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This post can be disregarded. I ended up calling since my card was charged and I didn't want the order to ship before being corrected.

Thanks so much for your time!

Hi,

When trying to place my order for these subscriptions, it kept changing my selections for where to start. Can you please fix this so that all subs start with the PF2 products: (Core Rulebook, Bestiary, Hellkight Hill, Fall of Plaguestone, and Lost Omens World guide

Also with they delay of the Lost Omens world guide, I'm wondering when that will ship. Is it going to be its own shipment? If so, is it possible to delay everything until the Lost Omens world guide is available to save on shipping costs?

Thanks

My house rules are way more extensive, but if I were to focus solely on this issue these are the changes I would limit them too:

• Small characters have a base speed of 25 ft.
• Instead of having armor decrease speed to set amounts, have medium armor reduce speed by 5 ft. and heavy armor reduce speed by 10 ft.
• Allow small races to remove the -2 Str by giving up one of their +2s

This allows small races to avoid being pigeonholed into Dex based builds. I will agree that this really only matters at lower levels (which is what I personally prefer), and at higher levels the penalties of being Small don't matter nearly as much.

SirGauntlet wrote:

I'm still working on these, but here is what I have so far: >House Rules<

I'm not sure how many of these rules I would consider essential. Also, I have not tested all of them yet, so tread carefully.

Any questions or feedback is welcome.

SirGauntlet, I really dig your rules. You cover most everything I take issue with, almost. I don't agree with every little choice, but a great set that I would be happy to play under.

I wonder if you might explain your ABP system. I imagine from the chart that you just apply this bonus to most things covered by the Big Six. Could you elaborate?

Thanks, I'm gald you like them.

The ABP header of the Table is linked to the document, but >here< it is. The numbers in the chart are just transposed from the document for easy reference.

I was originally working on something a bit different, but after collaborating with bitter lily, she took it a different direction and came up with this system. Overall I really like it. There are a couple things I might change (getting +1 Resistance for free) but I haven't had the time to tinker/experiment with different options yet.

I'm still working on these, but here is what I have so far: >House Rules<

I'm not sure how many of these rules I would consider essential. Also, I have not tested all of them yet, so tread carefully.

Any questions or feedback is welcome.

Re: Berselius

• Elves having immunity to sleep made sense in 3.5 when Elves didn't naturally sleep. In Pathfinder Elves DO sleep so having sleep immunity doesn't make sense and to me is just an unnecessary relic left over from 3.5.
• I want each of the races to be as unique as possible, thus I wouldn't give Halflings the Hardy trait. Maybe a 1/day reroll?
• While I agree Ferocity seems lackluster, Orc Ferocity in my opinion is too much. Maybe some sort of middle ground between the two?
• Once again I don't want to have duplicates, so Human Spirit is out. Maybe a +2 to one of their saves?

Re: Kerney

• Dual Minded doesn't feel right to me and I'm doing a way with the whole Favored Class nonsense, so Multi-talented is out. Reflexive Improvisation is an interesting option.
• Not sure how +2 Str or +2 Wis implies that Orcs aren't smart. I didn't give them a minus to Int.

Re: Lady-J

• I actually did decide to start everyone with two feats, but I'm putting that in the Character Creation section of my House Rules instead of further watering down the races. While you are correct that it would have been easier to simply replace the starting feat, I wanted to get rid of a lot of other boring race traits too. I agree with UnArcaneElection that things like Weapon Familiarity should be based on a character-by-character basis, not baked into the races. I also think Hatred should as well.

Re: UnArcaneElection

• Some very interesting ideas, but a bit too extreme of a change for me.

Goal: After playing through many campaigns I've grown tired of Human being the default race. I want all of the other races to be an equally attractive option.

How? The main reason that humans are so popular in my group seems to be the free bonus feat they receive. I started out by removing the feat and attempting to balance the other races down to match the newly nerfed Human. After doing this I noticed that many of the core races lost their uniqueness, or at least the semblance of uniqueness (did you know that more than half of the races have Keen Senses? boring...). So to re-add the uniqueness I started adding what I felt were thematic (and hopefully balanced) traits to the races.

