Sure. Why make a base class function in new and interesting ways when you could spend two pages turning a few more spells into wild talents? (That only a seventh or two of kineticists will ever use, no less.)
At least Kinetic Invocation cut out the middleman there. ^_^
Personally I liked Kinetic Invocation, wish it would have made it into a RPG Core book with an updated and expanded list, a couple pages could hold a lot of spell/invocations listed this way.
If a Queen of a country marries an Emperor and the Queen's country remains ruled solely by the Queen and the queen is granted no authority over the empire, would she be referred to as Queen or Empress consort ?
Not sure how you'd do it but if you were able to add the Air Subtype it would have the Fly skill as a class skill
Also if you were able to convert the ship into a golem rather than animated object the Bioconstruct modification - Brain would become available to train it feats and skills.
The Planar Traveler (Story) feat from Player's Companion - Quests and Campaigns is better, once it's required are fulfilled you always arrive on target whether you used spells or items as well as see on the other side of portals.
Though it would be nice to have additional options other than feats for builds that are feat starved.
It's surprising there isn't some sort of beacon spell/item that you can set up so when you return to that plane it's not some random location.
Here's the list I put together, it's everything I could find that uses the Craft Construct feat (including some magic items)
DC is for if it included one for making the construct.
I suppose these lists will be more useful to more when the new Construct Builder guide comes out
What would be the cost of combining the Gravity blast (or Telekinetic blast) with Aetheric Boost and the boost composite from void?
Also how would the damage be calculated?
Gravity or telekinetic with both of those is an option at 15th, since they each work on composites. It would cost 3 burn and do 8d8+16. If you really wanted to run wild, though, you could put both of them on something that is already a composite (at 15th) like void blast (if you were void/aether/void), which would do 16d8+32. It costs 4 burn so is a significant commitment (even composite specialization, supercharged gather, and internal buffer would need to all come together to negate its cost, and that last one is a pretty limited resource), but it is the most damaging composite blast currently possible.
With all the new options since Occult Origins, would you still say the Aetheric Gravity Boosted Void blast is the most damaging composite blast ?
Oh I'm on board for the shifter. If it has some spell casting that's cool, but I assume it won't which is fine cause shape sifting is awesome.
The list of classes getting Archetypes looks good, a nice mix.
I love fey so I'm happy to see them around, but agree that some elemental stuff (especially that might tie into some under developed Kineticist elements, hint) is present.
Will we finally get Basic Phytokinesis?
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Really excited for the Shifter Class! can't wait to see the playtest!
Also quick question for Mark, Since the Wood kineticist is still missing it's Basic Phytokinesis talent, will we be seeing that element released properly in this book?
Will you guys be expanding onot the invocation list with future books?
Doing so would be very tricky, due to the way that referencing Player Companions works. That said, it's something I'll be looking for ways to effectively accomplish (ideally with Mr. Seifter's help).
Kinetic Invocation's popularity will certainly be a point in its favor. ^_^
I'd love a Pathfinder Tale about this Kinetic Graveknight, I bet Ari Marmell could do it justice whether villain or hero. (Though i'd bet the graveknight would be the protagonist) ;-)
Sorry I'm slow on finding this thread. I'm in internet hell and don't visit much lately. There are novels in the works. That's all I can say right now. Thanks for the interest!
Thanks Chris for the update, it's good to know there's still more Pathfinder Tales on the way
I've received my copy! Hopefully this isn't too much information, but if it is, I totally understand if the moderators feel the need to delete this post. I'm hoping just this much is okay...
Would it be compatible with Omnikinesis for switching out talents ?
Personal opinion: I'd allow it as long as you had the feat. If you were accessing it via race or subtype, same applies, except that you couldn't go outside your element. This is based on the line in omnikinesis about meeting other prerequisites of the talents (i.e., having the feat or racial qualification).
Thanks Isabelle for the reply
Mark has said that for getting talents from Elemental Saturation with Omnikinesis would require doing the necessary trial/s first before being able to switch out, so something similar would probably work here too.
(Chaokineticist) Would a negative energy blast have any effect on inanimate vegetation such as trees and bushes?
The Create Demiplane set of spells states etherealness as a way to enter the demiplane, how would this be accomplished ?
When using the Astral Projection spell to create a new body on another plane can you choose the location it's created ? Also can that body still use spells like teleport ?
When Forbiddance is used in a demiplane what effects should translate to the material plane where that demiplane occupies on the ethereal ?
