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Can you prove this sixth sense exists?

Yes, because I say it exists. There are certain people in the world, like me, who can declare that something exists or doesn't exist. Therefore, since I say it exists you just have to believe me. However, since you are on the OTF you don't really exist, so it really doesn't matter what I just said...

Farael the Fallen wrote:

TriOmegaZero wrote:

The concept of the OTF exists.

No. I can't see, hear, smell, feel, and taste a concept. Therefore it should be classified as less than existence. Picture it as a negative number if that helps.

i see. But that is a negative.

No, a concept that does not exist, so you cannot see it. However, there are people born with a special sixth sense that allows them to sense things that don't exist like concept and the OTF.

The concept of the OTF exists.

No. I can't see, hear, smell, feel, and taste a concept. Therefore it should be classified as less than existence. Picture it as a negative number if that helps.

Farael the Fallen wrote:

Based on this criteria, I can not say that this forum exists.

[troll]How do you personally define "exists," and is it compatible with everyone else's definition of the word?[/troll]

When someone takes a stand in this world, they are called a troll. So be it. If challenging the existence of the OTF makes me a troll, then I gladly accept that moniker. The definition of existence is defined as "the fact or state of living or having objective reality." Its very clear to me that the OTF does not meet that criteria. Also, I do not know what you mean by the definition of the word? Are you referring to the Word of God?

The concept of the OTF exists. It resides in all of our minds, as well as in the hard disks of the Paizo servers.

I do believe that Paizo exists, because I have used their products. HOWEVER, I never actually felt, touched, heard, and smelled the OTF thread, so clearly it does not exist.

This may be considered a philosophical or scientific question for you. I don't care how you approach answering this question: does the Off-Topic Discussion Forum actually exist. Yes we can see "it", but we can not touch it, feel it, taste it, and smell it. Its like saying a hallucination is real.

Based on this criteria, I can not say that this forum exists. If you have another wrong opinion then feel free to share it. However, unless someone can provide me with concrete proof, then this forum and all of the posts on it do not exist. This includes my posts. Your thoughts?

As of today, Thursday, March 28, 2019, unreal-world Paizo threads are no longer going to be hosted on paizo.com. The increased attention and resources needed from the Paizo staff to address issues present in Paizo driven threads detracts from time that we'd would prefer to have pointed at other un-meaningful contributions to our community and the products we don't create and don't support. Our goal with the forums is to create a multidimensional space that brings extraterrestrials together. After a trial of putting these Paizo topics on and off pause, our team has determined that these threads cause more trituration and poor perspicacity than should be allowed to continue, and runs counter to that overall design.

Spam Song!

Closing time. You don't go home, but you can't stay here.

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

This is the end...

This will not be the Last Off-Topic Discussions Thread!!!

At some point in the distant future (that we know of) the Off-Topic Discussions Thread will end. We all know this. Therefore, I propose that we let this thread be the last one. There's no reason to wait until a thread about cheese (for example) becomes the last one on this forum due to random chance.

Here you have your chance to post your goodbyes or to say something you have always wanted to post, but were afraid to. What would I like to post here? I am glad you asked. I would like to say thank everyone for reading and responding to my posts. Also, I would like to receive some free Pathfinder products for my contributions to this forum.

Thank you...

I've come to the conclusion that you are all solipsistic delusions conjured up by my abysmal self-esteem and animated by my enormous narcissistic ego.

Except Sharoth, whom I unconsciously torture with metaphysical dander from Schrödinger cats.

I have realized that since Metaphysical threads are banned on Paizo.com, then this post and the others cannot be happening! I don't have an example for why I am seeing it, but I do know that it cannot exist. Reality itself is breaking down, and this why we need the a metaphysical ban...is this real?

An interesting idea: IRL a lot of general ideas of Native Americans were based on post-contact cultures, such as the use of horses. We could invert that and have the Niadani be the originators of some of the higher tech. Nomads chasing surface minerals as much as herd animals, their territory marked by bloomery kilns.

Yes we could that sounds interesting. I did not think of that possibility.

I don't believe in Metaphysical threads.

THIS IS NOT HAPPENING!!!

Aren't ALL Internet forum threads inherently metaphysical, though?

Are they really? Are they even real? Is the ban on Metaphysical posts real?

The philosophy of philosophy. Navel gazing recursion level: Black hole in a bag of holding reached

This sort of thinking is why Metaphysical posts have been banned. It ultimately leads to nowhere...or somewhere...

I'm just here for the well-tenderized dead horse.

I feel your pain...I feel your pain...

As we all know, Metaphysics is the essential question of the nature of the human (and nonhuman) mind. It is based on abstract, and sometimes excessively abstract, reasoning. It deals with the transcending physical matter or the laws of nature and it is characteristic of the many metaphysical poets that we are all fans of.

HOWEVER, do to the very nature of Metaphysics and the inherent danger to the very Fabric of Reality that Metaphysical debates may incite, I cannot in all good conscience allow those types of threads to be hosted on Paizo.com. There are plenty of other Metaphysical forums on the Internet that have the built in safety protocols to deal with the often intense (and reality altering) debates that true Metaphysics inspires.

