunity triggered by movement is carried out before the movement occurs. My question attains to the wording of Dodging Panache, though. It states that I make the move before the opponent attacks, but that the opponent carries out the attack as if I had not yet moved. The movement happens before the attack, though, and the AC bonus is dependant on the move, so it must be carried out before the attack. Therefore, I am already in the opponent's square when he attacks. My movement into his square (from Dodging Panache) provokes AoO form other opponents, but not from the opponent whose initial AoO triggered the Dodging Panache. Those other opponents could, for instance, chose to trip me, thus negating my movement from Dodging Panache. But that's beside the point.
After I move into the opponent's square as an immidiate action, the opponent makes his AoO, as if I had not yet moved from the original square. Any conditions, such as reach, flanking or standing in a Grease spell, that applied to my former position, still applies to the attack. However, at the moment when his attack misses me, I have actualy already moved. I am already in his square, even though his AoO is carried out as if I had not yet moved. Am I then not in a position to utilise Snake Strike? Or is my counterattack also carried out as if I had not yet moved?
To clarify, we can use a slightly different example. Imagine a normal sized monk/swashbuckler, Donald, who has normal 5 foot reach. He is attacked by an opponent, and activates Dodging Panache to move 5 feet away from his opponent, bringing him out of reach. The opponent's attack is carried out as if Donald was still next to it, but it misses, and Donald activates Snake Strike. Is he still within reach, or has he already moved out of reach?
I need some sharp eyes on this rules conundrum. I play a halfling monk/swashbuckler, who uses various magic to become tiny. This means that, most of the time, i have reach 0, and can only attack foes by entering their squares.
My problem is with the combination og Dodging Panache, Snake Strike (from the Snake Style)and 0 reach.
Dodging Panache:
(Ex): At 1st level, when an opponent attempts a melee attack against the swashbuckler, the swashbuckler can as an immediate action spend 1 panache point to move 5 feet; doing so grants the swashbuckler a dodge bonus to AC equal to her Charisma modifier (minimum 0) against the triggering attack. This movement doesn’t negate the attack, which is still resolved as if the swashbuckler had not moved from the original square. This movement is not a 5-foot step; it provokes attacks of opportunity from creatures other than the one who triggered this deed. The swashbuckler can only perform this deed while wearing light or no armor, and while carrying no heavier than a light load.
Snake Strike:
While using the Snake Style feat, when an opponent’s attack misses you, you can make an unarmed strike against that opponent as an attack of opportunity. If this attack of opportunity hits, you can spend an immediate action to make another unarmed strike against the same opponent.
If I enter the square of an opponent, I provoke attack of opportunity. When the opponent attempts to strike me, I activate Dodging Panache and move 5 feet, into his square. My question is this: Where am i when he attacks? If I'm in his square, and he missis me, I get an attack of opportunity from Snake Strike. If I'm not yet in his square when he misses me, I can't reach him, and don't get an AoO from Snake Strike. It's all in he wording of Dodging Panache, and I can see it ruled both ways.
Am I right to assume that you've mate the maps with Campaign Cartographer? I dabble a bit with it, but I'm far from being at your level.
You have a lot of symbols that I haven't been able to find anywhere, like the Anubis statues and the isometric pillars and doors. Are they available anywhere that you could point me to, or are they your own creation?
I still don't think that's what I need. I need 1'' gridded battlemaps that are easy to produce. Your maps look great, but I need something simpler and something specifically for battlemaps.
Mostly, I need a program that's easy and fast, as I have no drawing or photoshop skills, and not a lot of time. So, I think I need a program where I move things around, but I think You are right in that Dunjinni is no longer supported.
I usually make battlemaps by enlarging the maps from the pdf of the scenario I'm running to 1''/Square size, printing them on A4 labels and glueing them to haevy cardboard. Sometimes, however, the maps are not suited for this, if the solution is too bad, the grid is 10', og other obstacles.
I need some cartography software that lets me easily and quickly make homemade versions of the maps in Paizo's scenarios for printing as battlemaps. I don't need a complex program that lets me do anything I can imagine, but rather something quick and simple but versatile. I also need to be able to do anything from boats to deserts to forests to dungeons.
I absolutely love this, and I will definitely be donating, both for this and for future Works. Hell, I'dd pay for this kind of map for any Paizo product.
I have one request, though. Could you make the pages in the pdf overlap a bit? I print them out and glue them to cardboard, and I find it a bit difficult to make them fit precicely, but a bit of overlap would help tremendously. I could probably do it myself from the .png, but I'm not that tech-savvy.
mdt, i like the way you think, and your interpretation makes sense. However, having studied the target for three rounds also provides the information from having studied for two round and one round. The information gained for first round reads: "Presence or absence of evil". No mention of auras, just presence or absence of evil.
I take that to mean that besides the power of any potentially present aura, The Paladin can also detect if evil is present.
I agree that the lvl 1 commoner is not quite the threat, but that was not my question. And I need an answer for Organized Play, so even though the views on the way of the world will help me in my home game, it won't stand up for a GM rulig in PFSOP.
The ability says the paladin can "concentrate on a single item or individual within 60 feet and determine if it is evil". Not "determine if it is evil and quite the threat". That indicates that there is no HD minimum on evil, only on evil auras.
This question came up in last night's game. It's been asked here before, but a fulfilling concensus or ruling has never been provided.
Let's say a Paladin uses his Detect Evil spell-like ability (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/paladin#TOC-Detect-Evil-Sp-), focusing on a target Commoner. The Commoner has 1 HD, and is Neutral Evil.
The Paladin's Detect Evil Spell-Like ability states "At will, a paladin can use detect evil, as the spell. A paladin can, as a move action, concentrate on a single item or individual within 60 feet and determine if it is evil, learning the strength of its aura as if having studied it for 3 rounds. While focusing on one individual or object, the paladin does not detect evil in any other object or individual within range."
