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Hey guys, I've put up some slides to help get you oriented to the first leg of the campaign. It's available at the top of the campaign thread, and also here: Maps and Slides Slide 2 has boxes for you to input some stats. Populating this will help me manage passive rolls and initiative. Slide 4 has the stats for the Senate Aide Badge Slide 5 has the rules for the Senate Building (outlining what you can bring with you) Beginning on Slide 6 is the list of significant NPCs. You haven't met all these guys yet, but you will soon. As you learn info about them through role play and through knowledge checks, etc., I will populate these slides as a reference for us all.
Hey guys, I've put up some slides to help get you oriented to the first leg of the campaign. It's available at the top of the campaign thread, and also here: Maps and Slides Slide 2 has boxes for you to input some stats. Populating this will help me manage passive rolls and initiative. Slide 4 has the stats for the Senate Aide Badge Slide 5 has the rules for the Senate Building, outlining what you can bring with you (spoiler: no eidolons!) Beginning on Slide 6 is the list of significant NPCs. You haven't met all these guys yet, but you will soon. As you learn info about them through role play and through knowledge checks, etc., I will populate these slides as a reference for us all.
I am planning to run the Mask of the Living God module this weekend and I just learned that modules and APs are designed for a 15 point buy. Does that apply to all modules? My players intended to use their PFS characters, but I'll have to make them roll up level 3's using 15 points. Please clarify, if you can. Thanks!
So, I am running an adventure path, and in an upcoming encounter, the party will face a mud shaitan in a muck-filled room with a deep pit of quicksand in the middle of it. Included in the shaitan's tactics is that if any PC gets trapped in the quicksand, he is to use transmute mud to rock to encase the PC in stone. My question is this: if the party cleric is the one who gets trapped (and let's say she is fully immersed in the muck when the spell goes off), can she cast transmute rock to mud to escape? The spell has VSM components. I don't think she'd be able to satisfy the somatic components within the stone, thus making this a death trap for her if she's the one who gets caught in it. I'd like to hear your thoughts before I take somebody out so ruthlessly.
I am GM'ing for a party of six players and having a worsening problem of balance within the party. The problem is that four of the players are new either to Pathfinder or to TTRPGs entirely. (I myself am coming back to it after not playing since 2.0.) The other two are veterans and built much more powerful characters than the other four. They're dominating all the encounters and it feels like it's starting to suck the fun out of the game. I've got a paladin who never gets to do anything because the fully optimized inquisitor has already shredded every combatant on the field. What should I do?
I've just gotten into gaming with minis and I haven't had any success using crazy glue to assemble them. I have a fighter mini with a large-ish sword that needs to be attached to his arm. I've glued it on three times, and three times it's fallen off the first time I used it or transported it. Can you recommend a better adhesive?
I am pretty new to Pathfinder and I am bewildered by the rules regarding the use of magic devices such as rods, staves and wands. Can anyone give me a primer on their use? I read the rules as follows: rods are generally activated by a command word, and can be used by any class with skill ranks in UMD staves and wands are activated by spell trigger, thus they can only be used by a caster of the appropriate class, though a wizard, for example, could use an arcane staff or wand to cast a higher level spell than she otherwise could the rules for using a scroll are pretty clear in the rules, viz., they can only be used by casters of the appropriate class and level. Assuming a character could use a device, she must still satisfy a UMD check every time she tries to use it. Is this correct? If so, it seems odd to me that UMD is not a class skill for wizards. Why would it be easier for a rogue to use a staff than for a wizard? Also, if all of the foregoing is correct, then it seems unreasonably difficult to use a magic device. I am building a sorcerer and I want to be able to use devices to broaden her spell list. It seems to me that if I have to apply the UMD skill every time I use even a basic magic item, there will be a high possibility of failure (even with skill ranks, a DC 20 seems hard to hit). Am I missing something?
I am pretty new to Pathfinder and I am bewildered by the rules regarding the use of magic devices such as rods, staves and wands. Can anyone give me a primer on their use? I read the rules as follows: rods are generally activated by a command word, and can be used by any class with skill ranks in UMD staves and wands are activated by spell trigger, thus they can only be used by a caster of the appropriate class, though a wizard, for example, could use an arcane staff or wand to cast a higher level spell than he otherwise could the rules for using a scroll are pretty clear in the rules, viz., they can only be used by casters of the appropriate class and level. Assuming a character could use a device, she must still satisfy a UMD check every time she tries to use it. If all of the foregoing is correct, then it seems unreasonably difficult to use a magic device. I am building a sorcerer and I want to be able to use devices to broaden her spell list. It seems to me that if I have to apply the UMD skill every time I use even a basic magic item, there will be a high possibility of failure (even with skill ranks, a DC 20 seems hard to hit). Am I missing something? |
