I agree with Captain Morgan. There is nothing in the trigger than says they must start the move action adjacent to you, but you can only react while they are adjacent to you.
It would not remove the manipulate trait, but using it out of range of the enemy's Attack of Opportunity (AoO) would keep you safe. Most spells will have either the manipulation or concentration trait. Some will have both. The spell does more damage when use in close range, but that is the only real difference.
One thing to remember in PF2 is that most enemies do not have attacks of opportunity. It is no longer universal.
Neither, they do not get a free action, just make a skill check. This could be flavored however desired, but wouldn't change positioning, or have any game effect other than those specifically listed in the feat
The full text of the ability clarifies the effect:
archives of nethys wrote:
Activate [reaction] Upstage Trigger A foe attempts a skill check and doesn't get a critical success; Effect After your foe has tried their best, you show everyone how it's really done. Attempt a check using the same skill that triggered this reaction.
Critical Success You gain a +1 status bonus to attack rolls, Perception checks, saving throws, and skill checks until the end of your next turn.
Success As critical success, except you gain the benefits only if the triggering creature failed their skill check.
You attempt a skill check using the same skill they used. If you get a crit success you gain the bonus to attack rolls, perception, saves, and skill checks as above.
note that it doesn't list the DC for this check, but I would assume it to be the seem one as the foe attempted.
After reading through this discussion, the general rule that I will use at my table is that Reactions will generally follow the triggering action, unless they crit, in which case the reaction was close enough to simultaneous that it prevents the triggering action from being completed.
But I like the fact that the rule explicitly gives the GM room to change this on a case-by-case basis, if that makes more sense.
Movement rules
If the creature is three sizes bigger it can move through. For an ogre though it could easily be pinned if it is surrounded. It can use athletics to shove or acrobatics to tumble through, and it does have a longer reach.
Personally, I always put incapacitate modifications last.
There is this from the errata:
All three of these abilities grant a two-tier benefit on a failed saving throw of the specified type, but (as always) no ability will ever change your degree of success by more than one step. To clarify, we’re making the following clarification to all three abilities. Change the beginning of the last sentence from “When you fail” a given saving throw to “When you roll a failure on” a giving saving throw.
And the text of incapacitate:
if a spell has the incapacitation trait, any creature of more than twice the spell’s level treats the result of their check to prevent being incapacitated by the spell as one degree of success better
Divine Will specifies that it triggers from the role, and incapacitate triggers from the result of the check.
Different colored/numbered stones/chits/poker chips (1 for each spell level) and spell-cards would work for this. lay out the chits in a line for available slots, and move them to the spellcard when you use the slot.
Skills
Source Character Guide pg. 117 2.0
In some cases, a template lists one or more skills that should be added to the base creature's skills. The creature gains this skill as a primary or secondary skill, depending on if it has a good associated ability modifier. For example, a creature with a +5 Dexterity modifier that gains the Acrobatics skill should gain it as a primary skill, while a creature with a –1 Dexterity modifier should instead gain Acrobatics as a secondary skill . If the creature already had the skill, increase it to a higher bonus.
Leap is capped at 10 feet if your speed is not at least 30 feet, and capped at 15 if your speed is 30 ft or greater. So there is an indirect cap much lower than your actual speed.
Quote:
The Leap basic action is used for High Jump and Long Jump. Leap lets you take a careful, short jump. You can Leap up to 10 feet horizontally if your Speed is at least 15 feet , or up to 15 feet horizontally if your Speed is at least 30 feet. You land in the space where your Leap ends (meaning you can typically clear a 5-foot gap if your Speed is between 15 feet and 30 feet, or a 10-foot gap if your Speed is 30 feet or more). If you make a vertical Leap, you can move up to 3 feet vertically and 5 feet horizontally onto an elevated surface.
High jump moves only 5 ft horizontal (10 ft on a critical success), so speed doesn't play into this one.
Natural medicine allows you to use Nature instead of medicine for treat wounds only. You cannot use it to treat disease, treat poison, or administer first aid.
In that particular circumstance, they were encountering animated statues, and one was investigating the statues before they moved, so crafting represented his ability to tell they were animated objects rather than inanimate, and react to them.
I think it depends a lot on the situation. Typically 80% of my players roll percpetion, but I have used stealth, deception, survival, arcana, crafting, athletics, religion and acrobatics for initiative.
"A cantrip is always automatically heightened to half your level, rounded up."
Many players and GMs believe that you should be able to do this, and many will house rule this as an option, but it is strictly against the Rules as written.
It works pretty much like you described. you create a distraction to pull attention away from the one creating the diversion, to yourself.
Mechanically, creating a diversion gives the hidden condition to the character that created the diversion, which is why it appears to be worded weird. In other words, allows observed characters to become hidden, so that they can hide to become undetected.
If you are trying to get on lookers to pay attention to you to make them less attentive, then fascinating performance is more what you are describing. Applying a -2 penalty to perception DCs. In other words making them less observant.