However, according to the actual spell (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/d/detect-evil), creatures with 5 or less HD and are not Outsiders, Undead, [Anti]Paladins, or Clerics will not have an Aura of Evil. However, the spell itself does allow the caster to detect the "Presence or absence of evil" with no reference to auras.
So basically, here's what I want to know. If a Paladin targets a Neutral Evil Level 1 Commoner with 1 HD, does the Paladin see the Commoner is evil or not?
Two of my friends would like to try out roleplaying, so I figured I would run a lvl 1 module for them, with them playing pregens, before running an AP for them.
The have no experience with RPGs, but they have heard a lot about it, and they are both avid boardgamers.
I haven't tried any of the lvl 1 modules except Crypt of the Everflame, so I need your advice: Which one should I run for them?
It's Organized Play, and people can get pretty anal when it comes to rules interpretations. I'd rather be able to back up my rulings with some kind of forum consensus.
Lava or magma deals 2d6 points of fire damage per round of exposure, except in the case of total immersion (such as when a character falls into the crater of an active volcano), which deals 20d6 points of fire damage per round.
Would you take this to mean that a character that falls into a 3 feet deep river of floating lava would take 2d6 points of damage, but if she falls prone and becomes immersed [for instance, from taking damage from the fall into the lava) she would take 20d6 per round until she can get back on her feet?
It seems odd, btw, that you only take 2d6 point of damage from walking though waist deep lava, but that's another discussion.
The second action the Half-fiend Water Elemental in the final scene takes is to use Blasphemy on the players. The spell description says:
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Furthermore, if you are on your home plane when you cast this spell, nonevil extraplanar creatures within the area are instantly banished back to their home planes. Creatures so banished cannot return for at least 24 hours. This effect takes place regardless of whether the creatures hear the blasphemy or not. The banishment effect allows a Will save (at a –4 penalty) to negate.
Creatures whose Hit Dice exceed your caster level are unaffected by blasphemy.
The question is: Is the Half-fiend Water Elemental on it's home plane? You could argue that it was created on thye Prime Material Plane, and that it is native here. You could also argue that both water elementals and fiends are native to other planes, and that the creator, Nicoroux, is extraplanar, and created the thing as an extension of itself. What do you people think?
Also, am I right to assume that, if the Half-fiend Water Elemental is native to the Prime Material Plane, that the Blasphemy spell would banish an eidolon?
What if the players destroy the loot. What if they burn down the entire house the Bad Guy was residing in, along with all his magic items, his scroll collection, his valuable paintings, his collection of rare erotic dwarven literature and the deed to his banana plantation. Is that any different than the Bad Guy destroying his equipment by using it?
When a bad guy in a scenario has, say, a potion of Fly, the scenario assumes that the players loot it after disposing of the bad guy. The potion appears on the cronicle sheet, and it's value is part of the GP reward for the encounter, and thus calculated in in the final GP reward on the chronicle sheet.
But what happens if the Bad Guy drinks the potion before his inevitable encounter with the Lady of Graves? Do I cross it off the chronicle sheet and subtract (1/12) it's value from the GP reward?
And what happens if the players drink it during the scenario?
Seriously, the comments and advice from Sir_Wulf is what turns this from a 4-star to a 5-star scenario. Every author should take time to do this. Thank you.
Reading all this really made my day. I've been skimming the boards for month, hoping to some day find this exact thread, with the good news that things are finally turning for you, Nic. And to have it spiced up with the outstanding actions of Lou just helps me recover a bit of my faith in humanity.
I always had a feeling that it was a bad trip to some personal hell that got the better of you, Nic, and not disregard for the fans and the community. Here's to hoping that those long gazes into the abyss will some day be turned in to yet another soul shaking Logue-adventure, that will once again shatter my faith in humanity.
I'll second the notion that the Viking Lodge Game Days, planned for July 28–29, are the best for foreigners to visit, as they are the easiest to to combine with a night out in Copenhagen. The tradition was actually started because Joshua J. Frost wanted to visit us, so it's been foreign friendly from the start, and it would be awesome to have foreign guests become a regular part of the Viking Lodge Game Days.
As a side note, it was at the Game Days i 2010 that I managed to become the only GM ever to kill off Joshua J. Frost's character in a PFSOP game. The first thing he did when he got back to Seattle was to retire the scenario (The Third Riddle) :)
You think you could do better in Copenhagen, Michael Brock? (nudge, nudge, dare, dare)
I have to say I'm inclined to disagree with you here. I'm well aware of the PFSOP rules when it comes to change the rules or the scenarios, but that doesn't mean that PFSOP GMs are not expected to interpret the rules. That's one of the GM duties. That's how the game is meant to be played.
In this specific case, if the GM is not to interpret the rules as to what spells function differently under water, then I guess spells like Obscuring Mist, Gust of Wind, Sleet Storm, Gaseous Form and Acid Fog would produce perfectly normal effects to. That would just be plain silly.
But that discussion wasn't the intend of this thread. I just wanted to know if there are any clarifications on this subject that I have missed, and it seems that there isn't. So, thank you for helping me out.
In PFS GM's don't have the leeway to make things up like they would in a homegame so electricity, acid and other things don't get changed without a specific rules citation.
In the Core Rulebook, it is stated on page 432 Fire spells are subject to specific rules when cast under water, but how about the other elemental spells? All it says is that "Some spells might function differently under water, subject to GM discretion". But are any guidelines presented anywhere? How does electricity function in water? Does acid dilute in water? Does frost freeze it up in solid blocks? I know it says GM discretion, but I'm playing PFSOP, so I have to know how it works in RAW.
How does a Wall of Fire (the spell) effect visibility, and how does it effect ranged attacks through the wall? There is no mention of it in the spell.
