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Kurald Galain wrote:

oyzar wrote:

Moonlight Stalker also works with blur or cloak of displacement. You are probably going to get blind-fight anyway, especially if going for eldritch assault (700 GP for that is quite cheap).

700 gp for the blindfight feat? Make that 8500, as resonant powers don't work with cracked and flawed ioun stones. Still cheap though.

Not true:

Quote:

75% of ioun stones grant resonant powers when placed in a wayfinder. 25% of cracked or flawed ioun stones have resonant powers (see Wayfinders and Ioun Stones) compared to the 75% chance for typical ioun stones; only 10% of scorched ioun stones have resonant powers.

in PFS cracked and flawed ioun stones dont have resonant powers

Order of the Flame is bad. Firstly, the "pounce" use an immediate action at initiative roll which consumed your swift action in the first round. Second, to have 75% chance pounce instead of 50%, you need one level in battle oracle or tactic cleric. Last, both Cav and Magus need levels. Cavalier dip only works if you take only 3~5 levels in magus and only use bladed dash wand spell combat build or alike - that's a cavalier build with magus dip, instead of a magus build.

Preparing my magus for worst situation. If I have the Silent Spell Arcana, am I able to move while paralyzed and casting Silent Bladed Dash (which has only V component)?

I'm certain that I can't attack during this move, but magical move is a different thing.

Thank you!

Iannis wrote:

Indeed I have familiar magus arcana, so the familiar's effective level is 8, that's why I can get a lyrakien.

It's just the wording "a familair USES your BAB" (what dragonhunterq quotes) is confusing.

To hopefully un-confuse you... this is the first part to that section...

"Use the basic statistics for a creature of the familiar's kind, but with the following changes."

See? You "use" the base creature's statistics and then "use" the statistics that are changed in the rest of the section. If you attempt to say "it says use the master's bab, so it doesn't actually have that bab" you would have to say it doesn't have any stats at all, since it only "uses" the stats of the base creature. No, the correct way to read this is that the familiars statistics which are modified by their master are the creature's new real statistics.

Ah thank you I understand now!

Indeed I have familiar magus arcana, so the familiar's effective level is 8, that's why I can get a lyrakien.

It's just the wording "a familair USES your BAB" (what dragonhunterq quotes) is confusing.

As the beast-bond witch can transfer feat to her familiar, when the charactor gets +5BAB or 5 lv in related skill, could she transfer feat like Battle Cry (from ACG) to her familiar? Assuming that the familiar can talk and perform oratory.

My PFS charactor hexcrafter magus 7 /diviner 1 /beast-bound witch 1 have a free feat and I'm expecting to transfer it to my lyrakien familiar. Battle Cry seems to be a better one and Antagonize could also be a solid choice.

And what if I use this to make the parrot stand on my arm?

Falconry Gauntlet
Price 10 gp; Weight 1 lb.
This gauntlet, made from layers of thick leather, is worn on the falconer's off hand to give a falcon a place to stand before and after a hunt. The gauntlet also has a tassel and a ring attached to the falcon's tether.

Thank you. I have the same opinion about the 2nd situation.

For the first sentence, I really mean the parrot, because it shares the improved feint feat of the pirate via the fighter archtype, that's why it can feint twice in a round.

But if the parrot can continue to be moved, it's just like...make a full attack while mounted and the mount use it's action to take another move.

I'm building a pirate captain charactor with 2 level in Eldritch Guardian (fighter) and couple of levels in other classes (slayer, daring champion, snakebite brawler, rogue, etc.).

In combat, the charactor wield a rapier in one hand and his parrot familiar sit on his other free arm. His fighter style is to use improved feint (both master and familiar) + paired opportunist + improved feint partner (familiar is evolved with reach and bluff skill) combo to make multiple AOs (4/round with a full round action, since the pirate and parrot can both use two feints in a round) againt enemy who loses dex bonus on AC.

But how did we calculate the familiar's action in the following and similar situation?

Situation 1: the pirate performs 2 feints against a near target (both move action) in its turn, which triggers 2 AOs from the pirate against the target. Then at the pirate's turn, he feints with a move action, trigger parrot's AO, parrot's AO trigger pirate's 3rd AO. Then the pirate use the 2nd move action to move away from the target. Can he carries the parrot to move with him, or the parrot must remain in place becuz it has used all its actions in this round?

Situation 2:(similar) The pirate carries the parrot on his arm and approach an enemy with a move action, then use an action to feint and trigged both his and parrot's AO. Then the parrot's turn, can it perform 1 feint, or 2 ?

A little bit similar to mounted combat rule (with is always a trouble), but different.

Mmm... bigrig, I'm not sure if they are like ki/grit/inspiration from different sources. You are right I think, use per day is different than pool and points.

Since my wizard spells are almost useless, I use them to memorize lucky number, sure casting (V only) and the school slot for true strike (V only).

I often use wand of fallback strategy (when the party is not in danger) as pre-kickdoor-buff, or 2nd round buff.

Since bit of luck says that all the roll 20s can be rolled twice, and +1 keen obsidian katana made from arcane pool and do not need a crit confirm roll to autocrit on a crit threat, on each roll, I have a 30% chance to do crit damage.

