5 foot steps can't be taken in difficult terrain, so you can't use Step Up (Misc actions rules for 5 foot steps). The Following Step feat lets you move 10 feet, so it seems like you could use it to move 5 feet in difficult terrain. Though a strict following of the rules would still let you not do so since it is considered a "5 foot step", depends on your GM. Normally when your movement is hampered, by wearing heavy armor, or a heavy load, you can still take 5 foot steps, so they should work fine. Unless your movement is so hampered you can only move 5 feet a round, then you're really screwed.
The Wizard does not fall unconscious. The poison happened first, so the Fatigue penalty is applied to his current stat score which is 2. Since Fatigue is a penalty, it can not lower his stat to less than 1.
The answer is in the rules you linked, "While in effect, these penalties function just like ability damage, but they cannot cause you to fall unconscious or die. In essence, penalties cannot decrease your ability score to less than 1."
He now has a Strength of 1. He is most likely Heavily Encumbered now, so he can have fun dealing with that too. Depending on what he is wearing, he might not be able to move more than 5 feet a round. If he has a backpack I'm guessing it's over 10 pounds, which is now his max load. You can lift double your max load off the ground, but can only move 5 feet a round as a full round action.
Nope, there's no real change in damage done, unless you were planning on adding new things that affect bite attacks. I don't know what sort of balance issue you were worried about that could happen. Were you going to also make them fast zombies that dual wield swords or something?
I would let them stack, I think people are getting too hung up over the feat.
The feat sets a restriction for how much it can add to your sneak attack, not how high your sneak attack can advance thru other means. It wants you to know that if you keep taking the feat, it can only go so high.
The Rogue Sneak Attack ability description has no such restrictive language, only the feat does. Other classes that get Sneak attack, such as the Slayer, Ninja, Vigilante, also don't say anything about how much sneak attack dice you can have. There's no rule ANYWHERE else that puts a cap on Sneak attack dice, you would have to know about this one specific feat to have any idea about a cap at all.
If a Rogue didn't take the feat at all, and had Sense Vitals cast on them, why would anyone then say it wouldn't work? Nothing in the Rogue class says so, and the spell says it stacks.
You could have the newest editions and errata of the Core Rulebook, Advanced Players Guide, Ultimate Combat, Ultimate Magic, Ultimate Intrigue, Advanced Class Guide, Ultimate Wilderness, Pathfinder Unchained, Advanced Race Guide, and NONE of these books says anything about Sneak Attack being limited to half your level.
But then some feat appears in a book and now there's a restriction that didn't exist before, but doesn't ever get put into a new errata to change how it worked before that. I wouldn't bother putting in that restriction now, especially since it's just from one feat.
The reference to double weapons makes me.think this refers to primary and offhand manufactured weapons, but I am unsure. What is the source of this feat? I'm having trouble finding it.
Oops I got it from the d20pfsrd, it's actually a 3rd party feat.
Whoa Whoa Whoa, imagine if Michael Bay got to do a Star Wars movie...
EXPLOSIONS! SLOW MOTION SHOOTING IN MID AIR! MOAR EXPLOSIONS! LIGHTSABERS AND MOAR EXPLOSIONS! X-WINGS AND TIE FIGHTERS EXPLODING!
I'm not going to lie, I'd totally see that. Disney doesn't know what they're missing. Just imagine what characters like Boba Fett and Jedi lightsaber fights would be like in the hands of Michael Bay. The Last Jedi wants us to forget the past. Who better to make Star Wars go in a completely different direction than Michael Bay? Give him a stand alone story and let the mayhem commence.
I do not believe that's the case. And I actively hate this sentiment.
Enjoyment of art is subjective on some level. I really don't get the mona lisa. I really do like charmer of serpents. But on some level the mona lisa is fundamentally better than this stick figure penguin porg
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But throwing paint through an engine or a blank canvas or a dot on a page is not art. Pretending it is, pretending it's profound, is silly and pretentious.
Art is subjective on pretty much all levels. That you find paint sprayed through an engine to not be art while others do just underlines that fact. Art, as I see it, is fundamentally having the chutzpah to do something and present it as art whether it's a portrait of a model as with the Mona Lisa, something more abstract like a Jackson Pollock, an experimental form of composition like blowing paint through an engine, or a single point of color on an otherwise white canvas. In all cases, it's an artist putting ideas out there for others to view, consider, and ponder over.
You're free to set your own limits, but you don't get to tell other people what is and isn't art without the rest of us telling you you're full of BS.
