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Is there such a thing? Away from home and my books today ...

Anyone else having this problem?

Anyone aware of a Paizo source that has a trait that allows a character to make disguise a class skill?

Things worth getting offended over:

1.) Racial-based harrassment/discrimination
2.) Gender-based harrassment/discrimination
3.) Sexual-orientation or gender identity-based harrassment/discrimination
4.) Religious faith-based harrassment/discrimination

Things not worth getting offended over:

1.) Criticism of gaming styles.

Seriously, are we all so thin-skinned we cannot rib one another over roleplayers versus optimizers versus casuals versus whatever? It's a game. /endrant

Can anyone point me to a clarification of whether the effects of:

Extended Performance (Su): At 2nd level, a magician can extend the duration of bardic performance after he stops concentrating by sacrificing a spell slot as a swift action. The performance effect lingers for 1 extra round per level of the spell. Only one spell may be sacrificed per performance, and performance types that take affect after a specific number of rounds cannot be extended. This ability replaces well-versed.

and

Lingering Performance

Benefit: The bonuses and penalties from your bardic performance continue for 2 rounds after you cease performing. Any other requirement, such as range or specific conditions, must still be met for the effect to continue. If you begin a new bardic performance during this time, the effects of the previous performance immediately cease.

stack? E.g.: if a magician bard sacrifices a first level spell slot and has the lingering performance feat, will the effects of his/her bardic performance linger for three rounds?

Thanks

I don't play casters very often (ummm, 9 characters of level 4 or above, only 2 of them are primarily casters), so I thought I'd ask the experts here about feats, traits, and other ways to get bonuses to caster level checks (mainly thinking of this for a new magician bard that I'd like to be effective at using dispel magic later on in her career).

Thanks

OK, something has been bugging me since the end of season 4/start of season 5. It relates to the shift in the 'tone' of the campaign. Some of this shift in tone that I see/sense is from messages from this board, but I have also seen it some in play at the table, as well.
Within the first three seasons in particular, the way the faction missions were set up, and their relative emphasis in scenarios, seemed to encourage characters who had (for whatever reason) strong background ties to a particular faction, and happened to work for the Pathfinder Society. The recent changes, both in the relative de-emphasis of faction missions (first, dropping from two faction related missions to one faction related mission + one mission tied to suceeding at the main Pathfinder mission, then to this season's 'sometimes your faction has a mission in the scenario, sometime not'), and the consistent voicing of, "You're supposed to be loyal Pathfinders first! Get out there and explore, cooperate and report, damn your eyes!" have kind of, as the kids these days say, 'harshed my buzz'.

I guess my issue (and it just may be MY ISSUE, sort of why I'm posting this, to see if anyone else gets the same feelings), is that, I already 'get' to roleplay working for faceless masters with potentially questionable/selfish motivations in a large, multi-leveled organization, where having outside agendas (i.e. 'a life') or questioning the 'why' we do what we do is strongly discouraged. I call this exercise, 'my job'. I don't expect PFS to 'fix' the issues I have with 'working for the man', but I also would like it to provide an escape from doing so. In other words, in my experience and opinion, PFS used to encourage interesting, politically-motivated character backgrounds and roleplay. Now it seems to encourage semi-faceless Pathfinder 'agents' who are out to carry out the Decimvirate's wishes in the hopes they will be promoted within the heirarchy. Are we becoming the NPC's?

Comments? Rejoinders? Rotten Fruit?

This convention's website indicates that it plans to have 8 slots of PFS goodness running. The convention's run dates are Oct 1 - 3. Anyone have any more information about this? The website itself doesn't have a listing of scenarios.