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I'm interested in creating a druid whose sole purpose is to have a tremendously asskicking animal companion, so a ton of buffs for the animal companion, all money from adventures goes to equipment for the animal companion, etc.

You see, I'm creating a Priest of Sloth. Now that may sound like an evil cleric's role, but no, I mean literally a big sloth. I want to create a druid who worships a (probably one person) sloth cult and views Megatheriums as avatars of his god, who cares less for himself than his sloth, etc.

So, starting out sub-optimized from that point to start with and with only a rough idea of how to proceed, I'm wide open to suggestions. Note: I'm totally okay with any other class option that would work better for this, as long as I get a Megatherium companion that doesn't need to be summoned. If anyone knows of a way for touch spells to be cast through an animal companion that would make post-battle healing pretty amazing (after all, why would a priest heal if the avatar of a deity is right there!)

Important post: http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nv3a?Animal-companion-what-magic-items-are-all owed#19

So I decided to make a Dark Tapestry oracle who due to a series of unfortunate(?) circumstances basically ended up being raised in the dark by a bunch of Shoggoths who decided to conduct a social experiment. Long story short, he has glimpsed madness beyond the stars and time and feels that everyone must be brought to this glorious non-light.

He's a Quippoth Tiefling oracle with both the blindness and tongues curses, byproducts of his visions of the beyond as well as, well, being raised by shoggoths. Gift of madness, etc. Also, for traits he's got Darklands Delver and Missionary (I tried to work "Adopted" in in a fun way but couldn't really fit it). Other than a rusty chain shirt, a terrible stone dagger (minus to damage, plus to flavour!) he's pretty gear-less. So, beyond taking a bunch of fear and madness inducing spells, I have zero idea where to take him!

Also, "Profession: Cultist"

Yeah.

I'm a bit unclear on rules for shields, is it possible to have a potion in the shield hand and to drink from that potion while still retaining a shield bonus? Even with a buckler or maybe a ring of force shield? There's lots of stuff on weapons and wands, but I haven't been able to find anything on potions.

Do armour and natural armour bonuses stack? Could I have a chain shirt and an amulet of natural armour working together, or would only the highest count?

So I'm playing Pathfinder Society as the most stupidly rediculous character I've ever made, a dwarven Drunken Brute Barbarian Scout Ninja. Right now I'm BRB3/NIN2 and I just realized that have no real direction when it comes to equipment and spending my sweet sweet gold that I've been getting. I'm playing up frequently, so I tend to have a disproportionate amount of gold for my level. Here's my big thoughts:

My AC right now is 24 when not raging, I've got +1 dwarven stoneplate and a +1 buckler in addition to +2 from DEX. This is very useful since my stat distribution is such that I don't exactly get to tank things pretty hard. So one thought is just trying to crank up my AC as high as it'll go. Ring of protection, more plusses on the armour, etc. I do need to keep the buckler since I need to be able to drink to extend a rage if I have to. If anyone knows something that'll get me a shield bonus without taking up a hand that'd be awesome.

I could obviously try and magically bring up my CON to standard Barbarian numbers. This has the advantage of enabling me to live longer more. Downside is I'm the kind of player who prefers to avoid actually getting hit in the first place, and stat boosters add up super quickly.

I'm using a masterwork obsidian dwarven waraxe at this point, I could theoretically upgrade that to a +1 adamantine version of the same thing.

I could also look into wondrous items in some capacity. A few notes though: I pretty much can't move, in combat I can spend a round of rage to take either a move action and attack or double move, but other than that I'm relying on being in the thick of things and five-foot stepping between opponents, drinking from a flask of endless sake, and taking a single attack (I'll rarely be using more than one attack even when my BAB is that high, continuously raging is A: funnier and B: actually more useful most of the time).

I've also been eying the comfort property for armour because sleeping in it seems awesome and also the whole reduce ACP by 1 means I'd be getting a +8 on jump/acrobatic in full plate and always treated as running for the purposes of checks, but it's probably not worth the cost. I know I'm probably going to end up getting the +1 AC ioun stone since I've got a boon that lets me get it cheaply.

Any advice would be welcome!

Sorry for posting this here, I don't know who to contact or where this would go best.

At PaizoCon I was one of the finalists in the race (and came in second by an initiative roll-off, arrrrrgh!) and we were told that the runners up would be getting a boon in a week or so as it hadn't been written up or printed out at the time. I believe I even spoke to Mike Brock about whether or not it was going to be done by e-mail or some other means as I was leaving the country shortly after PaizoCon (though I may have spoken to another member of the staff, I think I have it right though!)