A creature takes X damage each time it moves into one of these squares.
personally, I run it the other way. Each time they move [into one or more of these squares] they take damage. Just like I would with difficult terrain, they suffer the penalty for moving only once per move regardless of the number of squares they move into.
Personally, I agree with Ravingdork that the character yielding the Ghast Stiletto is the creator of the effect. Since they have to spend the action to do so.
However, The emanation rules don't say they creator can choose not to be affected, but by default they can choose the creature at the center of the emanation to not be affected..
"Unless the text states otherwise, the creature creating an emanation effect chooses whether the creature at its center is affected." CR457
However, the Ghast Stilletto specifically overrides the choice:
"For the next minute, the target creature, as well as any creatures within a 10-foot emanation, must succeed at a DC 16 Fortitude save or become sickened 1 (plus slowed 1 as long as it's sickened on a critical failure). " Treasure vault pg36.
Because the wielder is not at the center of the emanation, they are affected as normal.
No matter how you parse the "creator" portion, the wielder is still affected if within 10 feet of the target.
RAI might be different, but RAW is as breithauptclan describes.
Harm does not necessarily mean physical injury though.
On the contrary, that's literally how harm is defined. You may not use it that way, but the rules aren't written such that every word is dependent upon the reader's personal definition. Paizo has explicitly stated that if term is not defined in the game, it takes on the appropriate meaning in the dictionary.
On the contrary, harm is listed desperately from causing damage,indicating that they are in fact two different things:
A hostile action is one that can harm or damage another creature, whether directly or indirectly,
First the have clarified in errata, that a wand formula is general for any kind of wand:
https://2e.aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?ID=756
You only need to learn one 1st-level formula to Craft a magic wand.
secondly, even if the formulas were different, it doesn't follow that you can tell from looking at the outside what was used on the inside.
for example: you place frog's legs, wrapped in silver dust inside a wooden core, seal it up, and lacquer it black, and place a silver band on it. You now have a wand of jump.
Does the wand of jump look different enough from a black wand silver banded wand of magic missile,or a black silver banded wand of enlarge?
Sure if you break it down to reverse engineer it, you could find out wand you had, but then you need to put it back together again.
Yeah gravity is much lighter. How much? Well based on a bit of trial and error in an online free fall calculator, about 9.25926 ft/s² compared to earth's 32.17405 ft/s². That about 71.22% lower which is less than the gravity of mars (62% lower than earth)
I think you are forgetting terminal velocity, which (on earth) you reach in 12 seconds or about 1500 ft of falling, and cap out at about 120 mph or 1056 feet per 6 second round.
Unfortunately, from my perspective as a GM, rarity is often a make work rule for me. If my players are asking, "mother, may I" in one place, then my energy is sapped elsewhere. So. It doesn't work as intended. Reading between the lines to divine what authors intended is a game I prefer not to play.
In my experience, it's been exactly the opposite. I don't have to screen 100s of options and ban them one by one, I screen when the player requests an uncommon or rare option.
In one of my current camp gains, a player wants a new spell, I read it and say ok, or read it and say, I'll build it into the story, or read it and say no that spell will interfere with the story. I can do this screening at my leisure between sessions, and he has time to make other choices if needed. At least I know ahead of time whether a character choice will kill a storyline or trivialize an encounter or challenge.
As opposed to another player I've had suddenly announcing mid game that he has some new obscure ability from a source book I haven't read, and I have to screen it on the spot, and pause the game to do so, no thanks.
Rarity exists as a warning flag for players to check in with their GMs about something. I'd say it's definitely more to make it easier for GMs to say "no", as well as a way for players to identify which options they may want to be careful about.
I agree wholeheartedly. The rarity flag is a reminder to the player that they should check with the GM. It also serves as a flag for the GM to say, you might want to review this option before allowing it.
This isn't about blocking players, its about encouraging upfront communication.
When using a Holy Lance as a demon detector, the odds of murdering someone who has convinced themselves they aren't evil may be low, but not zero.
I make all necessarily preparation to make lethality of spell equal to zero even for evil target(temp hp for target,first level version of spell and Nonlethal Spell metamagic)
Again missing the point. You are intentionally causing harm to others. Doesn't matter if you have their permission, doesn't matter if it isn't lethal. Doesn't matter how you rationalize it, it fits pathfinders definition of evil.
On a more practical note, many normal soldiers may already be evil, but loyal to the king. Being Evil in and of itself is not sufficient grounds to cause them damage. Good can only cause harm in the defense of others or themselves.
This is a classic case of "the ends justify the means" thinking which many tales have been written about heroes falling into evil due to this rationalization.
In previous thread i suggested that divine lance can be used for detection of evil people in some situation and then being called evil psycopath who just want to murder and harm people for no reason or something like that but anywat i want to exaplain what i actually proposed.
I give example of war camp where demon disguised as one of the soldiers so my idea was:
1Allow some people to avoid long investigation if they go through divine lance test (they will face no danger for their life because they recive additional hit points and only first level version of cantrip will be used on them via wands and scrolls non-lethal metamagic will also be applied )
2.Those who refused to pass the test or pinged as evil during it will get full investigation of their potential demonhood
So Can you please tell where exactly i propose to kill or harm random people for no reason?
