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Unfortunately I would like to cancel all my remaining subscriptions. Money is kinda tight, hopefully I'll be back in the future.

I would like to cancel JUST my Starfinder Adventure Path subscription. Thank you!

Black Blade Arcane Pool: A black blade has an arcane pool with a number of points equal to 1 + its Intelligence bonus.

To clarify since I'm trying to make a character super late at night, it's talking about the Black Blade's Intelligence modifier right? So it will cap at a pool of 5 points, 1 + 4 modifier from 19 INT, right?

Why does the Husk of Xhamen-Dor have DR/Epic and Lawful but the full powered Xhamen-Dor has DR/Epic and Slashing? Just seemed really odd that they have different types of DR.

Would Psychic spells such as Mind Thrust and Synaptic Overload count interacting directly with a Great Old One's thoughts for the Great Old One extraordinary ability Insanity?

Insanity (Ex) Any creature that attempts to interact directly with a Great Old One's thoughts (such as via detect thoughts or telepathy) must succeed at a Will save or be driven permanently insane. The save DC is equal to 10 + 1/2 the Great Old One's Hit Dice + the Great Old One's Charisma modifier. This duplicates the effect of the insanity spell, or the insanity rules (in which case the save DC is also the ongoing insanity DC). A Great Old One using its telepathy to communicate doesn't activate this ability unless it spends a standard action to focus its mind on one opponent. This is a mind-affecting effect.

If yes, I might have a very unhappy Psychic player towards the end of Book 5.

The Vorpal Scimitar saved the day more than once in this adventure. During the Tricorne quest there were 3 decapitations (including the captain after 2/3 of the party were down), decapitated one of the nightmare maenads, and one of the final bosses. There were others, but those were the most notable ones I can remember.

We also had the transmuter wizard threaten to Detonate himself (while transformed into a Fire Elemental) while holding the Necklace of Fireballs to force the Night Hag to hand over her item. It was hilarious.

We had a lot of fun with this book.

So to be clear, because I was slightly confused when reading this, the players keep none of the gear acquired in Part 2 or Part 3? So is the only permanent reward in the Dreamlands the +2 bonus to stats?

I have 3 players in my game instead of 4, to balance the reward for the party should I make the rewarded bonus a +3 instead?

There is the Driving magic weapon ability from Weapon Master's Handbook.

In book 2, James Jarvis a Bard Magician of House Jarvis was drowned in combination of a Dispel Magic from the Skum leader (removing his ability to breath water) and the drowning ability of the Drowning Devil. He was subsequently revived by Hetamon Haace using one of our Scrolls of Raise Dead.

Do people consume dragon meat in Golarion?

Can someone tell me more about the Nanite Disruption feat I've heard about? It's the one Android feat not detailed in the Iron Gods article about Androids.

Only if you combine it with Covet Charge + Signature Deed. That, of course, would allow you to fire a completely drained timeworn firearm you've chosen Technic Training for whenever the heck you felt like it.

Oh yeah, Covet Charge + Signature Deed is a much easier way of doing it than Charge Recycling + Signature Deed. Thanks for pointing that out.

I don't think you can use both with Signature Deed though, the feat says nothing about allowing you to take it multiple times. Still Covet Charge + Signature Deed it is! You can fire almost every tech weapon for free! =D

The Charge Cycling deed from the Techslinger archetype seems incredibly powerful.

Charge Cycling + Signature Deed = Near-Infinite Energy?

What kind of hammer would Thor's hammer Mjolnir be considered to be stat-wise?

Thank you for the suggestions and I'm sorry I forgot to spoiler tag. I meant to I just forgot. >.>

Assuming my players don't want to

I was curious if the Daring Champion archetype for Cavelier could also be compatible with Samurai? Besides the loss of the Mount, what other abilities get swapped out?

I'm playing a Sylph in an upcoming game and I was wondering how the Wings of Air racial feat might interact with the Expeditious Retreat spell.

Wings of Air gives the Sylph PC a supernatural flight speed equal to their Base Speed. Expeditious Retreat increases a character's Base Speed by 30ft, but specifically mentions not effecting other means of movement (such as flight). But, since Wings of Air is based off the land speed this restriction seems to be a bit fuzzy.

