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Apparently unwilling to see what Johann’s bear form is capable of, Guido spills the beans... No! No! Please! I will tell you! We... we are supposedly restoring the aqueducts in preparation to defend the city from the coming dragon attack... In reality, we are preparing to facilitate the holocaust by introducing flammable oil to the water when the hour falls! Our master, Filippo Brunelleschi, is a servant of Lucifer! And I... I have made a deal with the Devil as well!
The man appears to be a Roman laborer, by his common work outfit. I am Guido, a muckraker serving Filippo Brunelleschi in the project to restore the aqueducts! This...shapeshifter!...snatched me after striking down three of my fellows in the shape of a great cobra!
Cobra Johann coils tightly around the last of the cultist laborers, who gasps a breathless cry for help, which albeit strangled, echoes back up the passage to their leader...
The four cultists approach with obvious apprehension... Johann’s forked tongue tastes their fear in the dank air... And no sooner do three of them get within ten feet of the deceptively coiled serpent hero when Johann strikes all three down and out in a matter of seconds! The fourth hurls his dagger from ten feet away... ...harmlessly bouncing it off the tunnel wall! AAAAAIIIIEEE!!!
Four figures appear out of the gloom from the right bearing torches and drawn daggers... In Italian: Zounds! A snek!
Johann’s intentions to remain vigilant are hindered by the many fascinating distractions the outlying districts of Rome have to offer: acrobats and jugglers performing in the streets for silver florins, musicians plying their trade for the same, and food vendors selling delicious-smelling fare from carts... He fails to notice the coming and going of a few dark-robed figures entering or leaving Catacombs entrances...
The cultist whose face Johann has bitten off screams in terror and despair at the thought of going on without a face... The unbearable thought drives the already unstable Roman over the edge! He leaps to a terrible death in the firepit, where his black robes immediately ignite! AAAAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!! In a matter of seconds, the cultist is consumed by the roaring flames!
Zagathoth’s falchion shears through cloth, flesh, and bone, and the cultists’ left arm flies away from his body, spraying blood! AAAAGH!! The east most cultist collapses on the floor in an expanding pool of blood!
as its little body is consumed by the flames In Italian: AAAAAIIIIEEE!! MY FACE!! It’s EATING my FACE!!!
The Fox’s mystic bolt sizzles and crackles into the east cultist’s flesh! GNAAAAAAAACH!!
The two masked devil-worshipping baby-killers are caught completely off guard by the sudden appearance of the furious Bear!
Johann charges like an enraged mother grizzly protecting her cubs into the hexagonal chamber to the north... Here, he encounters a chilling and infuriating scene: a pair of black-robes figures wearing skull-face masks are standing to east and west of a diamond-shaped firepit at the center of the chamber, in which roaring orange flames leap halfway up to the twenty-foot-high ceiling...
MOLOCH!! SOG MORDROX FERNIX VICTIMAS!! Infernal: MOLOCH!! CONSUME THIS VICTIM IN YOUR DEADLY FLAMES!!
From the north can now clearly be heard by all: MOLOCH ASHK NOXT GRAVAX!! MOLOCH ANGULF HABRAX!! ** spoiler omitted **
Mingled with the infant’s crying are sinister voices chanting in an evil-sounding tongue ... MOLOCH ASHK NOXT GRAVAX!! MOLOCH ANGULF HABRAX!! Infernal: MOLOCH ACCEPT THIS SACRIFICE!! MOLOCH BE PRAISED!!
The Necromancer lairs in a vault deep in the catacombs, west of where you....stopped the sacrifice....and down a winding stair....a moat of vile waters, in which the Dread Guardian swims, surrounds his underground island.... Beware the Dread Guardian! And beware the Necromancer! He will try to add your bones to his army of skeletons! Or feed you to the Dread Guardian....
The cultist cringes at the deft display of daggerwork and avoids making eye contact with Paddy, clearly intimidated by the rogue....
Grasping Alphonse's hand, the man kisses it and weeps.
The cultist blanches in terror.... Please have mercy, Monsieur! I cannot do this! He would make ghouls or walking corpses of us all! Hang me if you must....but please....let me give confession....and take once more the body and blood of Our Savior before I meet my fate.... He breaks down in sobs of remorse and grief for a life ill spent....