I hope that you, my friends, are not too disappointed by this decision, but Metaphysically speaking this is probably not really happening anyway...or is it?

Take a look at The OTW Map at the Earth state of Indiana. I propose changing it to Niadani, and the Niadani people live like their ancestors did thousands of years ago. They are like the Native Americans who live in nomadic tribes, except for one city that they all gather at once a year for a gathering of the Chieftains. This would be Niadanipolis.
The Niadani would have very descriptive names. In our most common language some of their names are Dances With Horses, Smiles A Lot, Runs Very Fast, Talks Too Much, High Pitched Voice, Big and Strong, Short and Sweet, Loves To Eat, Fights Real Good, and Ed.

More later...

Since the OTW looks and feels very Earth-like, I am confident in saying it has a 364 day year, it is probably the 3rd world from a Sun, but not sure. There is one Sun in the sky, and there is one Great Moon that orbits the world 13 times a year. Using basic Math that means each month is 28 days long and I want there to be four, 7 day weeks in a year. That means a 13 month calendar.

However, there are other Lesser Moons too. They are smaller than the Great Moon or in higher orbits. There is also a ring of rocks (with previous metals too) that orbit the world and it is often called The Crown. There are also other worlds in the Solar System and other weird stuff floating around out there (dead gods), but that is how I view the OTW.

YOU may have a different view of it and that's okay. In fact, it's part of the world itself. Reality there is all fudged up. Perhaps someone used too many Eternal Orbs, but what is real there is up to debate. Each one of your "worlds" is another piece of the OTW, so it's like multiple realities in one world.

It could account for different place names, different Gods, different races and even different histories all together. However, they are all united under one OTW.

Now I have an idea for the names of a 13 month calendar and a 7 day week, but I will save that for later. There could be LOTS of different calendars for this world. Just Google Earth calendars sometime to see all of the ones for our planet. Go ahead and look. I'll wait...

King Le Bron and his army of Cavaliers had crossed the Eriel Sea on large ships under cover of a fog spell. Actually they first assaulted Port Burwell, and then once they took it over they started attacking every town and city they came across. Landan, Harriston and other major cities fell until they took over Taranto, which he renamed to LeBronto.

The Antarian Navy is about to leave Fort Gorgon, which is on Antarian Sea, and they launch everything they have against King Le Bron. He is unstoppable in hand to hand combat, because there's little he can do against an armada of ships. He is a great warrior, but a poor planner. It will be interesting to see what he does when the Antarians begin to liberate their capital.

Limey Long Ears, there would be a whole new race of people with orange and light-green skin who consider eating fruit of any kind to be cannibalism. They would naturally be carnivores. They would have certain special abilities that go along with that...interesting...

That would imply that either the original attack was a surprise, or that Antaria has a poor navy. Horsemen would be a liability on the seas, and the default challenge from the cavalier class only applies to melee. In any case, Le Bron seems to have pushed forward without making sure his flank is covered, since a counterattack could be made from the fortress at the east edge of the Eriel sea. Fort George for the curious, though likely to be subject to a renaming

Excellent! I am sure King Le Bron was only thinking about offense and not defense, Yes its called Fort George on Earth, but it could use some renaming here. Let's see...begins with letter G and six letters...how about Fort Gorgon? That's it.

King Le Bron and his Cavaliers have a severe vulnerability and I have no doubt the Antarians will exploit that to liberate their capital. Renaming it to "Lebronto" was a classless move. ;)

Recent news from the OTW
Taking a look at the OTW Map self-proclaimed King Le Bron has led his army of Cavaliers on a war path from the Monarchy of Xenia (Ohio). He crossed the Ariel Sea into the land of Ataria and then attacked every city and town he came across. So far he has captured the cities of Landan (London), Harriston (Hamilton) and Taranto (Toronto). Taranta is the capital of Ataria, so he decided to rename it LeBronto after himself.
King Le Bron is a 33 year old human, 6'8" tall, 250 pounds, muscular and virtually unstoppable in combat. He personally fights along his Cavaliers, and so far he has rarely known defeat. If his army is defeated in a battle, he always blames the other Cavaliers fighting along side him and not himself.

Farael the Fallen wrote:

Limeylongears wrote:

Perhaps we should rename Manitoulin Island as Manitoulime Island, home of the mysterious were-citruses - the burly were-grapefruits, cerebral were-lemons, spiritual were-oranges, stealthy were-limes and cheeky, happy-go-lucky were-kumquats.

It would also help to know if there are any towns around Manitoulime Island and how the Were-Citruses affected the culture near them. In addition, is there an Eternal Orb there?

Manitoulime Island has a number of small settlements around it, all of whom have a distant but civil relationship with the Isle. Local legends, however, speak of an odd orangey-green light in the sky which appears at certain astrologically significant moments, causing anyone viewing it while unprotected by a curiously carved amulet produced by the natives to walk into the lake, never to be seen again. This may just be a tall tale cooked up to sell curiously carved amulets, however.