So my question: since the Sylph's Wings of Air supernatural flight speed is based directly off their base land speed does that mean it can receive the +30ft boost from Expeditious Retreat even though it normally wouldn't?

I'll probably be holding off starting my Mummy's Mask game for this book. Finally I have a excuse to play a Sylph. I hope to see more things like along the lines of Breeze-Kissed or wind spells for the Sylph.

Have you gotten a chance to watch Almost Human yet? What did you think of it? I'm really hoping it receives a second season.

Got to bring the silver bullet I'd imagine.

Since this is the Worldwound, I'd make them out of Cold Iron.

Also consider Planes (Abyss) as the latter 3 books take place mostly in the Abyss.

Did Cayden Cailean worship a deity when he was mortal? If so, who?

Tch, tch, tch.

** spoiler omitted **

On a more serious note, this book does indeed turn up the intensity knob. Like wow.

If it makes you feel better...

In Wrath of the Righteous, would transforming the fully upgraded Holy Avenger Radiance into a Sacred Avenger (from Mythic Adventures) be too powerful? One of my players asked if Radiance had anymore upgrades after the fourth book and I was considering a Sacred Avenger upgrade if the party were able to defeat Baphomet in book 5.

Re-reading the Paladin Codes in Faiths of Purity, I concede that the Knights of the Cross are also very Iomedaen, but I still feel they've got many qualities of Sarenite Paladins. The average KotC probably has a code that's a mixture of both faiths.

Alleran wrote:

Playing a paladin like Optimus Prime is probably hard to get wrong. For a given definition of wrong.

Or This guy or this guy.

I tend to always look to Michael Carpenter or Sanya when I think of "what would my Paladin do?" but I also feel like they're closer to a Sarenrite Paladin than an Iomedaen Paladin in terms of how the Knights of the Cross conduct themselves.

I'm still reading through City of Locusts, but I was pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of...

I was actually going to include her between book 3 and book 4 as a kind of bonus boss. I guess I'll rethink those plans.

Aponavicius is also a bit different than I expected.

Is there somewhere I can read about Nocticula in depth like the Baphomet article in Herald of the Ivory Labyrinth or the coming Deskari article in City of Locusts? I have Book of the Damned 2: Lords of Chaos but I want to know more!

Nocticula just seems like such an interesting Demon Lord and I want to learn more about her.

What 2-3 colors would you associate with Sarenrae, Iomedae, and Desna? I have an artist friend who might be doing portraits for my group's Wrath of the Righteous characters (who worship these deities) and we were trying to figure out what their outfits may look like.

Using the Troop subtype for the Half-Fiend or Mythic Minotaurs sounds like a really nice idea... but reading the write up on d20pfsrd seems to be confusing me. I'm unsure how much a damage they should be doing or what to put their AC at for the Troop.

If you gave each of the Iconics in Wrath of the Rightious one of the campaign traits which ones would you assign them?

How difficult would it be to force or trick a creature to swallow something? I don't even know what kind of check that would be. I thought of a creative use for the Talisman of Pure Good and was wondering how feasible it would be to pull off...

I wanna force feed the Talisman of Pure Good to Baphomet which, assuming a Demon Lord counts as an evil divine spellcaster, would caused 8d6 points of damage per round to him.

I'm trying to figure out what sort of Path Abilities Arueshalae should take as she advances through the Trickster path and was hoping you could give some suggestions?

Considering her incredible Bluff skill, I was thinking that Combat Trickery is probably a good choice. I'm also considering making her the Mortal Herald of Desna (from the Mythic Origins book) with the Liberation domain.

You could introduce other Mendevian Crusaders/allies of the crusade who had mythic potential who were in different cities who were close to their wardstones when they went off. Queen Galfrey could have them teleported to the party or something as backup. I've seen others suggest that the mythic power could flow out of the deceased character and go into another nearby person of mythic potential.

As for resurrecting the party... Perhaps Iomedae sends her Herald to resurrect the party member who dies? It might be a good way to introduce him to the party in books 1-4.

You can also find several healing items throughout the books. Towards the end of Book 2 the party is able to find an Oil of Life which acts as True Resurrection. Book 3 has two Scrolls of Resurrection. In Book 4, Cleric NPC Sosiel will be a high enough level to cast Raise Dead spells. Also in Book 4 is a Scroll of True Resurrection. In Book 5, if Sosiel is still around he can get the party access to two more Scrolls of True Resurrection and will be of high enough level to cast Resurrection spells.

