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Ok so I've noticed that a couple of spells such as Discern Location explicitly state that deities can intervene so here is my question, would they?

In my experience the Gods themselves are more or less a reasoning to explain divine spell casters and serve as a means to keep particular classes in line such as paladins. Players interact with Angels, demons, and their agents but never directly with a God. I know that the Gods do not have a stat block in Pathfinder but I was wondering if any DMs out there introduced a God as a plot hook? And if so perhaps a good way to go about it.

hmm thanks guys, I'll take a look into those. I haven't thought about ogre mage might actually work for what I'm doing. Thanks again.

To be honest I was actually trying to make the ogre a bit more brutal by giving it the scent and regeneration abilities of a troll and then adding class levels. Mainly for storyline purposes really (They're fighting mostly ogre's not trolls that much though they have fought a few.) Many of the Ogre I've seen in 3.5 can be quite brutal such as the Stonecrusher Ogre in the MM3. However I am wanting to throw a fairly difficult boss at them and decided on giving this beast class levels in either ranger or barbarian. The problem I am having is as far as I can read, the monsters quote "level adjustment" I guess you could call it is equal to their CR. Meaning if I wanted to throw lets say just a troll at them it would only be about a level 5 ranger. (I think I'm doing that right..was easier for me when lvl adjustment + Hit dice = ECL)...In anycase most of my party is fairly well equiped and I've been having to make the monsters harder.

Hi, been playing DnD 3.5 for a little while now however I'm just now starting to really enjoy the pathfinder system. However that being said I'm still quite unfamiliar with all the new rules. I'm trying to treat pathfinder as it's own system and not look at it like DnD.

In any case, I'm starting up a level 10 campaign and I'm having a bit of trouble with some templates..(See my other post at

http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/pathfinder/pathfinderR PG/rules /vampireHalfDragon)

Right now basis of the story is that my party is is fighting off a horde of trolls, ogres, and various goblinoids. However I wanted to make something really special, I was hoping to combine an ogre with a troll into some hybrid of half-troll, half-ogre ranger. (My original design was to make it fiendish as well but I decided against it.) I was curious if there was any half-ogre templates that I could just add to the troll itself. Or if anyone possibly knows an easy way to create this npc. I look at the Half-Ogre already but it's simply a monster and I'm not sure how I would cross the two monsters into one. I'm still new as a DM, and have only held 2 sessions thus far both being in DnD 3.5. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

The important aspect of bonus types is that two bonuses of the same type don’t generally stack. With the exception of dodge bonuses, most circumstance bonuses, and racial bonuses, only the better bonus of a given type works (see Combining Magical Effects). The same principle applies to penalties—a character taking two or more penalties of the same type applies only the worst one, although most penalties have no type and thus always stack. Bonuses without a type always stack, unless they are from the same source. (CRB pg 208)

Thanks, found what I needed. That little bit of rule text is what I was looking for =).

Hi, I'm just about to host a high level evil campaign and our party decided to try the Pathfinder system. One of my players wanted to play a half-tiefling, half-dragon sorcerer that became a vampire later on (thus adding the template over the already existing template of a half-dragon)

Usually I would never allow such a monstrosity however due it being a high level campaign and seeing how the new rule text with vampires they can be any living creature I don't see any problems with it. However I wanted to double check to see if such a creature would be possible and how it plays out. I am still unsure about all the new rules. (I'm still a bit new to pathfinder rules)

I know half-dragons have to be living however since he became a vampire later on I think it may be legal...my main problem is I don't know how the abilities that both templates give add up. Vampires gain a +6 Strength while Half-Dragons gain +8 so does that mean this creature has +14 it's strength score???

Please any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.