Doesn't have to be random people for this to be evil, and doesn't have to include death, just potential harm.
You violate this standard of good: "They are also good if they value protecting others from harm". And embrace this standard of Evil: "Your character has an evil alignment if they’re willing to victimize others for their own selfish gain,"
For me the best definition of good and evil is more about the intention of not committing the opposite act than anything else. But the negative intention as well as the positive one is problematic. Well, look:
If we consider that an evil character is one who commits evil, a character who made mistakes...
Most of these problems go away if you actually use the game definitions instead of bringing external religious connotations into the game.
Nothing in alignment states that you must behave in a certain way all the time or perfectly. It is simply a statement of values, and alignments can change. Got tired on helping others and not yourself? this is a move from good to neutral. Realize that hurting others to help yourself doesn't make you happy? move from evil to neutral.
In reality, most people in the pathfinder world are likely neutral as they are not committed to either of the extremes. Only extra planar creatures are really tied to an alignment, and even that isn't 100% fixed.
at 90% it creates the expectation that the GM cannot rule against the exact wording in the rules. at 85% it creates the expectation that the GM will make a judgement call.
I have not seen this be an issue in second edition, but it was rampant in PF1 and dnd 3.x
"I didn't attack, my summoned monster did"
"I just pulled the lever, the Acid attacked them"
and other such nonsense that doesn't fly in Pf2.
Yes I understand the concerns but it is cowardice on Paizo's part. It would have been possible to write reasonable rules and live with the consequences. Invisibility is not an impossible condition to deal with.
I disagree with the assertion. It was wise and bold of Paizo to explicitly empower GMs to make those calls. It makes it 100% clear to players that the GM has the right to make judgement calls, and that this is a cooperative game between GMs and players.
I don't know what motivates you to read and post of course, but as I am interested in challenging my own interpretations of the rules I'll happily read and look for arguments. And yes, you stated it above and I believe I captured it in my list of arguments.
I think you'll find most of us that respond in the rules forums are most interested in helping people understand the rules. It's a big game with a lot of moving parts and can be overwhelming for new players. The vast majority of us will listen to well reasoned arguments based on actual game text. We will also point out where a specific interpretation violates actual game text.
Many of us are GMs with a passion for running the game, and want others to succeeded. Areas where the text is very clear leaving little room for interpretation will see very little GM variance, as in treat wounds. Things where guidance is less strict, like fleeing, or how many people can attempt a task will get a wider range of interpretations.
Almost no one on the forums can really comment on why rules were written a certain way, as designers don't frequent these boards. So trying to say this rule was written for this purpose is mostly useless. What you will get is this rule allows or forbids this.
I struggle to picture a fear effect which can make a hardened warrior (or demon, or ghost, or other) choose to run away from combat which also leaves them in possession of enough faculties to make a full tactical retreat. Others may not find this strange to accept. No matter.
This isn't even hard. A level two fighter is fighting a level 1 pickpocket and suddenly realizes it's a level 14 Gylou. Yeah, they would run, in a way that avoids their AoO.
I would dare say a solid 10 - 20% of monsters have some form of AoO. This fits into the definition of common for me. I mean elves and dwarves are considered common at ~7% of the population, and halforcs at ~3%.
Looking at character classes, a solid 1/3 of can have some form of movement triggered reaction. Again this is the common category.
Hardly ubiquitous yes, and certainly not the the same level as PF1, but not a negligible amount.
I would agree that 3 steps is cheesy, but 1 is a running away in my book.
Now if the monsters (if intelligent) or PCs already knew a certain character didn't have an AoO then full on sprint would be in order in both cases.
Again I don't draw a distinction between fleeing (choice) and fleeing (forced).
Again for me, fleeing is about survival, not speed. Any action that acts against that survival in my mind violates the expedient clause.
I understand where you are coming from and respect your position, and give you full points for politeness in our disagreements. But as I said, I don't think either of us is going to change our position here and it boils down to two fundamental differences in philosophy: what fleeing actually means (terror versus retreat), what expedient means (speed vs safety). Happy gaming to you.
But the point is for those of us on the "you can't step at all side" the argument that you could only take one step because that makes sense doesn't hold water if you turn around and say you can't take 3. In my view, 1 step or 3 steps works out similarly in terms of "expedience". Neither is fleeing or expedient in my opinion. I can't reckon any way in which only 1 step is allowed without allowing all actions to be steps if the player chose. And because of that, I can't imagine steps being allowed at all.
For me the difference is so obvious, it's hard to explain. But I'll try.
Maybe a little background in how I run monsters will add some clarity to my perspective. I almost never run monsters that battle till TPK of the monsters. All monsters will battle until it is clear they have no chance of winning, and then will run away. (typically less than 20% remaining). They always do this by stepping away from the characters they are in melee with and then using 2 strides to move away. Taking 3 steps doesn't reduce their risk of dying, so they never would.
