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Slenk begins an incantation then his mouth opens as if screaming with an unearthly intensity at the tiny creature, but no sound seems to emerge.

ear piercing scream: 1d6 ⇒ 6
DC 16 fortitude or be dazed for one round

Unable to reach the knocker, Slenk uses the pommel of his dagger to knock on the door.

Clipped from the SRD:

Succeeding on a Saving Throw

A creature that successfully saves against a spell that has no obvious physical effects feels a hostile force or a tingle, but cannot deduce the exact nature of the attack. Likewise, if a creature’s saving throw succeeds against a targeted spell, you sense that the spell has failed. You do not sense when creatures succeed on saves against effect and area spells.

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Slenk makes some fluid gestures while chanting, and releases magical energy at the Sword Knight. "Please, we are friends... there is no need to resort to violence."

I anticipated this being an initiative situation and was just posting my intended action, However, I wanted Slenk to act (rest dropping) to cast the spell to avoid the +5 to save that occurs if my allies are actively attacking her. DC 15 Will or be charmed.

Slenk said you always round up in Pathfinder which is incorrect, you always round down unless otherwise stated. HP is otherwise stated to round up.

For things like damage you would round down. Say a first level wizard casts burning hands and rolls only 1 damage and the target makes its save. You apply half damage and then round down so the target would take no damage.

Thanks for diggoing up the law. I'm sure that will be helpful.

So I was wrong, but right about rounding up hitpoints. So at least we will all live longer!

I found these online we may be able to use as reference:

Description of Chelish Laws

Sample Laws of Cheliax

To follow on, would someone know that Slenk is using a Hex? I'm thinking fortune and misfortune really wouldn't be obvious. Evil eye might.

Slenk shakes his head as Lily steps into the center of his spell, shrugs and completes casting the sleep spell.

Pink, red, orange, green, and Lily all need to make will saves.

Just waiting for Slenks turn to step out and cast sleep. Happy Monday everyone! Hope you are staying safe. My family set up a QC Code Easter Egg Hunt in our neighborhood that allowed kids to ride their bikes around to complete the hunt while maintaining social distancing (Biking as Outdoor Exercise is allowed in Florida).

Hope you are all finding ways to cope with the "new normal" as I think we have months not weeks before things change much.

The halfling bows deeply, with practiced deference and addresses the Sheriff. "Good day, Sheriff. I have been dispatched with an urgent notice for you from the Archbaron. I had specific instructions to deliver it to you only, and to return with any reply you saw fit to provide. It was stated that no written reply is required, however."

With that, Slenk holds forth the document with the air of a respectful servant.

Sense Motive 1: 1d20 ⇒ 2

Sense Motive 2: 1d20 ⇒ 12

Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19

Here is the actual phrasing:

Torpor (Ex)

A demilich takes no actions against intruders unless its remains or treasure are disturbed.

Jellak shakes his head hearing this talk of treating bandits with kindness. Such idealism is understandable, but such softnes won't survive in the Wild. Or in a Barony, honestly.

After pondring his words, he speaks out: "It may be that all that is between a man and Banditry is a bad harvest and an empty stomach, but they still choose to use violence to steal and many folks die because of such decisions. It may be a sad story behind a bandit, but if you treat them kindly instead of with suitable punishment, word gets out. And when word gets out that a Lord is soft on bandits, it makes it easier for an otherwise honest man to break. You don't hang a horse-thief for the horse he steals... you hang him for the hundred horses not stolen because this man paid a harsh price."

Specifically he looks at the chirpy gnome. "You say you have to be kind to people at least once? Aye, that may be true if those persons are strangers and unknown. When all is balanced, kindness begets kindness."

"But if you come across a broken man, a bandit by trade. They've given up the first kindess with the last goodwife raped, the last child who couldn't eat for that which the Bandit took, or the last family without a husband and father because the man tried to keep what was his. They made their choice, and they give up their right to a first kindness by that choice. Otherwise, the next rape or murder is on your pretty little head, just as if you did the raping or killing yourself."