So you're saying that if Paizo had an art contest, they can't be critical of what is submitted? They can't say what is better art compared to bad art? Big Norse Wolf could submit a stick figure drawing of a fighter. Then Wayne Reynolds submitted his drawing of a fighter. If they criticize Big Norse Wolf's stick figure as bad, they're the ones that are full of BS? Paizo can't say that Wayne Reynolds did great while Wolf's drawing sucked, and pick Wayne as the winner, because "art is subjective on pretty much all levels"? Seriously? What if Paizo went with Big Norse Wolf's stick figure, and made him do all the art for the next 3 books. If the fans criticized that choice, we're wrong for not liking stick figure art compared to Wayne Reynolds?
Luke's arc was truly terrible. This tag is part of my original post from page 11 for those newer posters to this thread.
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The movie should have been called, "The character assassination of Luke Skywalker". In an interview Mark Hamill said he told the director he disagreed with almost every choice in the script. Someone making the movie should have paid attention to that. Luke didn't have to be in this movie at all, the character he is in this movie has no resemblance other than physical to Luke Skywalker. No one, especially Mark Hamill, would ever have predicted that Luke would turn into the biggest chicken s~~~ in the entire galaxy. He runs away from his problems and hides, waiting to die. He doesn't even try to talk to or confront Kylo after his school is destroyed. He lets his guilt and fear control all of his actions, and his entire life for a decade. How does that sound like a Jedi thing to do? He doesn't even attempt to turn Kylo away from the dark side once he knows that Kylo is obviously following Vader's path. Luke never gave up on Vader being able to turn away from the Dark even though everyone that knew Vader, like Yoda and Obiwan, told him it was too late. Luke always believed even someone as terrible as Vader could be redeemed. He gives up on Kylo immediately though. How does that make sense? Not only does he give up on Kylo immediately, but also all the other students that left with Kylo. A whole group of people using the Dark side, running around the galaxy, and Luke runs away in fear. Maybe I could have forgiven that, if only Luke changed when Rey got to him. He finds out Kylo killed Han, and he barely seems to care. He doesn't care enough to really train Rey, 5 minutes with Yoda would have taught Rey more than what Luke taught her. He doesn't care enough to go back with Rey and try to stop Kylo. Leia is probably next on the Empires' list but Luke doesn't care enough to try and help his sister. How is that Luke Skywalker? They have a chance to make him do something truly epic and memorable when he confronts Kylo, but nope, can't have Luke be awesome at any point. He has to be a pathetic shell of a man. He could have had a spectacular fight with Kylo that we could have remembered for decades, showing us how he has grew in the Force over the years, but no, just a lame trick. I would have preferred if Kylo still won, but at least show us something of worth. Luke's death scene after an epic battle where he's using his father's lightsaber, and being killed by his own family, give us something to remember other than a cheap trick.
People need to stop claiming this fan fiction about there might have been spies on the ships so Holdo couldn't tell Poe or the fleet her plan. Nothing in the movie supports this at all. Provide us with one example from anyone or anything in the movie, I dare you. No one tries to do anything about possible spies either. If there were spies, when Holdo finally does tell her plan and people get onto transports, the spies could just radio the First Order the plan anyway. Holdo not telling Poe and others was just stupid.
I'm also with Big Norse Wolf on the whole Poe sacrificing the bombers wasn't a bad thing, despite what the movie tries to claim. Imagine he follows orders and calls off the bombers, they would then jump into hyperspace to run. The First Order just follows them. Now what happens? If they follow the movie story they keep going until their ships run out of gas and the First Order kills them all anyway, but now with their big bad ship still intact. Unless of course the bombers go on a suicide mission to destroy that Dreadnought now that running isn't an option, like Poe wanted them to, either way they still all die. So how bad was Poe's decision really?
It's too bad they didn't know that all it takes is one bomber to do a hyperspace jump into the Dreadnought. Knowing is half the battle I hear.
The most disappointing Star Wars since the Phantom Menace. There are so many instances of bad writing/stupidity in this movie it's hard to know where to start. This is going to take awhile...
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I'll start with some of the basic, logical aspects of stupidity and bad writing. At the start of the movie, they have bombers which have to drop their payloads straight down like it's 1942. Dropping things into space and having them fall down... riiiighhhhtt... I guess targeting computers no longer exist? Bombing ships that can't drop their payloads with a button from the cockpit, more 1942 technology. They have intelligent droids that can fix/pilot ships, but missile guidance technology is beyond them somehow. Speaking of piloting ships, why does an Admiral have to stay behind to pilot a ship straight? No droids for that? Auto pilot doesn't exist somehow? In a world with Hyper Drive, Death Stars, and droid armies, no auto pilot on large, expensive ships? How about Admiral Ackbar go down with the ship, instead of this brand new, meaningless character?
