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Seems like there are a _lot_ of problems with her character, but aside from telling the player she did it wrong and depowering her to some reasonable level, I don't see much of a solution there in-game.

An in-game threat might be gunslingers. Add Distance to their guns, and they're targeting touch AC at a much longer range. The 7th-level Deed 'Targeting' lets them go for headshots, which cause Confusion for a round with no saving throw (assuming she's not also immune to mind-affecting effects through her seemingly infinite wealth). That will possibly turn her obscene stats against her allies for a while if you have a couple of gunslingers keeping her locked down.

Targeting also lets you target wings, but a DC 20 Fly check against a character of that level with a Dex of 34 is nothing. Maybe if you stack it with some high winds and other debuffs, but they're starting with a +12 just from Dex even if they don't have any ranks in it. Grounding them is probably more about environment than anything. Make them go into some areas with low ceilings and narrow corridors and they're not going to be flying (assuming they only fly because of their wings).

Say we ignore the Javelin of Lightning for a moment and go with some other examples to address the main question.

Trident of Stability is a +1 Trident.
Celestial Armor is +3 chainmail.

How do you add stuff onto those?

I'd probably just handle it as a delta, treating the non-plus abilities as 'paid for'.

A Trident of Stability is a +1 Trident with other stuff, and costs 9,815gp. The difference between a +1 Trident and a +4 Trident is 30,000gp, so a +4 Trident of Stability would be 39,815gp.

Celestial Armor is +3 chainmail, and costs 22,400gp. The difference between +3 chainmail and +5 chainmail is 16,000gp, so +5 Celestial Armor would be 38,400gp.

It doesn't eliminate it, but Celestial Plate Armor lets you go pretty nuts, especially if you throw it on a Fighter or archetype that gets Armor Training. It's full plate armor +3, counts as Medium, and its max Dex bonus to AC starts at +6.

(the original was a 3.5e thing, but it's reprinted in the Curse of the Crimson Throne hardcover)

Her trip to Minkai helped explain the absence of some of my Rise of the Runelords PCs, since one of them married her.

Foeclan wrote:

Back in AD&D 2e, the Monstrous Compendia were in 3-ring binders, so you could arrange them however you like.

Not a bad idea honestly though it hink I'll have to reinforce the pages for that.

Yeah, I reinforced mine with hole reinforcers, which are little stickers designed for that purpose and I'm definitely not giggling like a 12-year-old about them being called that.

Back in AD&D 2e, the Monstrous Compendia were in 3-ring binders, so you could arrange them however you like.

The Skull and Shackles Player's Guide has a bunch of Naval Combat rules in it that might come in handy.

You could probably just load them up with alchemical weapons. Acid, Alchemist's Fire, Burst Jars, Bottled Lightning, and the like.

There's also the Syringe Stirge Alchemist Discovery. You make a tiny construct with which to deliver your bombs. Seems easy enough to flavor them as being clockwork teeth.

The Gun Tank archetype for Gunslinger gets an ability called Bullet Defection, which lets them add half their armor bonus to their touch AC against firearms. They also get heavy armor. I just finished an Iron Gods game running a Gun Tank/Warpriest and it worked great dealing with firearms.

Bullet Defection (Ex): A gun tank is adept at modifying and using her armor to stop firearm attacks. Starting at 2nd level, a gun tank wearing medium or heavy armor gains half the armor’s bonus plus the armor’s enhancement bonus (if any) as a deflection bonus against any non-siege firearm or splash weapon attack (including the alchemist’s bomb class ability). This ability has no affect on spells, spell-like abilities, or supernatural abilities that make a touch attack. This ability replaces nimble.

Looks like there are a few threads on it over in the Iron Gods forum.

Here's one in particular.
Iron Gods 5E Conversion Advice

The rules aren't going to help you there, really. There've been past discussions of it, and they largely boil down to the coup de grace stuff above, and plain GM fiat. At some point, though, it comes down to realizing that some types of story beats just won't work well in Pathfinder, especially at higher levels.

If you want that moment to have dramatic tension, just stabbing the NPC won't cut it. They need to be doing something grand enough that the PCs can't deal with it. A scroll of Destruction or Disintegrate. Drop them into a a vat of acid. Banish them to another plane. Feed them to a pack of werewolves. Anything that doesn't rely on something as mundane as stabbing someone to death.

You'll hit a point where the PCs have the spells and resources they need to raise the dead, at which point most hostage scenarios lose a lot of their tension. Travel will become moot due to teleportation or flight. Long before that, most 'PCs vs. environment' stories are trivialized by Endure Elements and the like. You'll need to up the stakes beyond what would be a threat to normal humans like you and me.

I always figured it was like the stuff Green Lantern makes. Visible (unless it says otherwise) and solid, sort of force-field like.