When I read fleeing as see running away, it means the same thing to me. You have opted not to continue fighting against (perceived) overwhelming odds and run away. You do so to preserve your own life.
Risking a potentially lethal attack from the very thing you are afraid of is going against the self preservation instinct, staying in range for another full attack is even more so.
For me, expedient means in the way that is most likely to keep them alive.
Paraphrasing your position, and correct me if I am misrepresenting it. Expedient means placing the most difference between you and one thing you fear as quickly as possible.
Another critical difference is the commonness we assign AOE. For me it is common, but not ubiquitous. My understanding of your position is uncommon to rare, possibly not even aware its a thing.
as written, I don't see anything forbidding it.
Personally, I would only allow one person to make a diplomacy check, and one to aid. I also recognize this is a judgment call, and other DMs make different calls.
I would allow the character to do any action that moves away from the source of fear, just as if they had chosen to abandon all allies are preserve their own lives. Dodging fires avoiding AOEs, etc.
I agree that everything that needed to be said has been said, but I still want to point out that this exact wording necessarily allows the "three actions to step" situation.
And I would disagree with this assertion. Staying in range for another full round of attacks is not what a character would do if choosing to preserve their own life, and does not meet the definition of expedient. I wouldn't allow it.
you could, and if so I might increase the limit. This would represent the another person tending the fires, handing the tools, etc.
The rules won't cover all cases, and the ambiguous rules section is there to remind us of this. This is one of the primary roles of the GM, to rule in corner cases, and use some common sense.
The question I would ask, is how many people can reasonable work on the task without getting in each others way?
for repairing a ring it might be one, for a suit or armor maybe two, for a boat maybe a dozen. Unlocking a door, one. tracking two.
These are all little more than judgement calls about what is reasonable. Hence the preface "as a gm".
As a GM, I would probably limit it to 2 people repair at the same time, unless the item could be repaired in parts or was very large.
Do you find any support in the rules for this ruling?
This is mostly a rule 0 call, but some guidance can be found in aid:
If they cannot have the item to work on, they cannot repair it.
You try to help your ally with a task. To use this reaction, you must first prepare to help, usually by using an action during your turn. You must explain to the GM exactly how you’re trying to help, and they determine whether you can Aid your ally.
Normally, you cannot even attempt to spot hidden creatures without using the seek action (in tactical mode) or the search activity (exploration mode).
This is functionally similar to trap finder rogue feat, except applies to hidden creatures instead of traps.
Finding some hidden things will require training of some level (trained, expert, master, or legendary) or automatically fail. This is normal in the rules. They don't really define nearby,but I typically run this as about 60feet.
technically it would round down to 0 RAW. However, I would see this as not working as intended and have it do 1 die at 1st level. Likely an oversight. I agree with Claxon on this issue.
Vezura was born on the mainland as a member of the proud noble house “Farlan”, a Halfling family that was famous for sometimes manifesting Aasimar children as they were rumored to trace their heritage back to a long-forgotten celestial from Heaven. In the Halfling community that the Farlans lived in, they were also known as the “wardens & keepers”, a family that has always been among the crusaders or warriors fighting the good fight against evil wherever their aid was needed. Tragedy befell the noble family when one of the youngest female scions of the house, Arala Farlan, was supposedly kidnapped and vanished.
It was only two years later that the Farlan family was able to track their missing scion only to find out that the young Aasimar halfling Arala was well and alive and actually the member of a demonic cult that was plotting an open attack on the very community that house Farlan had sworn to protect. Nobody knows if Arala had been coerced with magic or succumbed to the evil seductions of demons but the malice and hatred in her heart was visible when Arala and her allied cultist tried to kill the very heroes that were sent to bring the young Aasimar lady back! Eventually, the brutal fight ended with only the leader of the Farlan warriors alive, and Arala as well as the other cultists dead. The surprise in the demonic hideout was a little Halfling baby girl that was covered in blood but was so beautifully proportioned, and displayed such exceptional grace that it was clear that the Halfling infant had inherited the blood of angels from her mother Arala. On the spot, the surviving company leader, Kirl Farlan, named the girl Vezura and brought her back to the Farlan family elders to decide her fate.
The elders came to the conclusion that it was best to keep Arala’s fate a secret and made the unprecedented decision to give the unmarried Kirl Farlan custody over the child and keep Vezura away from any Farlan relatives in a remote village with little contact to the outside world. Kirl was an obedient and good man but he was a scion of war that knew little about parenting and spent little time at home so that Vezura grew up with caretakers and the rare training through Kirl with little understanding of what a true family is. Maybe it was Vezura's isolation or something deep inside of her but it was obvious that Vezura was eager to learn and study but at the same time was emotionally very distanced which led to her lonely life becoming even more lonely.
