Alase the summoner has a feat in the God Caller role that may need errata or need an update to the core conversion FAQ.
☐ While you attempt a check to acquire (☐ or would banish) a card that has an adventure deck number at least 2 less than the scenario's adventure deck number, you may recharge a blessing to gain the skill Divine: Charisma +2.
Pre-core that would allow recharging lower level divine spells but post-core temporarily having the skill doesn't prevent the spell from being banished.
And unlike some other characters Alase was not granted Divine proficiency in the conversion FAQ.
Wayfinder Resonance Tinkerer
Choose one cantrip from the arcane, divine, occult, or primal list. You can activate your wayfinder to cast that cantrip at will.
1. Is this an innate spell or is it based on the Wayfinder's item level?
2. If it is not an innate spell but we pick an attack spell what stat is used?
I'm rebuilding my Bard and want to give him Electric Arc and Ray of Frost.
Wellspring Gnome
Choose arcane, divine, or occult. You gain one cantrip from that magical tradition’s spell list. You can cast this spell as an innate spell at will, as a spell of your chosen tradition. A cantrip is heightened to a spell level equal to half your level rounded up. Whenever you gain a primal innate spell from a gnome ancestry feat, change its tradition from primal to your chosen tradition.
Say I pick Arcane and Electric Arc. I now have Electric Arc as an innate spell and cast it as an Occult spell.
First World Magic gets me the Ray of Frost cantrip.
Energized Font
Prerequisites focus pool, at least one innate spell from a gnome heritage or ancestry feat that shares a tradition with at least one of your focus spells
I do have a focus pool. I do have an innate spell from a Gnome heritage.
"If you are a spellcaster, your focus spells are the same tradition of spell as the class that gave you the focus spell. A bard’s are occult..."
The question is, Does my innate spell Electric Arc that I cast as an Occult spell count as an Occult spell for Energized Font?
Attach: When a bloodseeker hits a target larger than itself, its barbed legs attach it to that creature. This is similar to grabbing the creature, but the bloodseeker moves with that creature rather than holding it in place. The bloodseeker is flat-footed while attached. If the bloodseeker is killed or pushed away while attached to a creature it has drained blood from, that creature takes 1 persistent bleed damage. Escaping the attach or removing the bloodseeker in other ways doesn’t cause bleed damage.
Grab causes the grabbed creature to be flat-footed, How about if a creatures is Attached?
This will be a run of We Be Heroes? where you play as goblin heroes. (Hopefully.)
Note that while playing a goblin character is suggested it isn't required. Whomever you bring will be a Goblin for the duration.
We Be Heroes is 2 sessions.
The goal of this table is to give a few characters a bit of a boost before playing the VTT games during the upcoming Paizocon.
With that in mind I have a couple of extra rules for this table beyond the usual PACS rules found here.
1. Since Paizocon starts in about 2 weeks we will need to be faster paced then usual.
2. The VTT games will only use cards from the Core and CotCT sets so while you can play any character you want you must build using the Adventurer's Packs which can be found here.
If you are interested in playing and feel up to a post per day or better then please do the following.
Chief Velkik of the Crookedtoes Tribe speaks.
“Crookedtoes goblins came to this forest far
away from wars. But suddenly there’s nothing
to eat.” Your tummies rumble in agreement.
“Chief scout Grimeye supposed to bring back
food, but now he missing. He said he saw
tracks of food animal, maybe pig, wandering
woods near here. You go find pig and maybe
Grimeye too, and you be heroes!”
You follow Grimeye’s trail to the remains of
a longshanks farm. Their hogs, now undead,
roam the yard, gorging themselves on the
remains of the farmers. You spot a goblin ear
hanging from a zompig’s mouth.
There are all kinds of challenges. I like build challenges myself.
Your challenge should you choose to except it is to build the best party you can with the following restrictions.
1. A sanctioned run of the CotCT AP with all scenarios completed and all characters alive by the end. This means 1 character will be Batm... I mean Blackjack.
2. 4 players each choosing a different character from either the Core set or CotCT set.
