With the premise that I've always felt like metamagic feats are really bad (I won't go into math, right now, but basically I feel like they're not worth both a slot increase AND the cost of a feat), and also the fact that I'm surely not the world's best optimizer, I have thought of applying a HR to the game I GM in.
So, please, tell me if it's doable or if metamagic feats are really more powerful than I realize and thus should left them untouched.
The HR is simply about grouping three feats in one, so that a player takes one feat and has what he'd normally get by spending three feats on the corresponding metamagic.
For now, this only include the Core Rulebook:
- Metaform (Enlarge Spell, Extend Spell, Widen Spell)
- Metacast (Quicken Spell, Silent Spell, Still Spell)
- Metaeffect (Empower Spell, Heighten Spell, Maximize Spell)
I recall in 3.5 (or at least 3) you could add/remove parts to/from a composite bow to adjust its Str bonus, so basically you could buy a +0 bow, add a +1 when you get the money, add another when you get more money, and so on.
As a GM, I've continued to apply it through my Pathfinder years (well, it didn't come out often, in truth), but now I can't see that rule in Pathfinder's Core Rulebook.
So, is it still there, somewhere, and I missed it?
Or has it just become impossible to do that, and once you buy a bow with a Str bonus, it is set in stone?
Or, yet, is it simply implied that it's possible to modify the bow at will? (I'm no bow expert, but the "composite" name suggests me that it is made of parts that can be changed.)
I'm starting a new gaming group with three players at their first pen-and-paper rpg experience plus two with 3.5 experience. I will be the GM.
Let me say that i greatly favor role-playing, rather than optimization, both as a GM and a player; I mean I don't care to go digging the books for the perfect combinations or to look at guides telling me what's best or what's not for a build. As long as it is mechanically decent, it's alright.
Yet, there is one of those three first-timers who made a number of choices I think might be quite suboptimal.
(Note that only Core Rulebook is allowed. PCs are 1st level.)
- Gnome Fighter: Gnome has +2 to Con, but also -2 to Str, and has little other that really helps in combat (and actually, only against a few subtypes of creatures). Also, 20 ft. speed.
- Weapon: greataxe (slightly lower average damage and less criticals compared to greatsword, or less defense compared to sword-and-shield).
- Feats: Dodge and Toughness. While they aren't terrible feats on their own (I think), they're not the best for that character. I tried to suggest him Power Attack and Weapon Focus (especially since he has Str 15 with racial modifier applied, so he'll better use anything he can to improve hit-rate and damage), but he kept his ground.
To tell it all, initially he had picked different feats; I can't remember which ones, now, but I clearly saw he was trying to build a videogame tank. So I said openly that in true rpgs there is no such thing as aggro, and enemies, who aren't just pre-programmed, won't keep attack him "just because yes", if they deem better to go on someone else. When I said that, he changed to what I listed above.
Anyway, I don't want to force him to make choices he doesn't like, but I also fear that his PC will be greatly outshined by the other better-built ones, so I was wondering if I can have any good advice from you folks.
Or create new ones, in fact I was forced to create this account specifically for this...
Well, I made my account (http://paizo.com/people/UnearthlySerpent) yesterday and posted 3 messages, and now when I try to reply I get this notice:
"You have made three posts as "Unearthly Serpent". You can change your avatar name until you have posted 10 messages to the messageboards.
Click here to change your avatar name.
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I do ignore it and click on "submit post", but it stays in the page without submitting.
Not that anything differs if I don't ignore it... if I open the link in a new tab, it's as if I ignored it, and if I just left-click it, the page changes to my account settings, where no matter if I confirm my name and stuff, I still won't be able to submit replies.
Am I missing something or is it a bug? How do I get past it?
I know this section has nothing to do with play by post games, but since the dedicated part of the messageboards doesn't seem to have (as far as I can see) a subsection for things like this, I didn'tk know where else to ask.
I'm not new to PbP games, but I'm new to doing it on this site AND english isn't my mother language (I think I'm fairly good at it -consider that all my Pathfinder books are in english and I don't remember having a single issue with them-, but I may not get some colloquial linguistic constructions here and there or understand exactly what some words mean in certain situations). So, since I noticed this site has a number of features specifically for running campaigns and that all the recruitment threads are already overflooded with players wanting to join, I wanted to ask if any good soul is willing to introduce me to said features and advise me on how to properly join some game (other than trying to submit interesting characters, of course).
Sorry for the lame title, but I didn't know how to put it in short, nor what to search for to find relevant answers.
Well, using Silent Image and any of its more powerful version (Minor, Major, Permanent, etc.) we all agree that we can create the image, for example, of a bunch of spikes over a floor or along a wall.
But can we instead make holes into the floor, possibly with things inside them, or make a flat wall appear like it's a jail with dead people inside, and stuff like that? (That's what I meant by "negative 3D"... 2D that looks like it has depth.)
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