When Vezura became an adolescent and began to rebel against the forced isolation that she had endured, a heated argument between Kirl and Vezura escalated. The emotional stress did something with Vezura and in front of Kirl’s eyes Vezura started to burn, her body started to bleed and eventually she was the center of a fiery explosion that killed all servants, severely injured Kirl and left Vezura naked, burnt, physically changed and barely alive. Vezura’s silver hair and fair features were still clearly of celestial origin but her eyes burned as hot as the fires of the Abyss, her fingers had turned into bloody claws, some teeth were as sharp as a predator’s fangs, horns had grown from her head and her hands and forearms suddenly had thin, papery skin and were shriveled and blackened, as if they had been plunged into a blazing fire! She could not believe what happened … she had not been close to the servants but they were the closest to loved ones that she had … seeing them suffer death, made her blame herself for not having been able to help, even if there was nothing she could have done! Today she hates herself for this weakness but she cannot eradicate this overprotectiveness from her heart which very much bothers Vezura!
Shocked by these events Kirl brought Vezura’s altered, almost lifeless form back to the Farlan family elders. Vezura was still weak but here she was able to witness for the first time who her family really was and although Vezura was too weak to ask many questions, it was clear that the astonished elders had verified through magical tests what everyone’s eyes could already see: that Vezura had the taint of the Abyss in her very being and had transformed into a half-fiend! This was too much for the holy Farlan family to endure and based on the death of the servants the weak Vezura was sentenced to death!
But the fates seemed to watch over Vezura because her transformation had obviously not gone unnoticed. Vezura was in a wounded trance at that time but she can still remember the handsome man that rescued her from the prison and flew away with her before her execution could be performed. When she really came back to her senses and saw her savior for the first time in his full form, she was stunned to see a fiendish, half-naked, winged man in front of her that would tempt every mortal soul and could easily engender misery and destruction through his seductive manipulations. And when this “man”explained to her that he was a Succubus, a demon from the Abyss called Shatrak, and furthermore revealed that he was only now able to find Vezura due to her transformation … because they had a connection, because he was his mother’s lover and because he is Vezura’s father … this was too much of a shock for Vezura to bear. Here she had Shatrak as the first person that really knew his mother and was her own flesh and blood but she was completely torn between disgust and fascination. But the most agonizing fact was her father’s very open revelation that he only had saved her to sacrifice her to his demon gods … that this was the plan of her mother all along and that he would now finish it and offer her celestial blood to the Abyss!
Maybe it was fate again, because how else could it be explained that in the very moment that Shatrak was about to slit Vezura’s throat, one of the Succubus' archenemies attacked his hideout? Conicel Darn was a fanatic follower of Asmodeus and Dispater that had dedicated his life to the war against the Abyss as well the forces of good in the name of Hell! Conicel had recently learned of Shatrak’s whereabouts and had brought infernal reinforcement that completely overwhelmed the Succubus and his minions and eventually led to Shatrak’s destruction! Still in total confusion, Vezura could not believe what was happening around her but she realized that this man and his allies had saved her life and killed the only roots that she had to her real parents ... those parents that only had her to sacrifice her.
Conicel Darn immediately realized what kind of being Vezura truly was but as a mischievous planner he saw a raw diamond that he could shape! And to Vezura’s surprise her savior was also the wisest and most caring man she had ever met. She understood quite fast that Conicel Darn was not a saint and that his infernal patrons wanted the exact opposite of what Kirl and House Farlan had been preaching to Vezura for her whole life ... but she did not care. No, she did care … she cared for the kind of power that Conicel was able to use to destroy her father. She cared for the control over her own life that she never wanted to give up again. She wanted to rule over the fate of others and show them her strength so others could feel the pain and helplessness of life but not her! Vezura was physically blackened and not usable in physical confrontations but the churches of Asmodeus and Dispater welcomed her sharp mind and the force of her personality to form a weapon against the enemies of Hell! And that is exactly what she is today … an infernal force of power! And that is the reason why she was chosen by the church to assist Thorn to bring Asmodeus back to power in Talingarde! And she will do whatever she can to bring down Mitra’s followers for Hell and carve out a piece for herself!!
