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Liberty's Edge RPG Superstar 2011 Top 32

Considering in world efficacy, I have some critiques of Pharasma and Abadar. The presence of Pharasmin clerics in an adventure virtually guarantees undead will overtake that settlement. Likewise, any item of sufficient evil power basically walks out of Abadarian vaults.

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At which event will it be announced?

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This sounds super neat. I’m definitely interested.

Liberty's Edge RPG Superstar 2011 Top 32

The solider pregens had some of the better damage dealing in the party. That said, the melee damage was better than ranged (which makes sense given ability score allotments).

The flame thrower is a burst weapon, not single target, so the lower damage makes some sense.

I think the damage calculation for the other ranged weapon was wrong. The text on the pregen and the damage listed on the pregen were inconsistent. I don't think these pregens are ready to go out the door. There were definitely some math issues on them.

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I played a Starfinder game at PaizoCon. I looked over the pregens. The soldier was the tankiest by far. Her AC was probably 6 higher than average. Maybe more. In play, she got up in the fight and tanked like a pro.

The four encounters we did probably isn't a solid sample size, but for those fights, things seemed about right. Monsters died in a sensible fashion, not after 8 rounds of missing.

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I am super interested in playing a pick-up game of Mouseguard.

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They get Con, Cha, and an AC boost. That's great for a pile of fun classes.

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The name dropped classes were soldier, technomage (which may have been more concept than class, not sure), and " solarion"

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TriOmegaZero wrote:
As long as you can provide the watermarked PDF of the resource and are fine with the GM handling your reader, you're good to go. I haven't brought a hardcover book to PaizoCon in......uh....I don't remember?

I may need to buy PDFs. Some jackass broke into my car. He stole a tool box. And I think he was probably disappointed to find out he had jacked a ton of PF books. But now I am short a few critical pieces to make a legal PC.

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Should be fun. See you all there.

Liberty's Edge RPG Superstar 2011 Top 32

I'm also a lucky player who got in. See you both at the con..

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Wei Ji the Learner wrote:


Had my heart set on three items, but I'm philosophical about it, it's very much not the end of the world for not getting them, and it frees up my afternoons to hopefully get my bard some play.

Also did NOT win the 'boobie' prize of Cosmo's Railroad, so that's a plus?

Keep an eye open. I have gotten into all sorts of crazy rare stuff by checking in frequently. A game James Jacobs ran was sitting around open for like an hour last year.

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Finished Burnt Offerings today. This is an awesome product.

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Joe Kondrak wrote:

This would be a "4" for me, but my flight doesn't arrive until 10:45am.

Good luck to the participants!

Same here. Now that Stompy has been retired I'd have a real chance.

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That's really too bad.

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Maybe I just didn't see it, but is there an interactive this year?

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Maybe I just missed it, but where do enter names to link badges?

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Monstrous mount and Monstrous Mount Mastery give you your choice of griffon, hippocampus, hippogryph and worg as animal companions.

Evolved Companion lets you add multiple evolutions to customize it.

If you convinced your GM to let you use a Hunter and these feats along with the primal companion archetype can get you pretty far.

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Season 0 is still legal...that is surprising. I wonder if Black Waters is worth doing as a prequel.

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Eloith whispers his agreement. "Indeed, quickly and quietly if we can."

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Tentacledone wrote:

I think the plan was for Rolando or Eloith (or both) to sneak up and do a little investigating with Gloria as back up. If memory serves they are clustered 20-30 feet ahead of Ry'klead and Bertholdt. And I think those 2 are 5-10 feet ahead of the spider.

And the oven is in the Spider so Gloria would have to come back all the way back to the non scouts :P

p.s. Have a good time on the vacations guys! :)

I agree, that was the plan.

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Flynn Greywalker wrote:

I don't have every feat memorized and every rule 100 percent down. And I played D&D 3.5 before Pathfinder for 15 years. It took me 7 to feel strong as a GM.

I love the banter in the threads, but sometimes the aloofness comes out. Like it is here. Remember, everyone on here isn't an expert.

I think part of the issue is that you want to address one problem and have gotten a lot of advice regarding the means by which you can fix a different problem.

You would like to know how to fix a social problem -- one of you wants to play a different kind of game than the rest of you. He wants to play in a mathy, games mastering way that you (and maybe some others) don't enjoy. The solution to that problem is really having an honest chat about how he does that. Some quick suggestions:

1) Push him to play something that is really good at making others better. Like a buffing bard with a designating gun.

2) Tell him his build isn't fun for YOU as the GM. Work together to rework his PC.

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That said, the observers saying that the warpriest is simultaneously broken/poorly built/and maybe not that good are probably right. They are just solving a slightly different problem. Albeit, one that MIGHT be helpful when trying to solve your other problem.

It looks like his build is illegal in several regards.

It looks like his build, if it conformed to the rules wouldn't be all that good.

And, it looks like some of your expectations may be off.

Those are 3 different problems, perhaps with some shared solutions.