Technically, the only real requirement for an Artifact is it's inability to be broken; or at least very few ways to break it.

So, those plastic combs and IBM AT keyboards count as artifacts? I can see it.

What if, instead of someone already powerful (which they'd have to be, having just finished an AP), it was some 1st level adventurer, or a commoner? How would you deal with suddenly being a god and having no idea how to use power or what to use it on?

I'd guess 'Resolve' comes from bulls' reputation for being stubborn. Based on the wiki, Asmodeus threw him into a supposedly unsolvable labyrinth, but through cunning and persistence managed to not only solve it, but steal it from Hell. He also worked his way up in Lamashtu's court through deceit and seduction, and continues to use those tactics to gain power among the Demon Lords.

They list conspirators, minotaurs, and secret societies as worshipers.

To that, I could also add as possible worshipers:
- Prisoners or slaves, dreaming of escape
- Anyone who's willing to use seduction or intrigue to gain power
- The vain (Lamashtu is said to have gifted him 'obscene gifts' to please her)
- People attracted to minotaurs for, err, 'reasons'

Interestingly, one of his anathemas is:
- Kill those who cannot do serious harm to you

Edicts include:
- confuse paths and roads
- outwit enemies instead of overpowering them
- walk labyrinths

Ignoring the alignment system, his anathemas and edicts don't seem at all evil. You could add a few based on those.
- Civil planners, using their positions to create complex or confusing streets (say, to ensure people get stuck in the market longer so they spend more money)
- Dungeon delvers, somewhat obviously, searching through labyrinths
- Tacticians (seems like a good way to please him would be to orchestrate a bloodless coup or other victory)

I think it's interesting that, even though minotaurs are basically the poster children for being big and strong, that's not reflected in his tactics or lore. He was, in fact, considered one of the weakest of Lamashtu's court. So we could add:
- The weak or bullied (interestingly, bullying people doesn't seem to fit his lore at all)

Random comment, but could dwarves and halflings finally get names that aren't relative to the size of other ancestries? You gave lizardmen, ratfolk, and catfolk real names, it'd be nice to see two core ancestries have reasonable names.

4 words: Dust of Broken Hearts. If Sorsha and Mad Martigan can make it work after the effects wore off, anyone can.

Sorsha:

Madmartigan:
It went away.

Sorsha:
"I dwell in darkness without you," and it *went away*?

Inkscape is very good for this sort of thing, and is free. Lots of tutorials out there, easy to render a grid to the scale you want, you can easily paste in images if you want. I ran my game with it for a couple of years before we started using roll20.

Just had to stop in to say I love GW2, and quaggan are great. :)

It's a tough question! Because of my love for the music of Ronnie James Dio, I would almost certainly be a Wizard (Universalist). By the same token, Michael Moorcock's "Elric Series" would make me a 20th level Bladebound Magus.

I can't imagine reading the Elric Saga and coming away _wanting_ his life. :)

Unrelated to the bathing question, but tangentially relevant, there's a 3pp book for more mundane magic.

101 Spells for the Common Man

Sad to see that this is still an issue.

The problem is that Paizo probably had to accept the new OGL to make content for 5E, but now that's endangered their hold on stuff made under the old OGL for original Pathfinder.

The 1.1 OGL isn't out yet; this was a leak. It was supposed to be released Wednesday, I think, but was not, so the leak may have delayed it. From the Roll for Combat stream with a contract lawyer, people would still be able to release 5e stuff under the 1.0a OGL, despite any language to the contrary in 1.1. That seems consistent with various versions of open source licenses in the free software world.

I also assumed that fear of this is what prompted the creation of Pathfinder 2E, though I'm not sure if 2E still falls under the OGL or if it became original enough to not need it.

The PF2e Core Rulebook includes a copy of the OGL version 1.0a, so I don't think it was created to get away from it.

We went with Mythic for a while in my GM's homebrew. We only got to tier 2. I think the only thing particularly OP was the bard with Display of Charisma, who was already very optimized before Mythic, so he could roll 60+ on a Bluff check.

The plan was to remove the Mythic bits after we completed the story, but we ended up wrapping the campaign and starting a new one instead.

It says, 'attempting to use the runeslave cauldron to transform a good-aligned giant who volunteers', so I'd read that as 'attempting to convert the good-aligned giant in the same manner as any other giant', thus they'd need to be dead.

It does say that 'the method of killing the giant is incidental', so you could figure out a humane way to finish them off.

For actual Touch spells, it says 'You can touch up to 6 willing targets as part of the casting, but all targets of the spell must be touched in the same round that you finished casting the spell.'.

Dimension Door, however, specifically says 'All creatures to be transported must be in contact with one another, and at least one of those creatures must be in contact with you'. So it's not like a touch spell where you're tapping people on the shoulder.

