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I'm doing a Wrath game without mythic as well, and for the Epic DR have come up with a use for their Hero Points to overcome it. In the mythic rules it allowed for a power to negate Epic DR for a round, but as I don't give as many Hero Points as mythic points I allow a single hero point to allow a character to bypass Epic DR for 1 min. Allows the players to feel special, as no one else will have the ability to do so.

Well I would use this as a precedent:

A merciful weapon deals an extra 1d6 points of damage, but all damage it deals is nonlethal damage. On command, the weapon suppresses this ability until told to resume it (allowing it to deal lethal damage, but without any bonus damage from this ability).

So its either all or none, bane included. Fortunately, as a melee attack, you can always hit them again (and switch to the other type).

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Just don't increase the animal companion's size, you do have this choice:

Instead of taking the listed benefit at 4th or 7th level, you can instead choose to increase the companion's Dexterity and Constitution by 2.

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Greetings! I have been running a Wrath game for about 3 months now, and my party of adventurers are about halfway through the second adventure. I wanted to share what I did in order to change the power progression for my characters in order to maintain the feel of divinely empowered while not being overly powerful to make the path as written difficult to play.

I utilized the Homebrew and Advice forums to help crowd source some of these changes:

First, I threw out mythic all together and then made a mishmash of the gestalt rules to replace the mythic tiers. At the moment of ascension in book 1, the party got to choose a second class and a prestige class that they would like to have. After that point, they were gestalt in their two base classes (so equal in level to original class) and for every tier they earned, they got the abilities of a level in their chosen prestige class (1 tier= 1 prestige class level powers not including BaB, saves, skills, or HP for the prestige).

My players include the following:

Paladin/Oracle(Battle) of Iomedae with Sentinel abilities

Inquisitor(Cold Iron Warden/Witch with Exalted abilities

Cavalier(Order of the Star)/Bard(Arcane Duelist) with Battle Herald abilities

Druid/Bloodrager(Draconic) with Dragon Disciple abilities (yes sliver ^_^)

Pyrokineticist(yes pyro... sigh)/UnRogue with Arcane Trickster abilities (a little bit of modding for this one as no arcane, but worth it)

As to any of my other modifications to make this work, feel free to ask away, or suggest any other things you think could work well.

Thanks for the support, as I couldn't have come up with everything without the assistance of these boards!

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Ah, that helps, missed that tidbit, my apologies. In that case I would simply use the same limitation that is on wishes for the wishcrafter. Each humanoid (the character as well) can only make 1 wish a day, problem solved. Still provides a very useful ability, but limits its application.

Any—Minor Wishcraft: You gained some power of wishcraft from a genie ancestor. You can spend a use of a racial spell-like ability or your elemental assault racial trait for the day to instead use any 0-level spell as a spell-like ability. The spell must be used to produce an effect requested aloud by a humanoid within 30 feet since the end of your last turn.

If that is the wording, it doesn't give you infinite uses if you don't have an at will spell like ability as you expend a use of your spell-like to use any 0-level spell (singular event). One casting of any 0-level a day is hardly broken.

1/day darkness =/= infinite cantrips.

At-will darkness = infinite cantrips.

Of course, now it will be a rules forum argument for some 5000 posts on reading comprehension... sorry if I just brought that on...

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I said I would totally allow it, no matter how I feel about relative cheesiness (yum) because it is just like the other caster examples, and it does have a drawback, albeit a small one (the no 1.5x str dmg on AoO).

That being said, I think its cheesy for both classes, but meh.

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Well, I decided on a mix of things, I posed the question of gestalt vs mythic to my players and in a 4 to 1 vote they wanted gestalt. So, to make up for the power deficit, whenever they would get a tier according to the AP, I am giving them a stacking level in a prestige class of their choice. so when they would be for example level 6 tier 1 I have one going gestalt Bard/Cavalier and getting the Battle Herald to stack on top.

While they get the class abilities of the prestige, they don't get the saves or bab or HD, so they are still the same level, just gaining stacking abilities.

This has brought up an interesting question: caster levels stacking. I have several that will end up qualifying for a higher than 20 caster level, which is fine. To simulate the greater power without mythic I'm allowing breaking of the cap on spells (ex 10d6 fireball) once CL is greater that 20 as follows: Add the spell level to the new maximum for variable effects related to level once your caster level exceeds 20.

