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Is this from Alkenstar book 2? It feels like AP material doesn't get looked at quite as hard before it gets published...
It's from Lost Omens Knights of Last Wall.
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I updated my Armor Tables by adding the new Armored Coat.The armored coat was one of my favorites in past games, but now I can't imagine why anyone would even bother. It's strictly worse than all existing armors in 95% of situations. It looks cool.
Does the text offer any additional perks, such as being able to don and doff it quickly? Nope. The idea that it takes a minute to put a coat (even a heavy one) on or take it off is weird, though.
I updated my Armor Tables by adding the new Armored Coat.
I loved your Chronicler of Worlds Bard soooooo much!
I think the Armored Skirt was an interesting addition. You can basically create new styles of armor by combining it with the allowed armors. I wouldn't be averse to more options like that. Sets of greaves, for example. Just for fun, I made armor tables that include the armored skirt options.
I think a swarm type creature, like Starfinder's Spathinae, would be pretty cool.
For those unfamiliar with the item: Gunner's Bandolier
I think the Armored Skirt was an interesting addition. You can basically create new styles of armor by combining it with the allowed armors. I wouldn't be averse to more options like that. Sets of greaves, for example.
All shall be revealed... next week! They will be revealing everything... psychically.
Since we are getting pretty far into the details on this topic, I thought it might be helpful to have a quick reference for the exact wording of the main elements we are relying on. I've included both the Bestiary and Book of the Dead versions of Negative Healing.
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Isn't specific trumps general one of the core design principles of PF2 ? Yes. But... 1.) Spirit Link doesn't state that it is making a specific exception to the rules. Instead it states a general principle (not having the Positive or Negative traits) to justify why it works. 2.) For Soothing Spring, I'm not clear which is the more specific rule. Generally if a positive, healing spell said it acted on a creature I would take that as a general statement, and in the case of an undead creature I would consider the undead trait to be a more specific rule that prevents it from working. In this case I'm not clear whether [a]ny creature should be read as just an alternative way of saying a creature or if it is meant to be a specific override of any contradictory creature traits.
I just checked both Archives of Nethys and my CRB pdf, and the 'H' is not capitalized in either.
I came across another rules contradiction. The Undead Trait states that Undead "don't benefit from healing effects." Yet Spirit Link, which has the Healing Trait, states... Since this effect doesn't involve positive or negative energy, spirit link works even if you or the target is undead. So here we have a Healing effect that explicitly can benefit an undead target because it doesn't have the Positive or Negative traits. ---- Also Soothing Spring, which has both the Healing and Positive Traits, includes this line... Any creature that spends the full hour soaking in the hot spring or basking in the mud from the bottom of the pit regains 10d8 Hit Points and feels refreshed, losing the fatigued condition. Undead are certainly part of the class of "creatures." Would this specific rule would override any restrictions on undead benefitting from Healing and Positive effects?
So Soothe, Elixir of Life, and Treat Wounds all lack the positive and negative traits, have the healing trait, and state that they only work on living creatures. But the sidebar states that Soothe works on undead PCs while Elixir of Life doesn't. So there must be some hidden criteria that is being used to determine which effects heal undead PCs. Without knowing what those criteria are, there isn't any way to determine whether Treat Wounds (sans Stitch Flesh) works on undead PCs.
Thanks for the answer. Animal Companions don't really interest me, so I'm not very familiar with their rules.
Wouldn't being Wild Shaped make commanding an Animal Companion or Familiar impossible in most Battle Forms? Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most manipulate actions that require hands.
Druids can't take Druid Multiclass.
Taking Witch Dedication at Level 9 would get you a Familiar, too, but not a Leshy. But the Witch MC also gives access to Wortwitch which will replace the original familiar with a Leshy familiar.
We are releasing July products on Wednesday, July 29 and not holding them for Gen Con, the first weekend of August. Yahoo!
You don't really need to know what I think it does to answer my question; but to help with your confusion here is a link https://2e.aonprd.com/Equipment.aspx?ID=753 I asked because your post suggests that you are trying to pour potions into the cauldron in order to make more potions. That isn't remotely how the cauldron or crafting works so you've obviously deeply misunderstood something. Having you explain your reasoning would have made it easier to address that specific misunderstanding. But, in the absence of that, I'll answer your three questions. No, no, and no.
Now that we have the Magus MC, there are a few feats that would be fun for a Staff Nexus Wizard to take if they want to occasionally use their staff as a weapon.
I'm looking at the walking cauldron and I'm wondering if I could just pour 2 potions of the same type into it and use that as my ingredients for crafting a batch of 4 potions. And would this fly in society play? I am completely confused. What do you think the Walking Cauldron does?
You don't put your Nexus staff inside another staff. What you are doing is upgrading your Nexus staff so that it now has the powers of a magical staff (plus the spell and cantrip that it already had). It's still your self-made Nexus staff so it is charged solely by sacrificing spell slots as you've described. You've convinced me. (Rather happily, since I love the Staff Nexus concept but disliked that charging restriction.)