Hero Lab has a sale going on this weekend, so if you want to catch up on your Pathfinder stuff, now's a good time.

Not Vigilante, but the Master Chymist prestige class lets you have two alignments, with the only restriction that they be different. It's basically the 'Jekyll and Hyde' class.

To confuse the matter further,'Lost Omens Travel Guide' for 2e says it's 300' above sea level and 100' wide.

You really need to look closer at your subject line. :)

I don't know of any. You'd probably want to look for more general options around changing the stat your supernatural abilities are based on. Breath weapons aren't something PCs normally get. If 3pp is on the table, maybe just ask the GM if you can use a different stat.

Have you read Death's Heretic?

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Something like that might work as well. Breath of life just fails, or the body is fine but the person never wakes up because they're not there.

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Then the adventurers have to free the soul from entrapment.

It can fail for other reasons, too, like the soul not being willing. Maybe they decide to move on out of spite, or maybe they're in on it and have made their own arrangements with someone else. Either way, the PCs may be in trouble.

There's a saving throw involved in a coup de grace if they survive the damage, which would leave them dead regardless of HP if they failed. That wouldn't matter when it comes to Breath of Life, mind you, but by the time they have 5th level spells, they're probably beyond a challenge like that anyway.

That said, it's completely appropriate for the subject of such a situation to be upset about being literally dead. I can't imagine that having your throat slit is a pleasant experience, even (especially) if you survive it.

I think the implication is that getting a 'sinking' ship above 0 will stop it from sinking, but not necessarily reverse any sinking that it's done. For instance, when does a 'sinking' ship stop sinking and is just 'sunk'? When it hits the bottom? Is it still 'sinking'? It technically still has the sinking condition. Making it whole or completely undamaged isn't just going to bob it to the surface like a cork or flush all the water inside out into the surrounding water and cork it up while it ascends at some speed to the surface again.

Getting it above 0 removes the 'sinking' condition, leaving it at 'broken' until it's above half, at least in the Skull and Shackles Player's Guide. A sinking ship can't move or attack, and sinks in 10 rounds, and every 25 hp it takes takes away a round. If it sinks to the bottom, it's considered 'destroyed' and can't be salvaged or repaired. You can save it with 'make whole' or similar.

Magic (such as make whole) can repair a sinking ship if the ship’s hit points are raised above 0, at which point the ship loses the sinking condition.

Not sure if that's reprinted anywhere or is superceded by something else, but it's a free download on Paizo's site. Sadly, no mentions of capsizing anywhere that I could find, but maybe there's something in the AP itself (which I don't have, or I would check)?

Does anyone know how to set up Versatile Performance in Foundry for PF1e?

We were discussing this in the Know Direction Discord. The download filters seem to be very messed up.

I have a 3rd-party 1e product (The Very Last Book About Mounted Combat) which seems to be categorized as (at least) part of Agents of Edgewatch and as a 'Flip-Mat Classic'. Apparently only 3 of the downloads are categorized as PDFs (including the mounted combat book previously mentioned).

If I filter on 'Lost Omens', I get a ton of random 1e books, including things like Bestiaries.

Insightful Advice does nothing for you, but being able to give everyone else in your party an all-day +2 to a skill is pretty nice.

I don't know that there's a clear 'RAW' answer to this, but here's what I'd say.

Typically, if the damage from an attack is negated (by DR, for example), the 'rider' effects (poison, bleed, etc.) are also negated. Death ward prevents all of the negative energy damage, and the Con drain is listed as a 'plus' effect on the attack, so I would expect it to fall under that and thus the Con drain would not happen. Not because it's negative energy, but because it's a rider to an attack that didn't do anything.

Damage Reduction

Whenever damage reduction completely negates the damage from an attack, it also negates most special effects that accompany the attack, such as injury poison, a monk’s stunning, and injury-based disease. Damage reduction does not negate touch attacks, energy damage dealt along with an attack, or energy drains. Nor does it affect poisons or diseases delivered by inhalation, ingestion, or contact.

We used to joke that the citizens in City of Heroes were all super high level heroes who had retired or were in their secret identities, since they were basically invulnerable.

Maybe the PCs start taking on responsibilities to fit their station. Running a kingdom, starting their own Guild, or the like, and start turning into the people who give out quests (possibly to the group's next party of level 1 characters).

If you're lucky, you'll have a group with its own goals and aspirations, and you can just ask them what sort of stories they want to see next.

There's a default amount going to each, but you can click the 'Adjust Donation' button on the right to decide how much goes where. There are a couple of options, and a 'Custom' that gives you sliders you can use to set it to whatever you'd like.

Buildings have a lot of hit points. If they want to burn all their channels fixing one up, after spending 10,000gp on a magic item, I say let 'em.