So in the case of fireball, the new max would be 13d6, at caster level 23. Still a work in progress, but the players are excited to see if they can still handle mythic enemies with gestalt+ that I've come up with.

I also will implement a daily allotment of Hero Points, as was suggested earlier (thanks to everyone for their input so far!) which I think will be equal to 1/2 their level, with maybe a +1 per tier they have gotten according to the story.

Ex. lvl 6/tier 1 is now Gestalt 6 + 1 level of prestige abilities tacked on and 4 Hero Points a day.

Whew... crazyness, but should be loads of fun!

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In regards to multi-classing, I guess I come from different experiences. I have 30+ years in gaming, starting with 2st edition and basic all the way through 4th and now pathfinder. we also play characters typically from 1st - 20th level, ( we use equally divided XP so everyone advances at the same rate).

that being said, until the advent of pathfinder, the drawbacks of multi-classing/dual-classing (and yes prestige classes) almost never made it worthwhile. a single class character was almost always more powerful.

In Pathfinder, prestige classes are a worthwhile investment, but IMO, multi-classing in the chase for power, will limit your 16th-20th level powers more than what you gain in the meantime.

A very large YMMV issue, as many people don't play at such high levels. Mainly games that I run end around the 13-15 level range, as after that the story is complete, or real life issues get in the way of the group, etc. For my part, I try not to stifle the creativity of my group, but when I see the same thing over and over, I tend to feel obligated to do something to break everyone out of the rut. That's where my monk splash limiter came from (the + to AC from WIS is limited by your monk level) as all my players save one were x/1 monk wisdom based characters... so boring...

So, considering that you can only take free actions on your turn you are essentially trading away the 1.5x Str mod on any Attacks of Opportunity to get the defensive buff from the Crane Style feats. Its a little cheesy, but I would allow it in a game I run. More options are usually a good thing.

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Any combat rule introduced will apply to the PCs far more than it applies to any given enemy they face. PCs are the ones that, by virtue of narrative spotlight, are taking the hits over and over during play.

"Instant Kill" and "Critical Fumble" rules are really just an exercise in masochism (or sadism, on the part of the DM).

I quite agree, which is why I simply give the PCs the instant kill ability on the enemies and don't give it to the bad guys. It's an awesome narrative tool, and won't hurt the players win-win if I ever heard of one, and as a house rule, who cares that it's weighted in the PCs favor?

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Until the second session, you can change whatever character details you want. You'd be surprised how much this one is useful.

I tend to take this one step further, with my new players. If they choose something that they find useless, and it hasn't meaningfully impacted game play at all, then I allow them to swap. For example, if someone chooses improved steal, and never once uses it... then I'll let them swap it out between session for something more useful.

Exactly the issue I'm running into, thanks for asking Charon's Little Helper, if gestalt can keep up (perhaps with some other mods) then it may be the best way to do things, if not...

My group is fast approaching the climax of book 1... so my time is limited in figuring out which way to take the game.

Thanks for all the debate and opinions, the math behind the rules too!

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Been a great help.

I need a weapon selection for a unique pirate, details below:

I'm going to be starting a Skulls & Shackles campaign soon as a player (yay! I never get to play! always the GM... heheh) and was given the option to play any of the races in the races guide that can't breathe underwater. Duergar is a fav of mine, so I ask, he says sure.

Then, in a glorious twist of fate, he offers me another strange option: you can play any archetypes to classes you want and if they clash, pick one option, scrap the other. So I get to thinking and I've decided on a very strange combo: Mutation Viking! Mutation warrior plus Viking (-Shield bonuses to the Viking progression).

RP wise, I'm a grey dwarf who has gone slightly insane due to my time in the sun. While I get the mechanic of Mutagen starting at 3rd level, the flavor is gonna be that I am only bolstering my abilities in my mind 'alchemical' is just the means to figure stacking. I essentially spend an hour mixing whatever liquids I find around the ship/wherever I happen to be, and due to madness or luck, gain a Mutagen. Add this to Rage starting at 4th level, and I'll eventually be a Str monster.

It's a 20 pt buy, and I can take any of the feats that a Duergar gets in the monster codex as well as things like Steel Soul should I desire it. I get one campaign trait, and one of my choice (unstable mutagen, sorry no changing this as its for the flavor).