About The Spellwars
Hi all, Gobo Horde here :)
I stumbled upon the Whitesmith a while ago and it quickly became a favorite of mine. It allows you to do some things that you just simply could not do with regular Pathfinder and indeed most of the rest of the SoP system. But however much I enjoy the flavor and concept of the Whitesmith it has its flaws, and indeed is susceptible to some pretty significant combinations that are extremely potent. So! My question to you guys is this: How can we break, exploit and outright powergame the carp out of the Whitesmith?
I have found out quite a few ways to do so, and I will be demonstrating some of them below, but first, let me ask you another question. What would happen if you gave a 1st lvl character 34,500gp and told it to go crazy? Would it be more powerful then a normal 1st level character? Of course!
This is an extreme example of the upper limits that a first lvl Whitesmith could theoretically have, at least for short periods of time, and serves to highlight why the Whitesmith is so powerful.
But to begin with, we need to understand what makes it strong, and that is because the Whitesmith can Ignore Preresiquites. A lot of classes can get random and often strong bonuses to stats like attack and damage but they all generally follow the same limitations, namely gold. Most classes cannot afford a Double Barreled Shotgun or a Double Barreled Pistol until quite a few levels later, and even if they could, they most certainly would not be able to afford to enchant it. Gold is the limiting factor. A Whitesmith could easily have a +2 Longsword, a +2 Shield, a +2 set of Hide Armor and a +2 backup ranged weapon at lvl 1, all of it essentially permanent.
The reason the Whitesmith can do this is because of the ability Personal Refinement. This ability allows you to maintain an Enhancement effect on a piece of equipment you are holding, wearing, or that is on your person without concentrating. You also get a more potent Enhancement as you go higher in levels.
There are normally 2 ways that you can maintain a Sphere power;
Option 1: you can concentrate on the effect. This has the obvious drawback of taking an action but it also has the liability of being disrupted by injury, vigorous motion, being knocked unconscious and such, ending the effect early.
Option 2: You spend a Spell Point to maintain the effect for a duration. The has the benefits of persisting even if you are doing something else, or get injured. The effect will persist even if you get knocked unconscious and, as far as I can tell, even if you die. It persists. However it has a limited duration.
There are talents that extend the duration's above, like the Lingering Transformation talent that extends one of these effects but the base rules are still basically the same.
The Whitesmith adds a third option to the above, it is not maintained by concentration nor does it follow the rules for spending a talent (namely an expiration).
Option 3: the effect is maintained without concentration and for as long as the object remains on your person. This means that you don't have to worry about your concentration getting disrupted by things like damage or getting knocked unconscious (you cant concentrate in your sleep) so you should be able to maintain it in your sleep. It also has the only duration limiter being if the object gets removed from your person (meaning you can also sheathe your weapon and keep the effect, or maintain that enchantment for that ring in your pocket). You cant, however give it away without having to resort the the previous 2 methods.
Since this is the crux of most of the fun things you can do with the Whitesmith I figured that I should start out by making sure that is well understood, and then go from there :p
I will also often be referring to 2 specific ability combos, so I am going to spell them out first and immediately. Then also list a few extras.
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The first combo, Shape Weapon
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This takes advantage of the Alteration talent, Morphic Weapon and its Shape Weapon ability to change one of your arms into a weapon you are proficient in. Specifically its any weapon you are proficient in, and it is treated as a manufactured weapon. This means that if you take EWP; Double Barreled Shotgun at lvl 1 you can transform your arm into one on demand, from first level onwards. It is also a manufactured weapon so you can enhance it without having to concentrate or spend SP.
It does, however have a short duration, and we are only a Low Caster for all things non-Enhancement, so we take the Natural Shifter trait to boost our Caster Level by 2, up to our HD, allowing our CL to keep up with our level up to the 4th level before it starts to lag behind. Considering the only thing we need from the ability is the extended duration you should also take the Lingering Transformation talent to increase the duration to 2x your CL.
Other methods you can use to attain this is to take a 2 level dip in the Shifter class to pick up the Shape Weapon Besidal Trait to do exactly the same thing for unlimited durations. If your really lucky you might be able to convince your GM to allow you to take this as an Arsenal Trick to replace Morphic Weapon)
Or you can take the Transformation feat and Improved Transformation feat at 5th level to gain a permanent battle form that also grants you 1 use of Shape Weapon that lasts as long as you are transformed. It takes 2 feats instead of 2 Talents and is only available at lvl 5 onward but it can be as close to permanent as you need. Plus Transformation is overpowered as is.
This is also, assuming that you take enough Drawbacks necessary to get enough Talents.
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The second combo, Animated Limbs
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The second Combo is to take the Animate object Enhancement Talent to add the Graft Construct point to a Prosthetic arm to replace a "missing" arm you dont have. Specifically, Graft grants you;
Graft wrote:
The object can serve as a replacement limb for a creature two size categories larger than it. While attached to a creature, the object ceases to act as a creature of its own. Instead, the creature benefiting from the graft ignores any penalties due to missing that limb, and gains one of the object’s natural attacks. If the object possesses any Special Attacks modifying that natural attack, the beneficiary of the graft gains it as well, using their size in place of that of the object.
Because you are using Enhancement magic on an item (the prosthetic) that you are wearing, then the effect lasts indefinitely. This also allows you to Enhance the Slam attack of the object you are wearing/holding to grant it Enhancement bonuses and special abilities and maintain them with Personal Refinement and then benefit from them yourself.
You could replace all 4 of your limbs with fake arms/legs and gain up to 4 primary slam attacks, each fully Enhanced. If you were able to extra limbs somehow you could also replace those, such as by taking Improved Transformation and the Additional Limbs Talent.
"Why yes, I am a Octoplegic, Cyborg of DEATH. It was a REALLY bad accident, ok???" Again, take any Drawbacks necessary to gain the Talents you need. I am not going to argue the validity of whether you can attack with your feet and stay standing or if you have to fall prone to do so. Different thread :P
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Other combos
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Beyond that there are a few other combos that are quite useful. The next Combo is to take advantage of the Tribal Mark Dual-Sphere feat.
