i don't mind using Eldritch Heritage to Cherry Pick Sylvan for 2 feats
as long as my fighter can take 2 feats to Cherry pick a quadruped eidolon
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and if you do that, then the non-power-gamed characters in the same group lose their viability.
This is all that's needed to be said when people bring up the ARG Race Design "rules". ^^Race points mean nothing when you can through strategically placed flaws and careful ability choice, build a 10 point race that outshines a 25 point race. i don't use Race Points; i eyeball everything and see whether or not it looks good, takes about 5 minutes, i make a rough comparison to something as powerful as dwarves or whatever.
Dwarves make Good Empyreal Sorcerers too. which was the bloodline tax for dwarves. Dwarves have massive bonuses to Fortitude and Will Saves 85% of the time, and even without the glory of old trait, if you take Steel Soul. you have +5/+4/+5 which is equivalent to the favored class bonus of a 15th level human barbarian, 18th level if they take glory of old. at least if they take the saves that matter. in fact, Dwarven Barbarians are Saving Throw Kings the classes a Dwarf is a little weakened at are Sorcerer (Except Empyreal Sorcerers) Oracle Summoner Bard Paladin (Steel Soul Cancels out Cha Penalty for saves, being behind 2
Ninja (without a rogue talent tax or 4 monk levels) Classes the Dwarf Truly Excels at Druid; (Screw Talking to Animals, you are either a caster or a pouncer. make up some stuff about Feng Shui or Geomancers and you are golden) Empyreal Sorcerer; (High Will Save, Decent Fort; not as squishy as most Sorcs, you miss the favored class bonus and paragon surge, but you have surviveability) Inquisitor; (Inquisitors don't need charisma. they do just fine without it. conversion inquisition turns dwarves into amazing inquisitors.) other classes the dwarf does well at anything without a charisma focus that benefits from the save boost and extra hit points.
there was a 3.5 sourcebook that allowed PCs to take nymphs and succubi as familiars around 8th-10th level or so. the only downside was, was that they were small and had similar changes to the young template.So not just a submissive sex slave, but an underaged submissive sex slave? Oooi. i like the familiar that can pretend to be a child. very inconspicuous, please also comes with the option of UMD, SLAs, diplomacy checks, and the like. sometimes, it is easier for the familiar to speak if she can pass for human but i wasn't thinking of the setup for adult films i like the advantage of a less conspicuous familiar invisible familiars can still be detected at higher levels, and are likely to be suspected, which is why i prefer familiars that can pretend to be human. another thing i do is look for odd custom animals to make familiars out of that not many people expect such as doves, butterflies, rabbits, and the like. or 3.5 options/AP options for improved familiars that if they can't pass for human, are at least inconspicuous enough to not draw excessive attention.
they had to save letter count so they make you have to search the bestiaries for the list of weapon proficiencies the Rhakshasa, Couatl, and Janni are also native outsiders, as is the Oni. so it is clearly not the fact they possess the native subtype
for it to count as noting otherwise, the bestiary entry (not a dev ruling) would have to explicitly state something like "An Aasimaar Character's weapon proficiencies go by her class rather than her creature type." but there is no such entry in the Aasimaar meaning their type based proficiencies, are those of the outsider, which doesn't include the "or by character class" clause either.
and those traits, include Darkvision and Simple/Martial Weapon Proficiency
the only truly overpowering monster abilities in my opinion, are the ones that ignore your armor, don't allow a save, or ignore your hit points such as many incorporeal creatures, most undead, and the like
there was a 3.5 sourcebook that allowed PCs to take nymphs and succubi as familiars around 8th-10th level or so. the only downside was, was that they were small and had similar changes to the young template.So not just a submissive sex slave, but an underaged submissive sex slave? Oooi. the book had a lot of details on slavery, a variety of forms of slavery and an underaged nymph or succubus need not be a sex slave they could be a maid in training a library assistant or intern in training a surrogate daughter for the desperate wizard with desires to be a parent or even a chore girl i had characters that used them, not sexually, but as surrogate daughters because they couldn't become parents.
note the difference in the humanoid listing and the outsider one
It used to link to an old thread I had started in which I had asked about aasimar/outsider proficiencies, to which James responded with "aasimar don't get proficiencies as outsiders." <-- paraphrased from memory i'm merely guessing until i saw it later but the outsider type states that all outsiders gain the outsider traits unless stated otherwise darkvision and proficiency with all simple and martial weapons, none of the planetouched have an entry to contradict this in fact, the humanoids entry, specifically adds the following clause "or by character class." this clause does not show up on the outsider proficiencies
the outsider proficiencies do not list the "or by character class clause" which means that every outsider gets them, including 0HD ones Outsider:
Features [b] An outsider has the following features. d10 Hit Dice.