I want to figure out a fun weapon combo, to cover ranged and up close, possibly reach... not sure. My initial thought was a mancatcher, but my GM reminded me that its sized specifically, and I do want to use my Enlarge Person ability, which would make the mancatcher useless while I'm increased in size.

Anybody have any advice on a good thematically appropriate weapon choice for an insane Duergar who believes in his own alchemical powers? Doesn't have to be super strong, just looking for some fun thing to cap out the build.

Thanks for the read, I know it's a wall of text ^_^

Hmm, so perhaps if the ability to take the mythic version of feats were added into the Hero Point system, they could be considered to be on par...

This is awesome everyone! Thanks for all the thought provoking discussion, keep it up!

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As an update, my gaming group has just started the WotR AP, and while they are about level 3 and in just the first book, I still have some time to decide if I want to offer either option (mythic or gestalt) before that point.

I lurk a lot on the boards, and the whole disparity that is touted between martial and caster still exists in mythic. I agree that mythic is amazing, and while I have more experience with gestalt (which might bias my opinion slightly) I think they both make for interesting groups.

At this point, I'm wondering what might bring them closer to par, like for instance I wanted to run a group of gestalt characters through WotR that don't get mythic.

Any ideas to lower the disparity besides Hero Points? Thought that is a good suggestion, it seems to be only a step in the right direction.

And you think that would make up for the disparity in stats? The every even tier +2 to any ability score you wish? Or would Hero Points and stat buffs make mythic seem less enticing?

So if its the general thought that mythic is simply better, what would help balance things out if I were to offer my players the choice of mythic or gestalt? Giving the gestalt players Hero Points? Or some kind of statistic increase? Like +2 to 3 different stats? Or just a +2 to a stat of their choice every 4 levels to keep them on par with the mythic increases?

Any thoughts would be welcome

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When I build a gestalt character, I try to use the two classes to cover each other's weaknesses. The Paladin/Bloodrager is a nice combo, another I enjoy is Inquisitor/Monk (unchained now) for the very potent defense that can be brought to the battlefield. Stalwart+Evasion can make casters cry, especially when you consider the offensive one-two punch of a flurrying judging very fast moving character.

While mythic will make either the inquisitor or monk more potent in a limited range of situations, I feel that gestalt covers a much broader base of situations, allowing for a well rounded jack of all trades that is in no way a slouch.

But for casters, yeah I can see where mythic could just be plain stronger.

I have a question I've posed to my gaming group, and would similarly like to ask the boards here at Paizo:

If you consider the relative powers of a character that gains a mythic tier at every even level to a gestalt character, which will come out to be more powerful?

To expand upon the first question a little: are they comparable in power? Is it far too subjective to make a call? Are there level ranges where one is obviously superior to another?

Personally, I think they are about equal, both have massive min/max potential, and can make for difficult to balance for parties.

Food for thought

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* Divine casters spontaneously cast their domain spells instead of healing/inflicting.

* Arriving on time will grant you some minor boon in game such as doing max damage on your first hit that night, winning initiative in the first combat, auto confirm your first threaten, etc.

Is allowing the Domain spells instead of heal/inflict at the choice of the player? Or is it any cleric, and if you want the heal spells, you need the Heal Domain?

I'm asking because it may be something I put forward to my gaming group, and was wondering if its 'must be selected at character creation' type of thing.

This is awesome! Wow, Kirth Gersen and Metal Sonic have made me realize that if I'm going to be using house rules so much I really need to make the time to put them all down on a document for my players to read at their leisure.

The showing up on time rules are something I never thought of either, but would be of great benefit, as I have a couple that always show up about 15-20 minutes late each week we play... lol.

Combat Maneuvers Only provoke on a failed check.

Hit Points Maximum until Level 5. Average thereafter.

HP has always been a sore spot in running games, I really don't like the mechanic of rolling for HP every level, as my heroes are the focus of stories. I've got a slightly more complex rule, but it allows me to calculate my players HP on the fly, as I'm so used to it:

Level 1: max
Level 2+: 75% of the die+con/toughness/etc.

Example: A level 8 Wizard with a Con of 12 and no toughness will have:

49 HP (7+(6*7))

d12 gets 9 per level after 1st
d10 gets 8 per level after 1st
d8 gets 6 per level after 1st
d6 gets 5 per level after 1st

It's not perfect, as it's a little weighted for the not exactly divisible by 4 hit dice (rounding up to their benefit), but it works fairly well, and none of my players ever complain, it makes leveling up a matter of math instead of having to roll dice in front of me, so as soon as a level is earned, they get to work.

