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I've searched all the society-approved rules/books and have not seen a scourge (cat-o-nine-tails) listed. I was hoping to see it in the Adventurer's Armory, but alas no. Is it available? Bump. Its mentioned in the First Steps Pt 1 [in the scene with the Paracountess], but best as I can tell it has no stats. Any help?
Hiya Andrew, Sorry you couldn't make last night's session at Game Theory. Folks had fun, but I think they might've been able to use your expertise. Perhaps another time. Anyhow, you might point out to them that it'll help your standing in the Society if you can log the sessions that they've played (after all, those games would count towards your Star-ranking). And, at worst, your players will have an account with Paizo that they can use for whatever fell purposes they decide - buying stuff, seeing what new things are in the pipeline for imminent release, access to the PRD, checking out the forums, etc, etc. Hope to see you again at the GT sessions. OM [aka Joe]
Do you roll your characters?
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What system did you first game in?
Getting a chance to win a reward is a perk for making the effort to be there. I *do* feel bad for folks (like Military personnel) who really can't make it there due to other obligations or things beyond their control, 'cause GenCon is a blast. I guess that, when its boiled down to simple terms, it comes down to this... You paid money - you want a prize. Apparently the blast value of attending GenCon is insufficient. Asploding heads all around. OM
The paladin entry implies that a medium rider needs a large mount, same as a small rider uses a medium mount. Additionally, the Horse entry in the equipment section has this to say... Horse: A horse is suitable as a mount for a human, dwarf, elf, half-elf, or half-orc. A pony is smaller than a horse and is a suitable mount for a gnome or halfling.
Edit: Are you playing yet?I wish. There just does not seem to be any PFS activity in my area here in Virginia and there are no gaming stores here either. The closest stuff seems to be a couple hours drive at least and I cannot do that right now. Maybe some time this year at a convention, if I am lucky. What part of Virginia are you in? We have a pretty active crew down in Raleigh, NC & there are some cons that happen in High Point that end up having a Pathfinder presence. OM
While I haven't managed to read each & every word in the Field Guide yet, my initial skim of it makes me happy to have purchased it. One question (well, so far). I see a couple new alchemical items - Air Crystals & Weapon Blanch (Ghost Salt). Any clue what their Crafting DCs are supposed to be? I'm sure my alchemist would be interested in making some (almost) pop-rocks.
Could be that the pre-GenCon versions of the mod lack the cert to prevent early distribution of certs. I'm sure that they'll add it in post-GenCon if it gets released to the public.
If the rest of the party won't divert with the Qadirans and go to the ship, then they'll have to split the party. You can delay the non-Qadirans at the front gate, dealing with the standoff between the bodyguards. Hopefully this will allow the Qadiran PCs time to catch up so they won't miss getting slaughtered by Chalfon Dalsine. And if the timing of the split party could be an issue, you can just 'have things work out' such that both parties arrive at the Dalsine manor at the same time. Easy enough to justify - the group traveling directly there had to wind thru a significant amount of the sewer to get there. The group that diverted to the docks spent a shorter time in the sewers, then had a mostly unobstructed trip to the Dalsine manor following in the Pasah's path.
And the 'fabulously velvety cloak that will help me shrug off spells' doesn't help you much if you're dead. The 2PA is such a negligible cost that its almost a freebie.
What is incorrect? that is exactly what I said, but that is a Cleric Domain Rule, which paladins don't get so it is a non issue. What I was clarifying is that its not a Domain rule, its an alignment rule. The rest you can take with a grain of salt.
Actually, that's incorrect. From the Core book, pg42 "Chaotic, Evil, Good, and Lawful Spells: A cleric can’t
Since Shelyn is NG, that would pretty much disallow a cleric from casting spells w/ the Evil descriptor. Ditto for a cleric with a good alignment And while you can nitpick & say 'but a paladin isn't a cleric', let's face it - you're a holy warrior who's supposed to be a paragon of your deity - who happens to be a force of Good. If I was trying to make this concept work, I'd opt for an Neutral deity & maybe shift focus to the Inquisitor. But I know that's getting away from your goal of making the paladin mesh with the necromancer. Good luck with that.
I think you are giving the Tick more credit than he deserves. He and Zapp Branigan are no higher than a 5 :P Let's not forget Dudley Do Right, RCMP. The right-up he got in an ancient issue of Dragon magazine gave him an Int/Wis of maybe 6 max. His horse was the smarter/wiser of the duo - 12/14 iirc.
Hmm - wondering if I'm summing this situation up correctly. I have a PC & I want to have a fun time playing. You have a PC & you want to have a fun time playing. If my fun gets in the way of your fun, I have to back off & let your fun prevail. If your fun gets in the way of my fun, I have to back off & let your fun prevail. Right.
Taking a look at the scenarios listed so far for Season 3, the nice folks at Paizo seem to be adhering to the release schedule that came into play during the latter half of Season 2 - basically, each month seems to be seeing the release of a tier 1-5 adventure along with (at least) one other adventure of a higher tier. August happens to see the release of 4 adventure, one for each of the non-12 tiers. Hooray! Plenty of play opportunities for everyone. September has a 1-5 & a 3-7. I suspect this trend will continue, so I doubt you & your local peeps will lack for chances to play together. However, as I have no real finger on the pulse of the impending release schedule, I could be proven completely off the mark. Wait & see, I suppose. OM
Check out the chart on pg 30 of the Core rulebook.