Note that Stitch Flesh does not interact with Battle Medicine for this very reason : it is not Treat Wounds.1.) Elixir of Life has the Healing trait, but not the Positive trait. If undead were only immune to healing effects with the Positive trait then Elixir of Life should work. It doesn't.To be fair, Elixir of Life specifies living creatures so even if Undead weren’t immune to Healing effects, it still would not work on them.. Yeah. Somehow I had it stuck in my brain that Battle Medicine just let you use Treat Wounds faster. It's probably because Battle Medicine says it uses the same DC as Treat Wounds, and I absorbed that fact when I was first trying to understand how the PF2 rules system worked.
1.) Elixir of Life has the Healing trait, but not the Positive trait. If undead were only immune to healing effects with the Positive trait then Elixir of Life should work. It doesn't.To be fair, Elixir of Life specifies living creatures so even if Undead weren’t immune to Healing effects, it still would not work on them.. I had missed that. But now I see that Treat Wounds has the same restriction.
So if that, rather than the Healing trait, is the reason for disallowing Elixir of Life, then Treat Wounds (without Stitch Flesh) should also be disallowed. ----- But I also now realize that Battle Medicine actually doesn't use Treat Wounds and also doesn't specify living creatures. So I'm reconsidering my objections. It seem weird that Battle Medicine would work on undead PCs while Treat Wounds wouldn't, but the wording of the rules might support that.
Leng-sized.Just the length though. It's wid-sized the other way. Nicely done!
I believe PC undead can benefit from Battle Medicine at least. The rules specifically call out a PC undead working differently from the standard, and only call out Positive Healing effects as no longer being applicable. I see a couple of problems with this argument.
1.) Elixir of Life has the Healing trait, but not the Positive trait. If undead were only immune to healing effects with the Positive trait then Elixir of Life should work. It doesn't. 2.) If you don't need Stitch Flesh to use Treat Wounds on undead, then what do you need it for?
I thought it was positive energy, and not the healing trait, that couldn't be used to heal undead.
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Yeah I started with 2nd Ed AD&D in the early '90s but between the Encyclopedia Magicas and all the magazines and third party content there's a lot to sift through. I started in the late 70's before the Basic Set replaced Search for the Unknown with that newfangled Keep on the Borderlands. The Caverns of Quasqueton forever! I feel old. :)
I'm going to disagree with you on this point regarding Investigators. All three of these classes are MAD INT not only benefits their main function as skill-monkeys, they can also use it for... - Unarmed melee attacks
And optionally for... - Quick Tinctures (with Alchemical Studies)
To me, that doesn't seem very MAD. I love the fact that they can easily switch between ranged attacks, melee attacks, and spell attacks. I tend to think of Investigators as martials with the Single Ability Dependency and action economy of a Wizard.
Stricorgi?Vampugs?What are some emergency procedures that a vampire unexpectedly caught out in the open might be able to use to quickly protect themselves?Get a burrow speed on your character: putting 5' of earth/sand/snow/ect between the vampire and the sun works well. Nice one! :)
These are from 1st or 2nd AD&D. We are talking old school folks. :) Hmm. I never played 2nd edition, but I played 1st edition for a long time and I don't remember any type of instant armor from either the books or Dragon magazines.
What are some emergency procedures that a vampire unexpectedly caught out in the open might be able to use to quickly protect themselves?Get a burrow speed on your character: putting 5' of earth/sand/snow/ect between the vampire and the sun works well. Vampugs?
That is the way it works. It doesn't say you make a new attack roll. You take the result of the triggering attack (success or critical success) to be the result of casting the spell. As for it being too good to be true, the Magus' Spellstrike and Eldritch Archer's Eldritch Shot work the same way but can be used multiple times per battle and are available at much lower levels. The Spell-storing rune is roughly the equivalent of the Spellstriker feat from the Magus Multiclass Archetype.
PF1 had Folding Plate which was a brooch that could unfold into plate mail. It also had Djezet Skin which was a ball of metal that would melt over your body to serve as armor. Perhaps you are thinking of one of those?
PFS Aside: Save yourself the hassle and wear your free wayfinder, which your character must certainly have earned by now as it only requires 2 games to have been played to earn the boon. That's an excellent idea! ----- Other options to consider. - Hooded Lanterns are one-handed, light items, and unlike torches they don't have any text about being used as improvised weapons. They also shed light farther then torches. Only 7 sp plus 1 cp per 6 hours of oil. Being able to shutter them is also a nice option. - Sunrods are one-handed, light items, and unlike torches they don't have any text about being used as improvised weapons. At 3 gp each they are pretty costly compared to torches or a lantern, though. - Pay someone to cast Continual Flame on your gauntlet, helm, dull gray Aeon Stone, buckler, etc. It's a one-time cost of 6 gp, but it completely frees up your buckler hand for other tasks like Battle Medicine. - Acquire Darkvision. Not needing a light source is nice for sneaking, and it frees up your buckler hand for other tasks like Battle Medicine. - Acquire the Light Cantrip through methods other than the Wayfinder. (The action cost of sustaining Dancing Lights makes it a poor choice for in-combat lighting.)