From Madame Jezebel's brothel, here on the isle.... A harlot's babe....
The cultists, clad in black robes and cowls, and masked with skull face masks, bore masterwork cold iron daggers (3), silver necklaces with inverted silver crucifixes inlaid with tiny bloodstones (3), and Satanic rosary beads with human teeth and finger bones in place of beads and inverted crucifixes (3). One of the three (the one tortured to unconsciousness by Nacht) also has a black leather scroll tube tucked in the rope cinching his waist....
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! The cultist twists and shrieks in agony as The Beetle Man tortures and mortified his flesh.... He collapses, eyes rolling back in his head as he loses consciousness.....
One wounded cultist remains standing.... Even with the skull mask hiding half his face, his growing terror of imminent doom is apparent! In French: I renounce Satan and all his evil works! Forgive me, Lord Jesus! Have mercy on my wretched soul! Dropping his dagger, the cultist drops to his knees before Nacht and raises his hands together in a pleading or praying gesture....
Tumbling past the cultists, the nimble samurai snatches the wailing infant from the altar, then reverse somersaults backward past the cultists again, drawing two AoOs as he does so.... AoO misses.... AoO nicks the samurai's thigh for piercing damage with a curvy dagger!
Jimeno keeps the second cultist dodging madly to avoid his thrusts, only to move into Hisao the ninja's deadly thrust!
A flurry of cuts on the third cultist leaves him pale and gasping in pain!
AAAAARRRGGGGGGHHH!!! The ninja appears out of the shadows and misses with his first attempt to disrupt the cultist's spell, dodges the roaring cones of flame (mostly.... He stills takes a total of 6 fire damage from the two burning hands spells), and slips a retaliatory thrust past the cultist's guard and into flesh! The second cultist falls, succumbing from multiple wounds....
Paddy's rapier thrust takes the nearest of the two remaining cultists in the chest as he chants and forks his fingers.... Concentration check vs DC 15 to get off the burning hands succeeds!
Stabbing the cultists that Paddy stabbed earlier, bringing him closer to death!
Will vs DC 14 fascinating sermon succeeds! This cultist places a doubtful hand on the infant, almost as if to protect it, as Fray recites the Beatitudes.... Will vs DC 14 fascinating sermon fails! This cultist ignores Fray's assertion that the meek shall inherit the Earth....
The cultists fork their fingers at the adventurers and intone words of evocation, causing hellfire to spring out from their hands and blaze the advancing intruders! Alphonse, Nacht, Hisao and Paddy must each make two Ref saves, DC 12, to avoid the burning hands that sear for and fire damage respectively!
Paddy's rapier sinks into the second cultists, who screams in agony!
Alphonse sweeps the head of the cultist wounded by Nacht off of his shoulders with a bold stroke of his scythe!
Nacht's blow slices deep, drawing blood and a startled cry of pain and alarm from the skull-masked cultist!
Three black-robed, hooded figures wearing skull masks stand near the unholy altar, one laying what appears to be a sedated human infant upon the altar! They turn to face the adventurers as they enter the gallery.... Initiative
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Anybody else seen an uptick in disruptive play from players who are playing goblin characters? Maybe it's just that my play style differs greatly from the style in my new location, but I don't find it particularly enjoyable to spend my time cleaning up after a character that, in pf1, would've been arrested in the first act.
I wondered if folks might give me some feedback on a custom creature. Any idea the level such a creature should be? I don't know exactly what the stat modifiers are just yet:
Immune: mind affecting and Critical Hit damage (special) Vulnerable: on a critical, instead of applying extra damage to the golem, apply it as you would an object with hardness 5 (apply non-crit damage normally). The Clockwork Golem can take two dents without becoming broken, but each dent applies a -2 penalty to all dice rolls (including damage) and -2 to AC. A broken Clockwork Golem does not function, but it may be repaired by an expert craftsman. A destroyed Cloclwork Golem cannot be repaired and is a total loss.
When a telekineticist uses Foe Throw, is she subject to the weight limits of Telekinetic Blast? Ability links:
Arguments in favor:
Arguments against:
After a Facebook discussion on the subject devolved into "you're wrong and a dumb#@& because your disagree with me" I thought I'd bring it here (where we have such a reputation for cool heads? Lol.) No, where maybe we can get a devs attention or a FAQ ruling if it feels enough people disagree. Please discuss! Also, if no clear rules answer from the text or a developer becomes evident, please FAQ. Thanks!