In ideal situation:(I have fallback strategy on me)

Step 1 - Before my round, familiar use bit of luck on me.

Step 2 - At the beginning of my turn, I roll twice for the Prescience dice twice, and if their is a roll between 15-20 (51% chance), I'll use it as attack roll. If not (49% chance), I choose neither those result (or use the higher one to overcome SR),then...

Step 3 - Cast Shocking Grasp, move if necessary toward enemy and draw sword (I often cast at distance to avoid concentration checks), swift action to use arcane pool if necessary, then deliver as free action.

Step 4 - Roll attack roll twice and 51% chance to crit. 49% chance not crit, that means 49%x49%=24% chance not crit. If this 24% happens, then...

Step 5 - Use fallback strategy spell effect to reroll. This reroll can also be rolled twice, so 51% chance crit, 49%x24%= nearly 12% chance not crit. 88% chance crit. But for the 12%...

Step Bonus - Remember that we have a lucky number (always 1~14 if using a wand)? and we rolled 4 times in the round. 18% chance to have the lucky number and 51%x18%(x12%=1%) chance to crit.

In this case, the critical chance is about 89%. If GM allow multiple use sof prescience at "the begining of turn" (treat the begining of turn as a phase, not a time point), even higher.

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And infact...

If the Prescience of Step 2 fails, I can just cast vanish or something and wait for another round. I have headband of fortune's favor, so bit of luck last 2 round. And only one optimized grasp is enough to beat most of enemy.

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And...

Once in a PFS scenario boss fight, I rolled 1,1 on prescience, and 1,4 on attack roll. Not having fallback strategy effect nor touching luck number. Cursed by the Dice God.

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And !!!!!

Can anybody tell me if I can get the 2nd use of bit of luck through Transfer Feats - Believer's Boon?

Thank you Ellias Aubec, I missed this line in Familiar description:

All familiars have special abilities (or impart abilities to their masters) depending on the master's combined level in classes that grant familiars, as shown on the table below. The abilities are cumulative.

Hello guys, I have a 8th level Kensai-like PFS charactor Diviner 1/ Magus 7(Hexcrafter),worship in Desna. My tactic is to use a combo: Diviner's Prescience Ability + Emissary Familiar's Bit of Luck ability + high crit range obsidian kanata + Disposable Weapon UC feat, to draw a blade and auto-crit (80%+ chances) any foes with a optimized shocking grasp (in most of the cases, instant kill a boss without proper defensive ability). I use Headband of Favor's Fortune to prolong the duration of Bit of Luck to 2 rounds so I'm likely to made 2 consecutive critical shocking grasp in a single combat.

My tactic works well until now, but since each PFS scenario contains 4~5 encounter and my familiar only have 1/day bit of luck, if things becomes difficult and I need (my familiar) to use Bit of Luck before the BOSS fight, the final BOSS fight becomes hard to me. So I want to have a additional use of Bit of Luck (used by my Emissary familiar so it would not waste my action).

Here comes my solution and questions:

QUESTION 1:
My solution is to dip another level into Beast-bonded Witch and take a Improved Familiar (Lyrakien) with my 7 level magus, use the witch's Transfer Feats ability to grant the Lyrakien (Emissary Familiar archtype) Believer's Boon ACG Feat for 1 use of bit of luck per day. Since an emissary already have one use of bit of luck per day, could the familiar have two use of bit of luck with the Feat (one use from feat and one use from familiar archtype)?

QUESTION 2:(SOLVED)
In this case, I have a Lyrakien of master level 7 and a ordinary witch familiar with master level 1 . In PFS, only one "combattant animal" is allowed for each charactor. When I choose the Lyrakien as the combattant companion, can I get benefice from the 1-level familiar from my witch level? (like +4 initiative with a rabbit)

QUESTION 3:
When determine the Hex ability of a hexcrafter/witch, did those level stack? is the effect of a Fortune Hex from a hexcrafter 7/ witch 1 count as a 8-level witch?

Thanks for your answers!

@KainPen

I'm preparing an online PFS game, and I would rule it like this : babaus' slime deal double damage to metal, and ignore hardness of ordinary metal such like steel. Coldiron or adamatine still have their hardness vs slime damage (that could be a 2d8 vs 10, 12 or 20). If PCs success the knowledge check revealing the slime ability, I will also show them this information.

So if they use coldiron weapon as I expected, there is only a small chance (30%?) that the acid damage bypass hardness. There is challenge, but not very hard.

Excuse me for reply in this 2011 post.

I have the exactly same question and i notice a special rule in DAMAGING OBJECT:

Vulnerability to Certain Attacks

Certain attacks are especially successful against some objects. In such cases, attacks deal double their normal damage and may ignore the object's hardness.

Citation would be helpful here:
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Masterwork and magical fragile weapons and armor lack these flaws unless otherwise noted in the item description or the special material description.

Uhh.. Just wait a moment. Where comes this "magical FRAGILE weapons" if they don't have the fragile quality?

I should stand on my opinion by this.

Ok...

So another question, did arcane pool enchancement remove fragile?

