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Do I have it right that Alchemical Ordnance ONLY counts as bombs for discoveries, but not for spells, traits, alternate favored class bonuses etc.? I at least haven't found anything in its decription that would suggest otherwise, though it seems that most threads about the class that I found online assume they count as bombs for everything (as things like tiefling AFCB or the focused burn trait are often suggested/part of example builds).

It seems the Moon Patron (which the Winter Witch is called out as being able to take) does grant Meteor Swarm, a [Fire] spell, which a Winter Witch is not allowed to learn or cast.
How should this be handled?

I know the Vengeance Patron was already removed from the Winter Witch Archetype for the same reason, should this be handled the same way?
If yes, then the number of Patrons available slowly gets quite low.

So, mythic weapon finesse lets you add Dex instead of Str to Damage, but it also says this:

If you carry a shield, its armor
check penalty doesn’t apply to either the attack rolls or the
damage rolls.

Did I miss something? Why should the shields armor check penalty apply to attack or damage roll in the first place?

As far as I know, Armor check penalty should only apply to Str- and Dex- based skills, but not to attack or damage rolls.

Is the champion path ability Aerial Assault from Mythic Adventures supposed to override the limitation of jump distance by the maximum movement allowed in a charge?

It doesn't seem to state that it does, but if it doesn't then the value of the ability is seriously limited for everyone with normal move speed/not using haste.
Which is fine (haste/other speed increases are not that hard to come by after all), I'm just not sure if it is intended this way or if I missed something.

No jump can allow you to exceed your maximum movement for the round.

Aerial Assault (Su): You can charge at creatures in the

air, or leap across obstacles as part of a charge. When
making a charge attack, you can expend one use of
mythic power to include a single Acrobatics check made to
jump, adding 10 feet per tier to the height or distance you
jump. You take no falling damage from the height gained
as part of this leap. If your attack hits, you may deal an
amount of additional damage equal to the falling damage
appropriate for the height you reached. Alternatively, you
may replace your melee attack from this charge with a
grapple check. If you successfully grapple a creature, you
bring it to the ground with you at the end of your jump,
and it takes an appropriate amount of falling damage for
the height it was at when you grappled it.

Is it just me or does this ability make you practically untouchable if optimized? Please tell me I misunderstand something.

This grants its bonded user the ability to become utterly undetectable while invisible. While invisible and in physical contact with this item, the bonded creature can't be detected by any method.

So, if you are invisible, no one can see you. Period.

That, combined with improved invisibility and clever movement, and you are pretty much untouchable in combat already.

But at least someone could "scry and die" you while you don't have invis up, right? Everyone does run out of invis uses at some point.
Well, in theory yes.

But remember that there is the nice little item "Ring of Invisibility", which lets you cast a 3 min invis at will. So, combined with a method to keep you from sleeping, you are now for all intents and purposes unstoppable.

At 11th level, a myrmidarch using a multiple-target spell with this ability may deliver one ray or line of effect with each attack when using a full-attack action, up to the maximum allowed by the spell (in the case of ray effects). Any effects not used in the round the spell is cast are lost.

I'm not sure how to understand the interaction between the spell and the full attack.

a) That the spell is cast as part of the full-attack action, adding its effect to a number of attacks (up to the limit of the spell) and resolving the rest as normal.

b)That the spell is cast as part of the full-attack action, adding its effect to a number of attacks (up to the limit of the spell) and forfeiting the rest.

c)Keeping the spell casting as a different action altogether, with the option to add the effects to some attacks of any full-attack action this round instead of instantly resolving them as rays/lines of effect.

While I would (from an outside context) say a) (or maybe b)) was the most likely intent, in my eyes the written text points to c), meaning it can only ever be used with quickened spells or very weird combinations (note that the last line also invalidates casting the spell in an earlier round).
Or am I missing something obvious here?

I recently found the FAQ that Spellcombat is no Full Attack Action and thus does not grant Haste. But this argumentation leads me to the question: Does it, as written, even grant iteratives?

As a full-round action, he can make all of his attacks with his melee weapon at a –2 penalty

So, what are "all his attacks"? One would think, that would be the iteratives, but wait:

When a creature's base attack bonus reaches +6, +11, or +16, he receives an additional attack in combat when he takes a full-attack action.