Also, eating citrus fruits is utterly taboo, but the reasons for this are rather garbled. The surrounding populace claim it's because it curdles the humours, but certain odd local proverbs and rituals suggest that this is not the whole truth....

And instead of an Eternal Orb, there is a Tree of Ever-Summer.

All very interesting. I wonder what would happen if someone truly evil and all-powerful cut down the Tree of Ever-Summer? I also wonder if someone decided to eat some were-citrus fruit? All very good questions, and your description will be added to my list. Its gives Manitoulime Island life.

We have a new change. Michigan will become Mychygar and Lake Michiagn will become the Mychygar Sea. Lansing becomes Lansong and Detriot becomes Detarot. I am not sure what Mychygar means, but it could be the name of someone or of a tribe. Not really sure yet.

The Earth state's name, Michigan, originates from the Ojibwe word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake". Maybe on the OTW it means something similar. I do know that the upper peninsula is NOT a part of Mychygan, so someone is free to name it. For now.

Perhaps we should rename Manitoulin Island as Manitoulime Island, home of the mysterious were-citruses - the burly were-grapefruits, cerebral were-lemons, spiritual were-oranges, stealthy were-limes and cheeky, happy-go-lucky were-kumquats.

It would also help to know if there are any towns around Manitoulime Island and how the Were-Citruses affected the culture near them. In addition, is there an Eternal Orb there?

Perhaps we should rename Manitoulin Island as Manitoulime Island, home of the mysterious were-citruses - the burly were-grapefruits, cerebral were-lemons, spiritual were-oranges, stealthy were-limes and cheeky, happy-go-lucky were-kumquats.

That sounds perfect to me!

Just a Mort wrote:

Hey! I don't want to disintegrate because Tom snapped his fingers!

Clearly someone has been letting large cats into movie theaters...

Oh, no .. nothing so .. mundane ... as disintegration ... all will be

Enlightened.

HAAAAA!! HAHAHAH!!!

The Enlightenment, the Change, the Revelation, and the Apocalypse is coming August 2nd. The Eternal Orbs are being gathered. Destiny is coming...nothing can stop it now...

Hey! I don't want to disintegrate because Tom snapped his fingers!

Clearly someone has been letting large cats into movie theaters...

That't not exactly how the Eternal Orbs work here on the OTW. There is also a someone there who makes sure that should not happen, but I also have to say nothing is impossible there. It could get really interesting in about 3 months... ;)

P.S. you and Tom are both feline, so you should both be friends or the worst of enemies. Just a thought.

Farael the Fallen wrote:

The Mad Comrade wrote:

Farael the Fallen wrote:

The Mad Comrade wrote:

Mine ... all mine!! MWAHAHAHAHAHHAH!!!!!

*scampers off with the gauntleted Eternal Orbs*

Yeessss, my Preciouses, we will Open the Eye, oh Yeessss ....

Each Orb is big enough to fit in an adult, human's hand. The power of each Orb depends on the level of the holder. It's possible to use hold an Orb in each hand, but that would be very dangerous. If too many Eternal Orbs are put near each other, then the very Fabric of Reality could be torn apart. Yes, so let's see what happens on the OTW...

Ok no problem. :)

Large eidolon named Tom wears the Eternal Gauntlet. We're all good for the Revelation on 2nd August. :D

Which Orb or Orbs does Tom have? :)

Mind, Power, Space, Magic and Dimensions. telekinesis at-will is awesome like that - they clap onto the Eternal Gauntlet at the time of the conjunction of celestial bodies ... perhaps a full solar system alignment is The Moment in question.

Okay good. No problem then. ; )

Farael the Fallen wrote:

The Mad Comrade wrote:

Mine ... all mine!! MWAHAHAHAHAHHAH!!!!!

*scampers off with the gauntleted Eternal Orbs*

Yeessss, my Preciouses, we will Open the Eye, oh Yeessss ....

Each Orb is big enough to fit in an adult, human's hand. The power of each Orb depends on the level of the holder. It's possible to use hold an Orb in each hand, but that would be very dangerous. If too many Eternal Orbs are put near each other, then the very Fabric of Reality could be torn apart. Yes, so let's see what happens on the OTW...

Large eidolon named Tom wears the Eternal Gauntlet. We're all good for the Revelation on 2nd August. :D

Which Orb or Orbs does Tom have? :)

Mine ... all mine!! MWAHAHAHAHAHHAH!!!!!

*scampers off with the gauntleted Eternal Orbs*

Yeessss, my Preciouses, we will Open the Eye, oh Yeessss ....

Each Orb is big enough to fit in an adult, human's hand. The power of each Orb depends on the level of the holder. It's possible to use hold an Orb in each hand, but that would be very dangerous. If too many Eternal Orbs are put near each other, then the very Fabric of Reality could be torn apart. Yes, so let's see what happens on the OTW...

The Eternal Orbs
They are a blatant ripoff of the Infinity Stones, but does it really matter? The Eternal Orbs were created at the Dawn of Time and each one represents a different aspect of existence. So yes, you can have an orb devoted to time, mind, soul, reality, power and space like the MCU ones.

