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57. Sacks as medusa-inhibitors. I once suffered the indignity of my medusa encounter being grappled, pinned, having a sack thrown over her head and then being kicked to death by the PCs...

I'm just going to start with by quickly repeating practically everyone else on this thread:

"Everyone has their own style, and ultimately base damage and crit range become decreasingly important as you advance levels so you can typically get away with whatever particular weapon you like." I mean, I have a high level warpriest with a few basic feat choices and a two-handed weapon who puts out +36 damage on a hit. That could be with a scythe on 2d4 or a greatsword on 2d6, and the extra 2 average damage per hit would barely be missed. [EDIT: I appreciate my warpriest wasn't the best choice of example because of sacred weapon, but you get my point.]

Following on from that, I GM a lot more than I play and for me that is where the sub-optimal options come into their own. I tend to expect a degree of optimisation from my players, or at least of not-actively-nerfing. That's fine. But as a GM I absolutely love having the flexibility to create thematically appropriate encounters from sub-par gear and builds, and explaining things as "NPCs with bad class/feat/gear choices do it."

I don't realistically expect any player to voluntarily wear shell armour (unless they found +5 shell armour of heavy fortification and fire immunity or something lying around, as someone pointed out earlier), but I would feel the game was diminished by not allowing me to put together an encounter of merfolk wearing it.

I'm quite lucky in that I don't play with many (any?) full-blown munchkins, but I've always been quietly pleased with the sub-par options for my own GMing needs.

So, we just had our second lodge meeting. The cold kept quite a few Pathfinders indoors, but we got a table together for Library of the Lion.

We're still settling on venues and regular faces, but despite the best efforts of a local amateur football team to interrupt us with lad singing, we had a good game and the Pathfinders acquitted themselves well. Next meeting is up for 12th December, if you find yourself in the area!

We do have a Facebook page for the group, which is linked in the first post. Please do feel free to drop by and say hi :)

Cheers,
Shard/Steven

I would have a chuckle at the creativity if I was on the receiving end as GM, but at the end of the day if prestidigitation could protect you from vampires then every adept in Ustalav would have a village's worth of guests every night :P

I'd give a bit of flavour to the encounter (pun 100% intended) because of the effect, but from a mechanical point of view probably rule that the cantrip can't produce a strong enough smell to deter a vampire in any meaningful way.

If I was feeling particularly vindictive, I may even have the vamp in question single out the caster for their insolence :D

Hi everyone!

I'm a long-time gamer, first-time poster. Over the last couple of months, I've been running PFS games for my various regular groups and we've very much enjoyed the format and the aims of the global campaign.

There's no Regional Co-Ordinator anywhere near the south-west of England at the moment, so I've taken it upon myself to provide a hub for players in the region to find players and GM's. The ultimate aim is to have a regular "club night" where people can turn up if they're free and get a quick fix of roleplaying. I'm investigating some options in the local area to get that arranged.

I've created a Facebook group to serve as a convenient place to direct people to where they can connect with other local gamers. I've pushed the group to my friends, many of whom are Pathfinder players, and publicised it through the group of our FLGS. I'll be dropping in to Bristol's gaming stores to put something up physically in those locations as well, assuming they let me.

The group can be found here.

Anyone is welcome to join, since even if you can't get to Bristol on a regular basis there's nothing stopping you finding people to play/run an online game :)

I hope to see more of you soon!

Cheers,
Shard/Steven