3. Each character will be built using 3 Adventurer's Packs.
4. Each Pack must be used at least once.
(Remember that the PACS Guide requires that any specific cards listed on the back of your character card must be in your deck, so if Helen gives up the Ultimate Combat deck, she would still keep Hayato’s cohort Jinfu from that deck.)
From the back of Ukuja's character card.
Quote:
Cohort: Each scenario, choose 2 Hunter Class Deck cohorts
Not a named Cohort but I doubt it is the intent to strip all hunters not named Adowyn from using cohorts.
On your turn, bury or banish to heal a local character a card and/or remove a scourge from them.
Angelstep
Traits: Plant Alchemical
Bury or banish this card to allow a character at your location to shuffle 1d4+1 random cards from her discard pile into her deck.
Balmberry Bush
Traits: Plant Alchemical
Bury or banish this card to allow each character at your location to banish a card displayed next to her deck that is a scourge or has the Curse trait, then shuffle 1 random card from her discard pile into her deck.
These cards are healing cards. Why don't they have the Healing trait?
After reading a few guides I have narrowed the options to the following.
1. Halfling using a Shield and Gnome Flickermace.
Gutsy Halfling
Str 16
Dex 12
Con 14
Int 12
Wis 16
Cha 10
Halfling Luck at level 1 and at level 5 Cultural Adaptability for Gnome Weapon Familiarity. Heavy armor, A sturdy shield, and a 1 handed reach weapon to maybe trip enemies with should keep me alive. And a d8 weapon isn't that bad.
The strength penalty is a big downside in such a tight numbers system.
2. Dwarf using a Shield and Gnome Flickermace.
Strong-Blooded Dwarf
Str 18
Dex 10
Con 14
Int 12
Wis 16
Cha 8
Unburdened Iron at first level and buy Full Plate asap. Adopted Ancestry as my level 3 general feat and Gnome Weapon Familiarity as my level 5 ancestry feat. I have to jump through more hoops this way but the stats are better.
3. Half-Elf using a Pick and Light Pick.
Half-Elf heritage (Elf Atavism for Cavern Elf)
Str 18
Dex 14
Con 12
Int 10
Wis 14
Cha 10
I plan to play a Rogue for society play that focuses on Medicine. And he will have the Tapestry Refugee background. But while I've played in many adventures that took place in the tapestry, Most occurred in small communities. Which was the point of course, I don't think Hao Jin grabbed many large cities.
So for my sake I'm looking for a good origin for my rogue but if someone could list some areas in the Tapestry along with some general non-spoilery info it wold help anyone considering the background.
Versatile Performance
You can rely on the grandeur of your performances rather than ordinary social skills. You can use Performance instead of Diplomacy to Make an Impression and instead of Intimidation to Demoralize. You can also use an acting Performance instead of Deception to Impersonate. You can use your proficiency rank in Performance to meet the requirements of skill feats that require a particular rank in Deception, Diplomacy, or Intimidation.
Demoralize Single Action
With a sudden shout, a well-timed taunt, or a cutting put-down, you can shake an enemy’s resolve. Choose a creature within 30 feet of you who you’re aware of. Attempt an Intimidation check against that target’s Will DC. If the target does not understand the language you are speaking, you’re not speaking a language, or they can’t hear you, you take a –4 circumstance penalty to the check. Regardless of your result, the target is temporarily immune to your attempts to Demoralize it for 10 minutes.
If my perform is playing an instrument I'm clearly not speaking a language. There is a feat that might help. But I'm not glaring with it.
Intimidating Glare
You can Demoralize with a mere glare. When you do, Demoralize loses the auditory trait and gains the visual trait, and you don’t take a penalty if the creature doesn’t understand your language.
So how do I get this to work? Perform Gurning? Mime?
While there may be more to it that will be revealed later, Today's blog suggests that one character in your Crimson Throne adventuring group can become a Blackjack in addition to their chosen role.
It has some generically useful feats. Up to +2 hand size, A kit similar to Alric/Red Raven, The ability to take a local characters place when they encounter a monster or some barriers.
And, At the cost of 1 power feat you gain Dexterity: Acrobatics, Dexterity: Stealth, and Charisma: Diplomacy all at +3.