HOWEVER, there can also be orbs devoted to Magic, Divinity, Anger, Peace, Love, War and many other aspects of existence. The Eternal Orbs are supposed to be scattered throughout the Universe, but for some odd, inexplicable reason they are all on the OTW (I really need a name for this world) now and if they are ever gathered together it could mean the end of all life AS WE KNOW IT!

So this is (potentially) not good for the OTW...but it can become very interesting to watch. I wonder what's going to happen...

Well that’d be some stuff to tell.

Mort basically is the odd leopard of the group that unlike the rest of the litter, likes reading. When he was a cub he’d sneak to the nearby gnome village and sit at the side of the window for lessons and sit outside the window listening to bedtime stories. So he likes reading, and is fully literate. He also stole a few pens and a book to scribe his spellbook, like he’d see those gnome wizards do. He made himself pouch to hold all his spellcasting essentials.

We’ll just say he has the equivalent of wildspells feat

But one day, the gnomes started evacuating the place. Nasty, nasty loggers were coming to invade the place and they were making themselves scarce. Mort didn’t really understand at that time, but he soon did, after the humans started chopping down trees. He tried to show up in their town, for listening to lessons at the window. He found it unrecognizable after they razed the quaint gnome houses and built their own cold, forbidding structures of grey bricks. And they started seeing him as a potential fur coat, and shooting arrows at him. He ran away, and deciding that humans were nasty bigots. He left the place and went to establish his home, one with nature – built among trees, but also with the comfort of civilization (books) in it. He bargained with elementals to help him fill his library, and wonders if in the world there are any other bookish animals like him, that would like to learn, but are denied by prejudice.

The trees are his interpretation of the traditional wizard tower. In a less environmentally damaging way

He calls his place paradise for he views it that way, and also would think that it would be that for others, who don’t have a place to call home.

Also, the author watched too much Disney, including one movie Up

I was contemplating Utopia – but it has connotations with Axis, a lawful neutral plane. Even though that is my...

This is amazing! It describes the reason behind Paradise perfectly and it includes other stuff that can be included later. I can see more Elemental stuff included. That's looking like a theme. Very good! : )

I'm looking at Iowa, and thinking what to call my jungle. I think I'll call my county Paradise.

I love the the name! It leads me to wonder why it is called Paradise. There must be a great back story to it. I can see the Paradise jungle being in-between the Iowa River and Des Moines River. I wonder what to call Iowa itself? I love how making one place leads to another place. All very interesting. ; )

There's more! I was looking at The OTW Map and I was looking at Ohio. One of the cities there is named Xenia and that would be a perfect name for that area. I'll rename the Ohio River into the Xenian River and that is a borderline. The city of Dayton can be renamed into Lighton and Toledo can become Taleda and Cleveland can become Reeveland. Interesting...to me at least. : )

I am seeing Xenia as a sort of theocracy, but a good one. Lighton can be a city devoted to the gods of light or light itself. Maybe the name Xenia is based on a goddess or something. Not sure yet.

Indiana will be...I don't know yet. I have an idea, but I hold off on that. Let it grow slowly...

If we add yeast and warm water, will you become Rarael the Risen?

It is possible that one day Farael will be allowed to return the Heavens after the heavenly war there, but he would retain his name.

What is your favorite dire animal.

Starfinder or Pathfinder.

The Dire Wolf

Farael the Fallen wrote:

Selene Spires wrote:

What did I do to you?

You time traveled into the past and prevented my parents from going to their high school prom together, which wiped me out of existence.

Impossible I hate time travel.

If you hate time travel, then you need to watch PRIMER and then you need to watch this video to explain what you just saw, and then you need to watch PRIMER again to understand it. It the best time travel movie ever made for just $7,000.

I just got a revelation of what will probably happen on the OTW on August 2nd. We know that there are rifts connected to Elemental Planes that feed the Great Seas and the winds. Perhaps on Apocalypse day more of those rifts open. Maybe some sort of Wall that was holding all of the Unknown stuff away of the world is coming down, and all that was kept out out will be revealed? That sounds like an Apocalypse to me!

Let's make a real contribution in regards to a kingdom. If you look at The OTW Map over to the Ontario region that is a perfect place to make the Kingdom of Antaria (Ontario = Antaria).

The names of the cities can be virtually unchanged. I will change Lake Ontario to the Antarian Sea. Lake Erie becomes the Eriel Sea. Kingston stays the same. Orillia becomes Arillia. Oshawa becomes Ashawa. Buffalo becomes Bisen. London becomes Landan. Hamilton becomes Harriston. Ottawa will become Attawa and the obvious capital city of Antaria.

Basically, the OTW is our world but with a few cosmetic changes. Also it saves time and money too without having to create a new world, because that takes 4-5 billion years. As far as the exact details that will come later, because I have been at this Starbucks too long...

Farael the Fallen wrote:

The Mad Comrade wrote:

A kraken lashed the ship with a hurricane, snatching up crew and officers alike to eat those it caught feet-first. The loot spilling forth from the wreckage sank to the depths of Davey Jones' Locker along with the crew that drowned instead of being eaten. Everyone died horribly and became draugr or food. The End.