Personally I think it should at least block ethereal travel and the damaging effects should only work on the demiplane itself but should it also block teleportation/plane shift/summoning spells as well ?
What should a Forbiddance spell look like on the ethereal ?
Would a Forbiddance spell already in effect on a demiplane count as overlapping if you were to cast one on the prime material ?
Since the Mythic Paths are pretty much based off an ability score and classes that correlate with them,if material were to be created for Occult classes, would it be better to expand the 1'st tier base abilities (Champion's Strike, Archmage Arcana, and so on) and add new path abilities to the current mythic paths or would it be better to created completely new paths for each occult class ?
Mark, do you think a trait that would reduce the Burn of a Kineticist's burn by 1 point when every they used burn too powerful for a Trait?
I thought of calling it Feel The Burn.
I have Kineticist question, would a swarm be affected if it entered a Kineticist's square when he was useing gather power? If so how much damage would this do to the swarm.
Mark how would you write a power for a Kineticist to channel his blast damage into a melee weapon he was carrying inflicting the damage on whom ever he hit with his weapon.
For dealing damage to swarms when gathering power, it could lead into dealing damage to projectile weapons targeting the same square .
It would be interesting if it did but will probably be unlikely, maybe as a Mythic ability
Question is now relevant because if they are not, then there's an item that is impossible to create.
The requirements for the "kineticist's diadem" are "Craft Wondrous Item, creator must be a 10th-level kineticist with access to the appropriate element"
So, obviously, the kineticist would have to have a caster level in order to be able to take the feat "craft wondrous item".
However, I can't find any mention for or against it. The kineticist uses spell-like abilities that have DC's like a caster, but the kineticist class doesn't seem to make any mention of using actual magic or being a caster than I can find.
A - Spell-like abilities don't count for crafting feats. However, master craftsman would work, as would a 3-level dip in a casting class to allow crafting.
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Mark I got a question. I was reading Blood Kineticist and blood blast didn't make any sense to me.
Blood blast says:"instead, she gains the blood composite blast, which costs 2 points of burn. A blood blast is a physical blast that deals bludgeoning damage. It is associated with the same infusions as the water blast."
Now all of the Blood kineticist infusion work with a regular water blast. So why would I pay 2 points of burn to have an invisible gnome wizard cast prestidigiation on my water blast to turn it red?
Unless you guys omitted a line in there?
A - Composite blasts do twice the damage before Con is added, and cost two burn.
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Can the Pulling infusion be used to take someone's weapon from their hands ?
Also would it be able to pull someone who is currently grappling another ?
A - Similarly to pushing infusion, or really any bull rush or pull, on the moving grappled creatures front (I'd follow bull rush "another creature in the way" rules as precedent). As to attended objects, typically you wouldn't be able to target those separately with an attack.
Here's some more Q&As, in case it comes up I'm number each 1b, and so on for if/when I post more, so depending on which post it will be easier to reference a q&a
I would have changed my first list but I found out too late that after a certain time I couldn't edit my post.
Question, when you use the ability to gather energy to reduce your burn by one, it says you use "both hands". Can I assume this means 2 hands? This becomes important if I have a Kineticist with 3+ arms (alchemist, Kasatha, Mutant, ect).
What trade off is there between the physical blasts and the energy blasts? What action are they?
A - Physical Blasts
Cons: Hits normal AC, subject to damage reduction.
Pros: Deals more damage, not subject to energy resistance/immunity or spell resistance.
Energy Blasts
Cons: Deals less damage, subject to energy resistance/immunity and spell resistance.
Pros: Hits touch AC, not subject to damage reduction.
Also, regarding the fire/aether flying abilities: I presume that is for sitting at a light load/light armour. What is the effect if you are brought to medium/heavy load or armour? As written it has no effect, which I suppose makes it better than the air ability since the fly spell reduced the movement from 60' to 40' in those conditions.
A - This is actually an advantage of those two abilities. They do have one drawback in that you can only move in (up to 2 with greater) straight lines.
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Also looking at synergies - Air's Reach and Kinetic Whip. Does this make your reach weapon twice as long (ie reaching out 20' for a medium/small creature)?
A - No, it's still a reach weapon appropriate for your size.
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A. So is the point of this infusion just to make it so that you can use your kinetic blast as a melee attack?