So, when using a full-attack action one receives additional attacks for high BAB.

On the other hand, if one would say Spellcombat implies to receive those "Full-attack action attacks", then the same would be true for the Haste Attack, as like high BAB, Haste grants more attacks on a Full Attack Action, noting more, nothing less.

As I see it, the FAQ as it stands right now means either:

A normal character only ever gains one attack (+ the spell) when using Spellcombat. (probably the strictest RAW)

The argumentation in the FAQ does not prevent Haste from being used, meaning it is more of an Errata, not an FAQ, as it deliberately changes the rules. Also, it not being a full attack doesn't mean anything in that case, it is more an arbitrary ruling.

After our cleric had to drop because of time constraints we are right now down to 4 players and I would like to take on another player.
Note: This is not a dead or dying game, we would also go on with 4 if no replacement if found, but 5 is more comfortable.

The group is level 3 right now, so please build your application accordingly (you will be about 1 level higher than what the campaign expects for most of the time, encounters are adjusted).

Here the original BIG 16:

For years the trade routes around Sandport were calm and mostly safe, even the old “goblin bounty" was discontinued. But now a group of goblins seems to have gotten their hands on firework and started to raid caravans again, disrupting trade and travel. Fearing that they'll spark a new wave of monster activity Sheriff Hemlock renewed the bounty, pledging 10 gold coins per goblins ear and an additional 700 for the eradication of this particular tribe. Determined to ensure the safety of the town and convinced the money best goes to you, you met up with some old friends and likeminded strangers at the Rusty Dragon tavern to plan your foray into the marsh.

You heared that a group of old friends and likeminded strangers wants to team up in Ameikos tavern to end the threat once and for all and save the nice sum of money for themself.

So, welcome to the game.

Should you have any questions, ask.
If you still want to change something on your character, until the group leaves the tavern just do it.

Posting Etiquette:
- Please choose a visible, easy to read color, to mark your characters Speech.
- When in combat, please carefully spell out what you're doing in OOC terms in a spoiler/ooc tag at the bottom of your post.
- Please be pro-active in your IC posts, give me actions and ques to respond to. If it sounds like your character is just standing around, I don't have much to work with.
- Feel free to make use of If/Then statements with your post to speed things up. For example, if you make a post that says "Ragnor searches the area for traps", with the intention that you'll continue into the next room if it's safe, write, "Ragnor searches the area for traps, then proceeds into the next room if it looks safe."
-It would be nice if each of you decides on one of the other players a "puppeter" who can post for you if you don't manage to do it for some time. Alternatively I can do that (which in my eyes always is kinda cheap) or your character just goes into "ghost mode" until you return.
-In combat just post when you can. While I'll adhere to initiative when it matters, usually waving it saves a lot of time.

For now just try to get to know each other in a small prelude in the tavern.

Oh, and please write me which kind of Relationship, if any, you have to the different NPC's.

For years the trade routes around Sandport were calm and mostly safe, even the old “goblin bounty" was discontinued. But now a group of goblins seems to have gotten their hands on firework and started to raid caravans again, disrupting trade and travel. Fearing that they'll spark a new wave of monster activity Sheriff Hemlock renewed the bounty, pledging 10 gold coins per goblins ear and an additional 500 for the eradication of this particular tribe. Determined to ensure the safety of the town and convinced the money best goes to you, you met up with some friends at the Rusty Dragon tavern to plan your foray into the marsh.

After my Carrion Crown sadly died a slow death I admittedly might not be completely faultless in, I and the remaining two players decided to start anew instead of trying to reanimate the dead.
As they'll have first dip on playing I'm right now looking for about 3 new player to join in on the Jade Regent adventure path. While I don't know yet what they want to play feel free to apply as anything. With all in all 5 players there is enough space to have a role double.

You all have come to the small town of Ravengro following an invitation to attend the burial of Professor Lorrimor. Over the last few hours everyone of you arrived sound and safe and were greeted by the Professor's daughter, Kenda Lorrimor, a young woman whom her fathers death has hit quite hard. She wasn't very talkative since you arrived, fulfilling her duties as hostess with somber reticence.
While you could get rid of your backpack and may even got the time to refresh yourself a bit you couldn't change into more suitable clothing before it was time for the burial and thus just put a dark mourning robe over your equipment.