No, this is The End.

Every story needs a good soundtrack. ;)

Yes, true. Make it the soundtrack of the OTW. ;)

A kraken lashed the ship with a hurricane, snatching up crew and officers alike to eat those it caught feet-first. The loot spilling forth from the wreckage sank to the depths of Davey Jones' Locker along with the crew that drowned instead of being eaten. Everyone died horribly and became draugr or food. The End.

No, this is The End.

Will you be a dear and check the inside of this oven.

How about having a steak dinner first?

How many Woodchucks can you chuck, if you wanted to chuck Woodchucks.

Zero.

What number am I thinking of right now, dude.

42

If given one free shot, who would you hit in the face.

Puts on glasses.

People wearing glasses are exempt, of course.

I would break this monster's face and he's wearing glasses

Made a thing for a homebrew game, and I need some peer reviews for balancing and maybe ideas if you're feeling generous. :)

The Archetype

Enjoy.

The theme I'm trying to capture is a mix of the classical Unseen Servant spell, but turned up to 11 and made the main focus, with some influence from the Servant of the Ring and Servant of the Lamp from eastern stories (can't remember the name, sadly).

Basically a Conjurer that makes a living Battlefield Control spell instead of summoning living creatures.

Greetings.

It's been a while since I've posted on the Paizo forums, and I'm now wiser and older (then before, at least ;})

This started as an idea - if we can have Sorcerer features with a feat chain, why not Oracle features?

There seemed to be a design void for a character that's blessed (and cursed) with divine power to mirror the Arcane one.

I've made a small feat chain to do just that.

Enjoy! Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Link

Hello, Paizo boards. It's been a while, but the question is am positing is nevertheless of some interest.

How to improve the Arcanist Exploit Fiendish Proboscis from Horror Realms?

First, i want you to look at the text of the ability.

From Archives of Nethys:

Fiendish Proboscis (Su) (Horror Realms pg. 6): The arcanist can spend 1 point from his arcane reservoir as a standard action to grow a long, articulated proboscis covered with small spiky hairs. The appendage grows from the arcanist’s face and houses a highly flexible, muscular tongue tipped with a cartilaginous barbed quill. The proboscis lasts for 1 round per arcanist level, during which time the arcanist cannot speak or use verbal components. The arcanist can end this exploit’s effects early as a swift action. As a standard action, the arcanist can attack a target with the proboscis’s tongue. This is a primary natural weapon with a 10-foot reach. Attacks with the tongue resolve as a touch attack. If the arcanist uses his tongue and hits a creature capable of casting spells or using spell-like abilities, he drains a portion of the target’s magical ability and adds 1 point to his arcane reservoir (points gained in excess of the reservoir’s maximum are lost). If the arcanist hits a creature that cannot cast spells or use spell-like abilities, the tongue instead drains a portion of the target’s life force and heals the arcanist of 1d6 points of damage. Regardless of the target’s ability to use magic, the tongue’s unnerving siphoning of magical or life energy causes the struck creature to become sickened for 1 round.

Let's look at the ability, it's design flaws, and look at ways to improve it so that it is more fun, and simultaneously more balanced. Let's start by taking parts of the text, and examining it's effects.

The arcanist can spend 1 point from his arcane reservoir as a standard action to grow a long, articulated proboscis covered with small spiky hairs. The appendage grows from the arcanist’s face and houses a highly flexible, muscular tongue tipped with a cartilaginous barbed quill.

This is mostly flavour text, but it does mean there is a cost associated with the exploit. Namely, 1 point from the character's arcane reservoir.

The proboscis lasts for 1 round per arcanist level, during which time the arcanist cannot speak or use verbal components.

This is the first drawback of the exploit. No Verbal components means that most spells that classes with access to this exploit are off limits. It's a hard it, right? Well, not really. We'll get to why exactly that is the case in a minute.

The arcanist can end this exploit’s effects early as a swift action. As a standard action, the arcanist can attack a target with the proboscis’s tongue. This is a primary natural weapon with a 10-foot reach. Attacks with the tongue resolve as a touch attack.

This explains the mechanics of the exploit. The important things are that it's a touch attack (pretty nice, througth mostly inconsequential), it has a reach of 10 ft. (meaning you don't have to stand in meele to use it), you can only make 1 attack with it (since it's a standard action), and you can dissmiss it without much issue.

If the arcanist uses his tongue and hits a creature capable of casting spells or using spell-like abilities, he drains a portion of the target’s magical ability and adds 1 point to his arcane reservoir (points gained in excess of the reservoir’s maximum are lost).

This, now this is the real purpose for the exploit. Now, sure, there are some other uses, like sapping hp and applying mediocre debuffs, but this is the real reason the exploit is so powerful.

If the arcanist hits a creature that cannot cast spells or use spell-like abilities, the tongue instead drains a portion of the target’s life force and heals the arcanist of 1d6 points of damage.

Eh. This is fine mostly. Not much damage, but it's still worth exploiting (pun intended).

