Player core, page 207: the Arboreal Sapling's Throw Rock ability is listed as a reaction, but there's no trigger explaining what would trigger it. Archives of Nethys shows the pre-remastered version being one action.
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What's wrong with the printouts? They appear pretty much identical to HL classic, to my eyes.
On page 27 of Fall of Plaguestone, the mutant wolves have the following action: Tear (one action) Trigger: The wolf dealt damage to a creature with its jaws during the previous action. Effect: the wolf tears at the creature's flesh, dealing one d6 + 2 slashing damage and 1 persistent acid damage. Does the triggered action have to be performed on the same round as the action that triggered it? For instance, if the wolf hits a PC with its third action on round 1, can it then Tear as its first action on round 2?
Page 293: Unholy water: You can throw unholy water like a bomb, dealing 1d6 good damage to celestials and other creatures weak to evil damage. Should be evil damage.
Also, I don't appear to be receiving my Pathfinder Advantage discount. I subscribed to the APs starting with the last PF1 AP volume.
Please cancel my Starfinder Society subscription. I haven't had a chance to GM any of them in a few months so I've got a significant backlog if I do end up running SFS again.
By any chance, would you happen to be willing to share those? I like that idea but I'm not very creative.
The worst are when it's a single caster and the tactics are like "He spends the first three rounds casting shield, mage armor, and bull's strength before moving in to melee." As if any lone caster is going to survive 3 rounds.
What is the CMB of the wrecking ball trap? Same as it's attack bonus? From the way it's written, I think you compare the same attack role to the victim's CMD. Does anyone else find it funny that a necromancer who runs a shop selling undead and wears a skull on his face feels the need to cast undetectable alignment every day?
Could someone explain the trap in B11 better? I'm a little confused as to where exactly the bypass switches are, and I'm especially confused as to why switching one of them in tier 1-2 turns the trap into the more potent version...it seems like a party who randomly flips one of the switches has a good chance of getting hit with an 8d6 fire blast. That seems really brutal for tier 1-2. Could you explain the thinking behind that?There are a total of four switches in the area—two on either end of the archway so that someone could turn the trap on or off from either side. If both switches at one end are in the "on" position, the trap is very deadly (Subtier 4–5) when somebody walks in from that direction. If only one is on, the trap is less effective (Subtier 1–2). It's possible to make the trap very dangerous by accident, but by only having to find one switch, it's easier for a Subtier 1–2 group to bypass the trap entirely. But if they only find one switch, wouldn't they have a 50% chance of finding the wrong one, and thus make the trap harder?
Could someone explain the trap in B11 better? I'm a little confused as to where exactly the bypass switches are, and I'm especially confused as to why switching one of them in tier 1-2 turns the trap into the more potent version...it seems like a party who randomly flips one of the switches has a good chance of getting hit with an 8d6 fire blast. That seems really brutal for tier 1-2. Could you explain the thinking behind that?
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Option A is correct by my reading of it.
By the time that fight was over, everyone was pretty much worn out, and they were practically falling asleep when they went upstairs for an anticlimactic slaughter of a bunch of CR 1 guards. I think having the sewer entrance available to go through the compound in reverse order really hampers the scenario. Frankly, yes. I rolled to see how long the Legion would take to show up, and it was something along the lines of 12 minutes. The fight in the basement took less then two minutes, and the fight with the guards upstairs took two rounds, and maybe another 2-3 rounds for the fight with the demons in the stables. Still left plenty of time to grab the prisoners and dimension door away. I'm not saying it was a bad adventure, I just think throwing 16 CR 1 opponents at a table of 8-9th level PCs isn't a very challenging or exciting choice. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of the heist idea, but the opponents (minus the boss, who I thought was well designed) could have used a bit more oomph. And I really didn't like how a (trivially easy at this tier) DC 25 gather information check was all it took to find out about the back entrance.
I ran this last night..it seemed to go pretty well, though the boss fight took a while. The party used the sewer entrance to enter the compound, triggered the trap, and started a long slog of a fight with Sophini, her apprentice, the xill, the guards, and eventually the two daemons. By the time that fight was over, everyone was pretty much worn out, and they were practically falling asleep when they went upstairs for an anticlimactic slaughter of a bunch of CR 1 guards. I think having the sewer entrance available to go through the compound in reverse order really hampers the scenario.