So far as skills & hit points go, you'll need to look at the section relevant to your chosen class. You get that number of skill points each level. Hit Point-wise, you gain them at a rate of (1/2) maximum +1. Hope that helps.
It's a good thing that Bob didn't mention his paladin's warhorse actually looks like a barrel with four sawhorse legs. It's got a wooden horse's head and a tassel tail that covers the spigot (He must like a lot of foam in his ale). Other than the hardness 5 (speed knocked down to 30' to compensate) it's identical to a heavy warhorse. You sure it doesn't also have construct traits? Not so much difference between a construct & an animal, right?
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RD doesn't work due to a distinct lack of a body after the fact. Circle of Death School necromancy [death]; Finger of Death School necromancy [death]; Slay Living School necromancy [death];
Phantasmal Killer School illusion (phantasm) [fear, mind-affecting] imo this isn't a death effect.No [death] in the descriptor Suffocation Necromancy, but no [death] in the descriptor. You die from 'natural' causes [ie - lack of air]Cloudkill School conjuration (creation) An extremely virulent poison, but again lacks the [death] descriptor
I'm in agreement with Blave & Father Dale - I see Intensify being best applied to lower level spells (though I'd add Corrosive Touch to the list of 1st level spells). Personally, I'm planning to add Intensify to my Black-Blade Magus' feat list at 7th level. At that point, a crit with his keen facata should yield 3d8 + 15ish + 14d6 for the shocking grasp. And for those times when the crit just doesn't happen, 1d8 + 5ish + 7d6 just doesn't suck. And it'll only get better from there. OM
So true - I had a wonderful time playing my Taldan magus in this one. He got to utter wonderful jibes at the big nasty akin to...Pithy Comments:
Your sword style is weak.
Your casting technique is, at best, amateurish. You attended an inferior school. I'm so planning to finish out the Shadow War plot with him now.
Clerics and other priests of Abadar are required by their god to receive payments for spell-casting services. Heh. My paladin/bard of Abadar was fond of bolstering his companions with a jaunty tune whose refrain was 'There's nothing wrong with reasonable taxes.' Caused numbers of raised eyebrows.
The issue came up when the APG became part of the player options & one of the head guys [Hyrum or Mark, I don't recall which] answered pretty much what Dragnmoon said.
the magus gets a free weapon of his choiceI think it's safe to assume you can get any blade of any material you want as long as you pay for it. Like everything you find in Pathfinder Society you've got to hand over the gold to make it yours. That's how I thought it would work & how I'm planning to play it for my magus. Effectively, the blade he's been using thru his first 2 levels 'awakens' when he opts for the Bladebound archetype at 3rd level & things proceed onward from there.
While I can't speak to the Monastic Orders, the Faiths of Purity primer alluded to there being paladins of the NG deities as well as of the LG deities (so we have paladin orders of & Codes for Erastil, Iomadae, Sarenrae, Shelyn, & Torag). The Chaotic gods (Desna & Cayden Cailien) just seem, well, too chaotic to allow for them to have paladin orders.
Hmmm... I like the idea of having the major NPCs be something more than a signature at the bottom of the faction missions. But I find myself a bit irked to discover that the 2 missions concluding the subplot with Amenopheus have shifted down in tier (to 1-7) when the original trilogy was set in the 5-9 tier. I suspect that I'm not the only player who's PC will be unable to play the wrap-up missions.
Wow - I so didn't intend to generate this level of discussion, though I'm finding aspects of the discussion to be interesting. But getting back to the gist of the OP's question, so far as I can tell there is no 'official' character sheet. I offered the index cards as something of an extreme example, though it presumes that the player in question is organized enough to utilize them in a timely manner. As others have brought up, I too prefer to have my PC's information organized in a way that I find useful.
I chalk that up as a win. But, as always, YMMV.
Depends on how the index cards are set up. It might actually be easier to audit, if, say, everything relating to defense were on one card, etc. Exactly - simple stats on one (Attributes, AC, Saves, Hits Points), Skills on another, Combat info on a third, Items on a 4th, Feats & Class Abilities on another, etc. Presuming that the info is concise & the handwriting is clear, I'd be more than willing to accept this over some of the overly erased, coffee-stained, crumpled printouts from the Guide to OP that I've seen in the past. But as has been said, YMMV.
My solution, when presented with this situation, was to have the Venture-Captain ask that the PC in question accompany the exhumation crew for the sake of strength in numbers but not force him to 'sully' his hands with the actual excavation/exhumation. Some thing that I considered which lead me to this solution: 1) Major alterations of the adventure are something of a no-no in Organized Play. 2) Several faction missions are contingent upon the exhumation - altering it to acquiring a gravemarker prevents those folks from accomplishing their faction quests. 3) Perhaps the Venture-Captain had more information than he was willing to give the PCs. Perhaps he had inside info that some other organization was headed after the same maguffin for the same reason. Far better to have it in the hands of the Society that to let the 'other folks' have it. Ultimately, it comes down to this - any given mission is going to offend someone. Theft, assassination, grave robbing, transport of illicit goods, whatever. By playing in the OP environment, we give up some bits of personal control that we'd otherwise have in a home game environment. If the required action offends your PC's sensibilities, perhaps another PC would be better suited for the mission. If the required action offends your personal ethos, walking away might be the only, final solution.
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