The Vice Admiral not telling Poe or anyone important the plan, makes sense how? She herself knows he tends to not follow orders, so when everyone is on the verge of dying, instead of telling him the plan, she just orders him to do nothing but wait while people are dying on other ships. Why would anyone expect him to do just that? Someone mentioned maybe she was worried about spies. Nothing in the movie suggests that at all. Even if there were spies, no one tries to do anything about it. When she evacuates the ship everyone gets told what the plan is. If there were spies, they could have just told the Empire right then anyway, nothing would have changed.
The movie should have been called, "The character assassination of Luke Skywalker". In an interview Mark Hamill said he told the director he disagreed with almost every choice in the script. Someone making the movie should have paid attention to that. Luke didn't have to be in this movie at all, the character he is in this movie has no resemblance other than physical to Luke Skywalker. No one, especially Mark Hamill, would ever have predicted that Luke would turn into the biggest chicken s~~& in the entire galaxy. He runs away from his problems and hides, waiting to die. He doesn't even try to talk to or confront Kylo after his school is destroyed. He let's his guilt and fear control all of his actions, and his entire life for decades. How does that sound like a Jedi thing to do? He doesn't even attempt to turn Kylo away from the dark side once he knows that Kylo is obviously following Vader's path. Luke never gave up on Vader being able to turn away from the Dark even though everyone that knew Vader, like Yoda and Obiwan, told him it was too late. Luke always believed even someone as terrible as Vader could be redeemed. He gives up on Kylo immediately though. How does that make sense? Not only does he give up on Kylo immediately, but also all the other students that left with Kylo. A whole group of people using the Dark side, running around the galaxy, and Luke runs away in fear. Maybe I could have forgiven that, if only Luke changed when Rey got to him. He finds out Kylo killed Han, and he barely seems to care. He doesn't care enough to really train Rey, 5 minutes with Yoda would have taught Rey more than what Luke taught her. He doesn't care enough to go back with Rey and try to stop Kylo. Leia is probably next on the Empires' list but Luke doesn't care enough to try and help his sister. How is that Luke Skywalker? They have a chance to make him do something truly epic and memorable when he confronts Kylo, but nope, can't have Luke be awesome at any point. He has to be a pathetic shell of a man. He could have had a spectacular fight with Kylo that we could have remembered for decades, showing us how he has grew in the Force over the years, but no, just a lame trick. I would have preferred if Kylo still won, but at least show us something of worth. Luke's death scene after an epic battle where he's using his father's lightsaber, and being killed by his own family, give us something to remember other than a cheap trick.
This is the 2nd movie in a trilogy, and it builds on almost nothing from the first movie. The many unanswered questions from the first one are nearly completely ignored. Who is Snoke? Doesn't matter he's gone. Knights of Ren? Doesn't matter they're mentioned only in passing. Phasma has a 30 second fight scene, whoop de friggin doo.
They cast Briene of Tarth for one 30 second scene. They could have just put a stunt man in a suit and had her voice over it. General Hux is even more of a joke in this one. Poe and Finn seemed good together, but let's separate them for the whole movie and make some new person go on a mission with Finn instead. A mission that accomplishes nothing, leads nowhere, and wastes 30 minutes. Rey was the main character, but not anymore, it's all Kylo Ren now. Rey is barely any better off for making the trip to see Luke, she's almost exactly the same as she was at the end of Force Awakens. She could have died and the story would barely have changed any. Kylo didn't need her to kill Snoke, and nothing important to the main story happened on the island. Chewie could have just went there and gotten as much out of Luke. We saw Kylo stop a blaster bolt in mid air and paralyze people, how about we get to see more Force abilities we've never seen before? Nah, can't have our Force users doing anything impressive. He's in one fight scene the entire movie, and we can't see him use the Force at all in that scene too.
The Force Awakens had to set the stage for the trilogy and give us some mystery, that's what first movies do. The next movie is supposed to expand on the first, that's how sequels work. Not toss it aside and tell us to get over it. This isn't a stand alone Star Wars adventure. I could accept that Force Awakens got too caught up in nostalgia and was too derivative, but it was meant to clean our palate after the Phantom Menace trilogy and remind of us how Star Wars felt before. This movie made a left turn just for the sake of being different. Don't try to tell me it didn't want to follow the old Star Wars plot lines when it basically took us back to Hoth for it's climax.
There's more but I'm going to stop. Wasted opportunities and lack of anything memorable sums it up in general. I'll just ignore flying Leia, Rey and Kylo's Force skype calls across the galaxy, Finn almost making a meaningful and dramatic sacrifice only to be saved, ugh. This is a long enough post, I apologize if it was too much and hard to get thru.
I liked the Force Awakens and Rogue One. They weren't perfect but I can watch them more than once without problems. This one I don't want to see again.