My question: Does a +1 Arrow fired from a +1 Evil-Outsider-Bane Bow at an evil outsider bypass DR/Silver or Cold Iron? Some relevant sources:
source: link
source (which is much more readable): link So my question, I suppose, depends on the answer to this question:
Because if the BOW gets it, it then passes on its hit/damage, but the ammunition does not count as +3 for DR purposes. If the ARROW gets it, then the +1 the arrow has and the +2 from Bane make the ARROW a +3 arrow for all purposes, including DR. I appreciate your responses!
I looked, but I couldn't find another thread. Oracles who cast modern spells get cure or inflict spells in addition to their spells known. That language is conspicuously absent from the description of wordcasting oracles
I know pretty well that in the rules forum, I'll get a RAW answer. I guess my question is whether people think it's also RAI that oracles have one fewer known spell per level if they are wordcasters?
And with that, we're back to developing more scenarios, sanctioning more playable content, and working toward our best convention season yet! I hear there's a Drowned City whose seers could use some official Pathfinder Society sanctioning... :) If you're looking for suggestions, that is.
Based on the following: You can cast a spell at a lower caster level than normal, but the caster level you choose must be high enough for you to cast the spell in question, and all level-dependent features must be based on the same caster level.
Can a kineticist choose to use a kinetic blast as though they were of a lower level? That is, could a level 10 kineticist choose to fire a 1d6 + half con simple energy blast as though they were a level 1 kineticist?
I've posted on product discussion, too, but I wasn't sure which location was appropriate, so I cross-posted. Hope you don't mind! The Glyph of the Open Road (Pathfinder Society Logo, Logos package, Community Use Packages) is monochromatic, black-on-transparent. I'd like to personally embroider the glyph onto a custom dice bag, and I was going to use gold. Would that be an acceptable use? The policy says not to change the color, but since it's monochromatic, I thought maybe. Second, with a product like a dice bag, it's hard to incorporate the CUP statement into the item itself. Would a printed copy included with the dice bag (which I'm giving as a gift) be sufficient, or would I need to put it on a tag? Thanks so much!
I now what the rules say, under the brew potion feat, concerning making choices at the time of brewing. Potions of Lesser Restoration should be tagged with an ability score. (Potion of lesser restoration (constitution) )But they're often not. In the wild and on chronicle sheets, you'll find plenty of examples of untagged potions. Has there been a campaign clarification about hand waving that requirement? I'll be honest, I didn't know it existed until earlier this week, and I'm going to have to go back now and change my characters' inventory to include tags. I've also never seen it enforced. So I'm curious. Is this a requirement i should be using?
I'm planning a long battle. Like, a solid four-hour dungeon crawl. Our heroes have a way to track down the baddie who's been plaguing the town, but she's got time to prepare. I don't imagine they'll have much time between battles to rest. If they do, they'll probably have a fight during one of the watches. How do I rate the CR of the fights at the end of the battle to represent their depleted resources?
I am constructing a witch to be the "Big Bad" for the sleepy little town my PCs started in. I'm pairing her with some undead of my own creation that function in almost every way like burning skeletons, except they deal negative energy damage instead of fire, and their aura empowers negative energy effects within 5 ft. (CR1) My party is well-built, balanced, and tactically intelligent. They handled a CR6 encounter at level 2. I'm trying to decide at what level to bring in the witch. I can't wait too long, as the build loses effectiveness pretty quickly. She can control (L) HD of undead, so if I brought her in at 6th level, she'd have 2 channel dice, 6 minions, and level 3 spells. She'd be CR5, and each of the skeletons would be CR1, resulting in a CR7 encounter. But most of the power is centered in one creature. Mm, she also has animate dead as a patron spell, and could conceivably raise 12HD of undead in one go (twice caster level, right?). I'm also unsure of how that interacts with bone thrall, though it would appear she has both pools of undead to pull from. Maybe she'll raise a skeletal T-Rex if she gets in trouble. We're in the mwangi expanse, after all. Is this challenging or a TPK in the making? What kinds of tactical advantages should I give the PCs to make this fight a fight worth remembering?