B. When you use this infusion, I'm assuming you don't get to deal the damage of your kinetic blast for the actual blast and the damage for the infusion, correct? You basically just deal your normal kinetic blast damage but it is delivered as a melee attack instead of a ranged attack?
2. Kinetic Fist
A. Sort of the same line of thought as my first question, does this infusion basically just allow you to deliver your kinetic blast as an unarmed attack?
B. Would damage be your unarmed attack damage + the additional 1d6 for this infusion?
A - 1A. Yes. And so you can use iterative attacks and/or haste via full-attack actions which blast can't do. Also, Weapon Focus (kinetic blast) applies to kinetic blade. Kinetic Whip has advantage that it lasts until beginning of your next turn, so you can use it for AoOs.
1B. You apply the blast damage as a melee attack, but no bonus damage from elemental overflow.
2A. Kinetic fist modifies unarmed damage. You're still considered unarmed unless you got Improved Unarmed Strike. Weapon Focus (unarmed strike) is used.
2B. Yes. You start with 1d6 and doesn't become 2d6 until level 11 when the blast is 6d6. It's not the greatest infusion. Blade is usually better.
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Q - So, a lot of the kineticist blasts are of the physical type. So, does this affect incorporeals? There is this line:
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All damage from a kinetic blast is treated as magic for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction.
But that seems to only apply to damage reduction. So:
1. Would an aetherkineticist's telekinetic blast hurt an incorporeal with a non-magical object for half damage? If not, would it deal half damage if a magic object were thrown?
2. Does an aquakineticist's water blast (bludgeoning) deal half damage to incorporeals or no damage?
A - As per this FAQ physical kinetic blasts which are still magic vs DR would still do half damage against incorporeal creatures.
Incorporeal Creatures and "Counts as Magic": Say I have an attack that counts as magical for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction, such as from the monk's ki pool (magic). Does that mean I can't harm an incorporeal creature at all, since the attack doesn't count as magical for that purpose?
Such attacks should also be able to harm incorporeal creatures as if the attack was magic. This will be reflected in future errata.
A - They're listed as "ranged attacks" for the physical blasts and as "ranged touch attacks" for the energy blasts. Since there is no critical threat range or multiplier given, you use the default values of "crit on 20" and "x2".
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Question is now relevant because if they are not, then there's an item that is impossible to create.
The requirements for the "kineticist's diadem" are "Craft Wondrous Item, creator must be a 10th-level kineticist with access to the appropriate element"
So, obviously, the kineticist would have to have a caster level in order to be able to take the feat "craft wondrous item".
However, I can't find any mention for or against it. The kineticist uses spell-like abilities that have DC's like a caster, but the kineticist class doesn't seem to make any mention of using actual magic or being a caster than I can find.
A - Spell-like abilities don't count for crafting feats. However, master craftsman would work, as would a 3-level dip in a casting class to allow crafting.
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Would the mythic ability Recuperation work to heal Burn ?
A - It counts as a full 8 hour rest for recovering all other abilities, even those that can normally only be recovered every 24 hours, so seems like it should do so for burn too. Now, as someone who likes to dabble with some of the mythic rules in my home games, I don't really recommend using recuperation, but if you do, it should work.
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Mark I got a question. I was reading Blood Kineticist and blood blast didn't make any sense to me.
Blood blast says:"instead, she gains the blood composite blast, which costs 2 points of burn. A blood blast is a physical blast that deals bludgeoning damage. It is associated with the same infusions as the water blast."
Now all of the Blood kineticist infusion work with a regular water blast. So why would I pay 2 points of burn to have an invisible gnome wizard cast prestidigiation on my water blast to turn it red?
Unless you guys omitted a line in there?
A - Composite blasts do twice the damage before Con is added, and cost two burn.
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There was some confusion in the full OA thread, but Elemental Overflow comes online if you take burn and stays on (unless suppressed) the whole day, only going away when you sleep and heal your burn, correct?
Can the Pulling infusion be used to take someone's weapon from their hands ?
Also would it be able to pull someone who is currently grappling another ?
A - Similarly to pushing infusion, or really any bull rush or pull, on the moving grappled creatures front (I'd follow bull rush "another creature in the way" rules as precedent). As to attended objects, typically you wouldn't be able to target those separately with an attack.
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Does spell Death Ward give complete immunity from the negative energy blasts from Void kineticist ? It says it protects from negative energy effects but doesn't explicitly say negative energy damage.