The rules on this are a bit confusing. This passage seems to say that Raising the buckler with a light, non-weapon object in that hand is allowed by default. Buckler: This very small shield is a favorite of duelists and quick, lightly armored warriors. It’s typically made of steel and strapped to your forearm. You can Raise a Shield with your buckler as long as you have that hand free or are holding a light object that’s not a weapon in that hand. . But this next passage from earlier on the same page makes it seem that Raising the buckler while holding a light, non-weapon in that hand requires special permission from the GM. Raise a Shield is the action most commonly used with shields. Most shields must be held in one hand, so you can’t hold anything with that hand and Raise a Shield, and you lose its benefits if that hand is no longer free. A buckler, however, doesn’t take up your hand, so you can Raise a Shield with a buckler if the hand is free (or, at the GM’s discretion, if it’s holding a simple, lightweight object that’s not a weapon). . I suspect you are looking at the first passage and thinking the GMs are overriding the default rules by disallowing this action, while they are looking at the second passage and don't think they should be overriding the default rules by allowing the action.
I would be all over this, but does the Occult list have enough spells for it?Do we think there'll be a fifth Conscious Mind for Psychic in the book? Distant Grasp (telekine), Infinite Eye (clairvoyance/perception), Silent Whisper (telepathy), and Tangible Dream (conjured objects) seem like pretty good coverage for the classic tropes, but I feel like there's still room for more.I'd love to see one focused on self-transmutation. I loved that sort of thing with psionics back in 1st edition D&D: Body Weaponry, Shape Alteration, Expansion, and the like. I liked how Occultists could get a bit of that with the Transmutation Implement School. Sadly, I'd say no. I think that Conscious Mind would either have to get an expanded spell list or some self-transmuting focus spells.
Thanks for the note on the eldritch archer! The FAQ page was, in fact, missing the errata, and has now been updated. Thank you!
That’s not what he said.Book of the Dead is a book to support certain kinds of campaigns. It is going to include tweaks to make those campaigns more enjoyable. Kind of like how the GMG includes the Free Archetype rules.Where does Paizo say that the rules in this book are variant rules? How do you come to that conclusion? The game has standard rules and variant rules. They compared these rules to a variant set of rules. I don't see how that was meant to indicate that these rules are actually standard rules. The side bar, however it’s phrased, doesn’t mean PCs in my own campaign can suddenly start casting Soothe on their summoned undead minions. No one can, or wants to, force you to let characters have 3 actions per round in your own campaign, either. That's beside the point. The Rules Forum isn't here to force people to follow the rules; it's here to help people understand the rules. However you want to run your game, here in the Rules Forum 3 actions per round is a standard rule.
Book of the Dead is a book to support certain kinds of campaigns. It is going to include tweaks to make those campaigns more enjoyable. Kind of like how the GMG includes the Free Archetype rules. Where does Paizo say that the rules in this book are variant rules?
I just realized that the Ladder and Holly Bush are low enough levels that their ammunition forms would meet the requirements for the Eldritch Archer's Magic Arrow feat to create them for free.
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Yeah, I deleted it when I finally found the sidebar that the OP quoted and saw the Stitch Flesh feat. But, thanks! (The Side Bar is on page 45 of Book of the Dead, for anyone still looking.)
Second printing PDF.Source?The Advanced Player's Guide Errata is live. This change still isn't included in the Official Errata, and immanuel_aj has noted that Archives of Nethys still has the original text. I know that we usually don't get official responses on errata, but given that the actual book contradicts both of the official online sources, some clarification on which is wrong would be great.
I believe that there was a recent errata on that topic, though I'm not sure about the details. This change was left out of the online errata. ----- Second printing PDF.Source?The Advanced Player's Guide Errata is live. ----- It's interesting that Archives of Nethys still hasn't changed the text, though.
At least Monks got some new feats in the APG. Investigators haven't gotten any new feats since their introduction. :(
Do we think there'll be a fifth Conscious Mind for Psychic in the book? Distant Grasp (telekine), Infinite Eye (clairvoyance/perception), Silent Whisper (telepathy), and Tangible Dream (conjured objects) seem like pretty good coverage for the classic tropes, but I feel like there's still room for more. I'd love to see one focused on self-transmutation. I loved that sort of thing with psionics back in 1st edition D&D: Body Weaponry, Shape Alteration, Expansion, and the like. I liked how Occultists could get a bit of that with the Transmutation Implement School.
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