For now let's assume you won't get extra free feats and must choose between taking feats from this role or your normal role.
What character do you think would get the most out of this role?
Of the few characters I own I was thinking Ukuja would benefit a fair amount from it.
Other then discarding an animal to gain a bonus vs barriers and a bigger hand size there isn't much on the Animancer role that I want. But Ukuja has a d10 dexterity to take advantage of the stealth and Acrobatics skills. With the help of maxed out Wisdom and a Wendifisa Spear he is powerful in combat so would be good at taking someone else's combat checks. And the kit would actually help him get to his Wendifisa Spear faster. Assuming the hand size of up to 11 didn't.
But I suspect he isn't the best choice. Who do you think is?
When the Core set comes out I was considering playing Rivani and adding the UM deck.
But I notice Rivani and WotR Enora have similarities.
Both have d12 Int die.
Both have Arcane and Knowledge skills.
Rivani can recharge a card to use Knowledge for many checks vs barriers.
WotR Enora can use Knowledge for all checks vs barriers once she gains her Occularium Scholar role.
Their deck lists are nearly identical to start with. Enora gets more max items while Rivani gets wasted feat options for weapons. But they both get 9 spells max.
Rivani gets some location deck manipulation ability while Enora gets some durability with the ability to recharge spells from her discard pile.
They will both have access to the same cards.
Have any of you played either character? Any thoughts on which one to play?
I saw mention of this build on discord so I plan to build it for my first 2E game at 5th level.
It seems overpowered in combat but I'm not sure what needs to be changed to fix it.
Part 1: At 5th level Rogues add 2d6 extra damage on strikes vs flatfooted opponents.
With less enemies having attacks of opportunity, Nearly all melee characters having close to the same AC, and Rogues having good HP, There is less risk for a melee rogue to move into flank then in 1E.
Of course without beating your opponent on initiative or having a flank buddy your best bet is Intimidating Glare and a lucky roll.
Also after 2 updates there is still no change to precision damage being doubled on a critical strike. Combined with the decreased progression of sneak damage it may be intended.
Part 2: Fighter Dedication at 2nd level and Basic Maneuver (Double Slice) at 4th.
For my Rogue the Fighter Dedication is just a feat tax but considering casters could cast in medium armor if they wanted to by just having 16 dex, And it allows several classes much better weapon choices, This feat may be too good.
Basic Maneuver seems fine on it's own assuming the level 1 and 2 Fighter feats are balanced.
Part 3: Double Slice using a +1 Rapier, Expert Shortsword, and Doubling Rings.
Two of the pregens are using Doubling Rings to effectively have 2 magic weapons so that is intended.
As long as your second weapon is agile Double Slice allows you to spend 2 actions for 2 attacks with no penalty.
All of the parts combined:
Move up to a flatfooted enemy. Either by beating them on initiative or by flanking.
Attack with your +1 Rapier and then your Expert Shortsword which is treated as a +1 weapon due to Doubling Rings.
Assuming 18 dexterity.
1 hit - 4d6 +4 dmg.
2 hits - 8d6 +8 dmg
1 hit 1 crit - 12d6 +12 dmg (+1d8 if it was the rapier)
2 crits - 16d6 +16 +1d8
With 18 dex and 2 +1 weapons vs a flatfooted opponent 2 hits seems realistic. 8d6 +8 is good damage at level 5.
2 crits is much less likely but an average of about 75 dmg will knock a big chunk off of any at tier enemy.
There are drawbacks of course.
In a 4 player party you won't always have a flank buddy. So you won't always be facing a flatfooted opponent.
With your hands full there isn't much you can do with your 3rd action. Move, Feint, or Intimidating Glare are about it.
And of course you are painting a target on yourself by dealing so much damage.
STRENGTH d6 □+1 □+2
DEXTERITY d6 □+1
CONSTITUTION d8 □+1 □+2 □+3
INTELLIGENCE d4 □+1 □+2
WISDOM d10 □+1 □+2 □+3
CRAFT: WISDOM +1
SURVIVAL: WISDOM +2
CHARISMA d8 □+1 □+2 □+3 □+4
DIVINE: CHARISMA +3
POWERS
HAND SIZE 6 □ 7
PROFICIENT WITH Light Armors
You automatically succeed at your check to recharge a spell (□ and you may shuffle it into your deck instead).