Citation would be helpful here:

PRD wrote:

Fragile: Fragile weapons and armor cannot take the beating that sturdier weapons can. A fragile weapon gains the broken condition if the wielder rolls a natural 1 on an attack roll with the weapon. If a fragile weapon is already broken, the roll of a natural 1 destroys it instead.

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Masterwork and magical fragile weapons and armor lack these flaws unless otherwise noted in the item description or the special material description.

My opinion is, "lack these flaws" means "do not auto broken on a nature 1", but not "lose the fragile quality". That might be the key of the question.

It's notable that bone does provide an exception to the usual rule that masterwork items are not fragile, but magic bone still loses the fragile condition.

Thx for your citation, but according to the description of other material, bone could be an exception - for example, such "magic .. does not have the fragile quality" is not in the obsidian paragrah. Could we assume that other material, such as obsidian, don't lose the fragile quality even when they are magic weapon? In fact, in late game, I really need spellstore + auto crit to garantee my boss fight capacity.

What i'm planning to use is (even I don't take blackblade archtype) magic obsidian katana (with scabbard of vigor, and cast + move + free deliver trick). I will add the mending spell in magus spelllist through magus arcana, so I can repair them for free.

In easier combat, I would use mwk darkwood tepoztopilli (with reach, so I can avoid AO/concentration when spell strike 5ft-reach enemy). So for the katana, "One draw, one killed."

I am fairly sure that this FAQ regarding the Battle Host also applies to the Bladebound Magus:

FAQ wrote:

Battle Host: What exactly does it mean that the battle host’s implement is immune to the broken condition? Can it never be destroyed? Can you use it over and over again with abilities that break your weapon for a benefit?

In this particular instance, what it does is slightly different than the usual meaning of “immune.” It means that the implement suffers no penalties, even if it becomes broken. It can still gain the broken condition, and, it still counts as having the broken condition for the purpose of effects that escalate if you have the broken condition (such as effects that give the broken condition, or destroy the target if it already has the broken condition). As usual, you can’t use an effect that breaks a weapon if it already has the broken condition. An explanation will be included in the next errata.

So you would be able to use disposable weapon with a black blade, and it would suffer no penalty, but you would only be able to use the ability once before repairing the weapon.

Thank you !

To skylancer:

Sorry for i misspelled some words. "Forture crackle" should be "fortune hex + crackle hex", and the scoll should be "fallback strategie"(my book is not with me for the moment), Torag reroll spell in Inner Sea Gods. The build is based on multiple roll + auto crit confirm with spell strike.

If what i remenbered is right, magic weapon / mwk weapon DO NOT LOSE the fragile quality, they only lose the drawback of fragile weapon (broken on naturel 1). To totally lose the fragile quality, you need to MAGICALLY STRENGHTEN the weapon, which is, according to UE, with a separate GP cost (and even larger than mwk price)

Hi guys, I'm building a minkaien hexmagus for PFS game, and i'm planning to use fallback tactic scroll + foresight wizard + forture crackle + disposable weapon combo (and maybe an emissary familiar if I don't choose Bladebound archtype to Use bit of Luck) to make 1 combat/day superhight crit chance attack.

But in that way i have to spend many GP or an Arcana(gain cl 3+ mending, since i'm using a 3 lb. or 4 lb. weapon) to repair my weapon.

My question is: did the black blade work with Disposable weapon since it's immune to the broken condition ?

I need some more RAW opinion.

Thank you!

to Sheepish Eidolon:

the knowledge check here is not mean to "identify monsters and their special powers or vulnerabilities." The action, DC and descriptor sentence are not the same.

And now we agreed that with the "if..cease combat" line, it's not usable in these way.

I was the mentionned PC and we are not actually in a campaign but creating charactors.

Skylancer you are right, by descriptor sentence that's obviously not intended to work on allies. >But< with those benefit paragraph we could not prove it unable to use in this ways.

Hello guys here's a question：

Unlike Sap Adept (Whenever you use a bludgeoning weapon to deal nonlethal sneak attack damage, you gain a bonus on your damage roll equal to twice the number of sneak attack damage dice you rolled.), Sap Master feat demands "use a bludgeoning weapon to deal nonlethal sneak attack damage to a flat-footed opponent".

But the scout's Skimisher ability only grant SA "as if the target was flat-footed". So the target is actually not FF.

So...is a Skimisher attack qualified for the benefits of the Sap Master feat?

Thank you :)

In most cases...

Thx for your suggestion and information!

I'm GMing an adventure which happens in Thuvia, with my own scenario. But there's some location that i couldn't find any information in this region, neither in ISWG nor in People of the Sand

Locations below:(all showed on the Thuvia map in ISWG)
- Cathedral of the claws (a gnoll temple or something??)
- Uldani Necropolis (is that somekind of undead city or just like a necropolis in the real world?)
- Ruins of Akhenatens
- The Shouk (it's about a savage clan which is once some kind of sages? I remembered it but didn't recall where i saw it)
- Glasswall Island

Can someone tell me what exactly is those locations or where can I find their details? Don't want to make mistake even it's not a game with Paizo Modules.

Thx for response and sorry for my english. not native user.