These are all fun ideas! I already use the no XP rule in our games, and have for so long I didn't even think to include it in the original post, lol.

Only recently have 2 of my players started to get into the minion master style of play, I like the index card idea! It has slowed our games down quite a bit, and that might fix things.

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Keep 'em coming everyone! This is my kind of thread!

As title, I would just like to see some opinions on house rules that you feel enhance the game, either as flavor, or you feel are a mechanical improvement.

I'll start:

1) Wis to AC for monk dips: at one time the gaming group I led had 4 out of 6 characters dip 1 or 2 levels in Monk because they had Wis as a main stat. I discussed with them a limiting factor and we decided that it should be tied to the number of monk levels such as the Duelist prestige class limits int to AC: a 1 to 1 basis. So, want +2 to AC? Need 2 levels monk.

2) For the Stonelord Paladin for dwarves, I calculate Lay on Hands off of the Con stat, yes I understand it is a bump in their power, but I don't feel it is overpowered and it fits thematically in my mind as they draw their power from the earth.

So, what are some house rules you use, and why do you feel they improve the game?

JosueV wrote:

First off, I'd like to say this thread is enthralling, and has pulled me into actually posting for the first time ever, and I've played Pathfinder since it came out, albeit only homebrew, but eh, fun thread ^_^

I didn't do this before, but I wanted to welcome you! Hooray! Welcome to the forums! Please feel free to poke around, read stuff, and ask things!

Thank you, I've always wanted to avoid any unnecessary hostility, which sadly seems to be a theme on many forum boards all over the internet. However, while it seems that people are passionate about their opinions, this thread at least is trying to maintain an on topic bent.

I shall endeavor to be more involved in the future, as I hope this game continues to thrive and I have many more books to buy in the future!

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No, cunning caster. You know, the feat I quoted showing that you need it to hide your spell casting? The feat that makes it clear you need it regardless of the visible manifestations of the spell?

What source is Cunning Caster from? I'm not familiar with it and would like to read up on said feat.

Well except for the feat that makes it clear you can't normally hide casting....

You're absolutely right there's no mechanic that says you can see a spell being cast.

Spellsong? That feat? The one that allows a Bard, and a Bard only to hide casting when they are denied the use of Silent Spell as RAW in said metamagic feat description?

My post was only meant to illustrate that Spellsong is a weak argument as Bard magic is specifically forbidden from using Silent Spell. If we argue on common sense and logic so much, it is very logical to assume that Spellsong is an answer to the fact that Silent Spell isn't allowed to a Bard, which would also bring up the question: if Spellsong replaces Silent Spell, is Silent Spell everyone else's means to hide casting?

There has been a strong reaction within the thread after someone posted about Spellsong, stating that its wording must signify something. In my opinion, all it signifies is that a dev saw that Silent Spell wasn't allowed to a Bard and went... hmm there's an opportunity to make a feat for Bards!

Silent Spell:

You can cast your spells without making any sound.

Benefit: A silent spell can be cast with no verbal components. Spells without verbal components are not affected.

Level Increase: +1 (a silent spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual level.)

Special: Bard spells cannot be enhanced by this feat.

The bolded line explains away Spellsong, sadly. I don't think it can be used as an argument that all spellcasting has some Spellcraft check visual element if Bards are specifically exempted from using Silent Spell, and got Spellsong instead...

I have a question that I'd like to pose to both sides of the debate:

What if my character, who specializes in counterspells, has a permanent Arcane Sight spell, (or is a Drow with said racial feats)?

Can I then see a Silent/Stilled spell with my readied action?

Not to derail things completely, I was just curious if this might make it so playing within either interpretation of the rules would still allow one to make a niche character: the counterspelling master!

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Astral Projection gives you an incorporeal astral body, so hitting the demiplane at any speed is irrelevant. Once you arrive at the demiplane it creates a new temporary physical body, with a copy of all your gear so you could still wreak a lot of destruction. Unfortunately, this is why I said the cold war issue is still a thing, as you can literally go nova, and even if you die, as you are there via Astral Projection, you just snap back to your body with 2 negative levels, which are a minor nuisance to a high level character, Greater Restoration, and problem solved.