The spell does provide total immunity to negative energy damage. Negative energy attacks are a "negative energy effect". It's hardly the main source of negative energy immunity (undead, constructs, etc), though, of course, so I wouldn't recommend negative blast as your first blast anyway. By the time people have death ward (7th level for 4th-level spells, even as the highest spell slot), you'll have multiple types of blasts, even if you go straight void..
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Can the negative energy blasts damage inanimate objects ? would it be half damage ?
Inanimate objects would take no damage since they aren't living creatures, so they can't be harmed by negative energy. Same as if someone channeled negative energy..
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So Mark, would No Breath on a void kineticist mean that they are immune to suffocating and/or drowning? My gut tells me yes, but that seems pretty awesome if that's the case.
Yup. Basically like a necklace of adaptation plus some assistance surviving in the void of space. It's a nice utility talent for sure!.
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When an invisible kineticist uses the feat Delay Blast, when would the invisibility be deactivated ?
Does Telekinetic Invisibility have the same duration as the spell or is it until deactivated or making an attack ?
Occult Adventures contains some Rods meant exclusively for Kineticists, which requires Craft Rod (which Master Craftsman does not grant access to), will Kineticists possibly get an ability like the Alchemist's Spell Knowledge Discovery to qualify for Crafting feats ?
1) Should be the same as delayed blast fireball, so I think that's on casting and not on its activation (unless you spend the action to activate early, I would say). This does mean you should be able to set one up, then go invisible and wait for your prey to come upon your little ambush.
2) As the spell, but it's easy to just do it again.
3) They can work together with a friend, each providing one of the prereqs. Honestly Craft Rod is overall not a great feat for a kineticist anyway, even if they could take like a wild talent to gain access; better to have a Spellcraft buddy to take the crafting feat, I'd think..
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Would a kineticist holding an overflowing rod or hollow rod or vril staff be unable to gather power as both hands/all appendages are no longer free?
Overflowing rod was intended to be one that you just carry on your person and not in hand to get passives, like rod of splendor. The other two do require being in hand, so you'll probably want gloves of storing or the like (which are pretty cheap compared to the two items in question); things that let you draw super-fast are also really helpful on that front..
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How does Kinetic Healer work? It says it is based off "Kinetic Blast" damage, but the Kinetic Blast has two progressions depending on whether you pick Simple or Composite, so what do you do? Simple Blast? Pick? Spend 2 burn extra to use composite? I am genuinely confused
It should include everything that you normally always add with one of the associated elements' blasts (like overflow) but not anything you'd have to append as extra (like a composite, infusion, or metakinesis). It was at one time more verbose in spelling out every interaction, but it was taking up too much space that way..
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Can a kineticist use multiple uses of Omnikinesis to get wild talents with prerequisites? Such as using the first burn to get the prerequisite wild talent then another to get a wild that requires the first?
When using Omnikinesis to switch out wild talents can they be any level or must they be the same that's being switched out?
You can use multiple uses of omnikinesis to build up chains, yup. No level restrictions on which one you swap, so you could swap a 1st level for a 9th level if you want! Omnikinesis is pretty awesome that way..
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Hi Mark,
Sorry if this has been asked before, but:
Can substance infusions be used with kinetic whip/kinetic blade?
Does the attack bonus provided by elemental overflow apply to kinetic whip/kinetic blade? (I know the damage bonus doesn't.)
Substances work, and attack bonus does too, but not damage bonus from overflow (this also means that those FCB that require overflow don't ever work on blade and whip)..
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Asked in the Kineticist Damage thread:
"My next campaign we'll be using [the Revised Action Economy] full-stop from day one, and I've used it now for half of my campaign that's ending, and all of another little short campaign. One of the players in the next campaign wants to be a Kineticist, and I'm debating whether or not to leave the normal blasts at just 2 actions or expand them a bit.
Would it break everything if I allowed the 2 action attack to be broken into 1 action attacks that deal half damage? It'd allow for Gather Power to do more in a single turn and for the character to sling three blasts as a full round, all dealing half but with the iterative penalties, or a 2 action blast and a 1 action blast, etc. Composite Blasts would be locked in at 2 actions."
I saw the earlier response on Gather Power, which is how I'll be running it. For the blasts themselves, is it better to leave the player with their 2 action attack, or let them get in on the action with some more (less damaging) attacks?
A blast should be 2 actions, though whip and blade would be 1 action per attack, and since a full attack action no longer exists, you'd change the nuance on how blade works accordingly..
