Oh what's normal procedure for pbp hero points btw? Seems like you start with 1, is there a relatively normal rate at getting them past that or is it just when you do cool things?
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Oh I been meaning to ask, am I ever meant to despoiler the gm screen bit? Keep noticing that.
Ah, thank you, I was wondering what the filled vs white was. And gotcha, I'll use the ooc stuff for action declaration.
All goes well I should have everything filled out tonight, I'm drafting backstory now. The partying here has kept me busier than I thought it would, but today's thankfully a bit slower paced. I look forward to playing with you lot!
I don't plan on eating any rares unless I find some item or spell that seems really interesting to me down the line, and I don't think anything like that would be super key to what I want to do, so I don't mind yall takin em.
Sorry for the radio silence, I had a long flight and getting around was a lot more messy than I was hoping for. I'd like to take close ties for my background, so if you have ideas for what NPCs you'd like for that to be with, I'd like to hash that out with you - I've got a few I could go between if you don't have anything in particular in mind. As for the starting things, if I may be allowed to take the repeat, I have preference for also getting a cold iron chunk for needle darts purposes, but otherwise I don't mind too much. Otherwise, I've got the character tentatively planned out to level 10 here barring spell choices, which I've only done for level 1. Once I finalize things for backstory, I'll fill that out both in pathbuilder and make a character sheet proper on my profile, I've got to read through some of the pbp guides again for formatting but I don't imagine that'll be too bad.
Your link for Cathartic Mage (Fear) is not working properly. Ah, copied it wrong. Should be fixed now
Yeah, sounds like the sorc would work out pretty well then. The core concept of the build is using an amusing interaction to (occasionally) temporarily become a massive glass cannon - that being Dragon's Presence and Cathartic Mage(Fear). Dragon's Presence also combos nicely with the blood magic benefit of elemental sorc to let me drop some big demoralizes.
Hey all, late #5 here. I'm pretty flexible on what I end up playing - seems like there'd be pretty considerable overlap with any of my initial choices, and I fear none of them were planned around int, though my sorcerer could cast heal plenty. I was angling for metal elemental, so I'd have the primal list. 3 charisma characters may be a bit ridiculous, but it really is just a very useful stat. I don't mind going back to the drawing board if we're uncomfortable with that gap though. As for what's more important to me, I must admit I'm a bit crunch brained. My first GMs were all wargamers and I never quite grew out of that. Otherwise, especially with how much some of my friends have hyped up the module, I'd say I'm pretty interested in the overarching story and the NPCs, who I've been told are really well done in this.
Hey, I was searching through AoN recently, and came across something very strange. Automaton's reinforced chassis feat, which looks like most free medium armor feats to me, had the following note: "PFS Note An automaton character with the Reinforced Chassis feat uses their unarmored proficiency." This seems extremely strong to me, and I was unable to find anything in the FAQ on the matter; is this actually the case? I'd love to play a strength monk that basically gets half plate at level 10 but it very much feels like this is under the "too good to be true" category. here's the link to the feat on AoN so you can look for yourselves: https://2e.aonprd.com/Feats.aspx?ID=3095
I've heard this is among the best APs ever released, I'd definitely be interested. I will say this would be my first time doing PBP on the forums properly, but I've done text based stuff on discord for years. I've only really played through abomination vaults as far as official stuff goes, but I've been in a ton of homebrew campaigns as well as being part of leadership for 2 pf2 west march style things. I've got a massive character backlog at this point, so I'm comfortable being more flexible with my role in the party. Top candidates would be between barb, exemplar, rogue, and sorc atm. As an aside, I see a lot of mention of Google slides being used for visualization around here. I'm definitely cool with that, but as one guy who's had to have battlemaps for text based play to another, I recommend trying out mipui.net if you haven't already, it's a really easy to learn way to do em.