[b] Traits An outsider possesses the following traits (unless otherwise noted in a creature's entry). Darkvision 60 feet.
note the lack of an "or by character class" clause and in the case of the Suli, it does not note otherwise, meaning the Suli gets darkvision and all published planetouched do not note otherwise in their racial traits for these proficiencies Humanoid:
Features A humanoid has the following features (unless otherwise noted in a creature's entry). d8 Hit Die, or by character class.
Traits A humanoid possesses the following traits (unless otherwise noted in a creature's entry). Proficient with all simple weapons, or by character class.
the features section, is dependent on HD, the traits section are not.
Archaeologist can get it so can crypt breaker though back in the Gygaxian Era, there was no trapspotter, Gygaxian rogues literally rolled to search every square until they got a 20 and slowed the games down, modern rogues do that too.
James deleted that ruling because i think he retracted it Planetouched recieving proficiency in all martial weapons is truly no more powerful than the races with weapon familiarity or the tengu's swordtrained. you only really have 2 hands, so at most, you are using 1 or 2 of those weapons. so really, it doesn't matter how many martial or exotic weapons you a proficient with but the tengu, elf, dwarf, orc, half orc, gnome, half elf, hobgoblin, drow, svirfneblin, and i beleive duergar get a bunch of martial and exotic weapons. hell, the tengu gets the katana, wakazashi, falcata, curve blade, and nodachi. any of these i'd rate better than most martial weapons. it is just, the Aasimaar, Tiefling, Fetchling, Suli, Undine, Ifrit, Sylph and Oread, have their own weapon familiarity trait by virtue of creature type, that while being redundant for a large variety of classes that could benefit, helps certain 3/4 bab classes, but the previous list gets exotics these 8 don't get. the tengu has the strongest weapon familiarity traits in the game planetouched have an easily replaceable, slightly more versatile, and slightly less focused weapon familiarity by virtue of being outsiders nothing is said about the native subtype being an exception the Eidolon is a highly specific exception. but then, big E is loaded with rules exceptions left and right
hell, you could give good characters access to celestial healing, which uses angel tears, and it would be no less balanced. fluff and roleplaying consequences should not be used as a means to balance mechanics. it is the paladins fallacy. the code of conduct and alignment restriction that serve as a straightjacket, limit a paladin's options, rather than actually encourage creativity in fact, instead of 9 paladin variants and 3 monk variants i'd rather we have a paladin and martial artist class of unrestricted alignment without the baggage. not every paladin is Sir Gallahad and even deities make mistakes. in fact, opening up paladin to at least, any non-evil would open up many concepts. but the same can be said of the anti paladin and any non-good i want to play my holy knight of freedom (Chaotic Neutral), my Templar (Lawful Neutral), my benevolent knight errant (Neutral Good) or my blackguard (Lawful evil) the paladin classes can do none of these without producing 7 more classes but i think the game should be divorced from alignment, and that alignment be dropped entirely.
I wasn't aware Pixies were options for a Familiar...? they were a 5th-6th level or so familiar option in 3.5 plus they are an option in some old AP somewhere, can't remember which one though but i tend to play with a lot of 3.5 material and there was a 3.5 sourcebook that allowed PCs to take nymphs and succubi as familiars around 8th-10th level or so. the only downside was, was that they were small and had similar changes to the young template.
