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The way I read it is this.

I could not select Powerful Companion (form) twice on the same critter because it does not say I can. I could select it twice if each time I selected it, it was for a different critter.

I could also select Powerful Companion (form) and Quick Companion (form) on the same critter.

I could also select Battle Creature (form) twice on the same critter because it specifically says so.

Thank you, that reads much better than what I posted.

Sorry, with that reading you may have more than a single form talent on your summon. You simply can't give the same creature a form it already has, and the form is one creature per sphere invested. This mostly means that you'll be focusing on a single creature, or becoming a conjuration specialist as the conjuration sphere is very expensive.

I've been loving the Spheres of Power magic system in my games. I find it more versatile and balancing than the base system. Provided your caster players don't mind it. http://paizo.com/products/btpy96pr?Spheres-of-Power

That seems reasonable, but it's not very exciting. Full elemental defense is cool, and that's the part I'd like. Reduced composite burn is nice, but not capstone material. Slowly getting rid of burn is just a nuisance to the party.

What if instead of the composite bit and the burn removal, you gave them a once per day ability to act as if they'd gathered energy twice. Or, instead, once per day as a swift action negate all burn they take that round (still limited by how much burn they can accept in a round).

That gives them an all-day ability (full elemental defense) and a 1/day nova ability.

I like it, my big hiccup with this idea however is I really like the idea of a level 20 kineticist having the ability to remove burn, I just can't think of a good way to balance it. As stated my players do tend to hit 20, so I need something that's not gamebreakingly powerful, but not week, either mechanically or flaverfuly, since we will likely get a couple of sessions off with it. I would actually prefer each potential combination getting a unique capstone, but that strikes me as a balancing nightmare.

Hello, so I've always personally had an issue with the Kineticist's capstone ability feeling that it felt more like an "Avatar" archetype capstone than an actual capstone. However I simply took it as was until some of my players read the Occult Adventures book, now they really want a campaign set in the Avatar the Last Airbender universe. And since my players tend to go until a tpk or level 20-22 (generally one last grand quest starting at level 20 to end things on.), whichever comes first, I now need to tackle it. So I was thinking something effective, but copy paste able between each element.

Elemental Mastery (Su)
Your Primary Elemental Defense is always calculated at maximum burn.(So either 3+Con mod or less if the defense has a hard limit, IE Shroud of Water not going beyond 50% starting value)
Composite Blasts cost 1 less additional burn, this stacks with the burn reduction from Composite Specialization, This can't reduce the cost of a composite blast below 0 points.
You may enter a rest mode, during this rest you may not take any action, however you reduce your current burn by 1 for every 10 minutes spent resting.

So any suggestions? Too strong, too weak? Should I instead focus on creating a unique capstone to each element, each elemental combination? Anything you guys could recommend would be appreciated, this game is still a couple months away, provided it doesn't collapse in on itself first, so I have plenty of time to figure this out.

Sorcerous Strike (Combat)
The power flowing through your veins also flows through your unarmed strike.

Prerequisite: Sorcerer bloodline class feature, Improved Unarmed Strike.

Benefit: When you gain this feat, you choose one bloodline power that you can use to affect a single opponent. If you make a successful unarmed strike against an opponent, in addition to dealing your unarmed strike damage, you can spend a swift action to deliver the effects of the chosen bloodline power to that opponent. Doing so provokes no attacks of opportunity.

So my question for this would be, what powers qualify? I'm new to DMing, new to table top RPGs in general, and I have a player who wants to play an unnarmed draconic sorcerer. Neither of us are sure if he can choose to use the breath weapon with the feat tho. I guess it comes down to how you interpret the first sentence of the under benefit.

you choose one bloodline power that you can use to affect a single opponent.

I can see two interpretations, the first is your power HAS to affect only a single target IE Laughing touch from the fey bloodline, and the other is that it CAN affect a single target, IE the breath weapon CAN affect single targets if nobody else is caught in the blast.

Lastly, in the event they can use it for the breath weapon, should I? Because on the one hand his unarmed damage and STR mod are pretty bad, on the other hand a free 1d6 per level save for half seems like it might be a bit much for damage.

Sorry if this question has already been answered, but I was unable to dig it up if it has.

UllarWarlord wrote:

Oh my. Greed subdomain...it is beyond hilarious.

The summary of it: you can steal spell effects away from others, possibly even affecting yourself twice! True, they may not stack, but...heh.

The best part: It's a level 1 3+Wis/day ability. Sure, it's a steep caster level check to make at lower levels (15+spell level), but I really want to make a character witht his subdomain.

For reference, Asmodeus, Dahak, Lao Shu Po, and Norgorber get it.

So it's a subdomain of evil, right?

Greed Subdomain is up on D20 under Trickery.

You didn't miss anything -- they definitely slipped the release date.

Darnit, I've already persuaded my group to hold off starting our campaign one week for this. I guess I'll have to broker an agreement to switch to the blood summoner after its release.

Did I miss something, or did the release date go from September 24th to October 1st?