Was looking at crunch, and realized it never specifies that it's the jaws unarmed attack from being a kholo. To quote, "Your jaws can crush bone and bite through armor. Your jaws unarmed attack deals 1d8 piercing damage instead of 1d6 and gains the grapple trait." It seems like it's intended to be from one that at least starts at a d6 damage die, but I don't think that's technically a requirement? Say I'm a kholo beastkin in my hybrid form. Do I have a d8 agile finesse grapple jaws attack? If I need to start at a d6, what about a kholo nephilim with bestial manifestation for a d8 finesse grapple? Seems pretty good if there's nothing stopping it.
True, but those rules are speaking about a very specific kind of increase; to grab the full text, "When an effect calls on you to increase the size of your weapon damage dice, instead of using its normal weapon damage dice, use the next larger die, as listed below (so if you were using a d4, you'd use a d6, and so on). If you are already using a d12, the size is already at its maximum. You can't increase your weapon damage die size more than once. Fatal and Two-hand are not only usually 2-step increases, which means if those rules applied to them most weapons would be acting differently than they are currently written as only one step up would apply, but also technically change to the value listed regardless of what the original die size of the weapon is, which is not how the effect those rules are for is meant to act. Because of that, I don't believe those rules apply to them. The increases thoze rules are talking about are likely the ones from weapon inventor, champ, cleric, and exemplar.
I could type a lot here, but really it comes down to two scenarios: I critically hit with an inubrix pick. Are my dice d8s or d10s?
It's really just, do you apply die upgrades/downgrade before or after die changes? I'm hoping this is consistent across both here, but I'd be interested to hear why they wouldn't be.
I'll toss my hat in the ring, I've never done PFS or PBP (outside of something pretty similar over discord), but I've got a few years of 2e under my belt at this point 1. Tengu justice champ. Mostly tanking/protection with an effort to still have respectable damage, should also be able to face to some degree. 2. Yeah, most of the text playing I've done has been a good bit more than 1x a day. I do, however, have the burden of fulltime employment, so it's generally gonna be in a certain time frame 90% of the time. As for botting instructions, I can write a whole flowchart if you really want. 3. I've not used that specifically but it sounds extremely similar to what I'm used to, so should be easy enough. 4. Yeah, makes things easier as far as I'm concerned, and actually lets bigger stories happen. Hell, I'm currently in a (non-pbp) campaign that's been running since before the pandemic, I got no problems with the long haul.
Ancient elf gives you a multiclass dedication feat, which is pretty slick, but I don't see anything exempting you from the dedication rule; are they just totally shut out from things like avenger or spellshot?
Magnetic shot reads as follows: "Shiny gray metal that slightly thrums when touched makes up the metal parts of a magnetic shot. When activated, the shot is more effective against a target wearing metal armor or made of metal. The activated ammunition grants a circumstance bonus to attack rolls against such targets, according to its type. Due to magnetic acceleration, the ammunition deals more damage and has deadlier critical hits, also according to its type." The argument I was presented with is that only the circumstance bonus actually specifies it needs to be used on metal targets to work, but personally, I don't know what else would accelerate a shot magnetically.
Originally I had the same question for gada-takedown expert-investigator, but I realized that that one's wording was a bit more cut and dry. This one feels like a grey area, however; you start and end one handed, so would you be able to use implement's empowerment? Or would it be not qualify because it counts as a two handed weapon when the strike impacts?
So as I look at class DC, it seems on the surface to be a no-brainer for dual class; each class has a DC specifically named for them, so they should level separately. However, I run into an interesting hiccup; as far as I can tell, many things that use a class DC will simply say "your class DC", instead of specifying, say, inventor class DC, and I don't see anything stopping you from simply choosing the higher of your 2 class DCs, even if it's not the one from the class you get the feat through. RaI this is obvious, but my tables tend to basically read RaW as the Bible, so is there anything I'm missing?
dueling dance says it requires your other hand(s) to be free, would grabbing somebody technically violate that requirement? If so, would something like gnoll's crunch (jaws with grapple trait) be able to circumvent this issue?
can I double slice if I'm wielding a sword and a dueling pistol with a bayonet? Does wielding only a dueling pistol with a bayonet count for dueling parry? As far as as what makes sense to me I'm only wielding one weapon but it's both the melee and ranged profiles, but I can't tell.
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