At the start of your turn, you may discard any number of cards from the top of your deck. Each other character may shuffle random cards from his discard pile into his deck; the total number of cards shuffled must not exceed (□ 1 plus) twice the number of cards you discarded.
□ Add 2 to your check that invokes the Attack trait.
As most of you know Grazzle is one of the characters from the Oracle class deck with a fairly unique ability. He can discard cards from the top of his deck to heal other players no matter what location they are at. For details on exactly how his power works read here.
But Grazzle is an odd character. His highest die is a d10 for wisdom. But he doesn't use wisdom to cast For that he uses his d8 charisma.
So using a basic attack spell he is rolling 1d8 +3 +2d4 for an average of 12.5. One of his power feats adds 2 to his attack rolls which helps but he still isn't going to be your main choice to take on enemies.
He has another less unique ability in that he always succeeds on recharging his spells.
The Oracle class deck only has one Cure spell. You can add Major Cure at 3rd and Breath of Life at 6.
Ultimate Magic adds another Cure, Restorative Touch at 3rd, and Rejuvenation at 6th.
And that isn't even counting healing from allies, items, or blessings.
And let's not forget the level 4 spell in UM Channel the Gift that lets a character at your location search their deck for a spell and put in their hand.
So Grazzle will have as much healing as you want.
But while healing will free up your allies to be more aggressive in exploring or discarding cards, Your healing ability happens before you explore, Not instead of.
Unless you plan to hide in a closed location you need to get out there and help the team by hunting for those henchmen or villain.(s!)
So exactly how do you build your deck?
Starting out things are easy. 1 cure, Maybe 2 if you are using Ultimate Magic. Holy Light plus several more attack spells to choose from. Maybe toss in an Eloquence or Detect Magic as your 6th spell.
But what direction do you take him in as you rise in levels? Do you focus on utility spells and skimp on attack spells? Hope your 2 armors will save you if things go wrong?
I would like to hear from players of Grazzle or people who have played with Grazzle.
I plan to get into the ACG organized play and really want to use the RotRL version of Lini. Apparently I can do that but I have to buy and use the cards in the class deck. Problem is there is no visual spoiler or unboxing video for the Druid class deck so all I know is the names of the cards in the deck.
Could I get some deckbuilding advice for the RotRL version of Lini (Recharge played animal allys, Reveal an animal ally to add 1d4 to any roll, Discard a card to turn str or dex die to d10) using the Druid class deck?
I plan to focus on her wisdom and the reveal an animal ability and have her focus on spellcasting.
I think I'm allowed to use cards from an Ultimate addon deck also but ultimate wilderness won't be out for awhile.
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Animal Archive version of Shield Companion
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School abjuration; Level antipaladin 1, druid 1, paladin 1,
ranger 1, sorcerer/wizard 1, witch 1
Target your animal companion, familiar, or fiendish servant
This spell functions as shield other but affects only the caster’s
animal companion or familiar. Spellcasters from classes that do not
normally gain an animal companion, familiar, or fiendish servant
but who gain one through an alternate class feature, archetype, or
prestige class can prepare and cast this spell as a 1st-level spell if
they are capable of casting spells.
Advanced Class Guide version of Shield Companion
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School abjuration; Level paladin 2, ranger 2, shaman 2,
sorcerer/wizard 3, summoner 3
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S
Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target your companion creature
Duration 1 hour/level (D)
Saving Throw Will negates (harmless); Spell Resistance
yes (harmless)
This spell creates a special mystical connection between
you and your companion creature—animal companion,
bonded mount, eidolon, or familiar—which allows you
to transfer its wounds to you. The creature gains a +1
deflection bonus to AC and a +1 resistance bonus on saves.