take a fused Aegis with a greatsword and 20 strength before fusion 2d6 base
all it requires is the medium armor form with psionic weapons customization it deals 2d6+16, bypasses Dr/magic and counts as ghost touch with any weapon you please and all you need is a 20 strength
you have a to hit of +7 for 2d6+16 yes, with psionics, you can have an extremely fragile first level character that deals an average of 23 damage at will at 1st level. the build is a 1 trick pony though
So basically never play a rogue again? i hope it is competitive with the bard, inquisitor, psionic warrior, ranger, alchemist, and other 3/4 bab 6th level casters that means it will have to outshine the rogue and even then it makes the rogue look weak it would be to Int, what the rogue is to Dex
Your race and archetype did the vast majority of the heavy lifting. The falchion build works with damn near every race and isnt even the two handed archetype. Your race isn't even the standard tiefling it technically takes a feat to qualify for that race. What would your DPR look like if you were nearly any other race.I agree with saves and AC, but the damage output? No, I have not seen that, unless it was situational or you gimp the fighter to hell and back, or have a potion quaffing monk chugging back buffs like there's no tomorrow. as of the blood of fiends companion, Variant tiefling heritages don't require a feat tax. it supersedes council of thieves but yeah, race and archetype did do the heavy lifting, plus the build is dependant on Ki which is a rarer resource than spell slots and limited means to recuperate there are pearls of power, scrolls, wands and potions of spells, but no potions of ki restoration
Race points mean nothing when you can through strategically placed flaws and careful ability choice, build a 10 point race that outshines a 25 point race.
Armor of the pit provides +2 natural armor barkskin provides a +4 enhancement bonus that lasts 100 minutes and costs a ki point he is also abusing vows for extra ki it is also 1 level 2 low for improved critical and abusing the recent faq of SLAs allowing you to take arcane strike it also uses the 1.5 strength bonus on 2handers that doesn't apply with flurry. other than 2 easy to follow vows, it is abusing a specific tiefling subrace and milking the benefits of the subrace. it doesn't prove monks are viable just that Onispawn are the race made to make monks viable
zombies and skeletons are MINDLESS they CAN'T learn from time and practice, when you sew you have to think about the next step, what happens when you come to the end of the seam, etc. i just don't believe a zombie or skeleton is capable of such intricate projects. maybe repetitively hammering a nail, but considering they're MINDLESS cant make adjustments when the nail gets skewed or bent, they just keep hammering at it. i think when they put programming in for zombies and such it was for orders like "guard this room from anyone not wearing a red hat" or "row this boat until we reach shore" not "sew a cross stitch" or "add lace to all these dresses" sorry but your argument is just wrong, i'm sure others would agree with me (especially tailors and house builders) sewing and construction are not for the mindless dead.i'd like to know how you plan on teaching mindless undead how to sew, my mind works just fine and i can barely do it:) is a Zombie whom is programmed to help contribute to building houses or sewing clothes? any different from a robot with the same programming? Robots and Zombies are both mindless. they are both intended to follow orders yet many sci fi authors have no issues with Robots sewing dresses, so why can't a zombie with similar programming and a powerful enough necromancer setting up a similar level of complex protocol any different. ignoring the basic premise of stuff like terminator we have plenty of Sci-Fi works were robots are used to perform physical activities. why can't we have a fantasy work where Zombies? the fantasy equivalent to robots in the fact they are mindless and programmed? achieve the same results.
i'd like to know how you plan on teaching mindless undead how to sew, my mind works just fine and i can barely do it:) Mindless undead can still follow instructions, and may be programmed to perform certain mundane activities. teaching a zombie to sew isn't any different from teaching them to cook it is mostly a matter of time and practice
but those same defensive monks are also the easiest characters to ignore because they focus on defense to the exclusion of offense they go from "tank" to "last survivor" and any encounter that can kill this "monk" can cause a TPK because you are too focused on damaging the one PC you can simply ignore.
Severely overpowered, as in they deal more damage on an unrestricted target list than any other class, and they get the defining class feature granting that damage at level 1. i'd rather have a ranger, barbarian, or paladin than a fighter, monk, or rogue as my group's frontliner.
you have to waste a feat on that. you can spend the feat on it if you wish, i just wouldn't recommend it because it is only an extra point of damage over the temple sword.
time to get started on that human switch hitter ranger i'm a newb at online builds so i may have difficulty with the formatting and avaialable resources.
you have to waste a feat on that.