32 Adventuring skill points (ASP) = 4 levels with 8 Skill Points per level (4 Oracle, Int +3, Favored Class Bonus +1) 8 Background skill points (BSP) = 4 levels with 2 Background Skill Points per level
• Bluff +12 (ASP 4, Class +3*, Cha +5)
• Craft Alchemy +7 (BSP 1, Class +3, Int +3)
• Diplomacy +12 (ASP 4, Class +3, Cha +5)
• Disguise +12 (ASP 4, Class +3*, Cha +5)
• Fly +5 (ASP 1, Class +3, Dex -1, Size +2)
• Handle Animal +5 / +11 for animal companion (No rank, Cha +5, for animal companion: Link +4, Training harness +2)
• Heal +9 (ASP 1, Class +3, Wis +5)
• Knowledge Arcana +7 (ASP 1, Class +3, Int +3)
• Knowledge Dungeoneering +7 (ASP 1, Class +3, Int +3)
• Knowledge: Engineering +7 (BSP 1, Class +3, Int +3)
• Knowledge: Geography +7 (BSP 1, Class +3, Int +3)
• Knowledge: History +7 (BSP 1, Class +3, Int +3)
• Knowledge Local +10 (ASP 4, Class +3, Int +3)
• Knowledge Nature +7 (ASP 1, Class +3, Int +3)
• Knowledge: Nobility +7 (BSP 1, Class +3, Int +3)
• Knowledge Planes +9 (ASP 1, Class +3, Int +3, racial trait +2)
• Knowledge Religion +10 (ASP 4, Class +3, Int +3)
• Linguistics +8 (BSP 2, Class +3, Int +3)
• Perform Oratory +11 (BSP 1, Class +3*, Cha +5, +2 Circumstance Tome of Epics)
• Sense Motive +12 (ASP 4, Class +3, Wis +5)
• Spellcraft +7 (ASP 1, Class +3, Int +3)
• Stealth +7 (ASP 1, Class +3*, Dex -1, Size +4)
MW Buckler Shield 155
Mithral Chainshirt Armor 1100 (ABP Armor atunement +1)
4 x Anti-plague + 4 x Antitoxin 400
2 x Essence of independence 160
Universal Solvent 50
Tome of Epics
Dagger
Rope
Backpack
Compass
Air bladder
Snorkel masterwork
Animal glue
Drill
Earplugs
Bell string
Whistle signal
Oil of grease
Vermin repellent
Spell component pouch
Smelling Salts
10 x Trail rations
Air Crystals
Rations
2 x Acid
Universal Solvent
1st level scrolls, oils, potions, holy water 775
2 x Scroll of Obscuring Mist
5 x Scroll of Remove Fear
2 x holy water
2 x Scroll of Diagnose Disease
2 x Scroll of Entropic Shield
2 x Detect Secret Doors
4 x Scroll of Endure Elements
2 x Oil of Unwelcome Halo
2 x Potion Air Bubble with sponge
2 x Potion of Touch of Sea with sponge
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–– TRAITS ––
• FLAMES OF HELL (Religion): Requirement(s) any archdevil: Your bond with the archdevil you worship strengthens your ability to channel powers of the divine. Add 1 to the DC of saving throws made to resist the effects of your channel energy ability.
• DUELING UNTO DEATH (Campaign): You have engaged in a duel to the death and mortally wounded an opponent. The opponent was honorable enough to say nothing before he expired. Alas that his family or companions was nowhere near so honorable. Dueling was once common in Talingarde before the House of Darius came to power. The House of Barca all but encouraged duels of honor. Now, dueling of any sort is punished severely. Dueling to the death is a sure way to be sent to Branderscar Prison. Punishment: Death by beheading. Benefit: You gain a +1 trait bonus to Fortitude saves.
• FATE’s FAVORED (Faith): Whenever you are under the effect of a luck bonus of any kind, that bonus increases by 1.
• ASMODEUS WITH YOU (2nd Campaign trait): Adrastus Thorn indoctrinates you into the deeper mysteries of worshipping the Prince of Hell.
Benefit: Whenever you channel energy, you gain a +1 trait bonus to the save DC of your channeled energy.
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• Overprotective: In your youth, you saw a younger friend or loved one suffer a grievous injury or die, and you blamed yourself for not having been there to help, even if there was nothing you could have done. Effect: If one of your allies should fall unconscious from hit point damage, you take a –2 penalty on attack rolls and skill checks as long as you are farther than 10 feet away from your fallen ally.
• Lvl 1: NOBLE SCION: Prerequisites: Cha 13, must be taken at 1st level. Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on all Knowledge (nobility) checks, and that chosen Knowledge skill is always considered a class skill for you. Scion of War: You use your Charisma modifier to adjust Initiative checks instead of your Dexterity modifier.
• Lvl 2: CELESTIAL SERVANT: Rather than being a normal animal or beast, your companion or familiar hails from the heavenly realms. Prerequisites: Aasimar, animal companion, familiar, or mount class feature. Benefit: Your animal companion, familiar, or mount gains the celestial template and becomes a magical beast, though you may still treat it as an animal when using Handle Animal, wild empathy, or any other spells or class abilities that specifically affect animals.
• Lvl 3: EXTRA REVELATION
• Lvl 4: SELECTIVE CHANNELING: You can choose whom to affect when you channel energy. Prerequisite: Cha 13, channel energy class feature. Benefit: When you channel energy, you can choose a number of targets in the area up to your Charisma modifier. These targets are not affected by your channeled energy. Normal: All targets in a 30-foot burst are affected when you channel energy. You can only choose whether or not you are affected.
• Granted Powers: You are a master of illusions and deceptions. Bluff, Disguise, and Stealth are class skills.
• Copycat (Sp): You can create an illusory double of yourself as a move action. This double functions as a single mirror image and lasts for a number of rounds equal to your cleric level, or until the illusory duplicate is dispelled or destroyed. You can have no more than one copycat at a time. This ability does not stack with the mirror image spell. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier.
The evangelist is the voice of her religion in the world. Where others nurture the faith among believers, an evangelist proclaims the coming glory of her deific patron and issues the clarion call to all around to heed the truth, or obey the call to war and crusade against the enemies of the church.
