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Hey y'all,

I'm coming in to a campaign to replace the group's previous spellcasters. I'm replacing an Oracle, who had a Wizard cohort. I'm coming in with a Sorcerer (Bronze Draconic) and a Cleric cohort. That should keep the Arcane/Divine balance of our group mostly intact.

The cleric is going to be responsible for support, healing, and assorted divine capabilities, while staying largely removed from combat. My sorcerer is Neutral, so I'm really liking the idea of a Cleric of Nethys, with Magic (Arcane) as one of his two domains. I don't care too much for the other domains available to Nethys (Rune, Knowledge, Protection, Destruction). This has made me look toward Separatist. The Cleric will be 11th level, meaning he will have access to the 8th level domain powers of whatever second domain is chosen.

I've ruled out some of the more popular, power domains (Travel, Trickery, Animal, Nobility, Charm) as I felt they wouldn't make sense for Nethys. This has left me largely looking at a few:

Anyone have any suggestions, domains I missed, experience playing a similar build?

Pretty much what it says. I thought I recalled seeing a monster that cast as an Inquisitor. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble finding anything.

Anyone know what I'm thinking of? I'm pretty sure it came out of one of the standard bestiaries.

I've been messing around with the Spellbinder archetype lately, and I'm kind of enjoying it. I decided to work up a spell guide for the class. I'm gonna keep working on it, but for now I've got 1st-3rd level from the CRB all rated for their viability as Spellbonds.

Feel free to give any input or advice on the boards or as a comment on the document.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TFNtAr5OK7fZG7U1FPhhgkw3DSCjlFPuN9QmOeD RF1E/edit?usp=sharing

So this guy was in our campaign earlier as a Druid 4/ Rogue 1. He escaped the PCs and is now returning. His main tactic is to flank with his AC in order to get as many sneak attacks as possible. At this point I'm thinking he will favor Dire Tiger form. I'll be happy to hear any input. His base stats at level 5 were 8, 16, 14, 8, 16, 11. So unfortunately, he can't get a very high strength value, and I'm stuck with Brew Potion, Combat Casting, and Dodge. He has a lot of temporary buffs active, because he will be preparing for his fight with the PCs.

I'm getting ready to run the Battle of Sandpoint next week, and wanted suggestions on how to increase the difficulty. I have a few plans that I've come up with. I want to know what I should and shouldn't use. Keep in mind that my players will be level 11 thanks to some extra sidequesting, etc, that I brought into the game earlier.

The stone giants attacking the northern gate will remain vanilla, since they don't really do much at all.

I intend to give the advanced template to all the Dire Bears at the bridge, and their handlers will be Fighter 1s, with Longspears.

Longtooth will know Shield in place of Ray of Enfeeblement, offering him a more impressive 33 AC.

I want to give Teraktinus a 3rd level of Ranger or a level of Fighter, not sure which. His two bodyguards will most likely remain vanilla stone giants.

The other 2 groups of giants will each have a barbarian 1 as a leader, replacing one of the vanilla stone giants.

Meanwhile, I plan to have a stone giant bard (drummer) and archer waiting on the eastern bank of the river between the two bridges. The bard will supply Inspire Courage to the whole raiding party, while the Archer will harry the town's defenders with volleys from his longbow with the distance enchantment (range increment of 220 ft.). This coupled with Far Shot should allow him to attack from a safe-ish distance.

The last idea I had was for an old friend to arrive in Sandpoint. My PCs captured Gogmurt (and killed Tangletooth) outside of Thistletop and then lost him when he wild shaped out of his bindings. I am considering having him return, working with the giants. He would burrow into the glassworks and start trouble on the other side of town, partway into the raid. I have him statted up as a Druid 9/ Rogue 3 with a Roc companion. Plotwise, he met up with Teraktinus in the mountains northeast of Sandpoint (where he acquired his new animal) and agreed to aid him in attacking Sandpoint. He has a particular vendetta for the "longshanks" that killed his beloved pet and then committed wholesale slaughter of his tribe. He will not leave town, regardless of the morale of the giant invaders.

What do y'all think? How did this encounter go for your game? Are there any things I should change/ leave out?

Thanks

I'm currently DMing a Rise of the Runelords campaign and so far my party has had a pretty easy time tearing through most combats. We are almost done the third book at this point. I'm planning to ambush the party with an evil party while they travel before the fourth book.