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Thanks for the occult FAQs!
How long does a pyrokineticist's smoke storm wild talent last for? As long as a smokestick's 1 min duration? It and thundering infusion don't state a duration.
Thundering is permanent deafness. The smoke storm seems like it's missing a Con modifier number of rounds or until you use it again that several other wild talents have (so could be more than a minute for a high-enough Con pyro!). Good catch..
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Here's a quick question about the kineticist: At 11th level, with Supercharge, it says, "At 11th level, when using gather power as a move action, a kineticist can reduce the total burn cost of a single wild talent by 2 points instead of 1. When using gather power for 1 full round, she can reduce the burn cost of a single wild talent by 3 points instead of 2." Mostly I'm just wondering, when it comes to gathering energy for a full round and then gathering more, does this mean:
a) There's no point in doing so anymore, gathering energy for a full round is already at maximum efficiency of -3, using your move action on top of that does nothing.
b) Doing so reduces it by an additional point, increasing to -4.
c) Doing so is the same as using a move action a second time, so it's actually -3 with an added -2 on top of that for a total of -5.
...I'm presuming A is correct, but wanted to be sure when taking notes for how much burn gets reduced at what level.
Edit: In case I'm being incoherent since it's late, what goes where I have ?, -3, -4, or -5?
As Xel mentioned, it's C. The two still stack like before, but now for a total of 5. Go forth and be awesome!.
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Mark, what does the size change of Kinetic Form exactly do for the Kineticist?
A) Does it grant size bonus to CMD/CMB?
B) Penalty to AC?
C) Increased damage with unarmed strike/other weapons?
D) Can one benefit from enlarge person and then spend one point of burn to become huge or two points to become gargantuan? What about if they have already spent the points, and then have enlarge person cast on them? (I'm assuming the answer is, "No" here)
F) Increase in carrying capacity?
G) Faster movement speed?
H) Penalty to skills? (fly, stealth, etc)
Besides increasing your reach, I'm unclear as to what else it does for you. I know it doesn't affect your ability scores in any way (so no boost to strength/constitution or penalty to dexterity), but size increases involve more than just boosts/penalties to ability scores.
Separate question, how long does Kinetic Cover stick around for? Could a telekinetic, theoretically, build an entire maze out of translucent kinetic covers?
A) Yes.
B) Yes.
C) Unarmed would be yes, but the power doesn't resize your manufactured weapons, so those wouldn't do more.
D) No, enlarge person specifically indicates that it doesn't work with any other effect that changes size.
E) There is no E.
F) Yup.
G) I've never seen increased size directly grant a movement speed increase, so unless it does and I've just missed it all this time, then I'm not sure why it possibly would.
H) Yes.
Bonus Question: It sticks around until someone breaks it, but there's a limit to how many can exist (see the last sentence)..
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Mark, a question came up in N. Jolly's Kineticist Guide thread:
When you Gather Energy, does the visible effect extend through walls? We were looking forward to using Silence to make Gather Energy work as a pre-combat buff without instantly spoiling the surprise. The visible component could presumably be hidden by staying behind a wall, but in tight quarters, that might cause spillage into adjacent rooms.
In your playtests, have you guys ever used full-round Gather? Did you figure out other tricks to make it work in everyday adventuring?
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2su6f&page=7?Mastering-the-Elements-N-Jolly s-guide-to-the#335
It probably shouldn't spill through walls unless the walls are weird. One of the best tricks with full round gather involves earth glide and is thus only relevant for geos. What you do is, round 1 you 5-foot step into the ground and full round gather. Round 2 you 5-foot back up, move gather, and blast.
Full round gather also tends to be particularly good with metakinesis (twice), since the full round part pays for all but 1 of the cost of that metakinesis, and that metakinesis generally doubles your round's output, so given that burstier damage all at once is harder to deal with for the enemy, it's pretty nice.
Another nifty use for full round gather, though pretty risky, is as a sort of "taunt" mechanic, and I've seen it used that way. Basically, the gist of it is that since kineticists often have tip-top defenses while standing in the back, hard for the enemies to reach, you can sometimes get them to redirect their fire to you if you bait them with a full round gather, kind of like how enemies often try to interrupt the full round spellcaster, since the action economy of smacking someone and messing up their action is so good, plus the burn. Of course the flipside is that if they succeed, then you took burn, so as I said, it's a risky tactic..
