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His stealth should be much higher than their perception. He could probably stealth away easily.

A door.

The Deck of Many Things.

Just make sure the GM is also following his own rules for the NPCs/bad guys.

Orcus is a god. Gods don't have stats in Pathfinder. Going by 3E rules, Orcus' AC should have been 70-80+. Your attack was probably 40-50+? How did anyone in the party actually hit him?

I think the best trio of characters are the one where the players are laughing and having a good time.

Can the paladin still cast spells? If so, no fall.

Does not look like it's written in Common. Probably Infernal. You'd have to find a source to see what it actually says because most of us can't read Infernal.

I've run it with three before. I just make an NPC to go along with them. It's easier than changing the entire AP.

If you enjoy the game your way, you are playing correctly, and I have no right to question you.

This is the most correct answer to any question you have about anything in Pathfinder.

I once asked a paladin to buy me a jar of elbow grease. He went to the store and came back angry. He totally fell for it.

Each round after the first you may use a standard action (concentrating on the spell) to call a bolt.

As sited multiple times, concentration is called out specifically in the spell.

DHAnubis wrote:

I think we all know what a Paladin's favorite season is.

Autumn?

Depends what the paladin's deity is. I think most are spring.

If it's not too far away, you all should go see him and have a game there. It should not only make him feel better, but also change his attitude towards the game. If you show him you really care, he might just start caring back.

Aroden is dead

I heard from a semi-reliable source that Aroden is really dead.

There is no other reason for the spell text to indicate "concentrating on the spell" if it does not intend you to use the concentration rules, and simply a poor choice of language if it's flavor text.

Sorry, missed that part. You are only concentrating on the spell during the initial casting and if you are using a standard action to call down a bolt. Normal concentration rules apply.

The original question is do you loose the whole spell or just one bolt. I think the RAW indicates that you loose the spell, but that doesn't make much sense since the spell has already been successfully cast. I would say that you loose that bolt.

You are not concentrating to maintain or call down a bolt. Concentration rules do not apply.

Tell him if he wants a healbot, play one himself.

Two words: action economy. She gets one turn, the PCs get 5.

They are both gained from Locke.

So, which is it?

Why does it matter? What are you trying to do?

I'm not really seeing a question here. I've played a swashbuckler and a duelist. The swashbuckler does it better.

Let's just look at two fairly common CR 6 monsters, the will-o'-wisp and a very young red dragon, compared to the 'average' from the table.

Will-o'-Wisp: AC 26/26/16, HP 40, Saves +3/+12/+9, natural invisibility, immune to magic
Red dragon: AC 18/11/17, HP 59, Saves +7/+6/+8, immune to acid, paralysis, sleep
Average: AC 19, HP 70, Saves +9 good/+5 bad

The WoW is on average 40% harder to hit, but has 68% the HP over the dragon. The dragon has lower AC, HP, and saves, but is immune to three things. The WoW has higher AC and saves, but much lower HP and is invisible and immune to magic.

Monster design is a delicate dance between offence and defense that also should take into account what the PCs should have as far as gear and magic at that level.

This evolution can be applied to any number of limbs (arms) evolutions, but no more than one limbs (legs) evolution.

So you can have claws on all your arms, but only one pair of legs by this wording.

Just for area comparison, the entire Shackles is about the size of Hispaniola.

3646) From CRB under grapple: "Move: You can move both yourself and your target up to half your speed. At the end of your movement, you can place your target in any square adjacent to you. If you attempt to place your foe in a hazardous location, such as in a wall of fire or over a pit, the target receives a free attempt to break your grapple with a +4 bonus."

3647) From CRB under swift action: You can perform only a single swift action per turn.

I think in the S&S book, you can hire crew for free with a diplomacy, bluff, or intimidate check. You only have to pay them 1 plunder (~1000 gp) when you pull into port. My group is at the same story point as yours and they have three other ships at Tidewater Rock. I give them 1d4 plunder per week per ship.

You should definitely check out the Kineticist from the upcoming Occult Adventures. Can't really help you with magus though.

What level are you? Is a 4th level NPC really going to help you? Remember that if you bring them into battle, it's fair game for the GM to target them and probably instantly kill them with a CR appropriate for you encounter.
That being said, pirates are usually warriors, experts, fighters, rogues, or rangers. Probably throw in an adept/cleric and adept/wizard for healing and crafting. You only need 20 to crew the average ship. With your 30+ people, it's going to be very crowded (or get two ships).

Building a basic cargo ship costs 10,000 gp. I believe having a 17th level wizard cast permanency and teleportation circle would be 25,880 or so. So both are reasonable for an adventuring party or large town. The problem lies in finding a 17th level wizard.

I once rolled that I seduced a child. I don't use that generator anymore.

Pathfinder should not be GM vs PC. Have you tried talking to your GM about what happened and find out why it happened?

Trox? Please...

One counts down while the other counts up. They definitely interact with each other, but 10 lethal plus 10 nonlethal does not equal 20 damage. Consider if a target takes 10 lethal plus 10 nonlethal and gets healed for 10 damage. Healing also heals an equal amount of nonlethal damage, so they actually heal all the damage they have taken in that instance.

Douglas Muir 406 wrote:

Since lethal and nonlethal damage don't stack

Why don't they stack? Have I been reading something wrong? :/

They don't "stack". They are separate.