Tribal Mark wrote:
You may use your enhance sphere ability to create enhancements that duplicate the effect of being within totems. The tribal mark works as an enhancement, using your Enhancement caster level. If used on a creature, the creature is treated as if being within the totem that is the basis for the enhancement. If used on an object, then any creature carrying the object is affected as if they were the target of the enhancement their self. Only the creature enhanced or carrying the enhanced object is considered inside the totem for effects that require another ally or an enemy to also be within the totem. The enhancement can not be used to rally.
So lets break this down.
1: "The tribal mark works as an enhancement, using your Enhancement caster level."
So this becomes an Enchantment, and we can get around our Low-Caster level for non-Enhancement sphere effects.
2: "If used on an object, then any creature carrying the object is affected as if they were the target of the enhancement their self."
So we can Enhance an object on our person, and therefore maintain it with Personal Refinement. Note. We could Enhance 2 different objects, and gain 2 different Totems affecting us at the same time, AFAIK. I cannot find anywhere within the Tribal Mark feat or the War Sphere that says that multiple totems cannot overlap, or that multiple totems cannot be placed on the same creature. Theoretically you could Enhance 5 different items with 5 different totems and have them all effect you :p
3: "Only the creature enhanced or carrying the enhanced object is considered inside the totem for effects that require another ally or an enemy to also be within the totem."
a: you should not attach a negative totem to yourself, it will not directly affect enemies. It can affect you in response to an enemy attack.
b: "...for effects that require another ally or an enemy to also be within the totem..."
Important thing to note, no other creature counts as being within your totem. However effects that affect creatures outside of your totem will still take effect. Notably the Totem of Forsight and the Tactical Totem totems.
4: "The enhancement can not be used to rally."
Noted.
Basically, you place an Enhancement on a piece of your equipment and maintain it with Personal Refinement and, as long as the effect is maintained you gain the benefits of a Totem that affects yourself only.
There is no perceivable limit to the number of different totems you can have on you (except the total number of items on your person :p).
Useful Totems:
There are a few totems that grant you a static bonus, but since they are intended to be granted to an entire party they are often small. There are also totems that flat out dont work with Tribal Mark, such as Scourging Totem which only affects enemies within the totem range (yourself only). There are also totems that are intended to effect enemies and would, undesirably, only target yourself with these. I am not going to talk about any of these, if you want to gain a +1 to hit permenantly, go for it.
Totem of Foresight: This one is a beauty for a ranged character. You get to attack two targets and "Psyche, just kidding LOL!" only strike the most advantageous one. Basically, as long as there is 2 targets to hit in range you toss a coin and get a re-roll to hit against that target. Re-rolls to attacks are rare and powerful, also, if you have lots of attacks it gets messy :p
When you activate this totem, choose a teamwork feat you possess. Allies within the totem that qualify for that feat gain the benefits of that feat. In addition, all allies are considered to have that feat for the purpose of determining whether other allies benefit from that feat. For every 10 caster levels, choose an additional teamwork feat. When you create this totem, you may choose to spend a spell point. If you do, you may share any teamwork feats you qualify for, not just teamwork feats you possess.
1: "When you activate this totem, choose a teamwork feat you possess."
I will do Bonded Mind for this one. Assume you have it.
2: "Allies within the totem that qualify for that feat gain the benefits of that feat." I am the only ally, only I get the benefits but I already have the feat.
3: "In addition, all allies are considered to have that feat for the purpose of determining whether other allies benefit from that feat." "That Feat" is Bonded Mind that I gained earlier with this totem so only I would gain any benefit. However, all other allies(not allies within the totem) are considered to have Bonded Mind for the purpose of determining whether I benefit from that feat.
So: Only I get the feat, Only I gain benefit from the feat, all other allies are treated as having the feat for my prerequisites only.
4: "For every 10 caster levels, choose an additional teamwork feat."
K.
5: "When you create this totem, you may choose to spend a spell point. If you do, you may share any teamwork feats you qualify for, not just teamwork feats you possess." "K, wait. Whut???"
Seriously, I can only assume this was not written as intended, nor was its interaction with Whitesmith/Tribal Mark considered.
As written, you gain the benefits for EVERY teamwork feat that does not have a prerequisite, and EVERY teamwork feat that you do qualify for. AT THE SAME TIME. For 1 SP. Even removing the Whitesmith/Tribal Mark combo that is for 1 minute per level for your ENTIRE TEAM.
How do you justify granting 40, 50, or more feats at a time, even if its only for a few minutes at a time...
I am going to just ignore this option, even in a guide about exploiting something, this option is just broken beyond use. :P
So basically all allies (just Me) gain access to a teamwork feat. All allies count as having that feat to see whether I gain benefit of that feat. I choose to ignore the 1 SP option >_>
This is the Inquisitors Solo Tactics, so have fun figuring out which teamwork feats would be fun :)
I Like Bonded Mind, as it is basically 1-way telepathy, Coordinated Maneuvers for the additional BAB, Horde Charge, for powerful charges, Intercept Charge, negates charges against your allies and "forces Aggro", Lookout for enhanced Surprise Rounds, and/or Target of Opportunity, for ranged AoOs.
Invigorating Totem: Gain Temp hps equal to your CL, and they regen by +1 per round. Forever.
Rebellious Totem: Gives you good, continous resistance to mind control.
Totem of Mobility: 2x 5ft steps per round. Excellent for ranged DPS, casters and full-attack melee characters alike.
Totem of Shared Sight: Noooooottttt sure about this one. It might work, it might not? If it does, you get to see through all your allies' eyes. The illusion aspect does not work. It is my assumption that "Allies within your totem" was just assumed.