As an immediate action when your companion takes
damage, you can take that damage yourself to prevent
your companion from being harmed (similar to shield
other, except the damage is not split between you and the
target). Forms of harm that do not involve the loss of hit
points, such as charm effects, temporary ability damage,
level drain, and death effects, are not affected. If the
creature suffers a reduction of hit points from a lowered
Constitution score, you cannot take that damage on behalf
of your companion creature because it is not hit point
damage. When the spell ends, damage directed to you by
the spell is not reassigned to the subject.
If you and your companion move out of range of each
other, the spell ends.
Same name. Similar spell but some differences in caster level and function.
Animal Archive ADR entry: Spells: all spells on pages 24-25 are legal;
Advanced Class Guide ADR entry: Spells: all spells on pages 162-199 are legal for play.
No mention of the spell in campaign clarifications or the FAQ for Advanced Class Guide.
So I took the Animal Archive version for my Lunar Oracle. The Advanced Class Guide version is in my mind worse but also doesn't have Cleric as an option.
Last night I used the Animal Archive version of the spell on my Tiger and the GM had never heard of it. After a heated discussion he declared that since the Advanced Class Guide version of the spell came out after the Animal Archive version that the Animal Archive version wasn't legal.
That new always superseded old.
While it would be nice if a dev could comment on this I do feel that whichever way the ruling goes it needs some comment somewhere explicitly mentioning that both versions of the spell with the same name are legal or that one of them is not.
Exactly what the Campaign Clarification document is for.
A lot of people are saying you can't use free actions outside your turn.
From the CRB.
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Free Action: Free actions consume a very small amount of time and effort. You can perform one or more free actions while taking another action normally. However, there are reasonable limits on what you can really do for free, as decided by the GM.
Free Actions: Can you take free actions during an attack of opportunity? For instance, can you use the Grab, Trip, Pull, or Push universal monster rules after hitting with an attack of opportunity, since they require free actions and free actions can’t be used off-turn? What about Rock Catching? That seems like it could only work off-turn.
While you can’t take most free actions off your turn, Grab, Trip, Pull, Push, and Rock Catching’s free actions can all be used off-turn. This will be reflected in future errata.
Either that eratta never came or it was erattad to be up to the GM.
A lot of abilities can be used as a free action on attack and there are ways to attack outside your turn. Mostly via aoos.
But I'm not reading it as a clear "No you can't." despite most people saying so. It would be nice if we could get a more concrete answer. Or at least an update of the things that can be done as a free action during an aoo.
Special: When a player uses a free reroll, she may present her Paizo Organized Play membership card (available on their My Organized Play page) and receive an additional +1 for every GM star she has earned, for a maximum of a +5. Note, this bonus applies to the higher result of the reroll, not just the second roll.
I wanted my first SFS character to be a melee focused Soldier early on branching out to blowing things up when needed.
Race Kasathan so I could wield a 2 handed melee weapon and a heavy weapon.
Starting Str of 18 Dex of 14. Lets me do good melee damage and heavy armor has good AC. I would bump Dex at 5th and 10th level.
But as I read more I am growing disenchanted with the style abilities.
Grenade Expert: A free grenade is nice and it levels with me. I doubt many people will be buying high level grenades. And the extra range is nice.
But: The save is based on my Dex. And any penalties to my attack decrease the save DC.
Heavy Fire: Add my strength to ranged damage vs multiple targets.
But: Automatic is a credit suck and drains the ammo in the first round, Explode weapons have the same issues as grenades. Dex based saves and any attack penalty reduces the save DC. As for Unwieldy that just leaves Blast for crowd control but blast says class abilities that increase single attack damage doesn't work.
Debilitating Attack: 1 resolve point to debuff multiple targets for multiple rounds.
But: Actually nah, This is a great ability by itself. I'm just unhappy it doesn't mesh well with Heavy Fire. Oh. They get a Fort save. At least it is based on my Str.
So my best option if I want to combine Heavy Fire and Debilitating Attack seems to be Shock Caster + Powerful Explosive and hope they roll low on the save.
Let me look at the numbers.
