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Didn't see this on here yet...

Ghlorofaex doesn't need Altitude Affinity, being a dragon.

I'm currently playing a 5th-level inquisitor since 1st-level. He's a half-orc, giving him proficiency with a greataxe, which he uses far more often in combat than a ranged weapon. He kind of doubles as a scout and healer for my party, but is very decent in melee. A typical encounter involves him stealthing in with Invisibility to recon with his Monster Lore and then setting up a short-range sniping position. Activating the appropriate Bane he gets off a shot in the surprise round, then hopefully with his Cunning Initiative acts quickly in the next round drawing his axe moving in for a melee attack or charge. Once he's in the thick of it he uses Dazzling Display, then joined by two other melee fighters he makes tactical use of the teamwork feats Precise Strike and Outflank.

So I play him much more as a melee fighter and use his spells for scouting and healing, stuff that I don't need a high Wisdom for. I did give him Point-Blank Shot early on, which is the only reason why he really still uses a composite longbow. Pretty soon I probably won't use it anymore except in certain situations.

I gave him the Animal Domain so that I could get an animal companion, but I haven't actually picked one yet.

Grandfather:

Remember in your conversion that creatures with class levels but no racial HD are treated as 1 lower CR, such as the cultists, Ironbriar, etc. I've been running the AP on the fast XP progression (which the older APs meant for 3.5 are usually run on) and the reduction in XP from that has not affected the expected levels of my players. In fact, I suspect that if I didn't reduce the CRs to PRPG levels that I would have to switch to a slower XP progression.

Question for all:

on page 19 of Hook Mountain Hucker Graul is listed as having CR 8 as a barbarian 1/rogue 5, but shouldn't the ogrekin template only add 1 to the base creature's CR, not 2? Perhaps the level adjustment was used by mistake?

For matching things up with the Perception skill you may want to look at the spell invisibility, which says invisible creatures get a +40 bonus to their Stealth checks, or +20 if they're moving. So it could be that the base DC 20 Perception check to "notice the presence of an active invisible creature within 30 feet" is based on this; you assume the creature has a 0 check result and a +20 bonus? Or a +40 bonus if they're not moving, explaining that DC.

I think you found an important typo here: the line for "Not moving" should say +40 rather than -40. It could be someone was looking at the +40 for not moving in the invisibility spell and made a mistake when transcribing the table. But yes, I believe that if an invisible creature is not moving they should be very hard to notice or pinpoint: +40 to the DC to notice them (bringing it to DC 60) or DC 80 to pinpoint their square :P At that point you probably want to break out the glitterdust, a see invisibility spell, a dog with scent, or some other means of assistance.

Thanks, this helped clear things up... But then there's this, given the correction to the typo: say a 1st-level rogue with a Stealth of 9 stands still while sneaking & invisible... That would put the average DC for the Perception roll around 60, the same for a character who's not using Stealth at all, and 50% of the time the rogue would roll worse than average on his Stealth and be worse off than someone not sneaking at all. If their Dex is less than 20 they're worse off than that. Sure, they get progressively better each level, but it still seems strange that a good portion of the time being sneaky makes low-level rogues worse off than someone not even trying.

I'm a bit confused about the chart on page 563 of the PRGCR regarding the Invisibility Special Ability in Appendix 1. The text states that "there are a number of modifiers that can be applied to this DC if the invisible creature is moving or engaged in a noisy activity." Then follows the chart, which appears to list modifiers to the Perception DC. Is this referring to the DC 20 to know when an invisible creature is within 30 ft., or the check to pinpoint the creature? The text also states that the DC is at +20 to pinpoint an invisible creature; is this referring to any of the normal DCs listed under the Perception skill or the DC 20 to know an invisible creature is present, or both?

The numbers in the chart don't make sense if they are modifiers to a DC... the modifier for someone not moving is -40!!