What's worse, there is a lvl 5 version that allows you to travel in the astral plane without going to the other plane, which means a much lower level caster can find a demiplane. Even if that only allows them to map the 'address' of said demiplane, it means trouble for the inhabitants, as there is no special kind of RAW spell that I know of that extends your senses to the astral plane unless you scry, but what if the BBEG sends a low level henchman you've never met, or even knew about? According to your setting lvl 9 is fairly common (most adults are 10th level) so this shouldn't be hard to accomplish.

I've found as a GM the more complex I make a situation, the harder my players try to unravel it... humans are a strange lot. If I leave things vague, I always have less issues with world breaking attempts.

Hope this little trick doesn't prevent you from running your game though!

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The plane has to be a finite distance from you.

Triangulate how far it is from you.

Teleport close by.

Set down as the direction of the plane.

Fall into plane.

Yup, exactly the point of Permanent Telepathic Bond + Find the Path. No distance is too far as long as you are on the same plane. In 3 dimensions 3 points can be used to triangulate exact distances... no idea how many it would take in 4d, but should be possible. Angles to demiplane plus distances between points (in this case bonded PCs) and bam!

Maybe 16 points for 4th dimension math? Ah, math is fun but 4d thinking is a tad outside my realm of expertise.

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1) Permanent Telepathic Bond, Find the Path, and Teleport.

Two creatures teleport on a line until they each have opposite directions on their Find the Path beacons, then take turns teleporting half the distance towards each other, waiting until the Find the Path beacon 'flips' as it were. How close do they have to be before they most certainly find the location?

I don't think this one works. Because there are always still infinitely many points between the target and your current location still. So you'll just keep overshooting or undershooting.

It's not the same as Zeno's paradox, because time in this equation is not asymptoting toward one point (while in reality time can flow past that point). Rather, time is just adding up linearly and you're still not getting there.

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subjective directional gravity

THIS might actually be a problem... If you can use gravity to fall along vectors that are not perpendicular to the 4th dimension, then yeah you could just slide along the vector and hit it easily. The normal problem with projection/plane shift/teleport/whatever is that you wink out and wink back in at your destination without traveling in between, so you miss it. But if you actually slide along the intervening points, you wouldn't.

Since the subjective gravity is a property of the plane not the creature, it might not matter that you're 3D unlike the limits of your normal biological motion.

Rather weird, but plausible.

Kamikaze divebombing via subjective gravity... lol.

The Telepathic Bond would at least allow you to narrow the distance down to a realistic level where you are both on opposite sides and then you can just take bets at who will fall into the demiplane first via the gravity rules.

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Oh! I forgot to mention that I have two more ways to defeat the 'infinite' nature of the way you describe the Astral Plane.

1) Permanent Telepathic Bond, Find the Path, and Teleport.

Two creatures teleport on a line until they each have opposite directions on their Find the Path beacons, then take turns teleporting half the distance towards each other, waiting until the Find the Path beacon 'flips' as it were. How close do they have to be before they most certainly find the location?

2) Occult Adventures added this text for the Astral Plane to RAW:

Travel through the Astral Plane is a strange affair, as the plane's subjective directional gravity means that each traveler chooses the direction of gravity's pull. Creatures can move normally in any direction by imagining "down" near their feet and "falling" in that direction. In this way a creature "falls" 150 feet the first round and 300 feet on each successive round. Movement is straight-line only. A character can attempt a DC 16 Wisdom check to set a new direction of gravity or stop as a free action; this check can be attempted once per round. Any character who fails this Wisdom check on successive rounds receives a +6 bonus on subsequent checks until he succeeds. When moving in this manner, the traveler does not have the sensation of physical movement. Rather, the landscape of the Astral Plane (such as it is) seems to come toward, through, and past him. Scintillations of light are thrown off by the astral body as it moves along at great speed.

Therefore, once you have narrowed down the location with step 1, you can further simplify things by making your subjective gravity 'down' towards the demiplane and fall at 300 ft/rd straight towards it for the low cost of a DC 16 Wisdom check (just use 2 divine casters :-P)

I love these kinds of mental exercises

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Yeah pretty much that.

I am not sure why you would wish to opt out of the campaign as a result. Obviously the campaign goals would not be such that succeeding in such a task is ever required for the quest hooks and storyline given.