I was wondering if anything came of this. I haven't seen anything show up in my records or received any e-mail, and if it's something linked to a character I'd love to be able to get my hands on it before getting brutally murdered due to stunning incompetence.

So I have a mental image of a completely and totally insane oracle who was raised by aberrations of some kind for long backstory reasons (Parents died in a dungeon? Fell into a cave and got lost as a toddler? Etc.)

Either way, the basic idea is he's a human with as low a wisdom as possible and the Dark Tapestry mystery and the tongues curse leaving him blubbering in Aklo. I'm open to any suggestions to make a great if not insane character. Eventually I'd like his bluff and diplomacy to be so great that he can literally talk people into killing themselves (though that'll be hard without any bard levels to get certain fun bluff spells).

Either way, what I had him at as a start was:

STR 11
DEX 10
CON 10
INT 16
WIS 7
CHA 19

Skills: Disguise, Intimidate, Knowledge (arcana), Stealth

Mystery: Dark Tapestry

Curse: Tongues (Aklo)

Gift of Madness

Traits: Fast Talker +1 bluff, class skill, ?????

1st level spells: Murderous Command, Cause Fear

Disguise Kit +2 bonus

Feats: ?????, Skill Focus: Bluff

Languages: Abyssal, Lip Reading, Aboleth

Any advice?

So, ignoring any other arguments that could potentially lead to hard feelings and locked threads, I have a question with regards to a PC being an Oracle of an evil deity. Obviously the character cannot be evil, and it's important to make sure the character doesn't skirt the evil line all the time since you don't want to cause inter-party conflict. I figure maxing out bluff is a good way to start, since nothing is saying he needs to be honest about his faith and if he needs some cover he can lie his way through it.

One of the things that I'm specifically wondering is how best to approach the actual goals of the character. He obviously doesn't have a particularly hard time with the more evil nature of his deity (though he wouldn't necessarily fight to forward evil causes).

Does anyone have any experience with this? For reference, Dagon was the choice I was going with.

So, I know they come up as the bad guys every now and then, but are any of the Old Ones or Lovecraftian style outsiders available as deity choices in PFS? I have some fun character concepts that I'd love to flesh out...

Or lack of flesh, as the case may be.

edit: I just noticed that the "Unspeakable bond" trait is available... :D

Can you draw/drink potions with a light shield, or only with bucklers?

"A light shield's weight lets you carry other items in that hand, although you cannot use weapons with it."

Let's be honest, vanities are one of the more fun things players can have access to with PP, but some of them are kind of specific (owning a bar only adding to Profession: Bartender, for example. One might think that owning a bar would be a boon to "Preform: Stupid Bar Tricks" but nope!)

Titles, businesses, badges of honor, etc. All of these are really fun uses for PP that help prevent the standard "Let's hoard everything until I can afford a few Raise Dead spells" and since I see a lot of people around here asking if they can re-skin vanities to help with their profession, it does kind of seem like it'd be a fun thing to just toss a few more out there of. It's not like any of them are particularly game-breaking or in need of severe playtesting to balance out.

Come on, let's show some love for the roleplayers who want to spend their prestige on stupid fluffy things! :)

I have a question regarding porters and carrying capacity. Before I spend the PP on one, is this just treated for mechanical reasons like a sort of increase of carrying capacity? What if the porter is carrying an item I need in combat, etc.

And if it's purely flavour, is there anything truly stopping me from just saying I spent 5pp to spend a bunch of time figuring out how to affix my gear to me so I got used to carrying more stuff? :P

I have a BRB 1/NIN 2 in PFS and I'm trying to decide how best to spend my ninja trick. My main focus is being a drunken brute and simply raging through any and all combat while drinking like a wildman and five-foot stepping his way into flanks all through the battle (or just straight up burning rounds of rage when he needs to move). My goal with him is to eventually grab Cornugon Smash and just intimidate everything that moves, but that six ranks makes it a bit far off. :(

So, with my second level of Ninja comes a Ninja trick! I've thought of how best to spend it, I could get the Shadow Clone and buff myself in combat, but I honestly think the ki points would be better spent in my case getting free attacks. The idea of a climb speed is incredibly hilarious considering we're talking about a dwarf in full plate, but in the end I just don't know which way to go! I could just grab a combat feat, but ehhhh...

Any advice?

edit: I guess I could just also expand my ki pool with my 3rd level feat and take Power Attack as a bonus combat feat for four free attacks a game...