It's late afternoon when Kendra leads you to the gates of the restlands.
Here a small crowd of five has gathered around her fathers closed coffin.
You see a slightly chubby man with a boy who seems to be not quite in his pre-teens anymore and who, although quite athletic already looks as if he may become as chubby as his father once he gets to his age.
Next to them stand two slightly older men of roughly the same age and judging by their clothing the same high social rank, but still different in many ways.
While one has the typical look of an retired soldier who with age exchanged his training at arms for one at the dinner table and thus is almost the weight of the chubby man but still keeps an aura of authority, the other is quite lean and seems more like a rascal who was put into fine clothes long ago and then never bothered to change back, having grown comfortable with the finer raiment.
The last member of the group, a woman of around 40 who seems to lack eyebrows and has slightly charred hair, but otherwise looks quite unremarkable, steps towards Kendra once you arrive and tells her that Father Grimburrow, the local Priest, already went ahead to make last preparations on the grave and awaits everyone there.
Kendra then turns to you. Although she looks very composed you can see that it takes her quite a bit of willpower to stay that way.

"So here we are and all is ready to go. As I already told you we'll now form a procession and carry my father's coffin to the prepared grave, where the priest will perform the traditional burial rites and everyone will be able to speak some words for him. If there are any questions left, just ask. Otherwise I would ask the volunteered pallbearers to take the coffin and lead on, just follow the main path until we reach Father Grimburrow." Having spoken without a break, she now takes a deep breath and then adds in a somewhat lower voice "Please be careful, the coffin is quite heavy." before her voice dies away.

So this is the discussion thread.

Once everyone has finished the fine tuning of their characters (a few players have PM's regarding that, while I didn't check every number I have found a few errors/have a few questions) and checked in I'll get the gameplay thread up.

Just as information, most of this will be in the gameplay thread again:

You all have come to the small town of Ravengro following an invitation to attend the burial of Professor Lorrimor. Over the last few hours everyone of you arrived sound and safe and were greated by the Professor's daughter, Kenda Lorrimor. While you had time to get rid of your backpack and may even got the time to refresh yourself a bit you couldn't change into more suitable clothing and thus now stand at the entrance of the Ravengro restlands mostly as you arrived, just having put a dark mourning robe over your equipment.

4 to 6 of you were chosen or volunteered as pallbearers and now stand ready to carry the Professor to his final resting place.

It would be nice if we could decide on the pallbearers already here.

If there are any other questions, feel free to ask.

Since it seems that no PbP Game I get into either on this or another forum lasts for very long I have now decided to try GM one for once and choose Carrion Crown for it.

First some words of warning: Since this is my first try at GM'ing a PbP (I did GM quite a few normal games) and because English is not my native language I can't guarantee that everything I do as a GM is done "right" by the standards of this forum.

I'm looking for 4 to 6 characters (considering the usual loss in PbP I may increase that number if there are enough fitting applicants) and recruitment will be open as long as it takes (at least until Monday 7 pm GMT+1, but I expect something like Wednesday).

Everyone should read the Carrion Crown players guide and since at the start you are invited to the professors burial and even named in his will your characters need a connection to him.

Character Creation Rules:
- 20 point buy
- maximum starting gold for your class
- 2 traits (one campaign trait would be nice, but is in no way required)
- all paizo material is open (besides leadership), 3rd party up to approval
- generally I'm open for all alignments, but your character has to work in a party
- nothing to exotic please, it's unlikely that I'll allow more than one or two non standard race characters

For combat I plan to use a mix of descriptions and maps. Everyone will act on their own initiative, but you can post your action when you have got the time, and after 24 hours (or when everyone has posted) the actions resolve. Should an action become useless or impossible to perform it will either be adjusted if an obvious option presents itself ("I attack skeleton 1" but Skeleton 1 dies => "I attack Skeleton 2 which stand directly next to Skeleton 1") or I'll give you 16 hours to change it (during the "posting phase" you can also change your actions should it become apparent that it will be useless).

I'll also add a few houserules in campaign info.