Do not deduct the nonlethal damage number from your current hit points. It is not “real” damage. Instead, when your nonlethal damage equals your current hit points, you're staggered, and when it exceeds your current hit points, you fall unconscious.

Merciful weapons.
Unarmed strikes can be nonlethal with no penalty.
Grappling can do nonlethal and has some feats that help.
Some controller spells would help too. Things like sleep.

My understanding is that it's the enhancement bonus only that determines the DR that gets bypassed.

Then why does it say "Weapon Enhancement Bonus Equivalent"?

Also remember that some weapon enhancement bonus equivalents also bypass certain types of DR.
A +3 equivalent will bypass cold iron and silver
A +4 equivalent will bypass adamantine (but not hardness)
A +5 equivalent will bypass alignment-based (law, good, ect.)

So if i have a +1 wounding longsword, it would bypass magic (+1), slashing (longsword), and cold iron and silver (+3 total bonus).

If I add a 2nd level Lesser Restoration, that changes the recharge to needing a 2nd level slot, which I don't have. If I get the Paladin version, it is 1st level, so does not change the stave's recharge level.

Oh, you want to add the paladin spell to the staff. I misunderstood. In that case:

The multiple similar abilities rule is specifically for items that don't use a magic item slot (such as staves), and can't be used for items that do use a magic item slot. The existing staves all use this rule for pricing the cost of their spells. When adding abilities to these items, remember that they're priced with the highest-level spell at 100% of the normal cost, the next-highest at 75%, and all others at 50%, which means that adding a new spell that's between the lowest and highest spell level can alter the cost of the other abilities in the item. Increasing the number of charges required for an ability also affects the cost of that ability (see Creating Staves). Because staff pricing is so complex, a GM might want to forbid adding new abilities to staves, or limit new abilities to the lowest-level spell already present in the item.

The materials cost is subsumed in the cost of creation: 400 gp × the level of the highest-level spell × the level of the caster, plus 75% of the value of the next most costly ability (300 gp × the level of the spell × the level of the caster), plus 1/2 the value of any other abilities (200 gp × the level of the spell × the level of the caster). Staves are always fully charged (10 charges) when created.

You'd also need an 11th level paladin with the craft staff feat.

As to cheese, I do have a reason: I want to put this into a staff I already have. However, I can only cast 1st level spells. This means I cannot refill a 2nd level staff.

Um, not unless your GM houserules it.

Staves hold a maximum of 10 charges. Each spell cast from a staff consumes one or more charges. When a staff runs out of charges, it cannot be used until it is recharged. Each morning, when a spellcaster prepares spells or regains spell slots, he can also imbue one staff with a portion of his power so long as one or more of the spells cast by the staff is on his spell list and he is capable of casting at least one of the spells. Imbuing a staff with this power restores one charge to the staff, but the caster must forgo one prepared spell or spell slot of a level equal to the highest-level spell cast by the staff. For example, a 9th-level wizard with a staff of fire could imbue the staff with one charge per day by using up one of his 4th-level spells. A staff cannot gain more than one charge per day and a caster cannot imbue more than one staff per day.

The charge has to come form the spellcaster, not a wand.

You could try the NPC Codex or post in the S&S forum.

The timing is because it is expected of the PC to make friends and swing the other crew to their side. If you are really finding it boring, just ask if you can skip ahead to the next day that something happens.

Yes, the pace does pick up.

If you're looking for heavy armor, this is not the campaign for you. Light armor and even medium armor is popular with pirates. If you're looking for something more, ask the GM if you can buy what you want from the armory.

A character that can automatically confirm critical hits crits with a vorpol weapon and Lucifer misses his fortification chance.

Also from diabolist : "This does not stack with class levels that grant an animal companion."
So one level of diabolist would give you a 1st level imp companion that does not count as an animal companion or familiar.

Mage's Magnificent Mansion = giant impenetrable vault.

They'll level up slower if you don't give them more to fight or more quests.. When they should be seven, they'll actually be four. They'll finish the campaign around 9 if you don't up the XP. Remember to add 1 to the APL because you have more than 6 PCs.

Yes.

This is from the Vermin Companion section of UM:

Mindless: Vermin companions have no Intelligence score and possess the mindless trait. In spite of this, vermin companions may learn one trick, plus additional bonus tricks as noted on Table: Animal Companion Base Statistics. If a vermin animal companion gains an ability score increase (at 4 Hit Dice, 8 Hit Dice, and so on), the druid can apply this increase to the companion's Intelligence, changing it from — to 1, at which point the companion loses the mindless quality and is able to know up to 3 tricks per point of Intelligence, plus the additional bonus tricks, as per Handle Animal. Vermin companions have no skill points or feats as long as they have the mindless quality.

Interesting question because swashbucklers are only proficient with bucklers and cannot use precise strike while using a shield other than a buckler.

This is so easy.

1. Take his character sheet.
2. Make a copy of it.
3. Write 'with a goatee' on the copy.

If I am correct about the spell:

Nawtyit is correct. Yeah, the Halfling should not have been engaged at all when Compassionate Ally was cast, let alone killed. GM messed up here.

If I am incorrect about the spell:

A Giant Dire Leech is something addressed by the core rules and they do not do 1d8+2 CON damage immediately - they would do 1 point of strength damage and 1 point of con damage at the end of a round of attachment.

Either way, beer, and they are still alive.