For one, the culture of the world includes people memorizing "addresses" of intricate webs of demiplanes of their friends, allies, coworkers, etc. Getting around is viable and possible by political intrigue, basically. Similar to how you don't have to physically access a computer in order to control it anyway if you can hack people's passwords. Social engineering is the weak point here. For two, the main antagonists may be things that aren't necessarily relevant to demiplane hiding in the first place. Such as "Rovagug is stirring" for example. And so on.

To answer your question it comes down to a philosophical difference in the way you have presented yourself. In reading the whole thread, and yes I read all of it, you tried to force convince people using mathematics and the belief that you were correct in there being no possible way to reach another demiplane because (many, many reasons). While this is fine, and all well and good, I have played DnD since the early 80s and Astral Travel was always a relative thing, you didn't have to know your exact destination, and only had to make will saves to move in the proper direction (though they weren't called will saves at the time!). Look at the 3rd Party spell Astral Caravan and you will see more what I'm talking about. It uses Knowledge checks to make progress to a destination until magically arriving.

If instead you started out declaring that the Astral Plane was not the same Astral Plane that I have know and interacted with since 'Astral Plane' was used in conjunction with DnD/Pathfinder/d20 games of any type, then I would have no issues.

I think the majority of the resistance to your geometric view of the Astral Plane is more a legacy thing. There are many who have played various different incarnations of this game, and defining things to the level you do, while fascinating and a wonderful mental exercise, is completely irrelevant to the gameplay, especially considering you, in your capacity as GM, would categorically deny any attempt to 'break' your world system.

It boils down to a simple, because I said so... which again is totally fine, but when you ask people to find holes and then go on to deny that said holes exist its the social equivalent of asking for an opinion on an outfit and then when you hear something you don't like saying, 'Well, your opinion isn't worth squat!' and many people get offended by that, especially considering that an internet forum is a very difficult place to convey tone.

Hope that wall of text wasn't too bad... this is why I tend to lurk rather than post... *sigh*

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You failed to answer the last question: what if I, as a PC in your game, decided to use Astral Projection to find a demiplane. If your answer is still, it's impossible, then you are not using the RAW

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The spell projects an astral copy of you and all you wear or carry onto the Astral Plane. Since the Astral Plane touches upon other planes, you can travel astrally to any of these other planes as you will.

^ As in my earlier post, you CAN take a car and drive to my house, like literally you can physically drive to my (Crimeo's) house.

That doesn't mean you know where it is.

Astral projection says it gives you a means of transit, it doesn't say it gives you instant omniscient knowledge of every plane and its exact location.

Unlike the car and house example, though, there aren't just 1 billion houses to check. There are infinitely many possible locations, so having a means of transit alone is not helpful if you don't know where you're going.

Player 1 casts: Astral Projection!

At this point I would have to respectfully opt out of your campaign, but it still seems like a fun premise.

Good luck, and don't forget to keep on splitting my infinities!

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Which is why I pointed out that if a tasked creature has a terminable point to said task, then there is no listed duration to a planar binding instead of the 1 day/level for a task such as: guard this location.

There isn't a terminable end to said task. There are again, infinitely many points along any vector. Infinite = not terminable. So neither immortality of your helpers, nor number of helpers, makes this any easier for you.

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I would always send out some bound immortal creature to follow the path, yes mundanely if necessary, until I had a tuning fork for each and every demiplane that I knew existed.

You would never get a single tuning fork, as the time to find any one demiplane would be infinite with any amount of resources spent on any number of searchers.

(Incidentally, your resources are not infinite by the way. They may exponentially rise, but they are not infinite. They are all based on traps and spells that have finite arithmetic to them)

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if I were playing in your setting and said I was going to bind an outsider and task it with making a tuning fork of demiplane X, and I didn't care how long it took, how would you handle it?

It goes off and searches forever and never finds anything. Easy. Tell me any number of years you wait. Doesn't matter, any number < infinite, so iti hasn't found any yet.

You failed to answer the last question: what if I, as a PC in your game, decided to use Astral Projection to find a demiplane. If your answer is still, it's impossible, then you are not using the RAW, which is totally fine, but at that point you would be hard pressed to find players willing to believe that you were not simply using GM fiat to make your setting work as you desire.