Regardless of the target’s ability to use magic, the tongue’s unnerving siphoning of magical or life energy causes the struck creature to become sickened for 1 round.

This, like the previous part, is mostly fine. Not gamebreaking, and it doesn't leave a lot of room for abuse.

"BUT WAIT!"

You might say.

"As an Outer Rift exploit, isn't it limited by the following rule?"

All of the following exploits can be learned by arcanists of any alignment, but these exploits come with a risk. If you use an Outer Rift exploit and in doing so reduce your arcane reservoir to 0, you immediately gain the stain of one manifestation from the accursed, demonic, hellbound, or possessed corruption. The GM chooses which corruption, manifestation, and stain you receive; this stain persists for 24 hours. Reducing your arcane reservoir to 0 in this way multiple times within a 24-hour period results in a new stain for each such instance, and each time you do so you reset the timer for all stains gained in this manner to 24 hours. At the GM’s option, multiple instances of abusing exploits in this manner could result in a permanent corruption, but otherwise these corruptions are temporary and do not progress. You can never gain a gift from a corruption in this way.

And you'd be right. Well, "right". You see, while it is true that you gain a stain of a corruption, this doesn't actually matter because of the purpose of Fiendish Proboscis. You can indefinelty hold on to 2 points, activate the exploit for 1, and still have 1, thus not meeting the requierments for the above ruling. And then you have more points (if you're higher than level 1) to spend on recharging further, thus gaining infinite points in your Arcane Reservoire.

Depending on interpretation, you could even argue that the user can gain infinite healing. Since RAW, it never states that the target loses HP. Sit down, activate the exploit, and use it on an ally that can cast or your familiar, or something you've summoned or captured.

Now, i want to try and change this exploit to be more balanced without being overly powerful like it is now. It's a cool idea for sure. The implementation is what needs work.

So, my question is: how would you change the exploit to be more balanced and/or fun to use?

I'm not sure if this was asked before, but here is my question:

Is waiting for polymorph better than Feral Mutagen(https://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/alchemist/discoveries /paizo-alchemist-discoveries/feral-mutagen)?

I'm starting at level 1, and I expect to level to 2 pretty soon. I want to build a polymorph alchemist in the future, and I'm asking if it is better to grab Feral Mutagen right away, or save a discovery on something else, and wait for nat. attack polymorph spells.

Hello, people, so, I'm playing a 3.5 game on Mythweavers, and our GM gave our(1-st level, geshtalt) characters an ancestral relic that advances as we level. I'm playing a Shaper/Psywar, but like a caster, I won't advance Psywar past level 5.

My question is: What effect should this ancestral relic have? I've written up a few options. Tell me if they're balanced, and which you like most.The relic is artisans tools.

A) These tools function as a rod of metapsionics, granting any power manifested while they are held a free metapsionic feat enhancement X times per day.

B) These tools provide a +X Manifested Level to any metacreativity power manifested while they are held.

C) These tools function as a Tork of power preservation, -1 PP cost to powers.

D)They hold power points which they can utilise to use metapsionic feats engrained in them on powers.

If you have any thoughts on this, or can share your own idea on the design of this artifact, post here.

Dear Paizo, i created this thread to imform of one of the biggest design problems of the Occult class Psychic. I will list them below.

1.Inferior Disciplines.
Most of the disciplines are awfull, inferior or simply lagging behind in power level of their closest counterpart - wizard spell scools and sorcerer bloodlines. Most need improvements to them to be at least bearable.

2.Weak Amplifications.
I'm not a big fan of metamagic but i understand it is essential to full-casters. Amplifications are much weaker than metamagic feats and thus make the wizard even better in power than the psychic.

3.Weird archetypes.
A good example is the Mutation mind archetype. It is on par with the Beastmorph archetype in theme and mechanics, but giving you buffs for polymorph and meele doesnt make you good at meele. If the alchemist can buff and qwaff mutagen to enter meele, wizards, sorcerer, arcanists can polymorph, heck, even their d6 HD doesnt matter. But because the Psychic doesnt get any good polymorph spells(alter self as a 4-th level spells is just weak) and they can't fall back on the Alchemists 2/3 BAB and d8 HD, they cant polymorph well, which makes some archetypes useless.

My propositions of solving these problems:

1.Make discipline spells and powers better.
Taking the Abberation discipline is making you hardy but useless, others have strange and situational powers. I whould suggest giving all diciplines better spells, especially polymorph options, crosses over with 2 and 3.

2.More different amplifications.
Perhaps make them more like arcanists' exploits.

3.Change the spell list.
I whould suggest taking away the situational spells, and maybe crafting a new spell line(Psychic augmentation I-IV for instance, or somethimg like that), or at least giving them Beast shape or Monstorous psyche line of spells.

Patjfinder is well known for being the most flexible and customizable character creation system, and i whould be very happy if the psychic was satysfying to play.

Thank you for your time.

Hello forums, sooo, me and a friend on the forums have a strong desire to play pathfinder, but cant seem to find a campaign , either were not selected, or we dont like the GM's rules changes, but i feel its like a curse, i cant speak for the other guy, but i have a difficulty finding a game.