First, I would look at his rule issues. Show him that what he is doing is really not allowed.

Second, given his rules issue, work TOGETHER to build his PC. You can go spell by spell and feat by feat. Make sure you know how they work.

Third, make sure you know what to expect. You seem bummed by the fact that he dropped two CR 10 kytons in a turn. That isn't a crazy result. Nor does it indicate that he is crazy powerful.

Loose back of the envelope math:

Fighter starts with 16 strength. Adds +2 from leveling and another +2 from magic

He grabs a +2 greatsword.

He takes bog-standard feats: weapon focus, weapon specialization, greater weapon focus, improved critical, and power attack. He has weapon training 1 and 2.

His attack line at lvl 11 is: +20/+15/+10 2d6+23

The average damage (counting the possibility of crits) is ~75 against a sacristan kyton's AC of 22.

A core-only, no bells-and-whistles fighter will do ~75 damage per full attack to your CR 10 kyton (the sacristan, I assume). It has 126 HP, so it is likely to die in 2 rounds. If anyone in the party buffs him (e.g. someone casts haste) and he gets a little lucky, he may drop 2 in one turn. That is a bog-standard, no-frills fighter. Generally speaking, that represents competency and proficiency within a role. It is neither wildly expectation-breaking nor does it represent a character facing its favored foe.

If that's surprising, you may need to recalibrate your expectations and work with that. You want to run a game that differs from some core assumptions in the game. That's great, but it is a fact you need to know.

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I wanted to keep the gun flavor, but make him more useful and more hurricane-oriented.

So I made him a spellslinger wizard. And, next I added some mythic stuff, almost exclusively defensive.

((I used Claxon's build for Harrigan, which made that better.))

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The Ice Armor spell is a nice stop-gap before you get Wild armor.

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Does it count as a bear for the purpose of the ancestral ally boon?

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How does one get an owlbear animal companion?

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Barkskin is specifically designed to stack:

Barkskin PRD:

The effect grants a +2 enhancement bonus to the creature's existing natural armor bonus.

Beast shape PRD:

+1 natural armor bonus.

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Benchak the Nightstalker wrote:
John Spalding wrote:
Benchak the Nightstalker wrote:

Pharasma.......

Plus, if that zombie apocalypse ever happens, her church is going to have that situation handled.
Lol. Except you know, for all of the in-Golarion undead risings, which INVARIABLY seem to occur right under the nose of the local Pharasmins. It's like worshipping Pharasma invites zombie apocalypses.
Goddess of Birth, Death, and Prophecy. Why do you think they built the churches there in the first place? To deal with the inevitable uprisings!

Which would make a lot of sense if there was more dealing and less doddering.

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Benchak the Nightstalker wrote:

Pharasma.......

Plus, if that zombie apocalypse ever happens, her church is going to have that situation handled.

Lol. Except you know, for all of the in-Golarion undead risings, which INVARIABLY seem to occur right under the nose of the local Pharasmins. It's like worshipping Pharasma invites zombie apocalypses.

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Are PP purchases subject to the always available rule?

For example, wands don't appear on the list, and a level one wand would usually require 9 Fame to get. But everyone buys healing wands with their first 2 PP.

Is the "any single item" language in footnote 3 of the PP table supposed to overrule the Fame mechanic?

if so can one buy dragon hide breastplate?

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I don't know how the GM will run it, but the old gestalt rules limited combo classes like mystic theurge, arcane trickster, and eldrtich knight.

3.5 Srd wrote:

Prestige classes that are essentially class combinations-such as the arcane trickster, mystic theurge, and eldritch knight-should be prohibited if you’re using gestalt classes, because they unduly complicate the game balance of what’s already a high-powered variant. Because it’s possible for gestalt characters to qualify for prestige classes earlier than normal, the game master is entirely justified in toughening the prerequisites of a prestige class so it’s available only after 5th level, even for gestalt characters.

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Gloria Lindgren wrote:
Interview updated, money spent, everything figured out. The only thing I might edit is to add in a summary backstory than includes the names of places. My interview does a lot for me there though.

I'm in the same spot. I may make a few edits to the background and spend a few more gold pieces, but I am mostly done.

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Does hero.ab allow the half gestalt? If so, I can send that over. I looked but didn't see anything. But, I am kinda new to H L, so it may be there.

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How would you deal with worshiping a pantheon? How would it affect favored weapons? Domain choices? Whether or not one can worship a pantheon, what subdomains are available?

Can we take the Dragon Mark Heir Prestige Class?

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Alexander Augunas wrote:
WiseWolfOfYoitsu wrote:
You do not currently need a boon to play a Kitsune.

I have 5 kitsune characters. I'm aware. :-)

I want kitsune boons as "character insurance." They're my favorite race, and if in the future I have a hankering to play another kitsune, I want to make sure that any changes to the "Always Available roster" don't prevent me from being able to do what I want.

