Under the Leveling Up section on page 31 of the CRB:
If an ability boost increases your character's Intelligence modifier, they become trained in an additional skill and language.
I mean the side bar does clearly say that wisdom empowers your ki spells. I dont know if it can get more clear than that. it's gonna be the same for any monk. monks like fighters dont have archetypes. Eh, it should probably explicitly say in the Ki Spells description that your spellcasting ability is Wisdom, just as it does for the Champion in the description of Devotion Spells. I agree that it's almost certain that was the intent though, based on the Ki Monk sample description and since it worked that way in the playtest. It was probably overlooked for the monk because Ki Spells are described in a sidebar of key terms instead of given their own section as a class feature (monks don't gain Ki Spells unless you specifically take a monk feat that provides them).
Also, what's the big deal with resting for 20 minutes to get 2 focus back? How often can you hang out for 10 minutes but not 20?Darn, that will make it hard to do a Campion of Irori if they have a limited pool and slow recovery of them.It's a "once per encounter" kind of thing. While you probably can't use it in every room of the dungeon, you can probably use it sever times in each adventuring day. Also each time you take a new FP ability it increases your FP pool by one, so while you only get one back every 10 minutes, you may have a pool of 3 or 4 per day. The requirements for the Refocus activity state: Spoiler: "You have a focus pool, and you have spent at least 1 Focus Point since you last regained any Focus Points."
So I think the bold section means that if you spend multiple points in your focus pool before you Refocus, you can only regain one point even if you take multiple 10 minute breaks since you would no longer qualify for the Refocus activity after you use it once. That makes the feats that let you regain more than 1 Focus Point even better than I thought. It's not just that they let you get Focus Points back faster, they also let you regain more than other people can.
I have not the book yet but from what I've read reason to belive that there is a feat that increases your elven weapon prophicienc up to your highest prophiciency, which in some cases surely ia a nice plus (and at least gives you sooner or later expert with elven weapons) Spoiler: Yup, there is. Not just available to Elves though...
Metamagic feats allow you to add an additional action to the casting of a spell to make it better (except for Quicken Spell of course). So a standard 2-action spell with metamagic becomes a 3-action cast. From the Wizard list:
Woops, never mind. Found the FAQ and it explicitly says that they can. APG FAQ
Second what Rysky said. In your example the Guarded Stance would only provide a +2 bonus for the 4 UnBarbarian levels.
Nope, pretty sure the fact that he's an arcane caster nixes that.
Actually, using an immediate action during your turn consumes your swift action, so you cannot combine Surprise Strike and Surge on your turn. But you could use Surge as you describe on another person's turn, consuming the swift action for your following turn.
Need to be within one step though. TN to LG doesn't work. According to that logic, what's stopping people from playing a Paladin follower of CE Rovagug as long as you don't associate with other followers of Rovagug? Seems kind of counter intuitive.
I believe there was a FAQ here on the Archmage Arcana indicating they should be used as standard actions to cast a spell, not swift.
My groups enjoy rolling stats over point-buy about 80% of the time, but it often results in characters of widely disparate power (especially in the early game). Our old method of rolling from 1E D&D that is still favored is much like the OP's: Roll 4d6, drop the lowest. Your first roll is STR, second is DEX, etc. Roll a 7th time and you can swap that in for any other roll. Then you can swap one more time between any 2 abilities. There tend to be a lot of different ability score builds that you would not normally see, including strong wizards, dexterous clerics, and charismatic fighters, and part of the fun is making that work for your character. Also, in our most recent game, after rolling up we instituted a quasi-point-buy method wherein you determine what value you would have if you had built your rolls in point-buy. If you have less than 20, you get the difference to add to your stats.
It's not the fact that the familiar realizes its master is a different alignment that is causing the bond to be severed. The wizard simply does not qualify for the prerequisites of the Improved Familiar feat as soon as he no longer shares a compatible alignment. At that point, the bond (by RAW anyway) is automatically severed through no choice of the familiar or the master as he no longer qualifies for the feat. The master could still get a new familiar under the standard rules for replacing familiars.
If you're looking for a pathfinder AP I would suggest Council of Thieves. Council of Thieves Spoilers: It's a campaign that takes place entirely in a metropolis and has plenty of opportunity for you to have interactions with NPC's with which you can build heavy social interactions if you're okay with putting in some extra work. Also, book 2 (The Sixfold Trial) is just spectacular. The only concern I would voice is that it does enter some dark territory at a few points in the campaign.
Does anyone here actually think that initiative is a fixed number after it's rolled? Seriously? Yes. I was surprised to find in this discussion anyone who thought otherwise.
If we rule that identifying the Spell Turning effect with Spellcraft allows the original caster to realize that it's just an illusion and hence make no save, wouldn't every target of Phantasmal Killer be allowed to make a Spellcraft roll to realize what it is and also not need to make a save? I'm of the opinion that the original caster still needs to make the saving throw.
The Kolyarut drawn by Wayne Reynolds for the 3.5 MM is part of why I love that monster.
Yeah, you get the +1 competence bonus on ranged attack rolls (including ranged spells that require a touch attack) but not the improved critical threat range of course. The second part is for bows/crossbows only.
It says under swallow whole that you can "escape the grappled condition" and that puts you back in the attacker's mouth. Initiate automatic vomit! |