Style Feats? you mean those feats that were deliberately designed to fix the monk because they were a weak class. a 2 level dip gets me the ones i require, and allows me to more easily access the others with a minor skill tax. in fact, most style feats are better utilized by combatants who dip 2 levels in monk for the style feats and focus on their main preferred unarmed class
Adamantium Weapon? you might be unable to be disarmed, but your enhancement bonus can be disarmed, and your greater magic fang spell can be dispelled. really, an extra 3,000 gold at level 13 is nothing to write home about
they are bound by Ki points, which are a rarer resource than spell slots, but the advantage goes to the ranger because they can use wands and scrolls to expand their resources, a monk can't Which he can use a few times a day, unlike the monk's immunity to poison which makes the monk able to use poison as a weapon without worry. the chance of poisoning yourself is only 5% and most poisons have an easy fortitude save, in fact, poisons are so overpriced and so weak for what they do, that there is no real benefit to them. in addition, neutralize poison can be used on an ally instead of yourself The monk gets all good saves, plus really good will and reflex and evasion and immunity to disease and spell resistance and the list goes on ranger gets good fortitude and reflex, monk has better will. but for a monk to get the amazing reflex and will saves you mention. they sacrifice the majority of their ability to deal damage unless you use a highly specific and highly obscure weapon enchantment, or mythic tiers not really i'd rate no prerequisites and even early entry on some valuable archery feats better than dodge, spring attack, or combat reflexes
what 2handers can a baseline monk flurry with? oh? Quarterstaff and Temple sword? what a sorry list of weapon choices for 2handers to flurry with
i don't post builds because i don't do them very well. all a build shows is not the merits of the class itself, but how good the builder is at minmaxing their class choice. there is no point barbarians are actually balanced with the ranger and paladin i want to see a viable monk who doesn't depend on the big 5 archetypes. the 4 weakest classes are Rogue, Fighter, Monk, and Cavalier
The monk has speed, poison immunity, the ability to strike as adamantium, ki powers, stunning fist, an easier time getting style feats, and a lot more my issue with the class is the designers built them around being naked and unarmed, but so many superior options outshine being naked and unarmed, and monk accesses none of them.
The monk has speed, poison immunity, the ability to strike as adamantium, ki powers, stunning fist, an easier time getting style feats, and a lot more let me point you to the ranger bonus combat style feats without prerequisites +4 weapon or adamantium weapon spells more skills neutralize poison large pouncing pet good fortitude save more HP better feat selection
The Monk is not a Ranger, Alchemist, Magus, or Inquisitor. His standard for accceptance should not be for him to make as good a Ranger, Alchemist, Magus, or Inquisitor as someone who is actually those classes. a Monk, lets see what they have very few skill points, so skills aren't their niche no spellcasting, so they clearly cannot be a caster no decent ranged weaponry short of 2 ranged archetypes, so they cannot be ranged damage dealers lets see what that leaves Melee DPS Tank with their lack of synergy, they have to prioritize making their choice of being a squishy DPS that dies in one turn, or being an unyielding wall that cannot fight back. something that is fixed by an optional rule called mythic tiers but few people play with mythic tiers anyway
The Barbarian is going to be facing off against the enemy brute. If Conan needs to get to the pointy hatted target on the enemy's back line, then he either 1.) has to receive an AoO from the enemy brute or 2.) make an acrobatics roll and make a half move (the monk's half move is probably greater than the Barbarian's half move by a lot), or 3.) make an acrobatics roll at -10. He *might* be able to fly if he's got access to that magic and, more significantly, flight is possible in the environmentmoving...And attacking once for pitiful amage? A barbarian is better skirmisher with a decent speed and pounce. before you get haste, most foes die in one lucky swing in most cases anyway an when you do get haste, the barbarian is faster than the monk until 12th level when they break even and your scenario assumes the barbarian starts next to the enemy brute Barbarian pounces enemy caster, after Archer slaughters enemy brute for me, after the allied arcanist casts haste and after the allied divine caster helps the allied archer mop up the brute.
can use any weapon they please effectively, not just a temple sword or with archetypes, a composite longbow that would be the Sohei the Sohei, Zen Archer, Martial Artist, Quinggong, and Master of Many Styles are the big 5 archetypes. the Archetypes the monk depends on to be Viable. the Sohei has to be 12th level to flurry with both polearms and longbows, and 6th level to flurry with just one of the two. at 18th level, they gain the ability to flurry with 3 weapon groups, but they have no bonus archery feats, and have to multiclass to get a mount because they don't get their own mount, just the ability to continue another classes mount progression.