3080 gp is supposed to be "expensive"? ^^ I think the downtime system is kinda silly if you can get gigantic castles built so cheaply.

I meant to note that was the cost of the upgrades to the gatehouses, I ran out of time to edit. >.>

The total cost of the Citadel is much more. The bigger cost is probably the time it would take to build/repair.

I've attempted to stat out the citadel and it's huge. And expensive.

The repair cost/time is assuming everything is broken, but it's probably cheaper than that. Most of the Citadel seems intact and just needs to be cleaned up. The two Ceremonial Rooms need to be repaired based on all the rubble, probably both Gatehouses, the ruined Garrison (bunk/armory combo), and the Summoning Chamber.

Am I overestimating or underestimating the value/rooms in the Citadel? Should I allow Citadel Drezen to produce Capital?

Should Citadel Drezen be considered a building for the Downtime rules? If it is what Rooms does it have? I imagine it would be a combination of a Castle and a Garrison with some religious elements (it has two chapels after all) and maybe even a Caster's Tower for the Seneschal's Tower?

I imagine after the siege the entire building has the broken condition which will require repairing it.

Well you could still save his character. If he died in the Citadel you could find the Oil of Life in Staunton's personal chest. It acts as True Resurrection.

Thank you! I overlooked Commune With Power, I'm not as familiar with the Universe Path Abilities. >.>

Another Arueshalae question: Should she complete mythic trials / gain tiers if she's with the party when they complete trials? Will the future books give level up suggestions for her like Midnight Isles gives the rest of the allied NPCs?

Since she is Trickster 3, shouldn't Arueshalae have more Path Abilities?

Looking at her stat block I see only Path Dabbling (Aura of Perseverance) and Deadly Dodge. What is her last Path ability?

I'm going to make an Android gunslinger (Pistolero) named Yul.

I'm also thinking about making an Android Gunslinger. Maybe an Android Swashbuckler or Hunter.

I think you should talk to the player beforehand and see if they would be okay with this development. It's a big alteration and they way you're considering forcing it on the player/character might make them uncomfortable and unhappy.

It's officially today in the Central Time Zone... is there a certain time zone that things come out at?

I was wondering what sort of benefits to Drezen could be appropriate for some of the redeemable characters from Book 2.

Michael Shepard, Human Paladin of Cayden Cailean and Mythic Champion/Marshall

Ruby Nox, Tiefling Bard and Mythic Marshall

Samuel Blackstone, Human Rogue/Gunslinger and Mythic Trickster

Gabriel Haywood, Elf Wizard and Mythic Archmage

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Later I'm gonna throw our gunslinger a triple-barreled pistol with dog motifs (e.g. Cerberus) named Warden. It'll be a +1 Flaming Burst firearm.

The end of the second adventure/beginning of the third adventure is a good place to throw in "relics of former Crusaders." It could be one of the things waiting in the queue for the Corruption Forge (now the Redemption Forge).

Dirge of Cerberus? Vincent Valentine? Nice I approve.

That was exactly the inspiration. The next upgrade (if he needs one) after that will be Good Samaritan inspired. The one after that would probably be based off That Gun (Blade Runner / Fallout). Just swapping gun abilities and increasing the number of projectiles the gun can hold. =p

Later I'm gonna throw our gunslinger a triple-barreled pistol with dog motifs (e.g. Cerberus) named Warden. It'll be a +1 Flaming Burst firearm.

The end of the second adventure/beginning of the third adventure is a good place to throw in "relics of former Crusaders." It could be one of the things waiting in the queue for the Corruption Forge (now the Redemption Forge).

I have a player using a Rogue/Gunslinger (Pistolero) in my game and I've just been swapping the occasional ranged weapon with a firearm so they can resupply on ammo. He's a two weapon fighter and he'll eventually take the Sword and Gun feat.

Mythic Power Attack and Mythic Furious Focus confuse me a bit. With some Mythic power into Power Attack I think you ignore Power Attack penalties for 1 minute whereas with Mythic Furious Focus only ignores it for just one round. It seems like the two feat descriptions got mixed up.

I can't see why you would want to take Furious Focus or it's Mythic version while Mythic Power Attack exists.