What? No one has a Mithral Waffle Iron and all its Non-Stick glory? My character in the Serpent's Skull AP actually negotiated passage from a tribe of natives by trading them a mithral waffle iron and teaching them the benefits of starting their day with a complete breakfast.
Every time I've ran the Midnight Mauler, the PCs always want to buy wolfsbane before they leave Absalom. That's all well and good, and I have no problem with that. But I've ran into some confusion. Wolfsbane is listed in Adventurer's Armory as costing 5 sp. On the chronicle sheet and in Ultimate Equipment, it costs 500 gp. Obviously there's a huge difference there. I'm assuming the 5 sp is the cost for the raw herb, and 500 gp is the cost for the poison - it's listed for that same price on the poisons table in the core rulebook. Was I wrong for letting my players buy it for 5 sp? What would be the point of buying the 5 sp version if it didn't cure lycanthropy?
*I* for one, welcome our new Epic Challenge Overlords, and say, to them. "Hail the great SLURM LORDS". Now please punish me, and quickly. >.>You're welcome at my table in Kalamazoo when I guinea pig my local players before my 4 runs of it at Gencon, or just find me at Gencon. Happy Hunting. For the record, Dan, my vote is for hard mode when we do play. Go big or go home.
Yes, this would be a huge help. I know that VCs can look up what people have played, but it's still a painstaking operation that requires looking up each person individually and making a list. I'd love for that system to be automated and open to anyone for use in planning an event.
It has nothing to do with what the Bestiary lists, it has to do with what's listed in the Additional Resources.
Honestly, I'd get rid of ability scores entirely and have all your statistics derived from your class and level. Ability scores lead to characters being too similar, ironically - every fighter ends up being strong and dumb, every wizard ends up being smart and weak, etc.That is more about how you determine scores than the actual workings of it and not all are the same, just the optimized builds on the boards here. Sure, obviously there are small variations. But if you want to play, say, a lightly armored, finesse-based fighter, you have to pay feat taxes in order to make that concept work. If you want to play a fighter who overcomes his opponents through tactics and wit (example: Sherlock Holmes in the most recent film adaptation), there's no real mechanical way to represent that. Divorcing combat effectiveness from ability scores allows you narrative control to describe your character however you want without being hampered by the numbers.
One thing that annoys me is that, by the rules, you can readily have all the materials you need to bend the fabric of reality to your very whim in an easily-replenished 5 gp spell component pouch, but if you want to do something crazy like fight with a bow, then by gods you'd better be tediously keeping track of every single arrow and rolling a percentage chance to see if they break after you use them.
Honestly, I'd get rid of ability scores entirely and have all your statistics derived from your class and level. Ability scores lead to characters being too similar, ironically - every fighter ends up being strong and dumb, every wizard ends up being smart and weak, etc.
Any comment on the Globster's stat block being incorrect? This appears to be an error in Bestiary 3, but I am not sure if the error is the Strength score or the rest of the stat block... You're probably right, either the Strength is wrong or the rest of the statblock is wrong. It should probably be errata'd one way or another in the future.
I saw a group that all had fogcutting lenses and would absolutely murder things while under cover of obscuring mist.
I was wondering about that too, and I just decided that the otyughs had been around this area long enough to adapt to dragging half of their body through the muck. It didn't really end up being an issue beyond the first round of combat, though, as both of them ended up staying pretty still. My main confusion came from the second encounter, with the two urban rangers. I wasn't entirely sure where they were supposed to be positioned, so I had them poke their heads out of the pipe while the party was examining the statue. When they wiggled out, the positioning was such that there wasn't really anything stopping them from fleeing once the gremlin started making the statue glow. Overall that whole encounter was confusing, and I don't I did a good job of conveying what was going on.
I think so there is a standard across the board ... w/out the rule you'd have people with odd numbers and such .. this way it's even ... just think if you could switch on each scenario ... oops .. i died ... guess i'll be at full progression to get the money to rez and stuff .. and oh next scenario i'll go back to half progression cause i want to play more. But you can already do that, just only for those scenarios when you're exactly at the level cutoff.
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