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Does Air's Range extend Torrent for Electric Blast? It could certainly use it! That would make up for Electric's lack of a good low-level substance infusion.
Cold doesn't have torrent. Air's reach does apply to electric stuff, including electric torrent. Woohoo!.
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Mark, does a Kinetic Blast or other non-ray ranged attack spell take a -4 penalty for firing into melee?
Since the Shooting or Throwing into a Melee section of the Combat chapter only mentions weapons, and only rays are called out as working as weapons, some people are claiming that kinetic blast, and spells such as Telekinetic Projectile, Acid Splash, Acid Arrow, and the like do not take the penalty.
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Oh, on the subject of Geokineticists, Earth Glide has a bit of a wording issue.
"You can glide through earth, as an earth elemental’s earth glide
ability, with a burrow speed equal to your base land speed."
Is it Earth Glide, or is it a Burrow speed? Or do you get both?
Alex has it; earth glide is a modification to the way burrowing works..
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Rynjin wrote:
Remember that ALL Blasts count as Magic for overcoming DR. You'd deal 1/2 damage to ghosts because of that if nothing else.
... CRAP.
Rynjin is right. The exception is that loosely wrapping in aether applies the object's special effects instead of the blast's, as if you had thrown the object with those modifications. This means that it doesn't work as well on swarms or ghosts as full aether envelope does (unless you have other properties on the weapon, of course)..
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Question about Force Ward, under the ability it says,
"Whenever you accept burn while using an aether wild talent, you siphon some of the energy from the aether flowing through you and your force ward recovers a number of temporary hit points equal to your character level, up to its current maximum."
Force Ward is listed as a Defense Wild Talent for Aether.
Does this mean you could pop a point into Force Ward and regain temporary hit points? Since no action type is listed for putting burn into Force Ward is it a Standard or Immediate like the other Defense Wild Talents? So potentially you could pop a point of burn in as an immediate action gaining 1/2 level THP + refilling the pool level THP?
As you said below, with no action stated, default should be standard. Since a defense wild talent is a wild talent and force ward is aether, it does indeed count, so you can use it as a trick to "recover" hp, for instance if you were level 10 with 4 burn in force ward for 30 temp max but had none left, you could take 3 burn to take 30 nonlethal, refill the ward, and add 15 more, for a net gain of 15. It hurts badly but is potentially a lifesaver in corner cases. Clever idea!.
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So - a kineticist question - aether element - so what exactly does draining infusion (which is listed as a universal substance infusion) actually drain from with this ability?
Skipping ahead since I happened to see this one and it'll be fun to answer. Basically, [aether] creatures. To ask a similar question, what can the telekineticist create with the spark of life utility talent? The answer: aether elementals!.
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Mr. Mark Seifter,
How would you build a 3.5 Warlock using the Kineticist?
For a 3.5 warlock, I might just use the 3.5 warlock with some minor adjustments to convert it to Pathfinder. I've done that before in one of my Pathfinder games in the homebrew world of Terra (which is pretty low-caster, but lots of fey and religion/philosophy elements, but did have warlocks). Other than that, I guess Void element is pretty reasonable, since warlocks have so many voidy-sorts of invocations..
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Re: Kineticist, is Gather Power intended to apply only to Simple/Composite blasts with or without Infusions? It uses an otherwise undefined term ("blast wild talents").
Specific question on that: am I right in assuming that you should not be able to Gather Power for Kinetic Healer?
Oh bother, it looks like both of the threads on this in the rules forum where I deleted the post with quotes of OA and answered the question aren't visible. Somehow I've seen threads with the OP removed that still were visible, but maybe things changed.
First Question: Check the last sentence of the infusion ability (they add to the blast's cost).
Second Question: :( You could never use gather power on kinetic healer. Followers of my thread and/or the kineticist thread can attest to my overall sadness level about this question (the editors removed the word blast, which I had included, from the playtest document, thus leading to the biggest issues for any of our playtests that has ever been caused by a single word, as most people didn't check the Jason post with all the updates)..
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Hey Mark, as the primary author of the kineticist, I was wondering if you could look at a tweak I'm making for my home games. My players and I are a big fan of the Revised Action Economy in Pathfinder Unchained, so I was rethinking gather power to fit into it.