Totem of the Heroic Heart: +4 to all Str, Dex and Con to all skill and ability checks? Pretty nifty :)
An Alternative to this combo;
You can take the Squadron Commander feat (and the Squadron Elite drawback to take it for "free" if you want) along with the Tribal Mark/Tactical Totem combo above to grant yourself a constant Outflank feat. You then take the Pincer Formation Squadron feat.
Every time you flank someone, you get a +4 bonus to Attack and Damage. Pretty nifty!
The Cheese: you basically spend 2 SP to grant an object a 1-shot use of one of your Sphere abilities that it can use at a later time.
The Negitives: this does have the drawback of requiring a non-trivial amount of SP expendure. First off, you must spend 1 SP to animate the object. Then you must spend 1 SP to Enchant the object. Then you will often want to Spend 1 SP to enhance or extend the Sphere Effect. Finally some Sphere abilities require you to spend additional SP, so you will have to supply those. All told, you may be spending 2, 3 or more SP per object, and that can easily limit you to one or two castings in an adventuring day. Each casting is also single use.
Lastly, the Whitesmith is a Low Caster and while you may be able to keep up to an Incanter with your Spell pool, you simply do not have many Spheres and Talents to give to your animated objects. You will be able to spam a precious few abilities but you would not have much diversity.
The Lindberg X( Do you know what one thing that Pathfinder is loathe to give? The ability to "save up" spells from one day to another. Because you ignore the normal duration on Animate Object, and instead allow it to last from day to day then this does exactly that. Spend 2 SP today and save an effect. Tomorrow your SP refreshes and you have a "free" dormant spell ready to cast! It gets worse then that...
The object you animate becomes its own creature. It has its own hps, saves and intiative. It is a creature seperate from you. This also means, among other things, that it has its own actions! Let that sink in for a moment. You alone can only cast a single spell per round. 5 people could all cast 5 spells per round.
If you Enhanced 10 constructs with a Destructive Blast, then all 10 constructs could cast Destructive Blast at the same time.
Ditto for massive Cure castings.
Now each casting is a one-shot-and-done but the only cost is prep time.
And for a final question; how long can a Construct concentrate for, if that was the only thing it did >:D (We gave the Whitesmith unlimited duration Enhancements, why not give it unlimited concentration for all its other sphere effects as well? #logic) The Application: this trick would most likely be best utilized by a Whitesmith 1/Incanter X multiclass character. 1 level of Whitesmith is all you need to aquire Personal Refinement and then the Incanter would gain significantly more talents and bonus feats (and full CLs!) to give yourself a very wide selection of Spheres and Talents to abuse this trkck with. Its one thing to have on-demand, free action heals and destructive blasts, its another all-together to have access to multi-target Mind Controll coupled with widespread Telekinesis and Baleful Polymorph. You can also grant your armor the ability to Enhance your natural armor/natural attacks and task it with maintaining it with concentration.
To take this a step further, I would give my Incanter the EWP: Shuriken feat. Now I have entire stacks of readily availible and light objects that I can animate. Whats more, because they are treated as ammunition they then can be drawn as a free action meaning I can "Command" the object with a: "When I draw you, activate yourself against the target I point you towards!" command, giving me easy and justifiable free-action casting. Chuck the Shuriken afterwards for dramatic effect :P
Oh, you can also Bestow Intelligence on your animated objects for extra funzies but there is no real benefit in doing so, and its a real pain rolling all those mental stats :P
The Permanent Alteration Scroll trick.
So this is a trick you can apply to 'any character and is not Whitesmith specific but it can be a boon to some whitesmith builds, like the quadriplegic natural attacker or the Giant Death Robot builds.
The basic idea is you pay for a scroll to be made for you by a higher level caster, this scroll is of the Alteration Sphere and has the Permanent Transformation advanced talent, therefore requiring it to be 10th CL.
10th CL grants you a form of your choice (even one that costs SP) and 3 traits to apply to the form. The Permanent Transformation talent makes the duration permanent and gives you some defense against getting the effect dispelled.
The basic scroll costs gp, however you can add extra traits by increasing this cost.
How Sphere Scrolls work and Cost Breakdown:
So, (25gp) base cost, multiplied by the CL (CL 10), multiplied by the Complexity (+5).
25*10*5=1250gp.
Volia! You are now a permanent (something)!
The Octodriplegic build uses this to gain a couple of extra arms, and then replaces them all with Slam attacks via Graft.
The Giant Death Robot uses this to take on the Construct form with the Size Change trait and a few defenses like DR to gain armor plating. Or Morphic Weapon to turn an arm into a giant cannon. He would then take the Ascetic Control talent for good measure, becoming more construct like, now no longer bleeding, eating or breathing.
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FINALLY! The fun stuff. How to break the Whitesmith >:)
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With that done I am now going to lay out a few ways in which the Whitesmith can be seriously broken or taken advantage of. Some of these are minor, some are pretty significant. It is my hope that by the end of this you could add to my repertoire and show me new ways of cracking the system ^_^
Always Weaponized, or Steel Fists of Doom!
Using the Grafted arm trick above, you can graft a Tiny Construct onto your arm. Because it is Tiny sized, it gets 1 Construction point and a 1d2 damage die. We can take Construction Flaws and the Complex Animations feat to increase our available Construction Points to 2+flaws.
Tolerable flaws might include;
Immobile (+2) it cant move. Its attached to our arm and we dont want it running off anyways...
Aberration (+2) Our arm is made of flesh. Go figure. We cut our arm off and attached a fake arm made of flesh in its place :p (I personally like a metal arm instead but this is more "optimized") Also note that since our arm "ceases to act as a creature of its own" then it should be largely safe, unless your GM all of a sudden takes pleasure in chopping your limbs off, or you stick it into a vat of acid. Or something.
Centralized (+2) You have an elbow. Nuff said.
And, if you want;
Brittle/Flammable/Fragile (+1 each) You gain Vulnerability to "X"
Clunky (+1) Arm gains the staggered condition? not sure how this one works :P
That should give you about 4-10 points, depending, to use on Construction traits like making the arm more durable or improving the natural attack or adding special abilities/qualities to the natural attack.