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Councilor, High Priest, Marshall

Primary caster, secondary healer

Survival, Scout, Healer

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I have been playing RPG's since the late 70's and Pathfinder since it first came out. I typically GM in table-top so PbP is my chance to develop characters and enjoy modules. I've been trying to play Kingmaker (never played or GM'd) on these forums for a while, but the GM's keep disappearing, which makes me excited about Giuseppe's campaign.

Post samples
Skorhald Warsong
Father Paidraig
Serelina Bellafini

By the way, Astein took ranks in fishing and cooking as he leveled up, so the food won't be quite so bad anymore.

Enjoy!

He is "Spooky" and it is Halloween... should we really expect him to be here?

Never been in a recruitment that had too many female gnomes before!

Looks like the Bitten takes all the feats from a standard character before 11th. Seems like a decent balance as long as there is a genuine power progression. Very intriguing.

I took songhealer with Nemenia because I like the backstory of her appearing to be good, but also so we can get some more bang for the buck out of healing wands. I figured the party would be likely to attract negative energy channelers and it might help.

@GM - what version of Sound Striker bard archetype Wierd Words do you favor? I am thinking of adding the archtype.

Definitive Wierd Words Thread

SKR's Suggested Revision

All, I will be travelling until September 17th and unlikely to have regular access. Feel free to GMPC me in the mean time.

VEGAS BABY!

When his turn comes up Skorhald will perform for inspire courage and cast haste on the party.

Gotta say, that's kind of a judgy/douchey recruitment posting... Good luck.

So, as long as your expectations of what classes like Paladins, Inquisitors, Bards, Magi, etc. are kept at a realistic level (either choose 1-2 specialties, or be a jack of all trades/master of none), a 15 point MAD class can be a lot of fun to play with.

This is the key point. If you want a 16+ strength for your paladin, you're not also going to have a 16+ charisma. A smite with a 14 charisma is still a great bonus and scales just fine as you go up levels.

You can build a monk with a 15/14/13/12/10/8 array and level 8 you will have. If you're complaining that you can't do as much damage as the fighter who maxed out strength - you can also do a lot of things that fighter can't do... that's not a problem, that's the way it should work.

Core races only, but alternative racial traits from other books.

15 point buy = less work for GM and more challenge for players. Both of those are good things in my opinion.

i think you found insult where i meant none, i have no problem with LARP or action figures or even Gary Gygax, all cool with me:) i wasnt even trying to pick a fight just stating an opinion,

i like rolling dice sometimes (tho not in a gambling sort of way:) i think that Paizo has a pretty healthy mix of both in their APs and its easier for the GM to add additional Role playing into then it is to add more combat encounters.

i myself am terrible at monster and NPC creation and do like having the stats for nameless cultist #52, if i want to add more role playing bits i will:)

and to reiterate i wasnt trying to insult anyones hobby or preference:)

No worries and no insult taken. I do think that there is room within Pathfinder and other game systems for everyone's preferences. In my home campaign we have a broad spectrum and everyone brings different things to the table.

If you venture too far into role playing while eliminating combat, then you might as well be LARPing, or playing with action figures and Barbie Dolls (which with an inmaginative ten year old i've been doing for years any way:)

myself personally, i'm fine with the status quo as it is, a little more interaction is cool, just not too far, a balance must be maintained

Woah there... LARP and action figures? Did you mean that to be dismissive of degrading? It could be said that the ten year old who can advance the story with his action figures and no dice rolled is actually role-playing at a higher level than someone who simply rolls dice, adds, subtracts and moves along to the next thing statistical equation that must be surmounted.

Remember it is a role-playing game, not a roll-playing game. Since Gygax's Chainmail first came out, combat has been a part of RPG's with dice to guide the story. However, the story has always been the dominant part and combat a mechanism to advance the story. Go back and read the old rules... combat existed but there were no grids, no optimizing, no "better builds," no "elite players." Sure you were more powerful with an 18/00 strength than with a 17, but that was simply the luck of the dice.