Level 5. Str of 21, Dex of 16, Shock Caster, Static +9 to hit AC 5. Spend a move action using heavy fire. Assuming no penalties dmg will be 1d12 +10 with a Ref save of 16. (10 + half item level + dex mod)
So about 11 dmg to maybe 2 targets.
Level 7. Slight increase in dmg. No change to save. Increased radius may include 3 enemies now.
Level 9. Upgrade to Aurora. Add Blitz style for total init of +11 including Improved Initiative. Now at +13 to hit for 2d12 + 14 dmg Ref 18 to save. Radius is now 20 feet and I can spend a resolve to debuff all enemies.
My thoughts on this build.
Pros: I can utilize any enemy grenades we find. I only have to buy 3 new weapons in my whole career and 2 of them are not until about level 9. (aurora and advanced pike). Good vs swarms. My goal of fighting in melee with a pike isn't greatly improved by the other styles so I don't lose much.
Cons: Other then my free grenade I won't be hitting multiple targets until level 5. The saves on the Explosions are so low I may as well just accept that they will be made. I will envy Technomancers for their higher damage and higher saves.
I can be tank with a pike and Bombard goes fine with that. Blitz is probably a better style for melee but what style would I take at 9th level?
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"you threaten all squares into which you can make a melee attack"
"When wielding a weapon with the reach special property, you threaten all squares that you can reach with your weapon. This typically extends a Small or Medium creature’s reach to 10 feet"
To me this seems clear that a medium or small humanoid with a reach weapon threatens 10 feet away but does not threaten adjacent squares.
But a lot of players say that rule no longer exists in Starfinder.
If true there is no good reason to use any melee weapon other then the pike.
The Hireling sounds cool in theory but I have a couple of questions.
1. When getting the next level of hireling do we use the sellback plan to sell the previous version?
2. It mentions that the hireling can be aided. If it has a skill that we don't can we use our action to have the hireling attempt to aid another PC?
3. Can a GM refuse to let the hireling make key skill checks for the party? I could easily see a master hireling being the party face but the GM may not like Mr. Noname being the decider of if we get our second fame point.
If we are able to use the sellback plan so that it never costs more then 2 fame I could see having a couple and bringing one along to at least try at skills the rest of the party is short on.
I'm building a Kasathas melee soldier (But with Bombard) and am considering the feats Step Up, and Step Up And Strike.
But I can think of a few issues.
Step up is a reaction. So an enemy could Guarded Step away and while I can step up to them I can't take an opportunity attack. So this is just a useless feat tax.
Step Up And Strike requires a BAB of +6. My current feat plan is
1. Weapon Focus Advanced Melee Weapons
2. Versatile Focus
3. Improved Initiative
4. Enhanced Resistance (Kinetic)
5. Extra Resolve
I could maybe delay Improved Initiative until 7th level and take Step Up at 3rd but that would saddle me with a useless feat for 3 levels.
Alternatively I could delay Extra resolve until 7th level and take Step Up at 5th. But Extra Resolve is pretty good for a frontliner.
Lastly I notice a lot of PC abilities can cause flatfooted. What if it is a common enemy ability? No point in wasting 2 feats if the enemies most likely to provoke use tactics to prevent opportunity attacks.
I'm building a melee focused Vesk. Starting stats are 18 str and 14 dex.
My general goal is to be tanky and keep enemies focused on me while my allies shoot them. I will need at least one ranged option if for no other reason then to not waste my gear boost.
Arcane Assailant - Mostly just for the level 9 ability to shrug off conditions. I don't expect to see many mystics willing and able to remove them for me in combat.
Blitz - The level 1 ability is fantastic. As is the level 13. But 5 and 9 don't look great to me. A great choice for the level 9 style.
Bombard - Entangle grenade will help pin down enemies. Or at level 9 apply debuffs along with some damage.
I'm not really interested in power armor which is why I'm not taking Armor Storm
The spell Identify adds a +10 Insight bonus (Yes the same bonus as every other skill booster) to identifying magic properties, command words, and passwords of magic or mechanical objects.
Does that mean I could use it on a door panel or computer and roll Engineering to get a needed password?
The cost of special material ammo is priced by cartridge.
The listed cost for small arms ammo is 40 credits for 30 cartridges.
