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Excruciating Deformation

Your touch attack causes your target to become painfully malformed. Its limbs twist and buckle, while its body contorts uncontrollably, shifting and warping. Each round the target suffers excruciating pain and takes 2d6 points of nonlethal damage, 1 point of Dexterity damage, and 1 point of Constitution damage, and its speed is reduced by 10 feet. Once per round as a free action on its turn, the target can attempt a new Fortitude saving throw to resist the spell for 1 round.

If the caster scores a critical hit with this spell is the damage doubled for only the initial hit or for every round thereafter as well?

My apologies if this has already been answered or is a part of the rules that I am unaware of but I cannot for the life of me figure this out.

If I cast a touch attack spell, such as Shocking Grasp, and decide to hold the charge do I threaten?

So to give a specific example:
I cast shocking grasp and decide to hold the charge then I move up to an enemy and end my turn. The enemy begins to cast a spell. Does the enemies casting allow me to make an AoO with a touch attack to discharge the held shocking grasp or do I not provoke with my held shocking grasp?

Auspicious Mark (Su): The barbarian has been marked by the spirits, as indicated by an impressive tattoo, scar, or birthmark she possesses. As a swift action, she can call upon the spirits' favor to increase any d20 roll she just made by rolling 1d6 and adding it to the result. This bonus increases by 1 for every 4 levels she has. She can call on the auspicious mark after seeing the result of the d20 roll. This ability can be used only once per day.

So every at level 4 would the bonus be 1d6+1 or 2d6?

Opportune Parry and Riposte (Ex) : At 1st level, when an opponent makes a melee attack against the swashbuckler, she can spend 1 panache point and expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt to parry that attack. The swashbuckler makes an attack roll as if she were making an attack of opportunity; for each size category the attacking creature is larger than the swashbuckler, the swashbuckler takes a –2 penalty on this roll. If her result is greater than the attacking creature's result, the creature's attack automatically misses. The swashbuckler must declare the use of this ability after the creature's attack is announced, but before its attack roll is made. Upon performing a successful parry and if she has at least 1 panache point, the swashbuckler can as an immediate action make an attack against the creature whose attack she parried, provided that creature is within her reach.

Specifically when it states that the swashbuckler makes an attack roll as if she were making an attack of opportunity

Does that mean that any bonuses that would apply to an AoO would apply to this specific attack such as the trait Fencer that gives a +1 bonus on AoO's with bladed weapons?

I've looked at the Android race from the Inner Sea Bestiary multiple times now on multiple sources and they all say that its race points are 16...

However, it might just be me but by my calculations its only like 9?

Anybody out there familiar with the race and the race point guide mind showing me how Paizo is getting 16 race points.

Thank you.

Dear members of the Paizo universe I call upon thee

My group and I will be starting a new campaign in the very near future and our most veteran member will be DM'ing the campaign. As most of his d&d experience as well as most of the modules he'll be running are 3rd and 3.5 material he has opted to using the ECL system instead of any exp debt or other potential choices.

This has become a problem for myself as I was getting excited to crack open a character concept I've had for over a good year now, a tiefling witch. The only problem with this is that my DM seems to be adamant that the Tiefling and Aasimar races although don't warrant a +1 ECL do in his view so far warrant spending your 1st level feat so that they are "on par" with other less powerful races.

I've tried to defend them being on par with the core races for several reasons such as the core races from 3.5 all got an ability stat boost in pathfinder while the planetouched have either stayed the same or actually lost some power such as the tieflings darkness SLA being debuffed.

I'm not looking to start any sort of flame war here just looking for your opinions on the matter.

So do you believe that the race would warrant such a cost or not and please give your reasons why if you believe the feat cost is warranted?

Thankyou All.

Jakynth

I'm just curious if anyone out there has any idea what the ability is referring to when it refers to the "final blade"

At 10th level, once per week, when a Gray Warden kills a creature with a melee weapon, he can draw the soul out of the dead body and imprison it in his weapon as if using a soul bind spell (caster level equal to the Gray Warden's character level). Destroying the weapon or dispelling this effect frees the soul. After spending 24 hours in the weapon, the captured soul escapes. However, by touching the weapon holding a captured soul to a final blade, the Gray Warden can transfer the soul into the magical guillotine to remain trapped inside indefinitely. In addition, at 10th level, a Gray Warden receives initiation in the secret rituals that can release a soul from a final blade.

I did a search for the item and can't find anything referring to that or to a magical guillotine.

Alright, so I love my GM he's always crafted and woven together some of the greatest campaigns I've ever heard of and had the pleasure of playing in. Currently myself along with 4 other players are in a campaign that has been going on for well over a year now, I'm very pleased with this. However, something just kinda dawned on me and that is that everything my heroic main star-ish of the campaign character has done has kinda always failed or been undone in some weird round about way and I'm kinda depressed over it. Let me explain.

So at the end of the firsts arc I my comrades and I kill this evil cleric who has done these awful things like releasing an awful demon upon the world, breaking a paladin of my characters faith's will, killing countless innocents and other players characters. Yet sometime during the second act he comes back by going through repentance and with the help of a deity is now a good guy. So I'm told by my GM that if my character attacks and kills him I'll get an alignment shift even though no matter how good he is now my character can't get past all of the evil he's committed and doesn't intend to forget it.

So my hated most hated enemy is brought back and I have to "like" him. Either way thats just an example, along with dying multiple times, having statistically the weakest character in the group with no defined role within said group and having his wife turned into a hideous monster that he now has to kill.

Its all just kind of depressing and currently my character along with everyone elses is dead through plot twists and can be brought back through plot twists, I'm just not sure if i can continue playing with this character anymore and I'm not sure how to talk to my GM about it. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thankyou