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Gather Power (Su): If she has both hands free (or all prehensile appendages free, for unusual kineticists, a kineticist can gather energy or elemental matter as a simple action. [...] Gathering power in this way allows the kineticist to reduce the total burn cost of the next blast wild talent she uses by 1 point. She can gather power for additional acts, reducing the burn cost by 1 additional point each time (to a minimum of 0 points).
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Supercharge (Su): At 11th level, the first time the kineticist gathers power in a round, she can reduce the total burn cost of a single wild talent by 2 points instead of 1. Consecutive actions to gather power still reduce burn by 1 point per action.
Assuming a kinetic blast is still an advanced (2-act) action (as it is a SLA), this should preserve the original intent of gather power while making it more flexible to use across turns.
Do you think this is a balanced adaptation?
That's quite good, and it's close to what I was thinking when I first saw your question, before looking down to seeing your solution. However, it gives very slightly too much discount for the longer gathers. Perhaps a mild adjustment is in order:
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Gather Power (Su): If she has both hands free (or all prehensile appendages free, for unusual kineticists, a kineticist can gather energy or elemental matter as a simple action. [...] Gathering power in this way allows the kineticist to reduce the total burn cost of the next blast wild talent she uses that round by 1 point. After using this ability, she can also use gather power as an advanced (3-act) action starting on the same turn. If she does so, she extends the duration of the reduction to her next turn and increases the reduction by 2 (to a total of 3). This reduction can't reduce the burn cost below 0.
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Supercharge (Su): At 11th level, the first time the kineticist gathers power as a simple action, she can reduce the total burn cost of a single wild talent by 2 points instead of 1. If she also takes the complex action, it reduces the burn cost by 3, for a total of 5..
That's it for now, my eyes hurt :-)
@Shiroi - hope this helps you out, it will need a lot of editing and simplifying but it's a start.
Half of your questions are answered very directly and clearly in the text. It may be worth reading again.
Now, lets take your questions one at a time.
1. "'I can use my 10d6 simple blast on every hit'[?]"
Yes.
I keep rewriting rude statements about reading comprehension and then deleting them. But really, I don't know how it could be clearer.
Occult Adventures, p. 20, re Kinetic Blade wrote:
The kinetic blade deals your kinetic blast damage on each hit.
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2. 'can use quicken and such to get multiple blasts and use them'
No. As I read it, Kinetic Blade only works with certain actions types. Attack actions are not quick actions. Therefore, you cannot Quicken a Kinetic Blade.
Occult Adventures, p. 20, re Kinetic Blade, emphasis added wrote:
You can use this form infusion once as part of an attack action, a charge action, or a full-attack action in order to make melee attacks with your kinetic blade.
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3. 'I can use flurry of blasts and amke [sic] each of those a blade to use in the full attack'
No. Flurry of Blasts is a form infusion. (p. 19) Kinetic Blade is a form infusion. (p. 20). You cannot use two form infusions on the same blast.
Occult Adventures, p. 12, Infusions(Su) wrote:
Each time the kineticist uses one of her kinetic blast wild talents, she can apply up to one associated form infusion and up to one associated substance infusion..
How are you guys coming along with Simulacrum, etc FAQs?
There are still drafts from when I drafted them based on discussions, but we've under a fair amount of pressure right now with other projects, especially Jason, who we'd need to have a thorough read of the specific wording. It would be nice that simulacrum would have less contention (presumably because there are few people who would be averse to guidelines for adjudicating simulacrum that would curb abuses), but I'm thinking we'll need to do something a bit simpler for a while.
Perhaps some examples of how certain creatures are broken down mechanically would help, having a break down of how to create a dragon simulacrum and how it differs on age categories.
I know James Jacobs had a simulacrum of a dragon in a Pre-pathfinder adventure but no details how it was done.
My rough draft has a detailed breakdown of the thought process behind a sample GM's ruling on a simulacrum of a very high CR monster as an example.
I am not familiar with these "resurrection men of old". The section I referred to primarily involves turning people into undead.
They have a trade for this? Whatever happened to a necromancer just hiring some thugs to knife the local peasants and tradesmen and then zombify them?
Depending on the politics it would be one way to get control of someone, when you're undead and want to keep your position of power, you've got a secret someone can hold over you.
Hmm, so void can only get a composite blast by taking void a second time? (Or aether for aetheric boost, I guess?)
There is a composite blast called "Negative Admixture" that requires the combination of Negative Blast with any other energy simple blast, as well as one called "Gravitic Boost" that requires the combination of Gravity Blast with any physical simple blast.