As we evolved into D20 there were some great advances with the skill system to allow role-play to be mechanized. Additionally, combat was greatly enhanced with the 1" grid, AoO's, movement rules, etc. However, the heart of the game was then and still should be the story, which is naturally accented with the results of the dice. Now we can have thousands of pages of forums dedicated to manipulating the combat/character creation rules to create elite combinations of powers.

That doesn't change the fact that role-playing games are designed to be a story that is told, a story that is moved along by the mechanic of combat. Role-playing is still the center of the game. Having your character react to what the dice and combat rules dictate is merely a mechanism to advance the plot. You could just as easily cut a deck of cards to see who won a fight to advance the plot, however that wouldn't be as much fun.

If you enjoy the combat side more, great! Build your builds and compare them with others... max out your damage output... raise your saves and AC to astronomical proportions. But in the end, you're building a character in a story - and all those numbers are just mechanisms for advancing the plot.

Alleria Starfrost has notably updated her perform skills to include Perform (coitus) +9.

What versatile performance does she get for that?

Real life trumps fantasy life. Simple truth.

I put this list together for my campaign.

Abjuration
1 Charge: Shield
1 Charge: Resist Energy
2 Charges: Dispel Magic

Conjuration
1 Charge: Grease
1 Charge: Glitterdust
2 Charges: Summon Monster III

Divination
1 Charge: True Strike
1 Charge: Detect Thoughts
2 Charges: Clairaudience/Clairvoyance

Enchantment
1 Charge: Charm Person
1 Charge: Hideous Laughter
2 Charges: Deep Slumber

Evocation
1 Charge: Magic Missile
1 Charge: Scorching Ray
2 Charges: Lightning Bolt

Illusion
1 Charge: Color Spray
1 Charge: Blur
2 Charges: Major Image

Necromancy
1 Charge: Ray of Enfeeblement
1 Charge: Spectral Hand
2 Charges: Vampiric Touch

Transmutation
1 Charge: Enlarge Person
1 Charge: Alter Self
2 Charges: Haste

Universalist
1 Charge: Shield
1 Charge: Invisibility
2 Charges: Lightning Bolt

Wizard and rogue would be perfect! And very classic - Barbarian, Cleric Wizard Rogue Monk... We could be an old-school 3.0 party.

Father Paidraig watches without comment, keeping a pleasant but bland expression.

So far I see little more than what a skilled charlatan could read into people, especially people as rattled as we are. The Detective is clearly a seeker in our pursuit of the killer. Who is more trapped than an obvious addict? An obvious aristocrat who is obsessed with history - they all go on about families and lineages. A mysterious chinaman who deals in illicit things is a cliche. Tommy is clearly a scrapper, but a warrior? Flattery. And what priest doesn't have burderns. No witch here... just a gypsy charlaton. No doubt she will seek her price soon.

Father Paidraig chuckles at Tommy with a knowing smile. Despite Tommy's reputation and obviously dark associations, you can always count on him doing what he thinks is right... not always perfect but good in his own way. We live in a rough world, and you need to work with the ruffians if you're going to have an impact. None of the Ten is Thou Shalt Not Pummell a Lout, afterall.

Keeping with his good humor the priest says, Lets off to check on this lady then, it is getting late for an old priest like me to be about.

People are throwing the term RAW around... RAW means rules as written, meaning you look at the words as written. The words as written can be taken my way as well as yours.

Also in rules interpretation the specific trumps the general. In this case the general is that you have the grappled condition, the specific is that you are swalled whole. When you are swallowed you you have, in addition to the grappled condition, this restriction:

"A swallowed creature can try to cut its way free with any light slashing or piercing weapon (the amount of cutting damage required to get free is equal to 1/10 the creature’s total hit points), or it can just try to escape the grapple."

Definition of Just

The only meaning of the word "just" that could apply in this sentence is "only or merely."

This means as applied RAW: you can try to cut your way free or else the ONLY other thing you can do is try to escape the grapple.

Looking at the rules as written, you can only do two things while swallowed whole. This not only fits RAW but also makes way more sense than being able to do anything you can do while grappled.

Agree Rinaldo