It is possible to have an arm made out of Adamantine that also ignores hardness from lvl 1 onwards. Take the Graft (+1), Metal (+6) and Material Properties (+1) traits to give yourself an insanely expensive Adamantine arm (It is dispellable though).
While the arm will only have a 1d2 damage die (for being a tiny construct) the arm can/will be your only natural weapon and so get +1 1/2 Str to damage as well as -1/+3 power attacks. It is also possible to improve this attack beyond the piddly Improved Attack (+1) turning it into 1d3 damage. You can, for instance grant it the Slashing Attack (+1) giving it a 19-20 threat range and then give it the Keen Enchant with your Personal Refinement to have a large (17-20) threat range with a lot of static damage.
Or you could give it the Burn ability (+1) x5 or something >_> Your piddly 1d2 slam attack deals +5d6 fire damage too!
You can also give it special attack qualities such as grab (+1) and constrict (+1) to give you unusual combat methods. For instance, replace all 4 limbs with natural attack limbs with the Grab quality and turn into a real brutal grappler, even from a low level.
You can even take the Grab (+1) trait with a bunch of Hollow (+1) traits and swallow up a medium creature inside your arm ^_^
Note!: Graft only allows you to gain the benefits of one natural attack, so the traits that grant extra attacks are generally useless. The magic is also dissipated if the item leaves your person, so movement traits are actively detrimental.
The Cyborg Blender!
Take the Graft trick above, and take it to a whole new level. You know how you can replace one arm with a Slam-granting construct? Well why not replace both? And why not replace both legs while your at it? Heck, why not grow an extra pair of arms and then replace those with Slam-granting construct arms? It can get even worse then that later on >:3
Again, I am not going to enter the debate on whether you can attack with natural weapons on your feet or if you have to be prone to do so, I am just going to assume it works for these purposes. I am also not going to be the one to try and convince your GM to let you play a Quadriplegic, or why such a character would even be adventuring to begin with ^_^
So the basic idea is that you take the Graft's ability to grant you a Slam attack and apply it multiple times. On top of that, you can grant your Slam attack some pretty mean abilities and apply them to ALL of your limbs. Things like +5d6 fire damage, or grab/constrict/swallow whole/poison. Or have 4 natural ranged attacks and become walking artillery :p
2 arms so modified is equal to TWF without the feat, without the penalties and with full Str to damage. And they get full Enhancement bonuses. In addition 2 legs is equal to Imp TWF with a haste weapon, and is even better then an Alchemist or Barbarian doing the same thing.
Note, you can also stack on a bite attack that you might have gained from somewhere else, although it would not benefit from Personal Enhancement because it is not a piece of equipment.
To take this a step further, if you are able to get yourself extra arms somehow you could replace those as well, IF you can convince your GM to let you ;)
One way of doing this is to take the Imp Transformation feat, granting you 1 trait that stays with you, such as the Additional Limbs trait.
The OBSCENE thing to do is to use the Permanent Alteration Scroll trick above to give yourself many, many extra arms and then replace them all...
You are an Octodriplegic Cyborg with FLAMING FISTS OF DEATH!!!
The "You have HOW MUCH AC??" build
SoP has quite a few ways to boost your AC and defenses, and a fair few of them can stack to pretty crazy levels. On top of that there is the Armor (+1) Animated Object trait. We will start with this one :p
A small creature can animate his armor at 3rd level, a medium creature can at 5th level. Animated armor specifically grants you a pool of bonus hps equal to the construct creatures hps. This is 2d10+10 (21) for a small construct and 3d10+20 (36) for a medium construct (remember that unlike PCs, creatures always take average hps each level, even first). HOWEVER, you can also grant the construct the Durable trait (+1) to the construct multiple times, which grants it +10 (small) or +15 (medium) hitpoints for each trait you spend on it :P
With 4 applications of Durable, a 3rd lvl small creature can animate a set of simple, lightweight Padded armor and gain a pool of sixty-one temporary hitpoints, and if that ever breaks, its a swift action removal, then a standard action (and 1 SP) to enchant a new set and finally a full-round action to don a new set, renewing the pool for about 5gp :p
If THATS not enough then remember, your a Whitesmith! Equipment is your game! A 3rd lvl Whitesmith can grant an Enhancement bonus of +3, so enchant your construct armor with a +2 Impervious enchantment.
Impervious wrote:
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It gains double its enhancement bonus to hardness and hit points (instead of just the enhancement bonus)...
Hardness and Hit Points: Each +1 of a magic weapon’s enhancement bonus adds +2 to its hardness and +10 to its hit points.
So, since you are giving it a +2 bonus, you would normally grant it +20 hitpoints, but the Impervious enchant boosts that to +40.
Congrats! Your lvl 3 Halfling Whitesmith has a pool of Temporary hitpoints of over one hundred hitpoints..., and it only costs 5gp and 7.5lbs to carry a spare XD
Not enough? Well, you can have both sets enchanted at the same time, as long as it remains on your person, so simply have your spare sitting in your backpack, fully enchanted and ready to go, and with the SP paid in advance. Then it is a swift action to remove, and a full round action to don, only setting you back 1 round...
Now onto AC!
SoP has a lovely little gem known as the Transformation feat. This lovely little feat grants you the Shapechanger subtype and the ability to transform into 1 Form from the Alteration sphere as a full-round action, with an indefinite duration. Basically you can play as an animal or angel or something all day long. You can also take the Imp Transformation to gain 1 trait while you transform, allowing you to take something fun, or something like Gift of Speech, so you can talk, if your form would not normally allow it :P
There are some fun ones in here, like Orb Transformation where you turn into a floating head, or Axiomatic Transformation where you turn into an angel. For this, we are going to look at the Construct Transformation.