In a weird way, I want a few kitsune boons on the side so I don't have to worry about playing other races in the meantime. When I get a toy, I don't particularly like the thought of it possibly getting taken away from me. :(

EDIT: As a side note, there's no evidence that the current racial availability might change. I'm just ridiculously paranoid is all.

I am sure you know, but an even easier way to do this would be starting several new Kitsune PCs and leaving them below 3 XP. You can pretty much rebuild them into anything later. And they always grandfather existing Races in PFS.

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I think you may have at least one of two problems:

1) you spend too many turns healing, which you find boring. If that's the problem, CLW wand and making your buddies invest in armor and other defenses is your best bet.

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2) on the turns you aren't healing, you have nothing useful to do. I suspect that is a bigger issue. Here, there are a couple options. Maybe summoning. Retrain a feat or two. Maybe take extra channel and do more negative channelling.
Or , if you can sell it to the GM, take one level of unchained monk and buy a guidance weapon. You would use Wis for attack and damage and get two attacks at full BAB. If you could convince someone in the party to cast mage armor, your AC would be a wash.

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I would be so interested. I really dig that setting.

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I decided to go unarmed strike and get bonus damage from touch attack spells with repeated touches.

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I would be very into Council of thieves. I have played most of the others.

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I was hoping to be able to use the weapons in the AP. And I doubt many monk weapons will be used.

Also, I am not sure the Druid domains will work as the Goliath Druid archetype alters nature bond.

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I am making a dwarf "Goliath Druid" for the giant slayer AP. I am planning on taking one level of(unchained) monk for RP reasons and for the wisdom to AC boost.

I was hoping to either be able to flurry with normal (non monk) weapons or to have my unarmed strike damage scale as a monk. I can't see any straight forward way of doing either without a lot of dipping.

Crusader flurry would work, but I would need channel ( I.e. A wasted level or taking the cleric VMC and lose a lot of feats) Or, I could get monastic legacy, after taking lots of monk levels.

Is there anything I missed?

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I am making a dwarf "Goliath Druid" for the giant slayer AP. I am planning on taking one level of(unchained) monk for RP reasons and for the wisdom to AC boost.

I was hoping to either be able to flurry with normal (non monk) weapons or to have my unarmed strike damage scale as a monk. I can't see any straight forward way of doing either without a lot of dipping.

Crusader flurry would work, but I would need channel ( I.e. A wasted level or taking the cleric VMC and lose a lot of feats) Or, I could get monastic legacy, after taking lots of monk levels.

Is there anything I missed?

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I am thinking about this class as well. I am pondering:

Unchained Monk 1 / Golaith Druid X with the domain and not the animal companion.

Feats
1 Power Attack
3 Steel Soul
5 Rime Spell
7 Natural Spell
9 Raging Vitality
11 Planar Wild Shape

The monk level gives an extra attack in giant form (probably with a temple sword) and wisdom to AC. Or, I can heavily focus on an amulet of mighty fists and use either natural weapons or unarmed strike. Between Mage armor or bracers and the monk AC bonus I can have a solid AC.

Two quick questions:

1) I spent a long time looking for ways to flurry with a war hammer, battleaxe, or pick and came up short. Best I saw was getting channel and taking crusader flurry. That would require I give up another level or lose a ton of feats to get the cleric variant multi classing. I would love to flurry with a traditional dwarf weapon, but can't see a good way to make that happen.

2) where does it say you have to take Steel Soul at lvl 1?

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I am guessing a dwarf AP for 3 bigger reasons. 1) a Paizo chat question over a year ago, FROM James Jacobs asking people how they would feel about an AP where everyone else plays the same race. 2) at Paizo Con I asked if Giant Slayer counted as the dwarf AP, because playing a dwarf there was pretty natural. The whole panel had an answer and there wasn't any hemming or hawing. Which indicates that it's on the table at least. 3) they mentioned a Derro announcement that was upcoming and I didn't see any obvious Derro stuff on the table. That would fit a dwarf AP.

Less important stuff, they are doing more dwarf materIal. In PFS dwarf stuff has been important. And lots of people have pretty developed ideas about dwarves. See, e.g. The last two pages of the homosexuality in Golarion page.

Things I think are on the board:

Jatembe AP -- if people keep clammoring
Lost shore of Varisia AP with Pazuzu and Kamashtu and the Misbegotten Prince

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Is there a place to find what these boons are? I have a few, including Ancestral Ally, but no idea what I should trade for because the titles don't neccesarily say much.

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It is on the schedule for Monday

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I'm curious, what level PCs will we be playing?

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Any updates Tangaroa?

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Dario Nardi wrote:
I signed up for a Monday morning game with my buddy that had room for 1 more person. Yay! -- EXCEPT... while it says by the game "On your schedule", it doesn't actually appear on my schedule, no matter refreshing or remove/re-add...? How can I find out if it's really on my schedule? (Also, when I register, the number of players stays at 11 rather than moving to 12). PS. There's no schedule conflicts. Help me Obiwan!

I have the same issue.

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I am pretty excited to be in on this. Who else is playing?

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