I was curious if any DMs had much experience with throwing a rival party against your PCs. I also will gladly take opinions about how to combat them.

The PCs:

My current planned evil party: (I'm planning on running them at a level below the PCs)

I think this party is pretty strong against my PCs. I have a few concerns about giving the PCs a pile of gear (since each evil character has 10.5K in wealth). To handle that, and to increase the challenge, I have given the evil party a lot of scrolls/potions that they will use to prebuff. These potions include relevant stat-boosters (bull's strength, etc), barkskins (+4), and shields of faith (also +4). Since they are scrying the PCs, they should be able to give themselves time for these prebuffs.

I'm not sure if these buffs are inappropriate or not. Given the fact that my PCs hit buffed numbers around +20 or greater to hit, I'm inclined to make the evil party a bit more durable.

I know this is a lot of things to discuss, but feel free to critique or offer suggestions for any of it, especially if you've ever done stuff like this against your own PCs.

Thanks

Currently, Nualia is a Fighter 2/Cleric 4. I'm thinking she might be nicely redone as an Inquisitor (Preacher) 6 with the Anger Inquisition. It drops her base attack bonus by 1, but adds some pretty cool things, while still leaving 2nd level spells as an option.

This will be for my friend's game, which may have 5 or 6 players, almost definitely 3rd level when they fight her.

Any thoughts, suggestions, etc.?

Let me preface this by saying that it is my understanding that PCs may take monster feats, so long as the PC meets the requirements.

To what degree does a PC need to meet those requirements?

Specific example:

My draconic sorcerer would like to take Flyby Attack. The only requirement is a fly speed.
Is my sorcerer eligible for the feat:
A) at 7th level, when he gains Fly as a spell known?
B) at 11th level, when he gains wings as his 15th level bloodline power, because he is using a Robe of Arcane Heritage?
C) at 15th level, when he gains wings as a bloodline power, without the requirements of a magic item?

I'm currently DMing a Rise of the Runelords game and the party is almost done chapter 2. One of the characters took Leadership after obtaining my approval. He recently performed a wildly heroic act (leaping off a 200 foot high bridge, chasing an assassin) and I intend to have a bard start following him around, to become his cohort.

This is my first time making a bard in any system, so I wanted some feedback. I think a bard is probably the strongest addition to this party, and they earned it with the bridge stunt. The party currently consists of:

A non-archetype bard seems to effectively complement this party. Here's what I've come up with:

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

In addition, if you have other feats which allow you to apply a set numerical bonus to any aspect of this spell (such as Spell Focus, Spell Penetration, Weapon Focus [ray], and so on), double the bonus granted by that feat when applied to this spell.

How would this interact with Augment Summoning and Superior Summoning? Would creatures come with +8 Str and Con, and would you get 2 extra creatures whenever you summon more than one at a time?

I'm playing a sorcerer currently through the Rise of the Runelords AP. I am 8th level now, and am starting to think about my later game build.

Main things I want to do (roughly in this order):
-Summon
-Debuff/Dispel
-Battlefield Control
-Buff

Current build:

If I want spell perfection, I need three metamagics. Those will be at 9th, 11th, and the bloodline feat from 13th (Quicken). That leaves my 13th level feat open for a second spell focus or any other choice. The MM feats that I have in mind are Reach Spell (for bestow curse, and other good touch spells) and either persistent, echoing, dazing, piercing, or heighten. Spell Penetration will probably come in at 17th.

With this in mind, what is my best choice for perfection? I really like enervation for dropping powerful foes, but it won't work on undead. I like the idea of dazing ball lightning, but I'm not sure how common immunity is, and that's a lot to sink into one trick.

This campaign will be taking us up to 17th or 18th level, by my understanding.

So my friend and I are running RotRL and we switched off GMing after the 1st module. My PC told the rest of the crew that he was going home to Magnimar.

The chase ended up running them out onto the Irespan for an ambush. However, the PCs managed to kill the runner in the first combat round, before his friend could climb up onto the bridge. His companion screamed out in anguish, prompting the PCs to look over the edge, and witness him drink a potion of feather fall and begin falling down to the Underbridge.

That's when our Paladin decided to jump after him...

After much debate, I let him score a hit on the enemy as he fell by. He still took a pile of falling damage, though not enough to kill a 7th level character. (Fun fact, max falling damage averages 70 damage.) The Half-Orc Oracle (who just took his first level in Paladin) followed him down about 2 rounds later.