This grants you, among other things, +4 (+1 per 5 levels) Natural Armor.
Assume level 6 for this, so you get +5 NA.
Next you wear Half Plate armor, so +8 Armor, and wear a Steel Shield, for another +2.
Then you Enchant your armor with Enchant Equipment. Enchant Equipment's, Enchantment bonus is equal to: 1, +1 per 5 levels. Then you take Greater Enchantment, granting you and additional +1, then your Personal Refinement grants you +1 per 3 levels, so +2 at lvl 6 (and why I am choosing lvl 6 for this :p). That totals up to a +5 Enhancement bonus.
So cast that Enhancement bonus on your Armor and maintain it with Personal Refinement. Then on your shield. That brings you up to +5 NA, +8 half-plate, +5 Enhancement bonus on your armor, +5 Enhancement bonus on your shield, plus whatever your Dex might be (max +1), so +1.
Congrats, you have an AC of 36!
THEN, with the Natural Enhancement talent, you can cast Enhance Equipment on your natural armor for 1 hour at a time by spending 1 SP, granting you +5 Enhancement bonus to your NA (not to your Armor, so it stacks), bringing your total up to 41.
Not enough? You can take the Tribal Mark combo with the Totem of Iron for an additional +1 bonus.
Or, you could take the Tactical Totem with the Shield Wall teamwork feat if you have a buddy wielding a shield for a +2 instead.
Either way, 40+ AC and 100+ bonus hitpoints at level 6 ^_^
The Final, the Big Kahuna himself!
So this is the big, final build that will utterly demolish current standards :p It makes use of most of the tricks I could think of to create something truly ridiculous >:)
First off, the Whitesmith ignores prerequisites, and that is what makes it powerful. Second off, one of the more powerful options from a pure DPR aspect are gunslingers (largely at lvl 5 but I wont get there :p). However Guns have their own limiting prerequisite that we will need to overcome. Luckily I have found the perfect class to overcome them, if your GM will allow both SoP and PoW then you can take 3 levels in Whitesmith with a 1 level dip in Gunsmoke Mystic.
The Gunsmoke Mystic is just stupid for firearms :p
Reasoning's and rant about Gunsmoke:
If I didn't know better I would say the design committee behind the Gunsmoke Mystic went something like this;
"Are guns fun?", "Yes!", "Do people play Gunslingers?", "No, not really.", "Why not?", "There are too many limitations.", "So if we removed all the limitations then would people play them more?", "Yes!", "Would that be more fun?", "YES!", "Ok. Lets remove ALL THE LIMITATIONS!!!"
So lets go through the list;
1: Cost?: Free gun :p
2: Bullet Costs?: make bullets out of thin air.
3: Gunsmithing feat?: Get it for free.
4: Reloading Action Economy?: Make reloads free actions!
5: Single Weapon limitations?: Free Proficiency with ALL firearms. Free Rapid Reload with ALL firearms!!!
6: 2 hands required to reload?: Removed.
7: Misfires suck?: penalties reduced. Stacks with not needing paper cartridges :p
8: Gun Misfires anyways?: Move action removal. (Cant have you stop shooting!)
And that's just at lvl 1!
So Whitesmith removes cost restrictions and Gunsmoke removes firearm limitations
Mystic gives my firearm proficiency and free-action reloads (ignoring maneuvers and everything else for now). Shape weapon gives me 2 double-barreled shotguns for ~ 6 minutes at a time, and for free at a level when no one else can afford even one. Add in TWF and Rapid Shot for 3 shots a round.
Whitesmith grants each shot +3/+3 Enhancement and +1d6+1 fire damage (and +1d6+1 Frost if you can fit in Dual Enhancement)
Assume you take enough drawbacks to get the Talents you need.
So each shotgun bullet deals 2d8 damage, you fire 2 bullets per shot and you fire 3 times per full-attack action.
+3/+0 BAB, +5/+0 Dex, -4/+0 Dual Wielding, -4/+0 TWF, -2/+0 Rapid Shot, +1/+1 PBS, +3/+3 Enhancement, +1d6+1 Fire, +1d6+1 Frost.
Makes each bullet ~ +2 (2d8+6+2d6)
Or 12d8+36+12d6 if they all hit :P
Congrats! you can deal about 132 damage average if all your touch attacks hit when you nova!
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Anyways, thats most of what I can come up with, I hope you enjoyed the read and I would love to hear more of your thoughts!
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Hey GM, I am creating my Armorist (Whitesmith who can transform my metal arm into any weapon (including guns).
Now I have been working on my casting tradition and selecting most of my talents and I would like some of your thoughts.
Josephs magic is all about his metal arm, in fact its central to the flow of his power. Joseph has for so long channeled his power through its metal pistons and wires that it has become the natural way to cast magic, and casting would be very difficult without it.
A key element of Josephs magic is its ability to transform. However this is not as simple as it first seems since this requires enough mass to physically take on the new shape, and to that end Joseph has installed a hidden compartment in the arm with an access point in the palm of his hand. Joseph then feeds iron ignots into this "mouth" in his hand to supply the required mass, which his arm then transmutes into the desired shape and density.
Drawback/Boon breakdown:
Center of Power It is pretty obvious when I start casting and where the magic is coming from, especially once I start jamming metal ignots into my palm, my arm starts transforming or I start scribbling on it with a piece of coal. If you crit the wrist then its a good shot that you will do some sort of damage to my power supplies ^_^
Galvanized I really like this drawback but it doesn't quite work. It requires that I wield a weapon but my arm is the weapon. Plus if you never sunder or specifically target my body parts then it is just free power. Still, I really like the drawback of if I ever lose my arm then my magic just stops dead. Your thoughts?
Material Casting I really like this one :) My arm has a hidden chamber in it and the materials required will be small iron ignots. I then feed the iron ignots into my hand to "feed" it the mass required to transform XD
Somatic Casting I require 1 arm free to work my magic.