What i'm asking for is a game of pathfinder, just plain pathfinder maybe with Dream scarred press material.

If you're a GM that needs players, post here, otherwise, at least point to a player needing GM. If unable to do neither, DO NOT POST IF UNABLE TO POST A PRODUCTIVE REPLY.

Thank you for your time.

I'm currently looking to play a campaign that uses geshtalt rules and starts at level 1, i was looking to play a Fighter/Psion using natural weapons throughth Metamorphosis, and it got me thinking.

Being a Fighter on one side, i was going to use medium armour, but what to do with weapons?

Metamorphosis gives me a 1d6 natural attack at level 1 which will never match my other weapons, qwestion is.

Whats better Natural weapons or manufactured ones? Keep in mind im using Dex to hit and damage.

I looked at the alchemists spell list and noticed that there are a lot of polymorph spells, so i'm asking: with what to fill your 4-6 level extract slots, besides polymorph?

So, in most pf games, people play good/neutral characters. Good chatacters usualy fight evil characters. Say you summon an archon or some other guy with DR/evil. He gets hit by his natural enemy - an evil demon. His DR has no effect on the demons attacks. What is the point of DR/evil if it doesnt protect from your main enemy?

I have spent most of my money, but i have 50 gp left, what to buy that will help a 1-st level adventurer?

This build is crazy but legal (i think)
1. Feral mutagen gives 1d8 bite and 2 1d6 claws.
2. Familiar gives 1d6 bite.
3. Turming into an giant octopus gives 8 1d4 tentackles and 1d6 bite.
4. Be a vivisectionist

If everything works, your attaks should be, assuming a modest 16 Str+4 from mutagen = 20 Str:
Feral mutagen
1d8+5
1d6+5
1d6+5
Familiar
1d4-2
G. Octopus form
1d4+5
1d4+5
1d4+5
1d4+5
1d4+5
1d4+5
1d4+5
1d4+5
1d6+5
Now imagine sneak attack +4d6 on everything, now
1.Nothing says the tumor familiar cant attack while attached.
2.From feral mutagen:
"Benefit: Whenever the alchemist imbibes a mutagen, he gains two claw attacks and a bite attack. These are primary attacks and are made using the alchemist’s full base attack bonus. The claw attacks deal 1d6 points of damage (1d4 if the alchemist is Small) and the bite attack deals 1d8 points of damage (1d6 if the alchemist is Small). While the mutagen is in effect, the alchemist gains a +2 competence bonus on Intimidate skill checks."
3.Sneak attack might not always be on, but you can turn invisible, or use some other method to pull the Sneak attack.

Is this legal?

Polymorph causes you to lose abilities that depend on your original form, my question is the folowing:
Do the tentackle or wings discoveries function while polymorphed?

Hello, so i have been lurking on these forum for some time now, and i whould really want to play a reall PBP game, i havent played Pathfinder AT ALL.

The campaign i'm looking for is pretty specific:
1. Homebrew friendly
I spent most of my time here on the forums crafting homebrew, so i whould like to use my creations, namely, this one , i've been told its pretty balanced, but i can depower it if it is a problem for GM's.
Note: i may still tweak the homebrew before campaigns, but if i enter one, ill PM the GM to notify of any changes. GM still has full Veto on the changes if it becomes munchkinny.

2. Activeness
I look on the forums every day, i have not much else to do, and its really annoying when you post twise oer day and everybody else twise a week.

Thats about it. Thank you for your time reading this.

Hey folks, so i the short story for this archetype is that i looked at the Primal hunter and said "why dont druids have a similar archetype?", so i made this homebrewed archetype, enjoy.

Primal Druid

Primal shift (Su):
At first level, as a swift action, the primal hunter can call on the power of long extinct beast or new permutations to enhance himself, he gains 2 evolution points as if being a summoners eidolon to spend on evolutions, he must still meet all of the requirements for evolutions he gains, he uses his Primal druid level as his effective summoner level in order to determine the availibility of evolutions. He may use this ability for a number of minutes equal to his Primal druid level, the duration need not be consecutive, but must be spent in one minute increments. This ability replaces trackless step.

Primal transformation (Su):
At 5-th level, the Primal druid can permutate his wildshaped form to gain one evolution worth 4 evolution points, if the evolution allows more points to be spent to upgrade it, he may use leftover points to do so. He may chose to change this evolution every time he gains a level, it is active only while he is using wildshape. This ability replaces Spontainious summon natures ally.

Primal master (Su):
At 20-th level, the Primal druid can chose two evolutions when using Primal transformation, each worth 4 evolution points, this ability replaces the ability to wildshape at will gained at 20-th level.

Please provide feedback on balance and theme.

I love polymorph, i just love it. So i have a question for you: what is the best polypher which does the folowing things:
-Relatively early game polymorphing
-Effective polymorph at most levels
-A customizable class

Any ideas?

So can they? The sun is a force of nature, after all.

Does anybody know of a version of aasimar that have fewer than 11 RP?
I want to make an aasimar character but im afraid of the OP-ness of the race.