moving...And attacking once for pitiful amage? A barbarian is better skirmisher with a decent speed and pounce. barbarian is indeed a better skirmisher speed is good enough to qualify, not excessive, but useful enough pounce higher STR more HP with traits, they can have similar acrobatics or stealth able to afford more int due to reduced MAD not required to be an Onispawn Variant tiefling or not required to Possess Mythic Tiers to be effective can use any weapon they please effectively, not just a temple sword or with archetypes, a composite longbow
Pharsasma has problems with the more evil uses of undead. she wouldn't have problems if you found a good aligned used for the reanimated bodies of the deceased. using zombies to construct low income homes for the poor and homeless, or to sew cheap clothing for the poor and the naked is fine. using zombies to combat evil necromancers is fine as long as you don't actively murder for the sole purpose of adding to your zombie army using zombies to save innocent lives is also fine.
48 plunder is a bit harsh, but I can see 1 per ship and 1 for the fortress, also something for the Hurricane King so I would call it 10 plunder each time. There aren't that many men stationed at the Rock to call it more than 1 crew IMHO. 2 for the Hurricane King might placate him for awhile, but Cheliax will be a problem sooner rather than later. a standard haul is 4-6 plunder a good haul, including the ship itself, is about 10-15 plunder. assuming you sell the ship. i'm also factoring the fortress towards this as well.
That's not stopping them from doing the next module in Alkenstar. if i remember older versions of wild magic correctly it involved the concept of either your magical working exceptionally well, working normally, being completely useless, or hindering you instead. depending on die rolls. and it did that for every spell in other words, casters were still screwed, because the chances of your spells giving unintended negative results were drastically higher than your chances of getting intended possible results
i know i don't play a standard game but there should be alternatives for nonstandard groups kingmaker and skull and shackles would theoretically work wonders for our playstyle but yeah, indoor combat is kind of difficult with 15 PCs, Possibly 15 cohorts, and up to 10 pets so we play a lot of custom campaigns tailored to our group size Military/Pirate Crew/Etc type campaigns.
Give the wizard a gun.do you really want an AP, let alone a module, that takes place in a setting where 80% of the classes have no real ability to contribute and where nobody can keep up at the high levels?That's not stopping them from doing the next module in Alkenstar. giving the casters a firearm is not enough pretty much every Alkenstarian might as well be a gunslinger so they can at least deal martial damage against touch AC
Yeah...you're venturing back into creepy territory. if i hadn't posted them, somebody else would have. it happens every trap thread.
That's not stopping them from doing the next module in Alkenstar. do you really want an AP, let alone a module, that takes place in a setting where 80% of the classes have no real ability to contribute and where nobody can keep up at the high levels? you are talking about a complete cutoff both from magic, and from supernatural abilities, and a complete shutdown of magic items. Alkenstar is Gimpland for everyone no casting, means no buffs and no healing. means martials die swiftly
if "good is supposed to be hard." and "evil is supposed to be fast and easy." then wouldn't most of the population logically follow the evil path because it is fast, easy, and rewarding? it is like video games with alignment systems. nearly all the time, most players will do the evil run because it is faster, easier, and more rewarding, and the overall easier path, unless they truly sought a challenge.
there is no point when every time we try to find a way to include ourselves, the actor player interjects, ignores us, and leaves to kill stuff for him so 85% of the game tends to be combat
it took a lot of effort to set up an AP in Numeria i doubt we will really have an Alkenstar AP unless we rewrite how the Mana Wastes work. because as written, the only classes they won't utterly screw over are, the fighter, rogue, cavalier, and gunslinger. ninja archetype will be screwed, Samurai are just a fancy cavalier archetype. barbarian will be heavily gimped. the reason for that is, those 4 specific classes rely purely on Ex; abilities
Toys? Those things you have fun with? What do you think this is, some sort of game for your amusement? Pathfinder is a tabletop roleplaying Game. Games are an activity performed for entertainment and amusement by Toys to play with, i mean Tools to work with. Evil's toolkit is way too developed compared to good Good isn't even the superior healing alignment because evil has access to more guaranteed to work but more time consuming methods of healing. why can't good characters capitalize on good versions of a few evil exclusive toys?
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