Euphorica is a fairly interesting drug. But RAW it doesn't effect potions - only spells cast. If I were to have it affect cure potions in a home campaign, how do you suppose I would let people detect it? Spellcraft 16 is just going to get them the Cure Light Wounds spell. How do I get them the rest of the way? Treat it like a cursed item?
Bracers of armor +1/spell storing Since the bonus is a force effect, it works vs. Incorporeal creatures. Would that mean the spell stored would be cast on an incorporeal creature? If the same character is wearing +3 full plate, do the bracers still work vs. the incorporeal? It says they shut down in the presence of more powerful armor, including their enhancements. Might be fun to run around with a cure critical stored in your bracers. Never ever goes off until the shadow tries to steal your soul...then smack! But it's a significant waste of money if you aren't regularly encountering incorporeal undead. So it's mostly a curiosity.
Any ideas how to estimate the cost and caster level to create this item? I'm trying to figure it out for balance purposes, mostly. All of the players in this game get a custom item, and I'm trying to be sure they balance. Item: Evoker's Wand of Spontaneity
This item allows the spontaneous casting of any evocation spell that the user knows or has prepared that day. The user is granted a number of charges equal to the highest level of spell he or she can cast. These charges correspond to spell levels. A level one spell may be cast using one charge, a level four spell using four charges, etc.. This wand can be used to cast level 0 evocation spells and their racial spell-like counterparts as cantrips, regardless of whether the user is able to cast level 0 spells as cantrips. When this wand serves as an arcane focus, it may be used to cast a single spell from either spellbook or spells known once per day as normal. However, if the spell cast is from the Evocation school, and if the wand has sufficient charges remaining, those charges can be used to apply any single metamagic feat the user knows. The user must be able to cast a spell at the resulting spell level, and using the wand in this manner is a full-round action.
When one casts a touch spell, one receives a free touch attempt in that round. That's undisputed. But could you use that free attempt to feint? What about to aid another's attack? I'm playing a buff/heal oracle, and I don't have that many offensive options. The party fighter has picked up an intelligent sword that has a habit of teleporting him to the other side of the battlefield, and that leaves the rogue without a flank buddy. I'm considering picking up a wand of inflict light and the Feint Partner feat so that I can double up on that role. Being able to cast AND feint in the same round would be very useful. My GM did let me cast a light spell and, with a bluff check, aid an attack once. (That was amusing.) Thoughts?
Hey everyone, I've played at some really amazing tables. I've also played at some really terrible ones. To wit, I've been pondering of late what makes the difference, and I've come to believe (at least, for the moment,) that the difference is immersive game state. As a GM, at my tables recently, I've been trying to really up my storytelling game. I try to describe the feel of the air on your skin, the shadows playing around the edges of light sources, and the ambient sounds around you. When spellcasters cast spells, I make certain I know what material components the spell uses and describe exactly how the spell comes together. I do this as a player now, too. Example from today, as a player. "I spit in my palm. Then I reach into my spell component pouch and withdraw a pinch of soot and salt, which I mix with my saliva while canting over it, and it begins to glow with a soft red light. In a swift gesture, I wipe the glowing slurry from ear to ear like this [demonstrate from ear to ear by way of the eyes]. When I open my eyes, I begin to read aloud the following:" [the GM takes over] Another example - Enlarge Person:
As a GM, I find this seems to really engage my players. I also find that if I'm not careful, it turns a 4 hour adventure into a six-hour one. Or, to be more honest, I find I give up after I realize I'm behind and start running the game in speed mode. Thus, the beginning of the game seems very immersive, and the end (to me) seems very grind-it-out. GMs: How do you balance creating a player's experience with respecting their time? How do you create an immersive environment that everyone's going to love and enjoy without running over your scheduled timeframe. With PFS, this is especially important. Players: How much do you put into your storytelling? Do you follow the GM's lead, or do you try to lead by example? I look forward to reading your responses!
Scenario: character 1 requires an action to throw a thunderstone if character 2 starts casting. Character 2 casts a spell, so character 21throws the stone. Character 2 must make a fortitude save vs deafness (dc15). Is character 2 subject to a dc [thunderstone]15 + spell level concentration check to keep from losing the spell on account of the really loud bang that just happened? It would seem like it should to me, but I'm not sure by RAW.
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