Small arms have cartridge sizes ranges from 9 to 16.
I'm assuming the 30 is actually # of bullets and just have a few stray bullets, But does that mean the special material cost per cartridge is per 30 bullets?
In PFS there is a program that grants benefits to the players based on money spent at the store you are playing in. Most of us use it for day job rolls but I've seen it save lives.
Will there be a similar program for SFS? And if yes how early will it be implemented?
The mechanic gets a robot buddy and the technomage can summon a swarm of nanobots. But so far I haven't heard anything about a class feature where you have an organic buddy fight alongside you.
Can a dev confirm or deny that that will be coming soon or that it was removed entirely due to the rules nightmare that is companions in Pathfinder?
I want to play a Totemic Skald Tiger. Because who doesn't love Pounce.
But I don't like the base Inspired Rage ability and I can't take Spell Warrior because they both lose Spell Kenning.
A build focused on high dexterity with Weapon Finesse and an Agile amulet of mighty fists would let me be effective once I can become a Tiger at 5th level but I'm not sure what to do until then.
For anyone not familiar with the archetypes the build would look something like this.
Level 1 Weapon Finesse feat
Controlled Inspired Rage: Pick Str, Dex, or Con and grant a +2 morale bonus to that stat. +4 at 8th level and +6 at 16th. No other bonuses or penalties.
Early on it will be strength and be +1 to hit and dmg for the melee types.
Once I hit 5th level and can be a Tiger it will be Dex.
Level 3 Feat?
Totem: I pick the Tiger totem and add a +2 Enhancement bonus to Dex. +4 at 8th level +6 at 16th.
Not an issue right now but it won't stack with belts. And most characters that care about Dex buy Dex belts. With Agile plus this power the only belt I'll need is Con.
Level 5 Natural Spell
At this point I can turn into a Tiger and will buy the Agile aomf.
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When in animal form, the skald is treated as able to speak normally for the purpose of using raging song, but not for using other abilities that require speech (such as spellcasting).
So I can rage song and with the feat cast. Though I apparently can't just talk. Maybe when I make knowledge checks I can sing exposition.
Since the ability counts as Wildshaping I can buy some Druids Vestments.
I don't have Greater Magic Fang or Greater Magic Weapon so I'll have to pay the high cost of adding +1 to my amulet.
What do you think? Is the idea viable? Are there ways to improve on it?
I looked at a few years worth of threads and the closest thing I could find to an official answer was this post by Sean K Reynolds.
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"Pinpoint" has a specific meaning in the game: you know what square it's in, so even if you can't see it, you can make an attack into that square (instead of groping around to find it or randomly choosing a square you hope it's in). So it shouldn't tell you what weapon they have (or probably much more than "only taking up one square, probably only two legs.
So you know the square but what if you are blind or they are displaced?
Initially I had a build in mind for a Hunter that uses a reach weapon and rides an Ape into combat. Lots of attacks of opportunity. But I recently discovered a trait that may send me into a different direction.
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Regional trait
Community Minded: Requirement(s) Rahadoum
While some pray to the gods for mercy or prosperity, you follow a different tack—you believe in improving the lives of those around you through earnest labor and the efforts of you and your community. Your hard-earned discipline and the candor of your words affect all who bear witness. Any morale bonuses you confer upon your allies through your own abilities or spells last 2 additional rounds.
I have a specific morale bonus in mind.
Ferocious Beast (Ex) While the barbarian is raging, her animal companion also gains the benefits of rage (including greater rage, mighty rage, and tireless rage), though the barbarian must spend 1 additional round of rage per round if her companion begins or ends its turn adjacent to her, and 2 additional rounds of rage per round if not.
So round 1 I spend 2 rounds of rage. One for me and one for my mount. Round 2 I spend one round for me but no rounds for my animal companion because it is covered for 2 more rounds.
However there isn't much else I want as a Barbarian I want the bonuses to my animal companion that Hunter grants.
So my initial idea looks like this.
Level 1 Half-Orc Barbarian with Community Minded and Berserker of the Society traits.