• Single-Minded: An evangelist focuses her skills and learning on proclamation rather than the fine details of the church’s deeper mysteries or martial training. Thus, she may select only one domain and does not gain medium armor proficiency or shield proficiency.
• Public Speaker: An evangelist gains Perform as a class skill. In addition, she is trained to project her voice with great skill and effect; the DC to hear her speak in difficult conditions is reduced by an amount equal to her class level plus her Charisma modifier (minimum 0).
• Sermonic Performance: An evangelist gains the ability to deliver a select number of supernatural and spell-like performances through the force and power of her divinely inspired preaching and exhortation. This ability is similar in all respects to bardic performance as used by a bard of the same level (including interactions with feats, spells, and prestige classes), using Perform (oratory) as the evangelist’s performance skill. However, an evangelist gains only the following types of bardic performance: countersong, fascinate, and inspire courage at 1st level; inspire greatness at 9th level; and inspire heroics at 15th level. Sermonic performance replaces the 1st-, 9th-, and 15th-level channel energy abilities. This caps the cleric’s channel energy damage at 7d6 points.
• Spontaneous Casting: An evangelist does not gain the ability to spontaneously cast cure or inflict spells by sacrificing prepared spells. However, an evangelist can spontaneously cast the spells listed in Table: Evangelist Spontaneous Spells by sacrificing a prepared spell of the noted level or above. Evangelist Spontaneous Spells: 1st command, 2nd enthrall, 3rd tongues, 4th suggestion, 5th greater command, 6th geas/quest, 7th mass suggestion, 8th sympathy, 9th demand
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VARIANT CHANNELING - NEGATIVE ENERGY
An iconic ability of clerics is their power to channel positive or negative energy, whether for healing, for damage, or to turn or command the undead. However, given the great variety of deities and their divine portfolios, it naturally follows that some deities would endow their mortal servants with the power to channel energies in other ways that more closely mirror their particular focus. The following categories are examples of alternative channeling abilities based on the nature of a deity's power; for example, a fire deity's negative energy channeling may deal fire damage as part of or instead of the damage from channeling. When you create a cleric character, decide whether she uses the standard form of channel energy or a variant presented here based on one aspect of her deity's portfolio. Once this choice is made, it cannot be altered. Variant channeling has the same area of effect, save DCs, uses per day, and other rules relating to channeling energy. Feats and abilities that modify or present alternative uses for channeled energy (such as Command Undead and Turn Undead) work normally with these variant channeling abilities. A variant channeling either modifies positive channeled energy when used to heal or modifies negative energy when used to harm. When using positive energy to heal, affected creatures gain only half the normal amount of healing but also receive a specific beneficial effect. When channeling negative energy to harm, affected creatures take only half the normal damage but take an additional penalty or harmful effect; a successful saving throw negates the additional penalty or effect but does not reduce the damage any further. Creatures that would normally ignore the effect of a particular channel (such as undead with respect to a positive energy channel used to heal) ignore the variant effect of that channel.
• RULERSHIP: Heal—Creatures gain a channel bonus on Diplomacy checks and to the DC of their language-dependent and charm effects until the end of your next turn. Harm—Creatures are dazed for 1 round.
• Class Skills: Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Heal (Wis), Knowledge (history) (Int), Knowledge (planes) (Int), Knowledge (religion) (Int), Profession (Wis), Sense Motive (Wis), and Spellcraft (Int).
• Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Oracles are proficient with all simple weapons, light armor, medium armor, and shields (except tower shields).
• Oracle’s Curse (Ex): Each oracle is cursed, but this curse comes with a benefit as well as a hindrance. This choice is made at 1st level, and once made, it cannot be changed. The oracle’s curse cannot be removed or dispelled without the aid of a deity. An oracle’s curse is based on her oracle level plus one for every two levels or Hit Dice other than oracle. Each oracle must have a single curse.
Blackened: Your hands and forearms are shriveled and blackened, as if you had plunged your arms into a blazing fire, and your thin, papery skin is sensitive to the touch. EFFECT You take a –4 penalty on weapon attack rolls, but you add burning hands to your list of spells known. At 5th level, add scorching ray and flaming sphere to your list of spells known. At 10th level, add wall of fire to your list of spells known and your penalty on weapon attack rolls is reduced to –2. At 15th level, add delayed blast fireball to your list of spells known.
Bonus Spells: fumbletongue (2nd), dust of twilight (4th), rage (6th), moonstruck (8th), aspect of the wolf (10th), litany of madness (12th), lunar veil (14th), blood mist (16th), polar midnight (18th).
Revelations: An oracle with the Lunar mystery can choose from any of the following revelations.
• 1st level revelation: Primal Companion (Ex): You gain the service of a faithful animal of the night. You can select from a bear, boar, crocodile, shark, tiger, or wolf. This animal functions as a druid’s animal companion, using your oracle level as your effective druid level.