>>Revised Races<<

DISCLAIMER: I will be using Spheres of Power in place of standard Vancian casting, so some races traits are specific to SoP.

Brief Explanation of Changes

What are your thoughts on these changes? Do they seem balanced? Is there a race that is way too strong? Is there a race that is too weak?

SirGauntlet wrote:

I actually just finished doing this as well.

I basically took the value of the gold that you get each level in the ABP chart divided by 1000. Then used the cost of enchantments divided by 1000 to determine how many points it cost to upgrade from one level to the next. So a +1 weapon costs 2 points (2000 gp / 1000). Upgrading from +1 to +2 costs 6 points etc.

Is that anything like what you did? I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to use these rules, but I'd love to hear how it goes for you.

I'd love to see it! I'm using the ABP in a game for the first time.

Here!

Hopefully I did that right. I don't have much experience linking Google Docs.

Oh, and I only went up to 12th level because I don't expect my game to go past that. I could extend it to level 20 if you wanted. I just don't want to do work on something that won't be used, haha.

Oh, I forgot that I also finished a conversion of Automatic Bonus Progression into a Point System. It allows players to customize their advancement while still providing plenty of limits.

I actually just finished doing this as well.

I basically took the value of the gold that you get each level in the ABP chart divided by 1000. Then used the cost of enchantments divided by 1000 to determine how many points it cost to upgrade from one level to the next. So a +1 weapon costs 2 points (2000 gp / 1000). Upgrading from +1 to +2 costs 6 points etc.

Is that anything like what you did? I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to use these rules, but I'd love to hear how it goes for you.

I'm planning to run these modules (as well as Revenge of the Kobold King) and after looking at the logistics of everything, I think I'm going to make Crown occur in a separate building from the one in Hollow's Last Hope. I'm thinking of renaming the building from Hollow's from a Dwarven Monastery to a Dwarven Smithy. Then making the Monastery an independent building nearby the Smithy. The Monastery will be a mostly open room (with some decorations and Monastic stuff) and some stairs that lead down to the dungeon in Crown.

That way they can finish the objective of Hollow's and when I start Crown they won't be under the same time constraints.

Not sure if any of this helps, just wanted to share my thoughts. You may still run into the same problem of leveling mid-dungeon, but maybe they will have the time to rest since they don't have to worry about the disease imposed time-limit.

In Falcon's Hollow in Andoran, there is a halfling, Vamros Harg, in a relationship with a dwarf, Tabrik Splint. This is from Towns of the Inner Sea.

"This" strength damage is referring to the strength damage from a shadow, not any one hit.

Hmm...That makes sense too. I guess my interpretation makes shadows a fairly silly threat.

I feel like one of those rules lawyers trying to exploit every little loophole. And I hate those guys, haha.

I'm glad I could help.

Of course I suppose that I didn't really address OP's question if you DO manage to die from it. I just proved that it is fairly difficult for a shadow to actually kill you.

OP did not die, rather is unconscious.

Diseases, poisons, spells, and other abilities can all deal damage directly to your ability scores. This damage does not actually reduce an ability, but it does apply a penalty to the skills and statistics that are based on that ability...If the amount of ability damage you have taken equals or exceeds your ability score, you immediately fall unconscious until the damage is less than your ability score.

A greater shadow's touch deals 1d8 points of Strength damage to a living creature. This is a negative energy effect. A creature dies if this Strength damage equals or exceeds its actual Strength score.

Therefore, the only way you can die from a shadow's attack is if your ability score is 8 (if the shadow rolls max damage) or lower. Even if you are hit multiple times each attack checks against the actual strength score separately. So unless he had 8 or less strength either naturally, or through ability drain (not damage) from some other source he is merely unconscious.

Cast Lesser Restoration a few times and he's good as new.