If guns are commonplace or above then guns become Martial weapons which would mean I have proficency, which would also mean I can transform into them from lvl 1 onwards :)
I will also list Sphere-Specific drawbacks in conjunction with the relevant Spheres and effects, so you can get a feel of how they will mesh.
Joseph also gains 2 free talents at level 1, plus any he gains from his drawbacks. Talents "paid for" by his Drawbacks have an * attached.
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Alteration
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Joseph utilizes the Alteration sphere to change the shape of his metal arm into the shape of any weapon, firearm or tool he may need (no tools yet until he gets an Anytool) but he can transform his arm only and it is obvious when he does so. Furthermore the duration currently only lasts a short while and he has to reenchant his weapon every time.
Alteration Sphere this grants him the Blank Form for 1 minute per level and 1 Trait.
Morphic Weapon* this grants me the Shape Weapon option, allowing me to turn my metal arm into any weapon I am proficient in. I have to reload the weapon and reenchant it every time I summon it but it does count as a manufactured weapon meaning I dont have to spend SP to do so with Personal Refinement.
Lingering Transformation* increases the duration to 2 minutes per level.
Natural Shifter trait increases my CL (and therefore my duration) by 2, up to my Character Level. Very important as I am a low caster and my CL for non-Enhancement spheres is only 1/2 my CL. And I am taking a multiclass dip on top of that :P [ooc]I will take the Extra Traits feat just for this if we have no traits, its that important.
Favored Form trait if I have an extra trait. It grants me +2 uses of Shape Weapon :)
Lycanthropic drawback I can only target myseft, and specifically my metal arm.
Unnatural Transformation I only partially transform myself and therefore I am still quite recognizable. Plus I transform my arm into a greatsword or something and that is unnatural :p Furthermore my Enhancements have a very distinctive mark, a hammer drawn in coal to further identify me.
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Joseph is long practiced in spending small ammounts of magic continously. His very way of life depends on it and he has gotten good at maintaining his Enhancements even while sleeping. Couple this with his profession as a blacksmith and you have some well made weapons and armor. However this focus has a folly, and Joseph's magic dissapates if it is too far from his body, making his magical Enhancements unsellable.
Joseph's magic has another flaw, it needs a visible, binding mark on the object to focus and maintain the magic, specifically he scratches on a quick symbol with a piece of coal, a blacksmiths hammer. As you can imagine, a coal marking would have significant negitave reprocussions if Joseph ever got submerged in water and it further identifies Josephs particular brand.
Enhancement Sphere* gives me access to +1 Enhance Equipment.
Greater Enhancement* increases Enhance Equipment to +2.
Animate Objects* You can animate objects on your person. This enables the animated prosthetic to function.
Enhancement Dependency you suffer -2 to fort saves if you are not affected by an Enhancement.
Marking Enhancements every Enhancement has a forge hammer etched into it with coal. Water washes this off.
Personal Refinement causes Enhacements cast on my equipment to persist without concentration. Whitesmith ability.
I then have 1 Talent left to spend on something, and my 2 feats will probably be Additional Traits and PBS.
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The Arm
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So, Josephes arm is technically a tiny construct animated and sustained by Josephs Personal Refinement. It doesn't act as a construct itself and instead grants Joseph full functionality of that arm.
The arm itself is a technological wonder that by all rights shouldn't function if not for Josephs constant magic animating it. The arm is highly dexterous and capable of significant transformitive abilities, when Joseph provides the right magic the arm can change shape to just about anything made of metal that its owner can think of, if he provides enough iron and mass to fuel the transformation. The arm also contains a hidden compartment within the "bones" of the arm with its entrance cleverly disguised into the palm of the hand and this compartment can be used to store a cache of spare iron and gunpowder, or whatever else Joseph may need to hide...
When all else fails the arm can serve as a potent bludgeoning tool if Joseph is somehow left without a weapon to fall back on, and the metal hand has a grip of iron...
Breakdown:
Basic prosthetic arm with full functionality but no power. Highly complex design with pistons, gears and wires.
Animate Object Enhancement talent animates the object, granting it 1 Construction Point.
Construction Points (-6)
•Metal (-2) the arm is made of metal.
•Graft (-1) allows the arm to serve as a prosthetic. Gives Joseph a slam attack.
•Grab (-1) preresiquite for...
•Swallow Whole x2 (-2) grants a tiny sized compartment to store material componets and bullets/powder. Has an opening in the palm (through its grab ability).
Flaws (+5)
•Immobile (+2) its my arm. I dont want it walking off...
•Clunky (+1) I needed 1 more construction Point, plus the arm is bulky. (I can change for a vulnerability if I need to, such as if it will interfere with Josephs actions)
•Centralized (+2) I have an elbow. Nuff said.
The arm has a 1d2 slam attack with the grab ability and Swallow Whole. I have enhanced this weapon with a +2 Enhancement bonus.
I have also Enhanced the arm's armor with a +1, Impervious Enhancement bonus.
Due to Material Casting I am required to expend 1 silver piece per level of iron every time I try and transform my metal arm (it requires raw material to change shape) or enhance it.
Due to the Galvanized tradition, if I were ever to lose my prosthetic arm then all my magic would just stop dead as that is the conduit for my power. I would then have to reset everything with hefty concentration checks until I am able to replace it.
Arm stats:
Left Arm
Tiny Animated Construct with +2 Slam Attack (1d2/20), Grab, Swallow Whole
26/26 1d10+20hp, Hardness 12, AC 21,
Str 6, Dex 14, Con -, Int 9, Wis 9, Cha 15
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•Metal (-2)
•Graft (-1)
•Grab (-1)
•Swallow Whole x2 (-2)
•Immobile (+2)
•Clunky (+1)
•Centralized (+2)
---Enhancements---
Enhance Natural Attack +2
Enhance Natural Armor +1, Impervious
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