• Extra Revelation feat: Prophetic Armor (Ex): You are so in tune with your primal nature that your instincts often act to save you from danger that your civilized mind isn’t even aware of. You may use your Charisma modifier (instead of your Dexterity modifier) as part of your Armor Class and all Reflex saving throws. Your armor’s maximum Dexterity bonus applies to your Charisma, instead.
Class Skills: A spirit guide gains all Knowledge skills as class skills. This replaces the bonus class skills gained from the oracle’s mystery.
Bonded Spirit (Su): At 3rd level, a spirit guide can form a temporary bond with a spirit, as the shaman’s wandering spirit class feature (see page 37). She must make this selection each day when she refreshes her spells. A spirit guide cannot bond with a spirit that is incompatible with her alignment, ethos, or mystery (GM’s discretion). A spirit guide gains one hex of her choice from the list of hexes available from that spirit. She uses her oracle level as her shaman level, and she switches Wisdom for Charisma and vice versa for the purpose of determining the hex's effects. At 4th level, she adds the bonded spirit’s spirit magic spells to her oracle spells known for that day, but only of spell levels she can cast. At 7th level, she gains the spirit ability of her current bonded spirit. At 15th level, she gains the greater spirit ability of her current bonded spirit.
This ability replaces the revelations gained at 3rd, 7th, and 15th levels.
• Chosen Bonded Spirit: Shaman LIFE SPIRIT
• Chosen Bonded Spirit Hex: Life Link (Su): The shaman creates a bond between herself and another creature within 30 feet. Each round at the start of the shaman’s turn, if the bonded creature is wounded for 5 or more hit points below its maximum hit points, it heals 5 hit points and the shaman takes 5 points of damage. The shaman can have one bond active per shaman level. The bond continues until the bonded creature dies, the shaman dies, the distance between her and the bonded creature exceeds 100 feet, or the shaman ends it as an immediate action. If the shaman has multiple bonds active, she can end as many as she wants with the same immediate action.
• Life Spirit Magic Spells: detect undead (1st), lesser restoration (2nd), neutralize poison (3rd), restoration (4th), breath of life (5th), heal (6th), greater restoration (7th), mass heal (8th), true resurrection (9th)
— AASIMAR HALFLING RACIAL TRAITS --
• Wis: +2, Cha: +2
• TYPE: Outsider (Native)
• DARK-VISION
• NON-HUMAN AASIMAR: Not all aasimar are descended from humans. Aasimars can be born of any intelligent race, though human aasimars are the most common. Aasimars of other races usually exemplify the ideals of beauty and skill as seen by their base race. For example, halfling aasimars are small, beautifully proportioned, and display exceptional grace. Half-orc aasimars are slightly larger and stronger than ordinary orcs, with tough skin and metallic claws and tusks—they are likely to be neutral rather than evil, but still display aggression and incredible combat prowess. Less common humanoids, such as lizardfolk, catfolk, tengus, and others, can also produce aasimars, though given these races’ exotic appearance, members of the more common races may have trouble telling such aasimars apart from their kin.
Non-human aasimars have the same statistics as human aasimars with the exception of size. Thus a halfling aasimar is Small but otherwise possesses the same statistics and abilities as a human aasimar—the difference is purely cosmetic. Non-human aasimars do not possess any of the racial abilities of their base race. However, they are usually raised in the same cultural context as other members of their base race, and thus generally adopt the same fighting style as their peers, use the same types of weapons and armor, and study the same skills.
• SIZE: Small
• SPEED: 20 feet
• CRUSADING MAGIC: Many aasimars feel obligated to train to defend the world against fiends such as the invaders from the Worldwound. These aasimars gain a +2 racial bonus on caster level checks to overcome spell resistance and on Knowledge (planes) checks. This racial trait replaces the skilled and spell-like ability racial traits.
• DEATHLESS SPIRIT: Particularly strong-willed aasimars possess celestial spirits capable of resisting the powers of death. They gain resistance 5 against negative energy damage. They do not lose hit points when they gain a negative level, and they gain a +2 racial bonus on saving throws against death effects, energy drain, negative energy, and spells or spell-like abilities of the necromancy school. This racial trait replaces celestial resistance.
• Automatic Languages: Common, Celestial
— HALF-SUCCUBUS TEMPLATE PROGRESSION - Level 4 --
• TYPE: Outsider (Native)
• DARK-VISION 30 ft
• ELEMENTAL RESISTANCE Acid / Cold / Fire / Electr. resistance 4
• DAMAGE RESISTANCE 2/Magic
• NATURAL ARMOR +1
• NATURAL ATTACKS: 2 claws & 1 bite
• SPELL-LIKE ABILITIES: Darkness 3/day, detect thoughts 1/day
• SMITE GOOD (Su): Once per day, as a swift action, the half-fiend can smite good as the smite evil ability of a paladin of the same level as the half-fiend’s Hit Dice, except affecting a good target. The smite persists until target is dead or the half-fiend rests.
1/day
• CHANGE SHAPE: (Su): A half-succubus can use this ability to assume the form of any humanoid creature of her size, as if using alter self, once per day.