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It specifically states within the Create Demiplane line of spells that Astral Projection can travel to them

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in astral form, 4d travel has to be possible

I agree that 4d travel is possible using the listed spells. But you don't know the "address" is the problem. For example, physically, I can travel to your house using boats/cars/whatever, but if you don't tell me where it is, I'm not actually going to be able to get there.

So if you haven't seen or visited or have the "tuning fork frequency" or whatever for the demiplane, how are you specifying how to get there? The exact rules on what is necessary to specify is pretty vague, but that just means I have the freedom to fill in the blanks for what I find most convenient to the gameplay, which in this case is "you need explicit information similar to an address"

You could attempt to just wander around hoping to stumble upon it, but with infinite volumes of 3D space existing in a 4D hypercube, it will take you infinite time to find randomly, since you need to hit the 4D coordinate exactly to see anything. Even along a given vector of find the path, it would take infinitely long (see below)

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Find the Path plus Astral Projection should RAW lead to the discovery of any demiplane that can be named.

Find the Path gives you a bearing, it doesn't give you a distance. I.e. it specifies a vector at any given time, and you need a point, of which there are always infinitely many along a vector. So yeah you can hop around with those various spells along that vector, but you don't have specific enough info to hop to the exact right place. and since you are a 3D creature, you can't see it or reach it at all no matter how close you are on the 4D dimension unless you are at exactly the same coordinate. If it were 3D you would only need to get within 5 feet and swing your arm for the spell sunder, but since you can't swing your arm in 4 dimensions, that's not good enough here.

Just like Mario cannot see or...

No where did I state that said outsider would travel via spells (other than Astral Projection to get an astral body), simply physically in the direction of the Find the Path spell. Time is immaterial if the creature so tasked is immortal. Which is why I pointed out that if a tasked creature has a terminable point to said task, then there is no listed duration to a planar binding instead of the 1 day/level for a task such as: guard this location.

If you wish to simply state that nothing can find the Demiplane, that is your prerogative as world creator and GM, but in a world of infinite resources as a canny spellcaster I would always send out some bound immortal creature to follow the path, yes mundanely if necessary, until I had a tuning fork for each and every demiplane that I knew existed. If I'm immortal, who cares how long it takes? If I have infinite resources, who cares how much it costs?

You were looking in your original post to see if there were any problems with the premise and if you could avoid a cold war style standoff, but with said infinite resources and time, the answer is no.

Your reply will probably include some iteration of: they can simply make a new plane, and yes that is true, but we are just getting back into the fact that there is a counter to everything. No matter how many times you wish to say, but this, anyone can come back and say, but that.

At this point it has been definitely answered: the setting works wonderfully if you desire it to do so. It seems like a fun way to design a world as well, especially if you play up the demiplanes and have different styles and themes all the time.

Let me put it to you this way: if I were playing in your setting and said I was going to bind an outsider and task it with making a tuning fork of demiplane X, and I didn't care how long it took, how would you handle it?

What if instead I decided to go myself via Astral Projection, which has no set time limit? Would you simply say my character is dead, or will be traveling an infinite amount of time and so is effectively dead? I'm immortal and patient, and what else is there to do?

First off, I'd like to say this thread is enthralling, and has pulled me into actually posting for the first time ever, and I've played Pathfinder since it came out, albeit only homebrew, but eh, fun thread ^_^

Crimeo, how is the demiplane concept any different than the default cold war status of the Tippyverse described on the first page? It specifically states within the Create Demiplane line of spells that Astral Projection can travel to them, and in astral form, 4d travel has to be possible, so Find the Path plus Astral Projection should RAW lead to the discovery of any demiplane that can be named.

More insidiously, you bind a being capable of astral travel with at will Greater Dispel, and pay said outsider to travel to X demiplane and dispel each and every Permanency spell holding the plane together. Who needs to dispel the demiplane itself if you can simply stealthily remove the magic supporting its very existence? Under binding an outsider, if the task has a definite completion, the duration isn't just 1 day/level.

If you simply want to force the hand of the other demiplane, then instead of destruction, you can send an outsider there simply to attune a fork for Plane Shift. Probably much cheaper that way too, as the task is travel, cast a spell, teleport back to me and give me the attuned fork.

Overall, its an interesting mental exercise, but I don't see a way to remove the vulnerability of annihilation if you only play RAW, even with the limitations you place on Wish and Miracle.