Other things to consider:
- Channeling is a burst. It doesn't go around corners. So you probably wouldn't be able to heal a whole building by standing in one spot.
- First-floor walls of a typical city building have 90 hp
- A 10' section of city wall has 450 hp
- If you go by this, a 10x10 stone building has 200 hp. So they're going to be at it for a while.

I was considering it as a spell to take, and was trying to figure out if it'd be worth it. Thanks for the input, folks.

I'll probably skip it. I'm having bad luck with Hideous Laughter, so 'save for no effect' spells aren't high on my list right now.

Some spells give a condition under which the target can end the spell, such as Qualm.

The creature takes a –10 penalty on its ability checks, skill checks, and concentration checks, until the duration ends, or until it spends its entire turn doing absolutely nothing (it spends a full-round action gaining focus). Spending an entire turn doing nothing discharges the spell.

Does the target automatically know they can do that, or would they need to make a Spellcraft check or something?

Accusations that I have used offensive slurs about members of the staff are categorically FALSE. Many LGBTQIA+ members of the Paizo staff are close friends of mine, and I would never talk that way about anyone on our staff or in our community.

'I can't be homophobic, I have gay friends' is not, and never has been, a free pass. We have at least 2 people corroborating this. You're going to have to do better than 'I didn't do it and it's absurd to say that I did'.

It's considered a huge faux pas to ask such a question, because the answer is often about to increase by however much you and your equipment weigh. :)

Since Mythic is an option, Seven-league Leap might work. You move a mile per round. Drawback is it takes a minute of running before you make your jump, and you land nearby, so it might not be quite what you're looking for.

Ah, that FAQ makes it much clearer, thank you.

How do you deal with something like 'Antimagic Field'?

It's a 10' emanation centered on you. Assuming you're standing on the ground, does that mean it extends to 10' above the ground? You're supposed to pick a grid intersection. Do you treat it as though there's a 5' vertical grid as well, so you can choose to center it there and get it to 15' up? If you're over 5' tall, can you go higher, or are players treated as 5' cubes?

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Presumably, all this happens in rapid succession. TB's sitting around, minding his own lich-y business, when BOOM, everything in a 500 mile radius (including him) gets vaporized and a Titan shows up in the midst of it.

You mean excluding him :) TB has like four different way of being immune to Synchrony, not counting his phylactery.

Also, Hekaton shows up at its prison (presumably, where the party found Synchrony), not at ground zero.

No, I mean including him.

One could argue that it counts as 'channeling from a non-mythic source', to which he's immune, but you can just as easily call it 'positive energy damage', from which he takes half. Ultimately, it's the GM's call on whether it blows him up. They asked for ideas on stuff to do as a followup. 'TB vs. Titan' sounds like an interesting one.

I don't have the module that describes Synchrony, but I think someone said that its detonation tears open the barriers between planes, releasing the Hekatonkheires, so I'd expect it to show up wherever the bomb went off. Based on the Hekatonkheires writeup, the 3 originals are adrift 'in the unknown expanses between planes', and the CR24 writeup are their 'lesser spawn'. If Synchrony really does tear down the barriers between the planes, then it may have been intended to be one of those original 3, who'd probably be at least a match for TB.

If you do want this to be 'them offing TB', but still want there to be more work to do, then maybe when Synchrony blows up, it tears down the barrier between planes, leaving TB's demiplane wide open because his frequent travels to it left it 'adjacent' to the Isle. The PCs have one shot to take him out permanently, and face unknown dangers as they break into the demiplane, fighting the clock before he revives.

Why does TB fight the Titan at all? He's exceptionally intelligent, and has nothing to gain in killing it.

He'd be better off pointing the Hekaton at the PCs or another enemy either directly or indirectly. Or just let it wreck havoc where he's not and use the time to prepare.

Presumably, all this happens in rapid succession. TB's sitting around, minding his own lich-y business, when BOOM, everything in a 500 mile radius (including him) gets vaporized and a Titan shows up in the midst of it.

TB reforms wherever his phylactery is, checks in on what truck just hit him, and finds a Titan laying waste to Golarion. Unless the PCs signed their bomb, that seems like a pretty good reason for TB to think the Titan was responsible.

While TB will reform at his phylactery, none of his stuff will. That all got blown up. His magic items (aside from actual artifacts), everything he's been working on, his armies, basically all of his current plans, up in smoke. Seems like the sort of thing one might take personally. And unless he has reason to dig into it further, he might never even know the PCs were involved. After all, what's more likely to try and take him down, a random group of nobodies off in Azlant, or an actual Titan?

I'm not sure if it's supposed to release a 'standard' CR24 Hekatonkheires, or one of the 3 originals, but either way, Tar-Baphon and a Hekatonkheires duking it out could be interesting to watch from a safe distance. Hekatonkheires can bypass DR/epic, and can literally jump between planes, so might have a chance to get to that demiplane if it really wanted.