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In description, it does not say anything about staves being limited to the spell's class. Could a wizard use a Staff of Life (which contains Heal)? Thanks.

Thanks anyone...

I know about positive energy's new role, but how does one turn and rebuke in pathfinder? I just need a short, helpful rundown if possible. Thanks!

It looks like Pathfinder starting wealth is 880,000 gp for 20th level which is higher (it was 760,000 in 3.5). How do I get a correct starting gold number for say 22nd level?

This is not that much of a spoiler and I don't know how to do the nifty spoiler thing, so don't read on if you don't want to.

If a party is trying to be stealthy in their activities, how does one reconcile that with fame points? How does Westcrown learn so much about the party? I don't want to go into too much detail. I find this sort of mechanism in the APs a bit confining.

Detect Magic, Detect [Alignment], and so on can detect various auras that the target may have, though it takes a while to pinpoint, and by then, there may already be a knife sticking out of your throat, which is bad.

If the stealthy type is supplementing mundane stealth with illusions, then True Seeing pierces those defenses.

Mindsight, also from Lords of Madness (page 126), is not on the list of things Darkstalker protects against. It requires telepathy and automatically detects every intelligent creature within range of that telepathy. Easy ways to acquire telepathy include a Psion telepath alternate class feature at level 5 and the Mindbender PrC from Complete Arcane (never take more than one level in that class). Unfortunately, Mindblank blocks Mindsight.

The psionic power Touchsight is also not on the list of stuff Darkstalker protects against. The only real way to hide from Touchsight is through incorporeality, which is probably going to be really glowy on Detect Magic or else require the character in question to be a ghost, subject to Detect Undead.

A Psion telepath with the Telepathy ACF as a passive scan and Touchsight as an active scan, possibly paired with a source for Detect Magic and Detect Undead will pretty much be able to detect anything.

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Scent ability, and if I remember Blindsense has a way of seeing past stealth too.

Darkstalker allows stealth checks against Scent, Blindsight, Blindsense, and Tremorsense. It's a feat that was too long in coming, since there have long been way too many, "You fail, no matter how good you are," effects against stealth.

Thanks Viletta, and everyone else too for the excellent ideas! I could also assign "immunity to sneak attacks and critical hits" as a creature's ability (to an existing creature), essentially advancing it, and then adding a CR or 2. But that's cheap.

Jonathon Kruger wrote:

Todd Stewart wrote:

Define high level? :)

mid-high level: Hungry Sepulcher of Kemusar I

high level: the Pyramid of An-Hepsu XI, the Lich Pharaoh

very high level: Infinity's Doorstep within the negative energy plane

Didn't all of these things appear in books you wrote? It's fascinating how author's function.

It's what first came to mind. *blush*

22nd Level. Where can I get your work?

Running a high level game soon. Any good ideas on any previously published black tower/dark tomb settings that anybody knows about? Looking for some good CR 9 traps, or challenging environments within these two settings.

Looking for a few thoughts on some newer, more devious ways to beat the rogue who can't be seen or heard. I like things like "lifesense" and "bloodsense"...anything else that can overcome the protection of darkstalker and other magic protections?