Hello! This thread is for people who whould like to share tips on storytelling in general and more specificly backstory wrighting.

So i whould ask you a question: what makes a good backstory?

Now, we all heard the tale of the summoner class. Im not going to tire you with repeating it, so here's why i made this thread.

Some of us miss the summoners consept, so this thread is meant to provide a place where people can post their ideas on the rebalansing and advancment of the class.

I'll start:
The summoner needs to lose spellcasting completely in favour of summoning.

Give the summoner a new class feature - planar bond, long story short, they can either call a standard eidolon or gain the Summon SLA feature or a la synthesist, Fuse with the Eidolon.

Planar bubble- aura like ability which allows to give your outsiders some buffs depending on the chosen plane.

Probably some plane option, like a clerics domains or somthing like that.

Gonna post the full class later on.

There are undines that come from mephits and nereids, but not aboleths, why arent there any alt. Racial traits for decendants of aboleths?

If you can, please suggest some.

I have a druid build as an area defender, and one of my favourite forms are giant squids. They lack a landspeed, so i need to think of a way to give myself all-day flying, particulary because i want to get planar wildshape, so ill be counting uses more sparingly. Any way to get ~permanent flight?

I want to create a flying hot tub full of seawater to carry my character while he is polymorphed into a giant sqwid.

So how much whould it cost? I need it to be able to fly overland at least for half a day. And how to rule one?

So it stands like this, say a druid which is not proficient with heavy armor enchants his stone full-plate with the wild enchantment, he never recieves his nonproficiency penalty or movement reduction, but still gets the AC bonus, is that correct?

Hello, as the title refers, i want to join a group for an online campaign, please post invitations, i whould like to start at 1st level.

Note: this is my first ever campaign, but its not like i didnt read anything.

My character is a radiation obsessed Blight druid, but if your group is okay with homebrew, i whould like to use a custom archetype.

My character

Hello, so i have a few qwestions about adding a new type of damage to the game - radiation damage. In fallout shelter, you can see radiation decrescing hp until cured, so as a proposal, maybe create a new radiation energy type, and i have some qwestions:

1) how whould it affect balance?

2) is it worth it?

3) how to substitute it, if its rejected?

Hello,posting an archetype for druids in the post-apocaliptic future(or past) the archetype s abilities center on Mutant s and Mutations.Ok, posting:

Mutant Savant(druid archetype)

Mutant Shape: at 4-th level, a Mutant Savant gains a pool of evolution points, similar to a Summoners eidolon and that functions exactly as an eidolons evolution pool with the folowing exeptions:

*The Mutant Savants druid level = his effective summoner level for the purposesv of determining the availibility of evolutions.

*The number of evolution points the Savant has is eqwal to 1/2*his druid level+his WIS modifier.

*The Mutant Savant may never take the folowing evolutions: large, undead appearance, huge, ability score increase(mental).

In addition to this, the Mutant Savant at 10-th kevels learns how to use Mutant shape to transform into magical beasts as if using beast shape IV and at level 8 beast shape III, he may never use Mutant shape to transform into an elemental. This ability alters Wild shape and replaces Woodland stride, Spontanious summon natures ally.

Mutant empathy: a Mutant Savant can influence the attitude of any mutant creature as if it was an animal. This ability alters and replaces Wild empathy.

Nature Bond: A Mutant Savant may choose the radiation domain in addition to those normally availible to druids. This ability alters Nature Bond and replaces trackless step.

Enjoy, feedback is hugely welcome.

Hey, i need suggestions for a druid that embraces the mutative power of radiation. Please.

Hi, posted the domain on anothe rthread, but it deserves it's own thread.
Actively taking suggestions.

Radiation Domain

Granted Powers: your body is tempered in the nuclear fires of your soul.
Nuclear fires: whenever you cast a spell with the fire descriptor, you may substitute all instances of the word 'fire' with the word 'radiation', this damage type is the energy of short-term blasts, and does not incur ability damage.
Kiss of radiance: at 8-th level, you treat radiation poisoning as if one step weaker, which increaces to two steps at 16-th level, and three steps at level 20.

Domain spells:
1-st Burning hands
2-nd Restoration, lesser
3-rd Blindness/Deafness
4-th Fire shield
5-th Waves of exaustion
6-th Fire seeds
7-th Restoration, greater
8-th Incendiary cloud
9-th Fiery body

What do you think? Any constructive critisism?

Looks like it is a prerepwisit for imp.familiar, so can i get an imp.familiar if i have a domain that gives me a familiar?

Im a old fan of the pf system, and am looking for an online campaign to play,
I prefer long 1-20 level campaigns, am availible all week,
Please post a comment if you need players!

i have a few ideas of my own but dont have the time to post them all
so i'm open to mechanics suggestions or flavour suggestsions

hi peps
i had this idea of getting druids to turn into magical beasts (using Beast Shape III and IV) and i'm surprised that they haven't got an arhetype that lets them get an evolution pool, rangers get one - Primal Hunter

any thoughts about how is all this going to stack up?