Level 2 Another level of Barbarian and take the Ferocious Beast rage power. Current rage rounds per day are 9 + con mod. Probably +2.
Level 3 Switch to Hunter and take the Boon Companion feat. Companion at this level will probably be something with multiple attacks. Default animal focus ability will be +2 strength of course.
Level 4 Switch to Ape companion since it is large and gets 3 attacks. I can ride it into combat and we will pretty much always get the +4 to hit from Outflank in addition to the +2 from raging.
Level 5 Take the Amplified Rage teamwork feat. It increases the rage bonuses for us both by +4 but only when we are both raging. Ape now has 34 strength. I now have +8 not counting any enhancement bonuses I might have.
I have a few concerns.
Ideally I want to be riding a Tiger at level 7. All of those strength bonuses on up to 5 attacks is awesome. Problem is the Tiger gas Grab. Usually great but some of the best teamwork feats involve opportunity attacks and it can't take them if it is grappling.
I'll only have about 11 or 12 rage rounds a day. A 3 round combat costs me about 4 rounds of rage. I'll have to take a feat (or some item?) to sustain the combo.
Losing 2 rounds of Hunter hurts. Not only the loss to my spellcasting buffs but I won't get greater animal focus until level 10.
I considered Inquisitor (Sacred Huntsmaster) but the free Outflank from the Hunter is very helpful.
I've been wanting to play a Warpriest for awhile but didn't really like any of the archetypes.
But Molthuni Arsenal Chaplain has very few drawbacks and a sweet upside if you buy Dueling Gloves. Not being able to take Advanced Weapon Training sucks but I still think it is worth it.
But what is the best direction to take it?
A 2 handed weapon seems ideal since you won't miss the scaling damage you lose.
But I've never built a 2HW focused character in Pathfinder before.
N Jolly's guide lists a lot of good feats but he doesn't have any sample builds yet.
Can anyone offer build advice? I know basics like high Str, decent Wis, Take Fate's Favored. I just don't know what feats are important other then Power Attack.
Grapple is a standard action that cannot normally be used as part of an attack. But Grapple says this.
Quote:
Humanoid creatures without two free hands attempting to grapple a foe take a –4 penalty on the combat maneuver roll. If successful, both you and the target gain the grappled condition (see the Appendices).
So as a humanoid I am using my hands to grab.
So for example if I am a Monk would having the Weapon Focus Unarmed feat grant me +1 to my CMB on Grapple checks?
With the latest announcement of new Seeker content I plan to dust off my Emerald Spire Wizard.
A general snapshot.
Level 14 Human Wizard (Void) no Archetype. Barred Fire spells.
Str 7
Dex 14
Con 14 (16)
Int 22 (28)
Wis 14
Cha 7
initiative +15 before wand of Heightened Awareness
Traits: Reactionary, Fate's Favored, and Observant from a boon.
Skills of note. Spellcraft and most knowledges +28, Perception +31, Escape Artist +18, Sense Motive +22.
Saves
Fort +17
Ref +14
Will +19
+4 Insight bonus vs spells and spell-like abilities.
As a Void Wizard I can spend a standard action to lower a creatures AC and saves by -7 no save, or spend a standard action to add +2 Insight bonus to all rolls allies within 30 feet of me make for 1 round.
I also summon as a standard action.
My spells mostly fall into 3 categories. Long duration buffs, Summons, and Save or Suck conjuration spells such as persistent Glitterdust, persistent Aqueous Orb, or Chains of Light.
Items of note:
Circlet +6 to Int
Staff of the Master
Stone of Good Luck
Belt +2 Con
Eyes of the Eagle
Cloak of Resistance +5
Gloves of Reconnaissance
Ioun stone +1 Competence bonus to saves
Ioun stone +1 Competence bonus to initiative
Ioun stone of +2 Competence bonus to a skill
Lesser Extend rod
Lesser Silent rod
Ivory Statue of myself for Contingency
Handy Haversack
Odds are after he plays the All for Immortality trilogy he'll go back into retirement so I don't want to save up for a book.
At the moment I have a little over 35,000 gold to spend.
So what should I buy?
