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I was GMing a session last night, and I realized I may be running recall knowledge checks incorrectly. Specifically, the Arcana, Nature, Occultism, and Religion checks associated with Recall Knowledge. When my players have wondered if their characters might know something about an event/creature/whatever, I often prompt them to roll a Recall Knowledge check, specifying the skill that would yield the best results. This, naturally, gives its own indications to the players what the thing might be tied to when rolling, such as Demons for Religion. While I trust them not to metagame, it does give away a bit more than I intend.

I am wondering if the intended way is to have players prompt the associated rolls themselves and if the skill they rolled doesn't apply, they get nothing regardless of the result. I do try to have them roll secretly in all cases such as these. Apologies is this is a fairly basic concept, I just wanted to double check that this was the ideal approach before committing to it, or if people run things differently.

Hello,

I wasn't sure how to convey this, but I just wanted to say that my friends and I, who have played various editions of Dungeons and Dragons and then Pathfinder for several years (beginning with D&D 3.0) have finally completed a homebrew campaign in which they started at level 1 and went to level 20 without it feeling incredibly difficult to balance high level encounters and allowing for a satisfying and climactic ending. This isn't to say it wasn't possible before, but that most of my campaigns (I, being the GM) tended to devolve around the early teens of levels, and often ended up finishing campaigns earlier than my players would like to avoid mathematical headaches. It's weird to type this even now, but it was really cool to be able to play the entirety of the advertised system without feeling exhausted by the very act of getting there, as if the hardships of high level play in previous editions was some sort of hallmark of GMing. I really admire that Pathfinder 2e maintained a degree of consistency and fun that seemed elusive to other systems (I don't mean to malign 3.5, PF1, or even 5e; I enjoy those systems in their own respects even as I have difficulty running them at higher levels). And it was awesome. The campaign itself started in late 2018 as the playtest of pathfinder 2 was being wrapped up, and finished earlier this year in 2023. Two of our players became parents in that time, I started my professional career as a psychiatric provider, and of course we all endured the woes of the COVID pandemic. Playing our PF2 campaign really kept us all connected and became in many ways a sort of formative experience for our adult lives. I loved it, and I hope to continue further campaigns in it.

I just wanted to share this positivity and thank the developers and community for helping to craft a system that really allowed us to play out an epic campaign that we had essentially been trying to accomplish since we were young. We're just starting our second campaign in the system now and we're all excited to see what the future holds. I hope this doesn't come off as too sappy, I just wanted to share our positive experience and inject a bit of levity into what can sometimes be a very critical discourse of the system. I don't post too often but felt this was worthwhile to convey. Thanks!

So I've been running a higher level (level 16) 2e campaign wherein the players were just exposed at close range to a very loud, deafening noise. To add some context, the players are wandering around the inside of a giant infernal beast (Jabu Jabu style) and inadvertently caused it to roar in pain. I had them roll Fortitude saves to avoid becoming Deafened, and two members of the party failed. When looking to see how they could remove the condition, they came upon the Restore Senses spell, but it states that "it doesn't cure someone who does not have the sense due to some natural state or effect, such as from birth or from a non-magical wound or toxin." My intuition is that that line of text is present to allow the game for representation of deaf characters without magic invalidating that, but I'm not sure how it would apply in this circumstance. Because this was not "magical" per se, would the spell not remove the condition? If that's the case, are there other options for them?

Thanks!

Hello,

I have a player who's trying to find good ways to defend against mind affecting spells like Dominate after a recent encounter that went particularly poorly. The foe in question escaped and they know they will encounter them again. He looked at Moment of Clarity but it wouldn't appear to allow reactions from items like the Black Pearl Aeon Stone or from the Mind of Menace spell. Is there any way within the rules that a raging barbarian can use a reaction with the Concentrate trait?

Thanks!

In a few sessions my players in will be confronting some pirates at sea and intend to engage in ship-to-ship combat. I'm not entirely sure how to handle rules for that (I may not need to; they also intend to board the pirate ship and continue combat predominantly on the deck, but I would like to have some options open since they chose their ship specifically for the weapons it carries). I used to play Pathfinder 1e many years ago, but never ran any nautical encounters involving ship-to-ship combat. Looking them over in the PF1 SRD, they seem pretty complex, though I would be willing to take a stab at trying to convert them to some degree.

My question to everyone else is: has anyone run any naval encounters in PF2, or has anyone attempted any conversions? I don't know how to tackle sailing and engaging in naval combat within the 3-action system (and maybe I shouldn't! I just haven't thought of an intuitive solution).

Thanks for any advice! This also may belong in Homebrew, and I apologize in advance if it should be posted over there instead.

My players have an upcoming fight against a creature that deals evil damage on its strikes. I typically like to embellish enemy attacks by saying things like "the sword tears through your leather armor and cuts flesh, you take X slashing damage," or "your knees buckle from the impact of the hammer, you take X bludgeoning damage," and so on. I am wondering how most people go about describing what evil, chaotic, lawful, or good damage looks or feels like to a player.

This is text lifted from the PF2 SRD:

Calcification (incapacitation, primal, transmutation) A peck from a cockatrice hardens the flesh of the creature struck. The target must succeed at a DC 20 Fortitude save or become slowed 1 (or slowed 2 on a critical failure). Further failed saves against calcification increase the slowed condition. Once a creature’s actions are reduced to 0 by calcification, that creature becomes petrified. Every 24 hours after it was petrified, the victim can attempt a DC 20 Fortitude save to recover. On a success, it becomes flesh again, but is slowed 1 for the next 24 hours. On a critical success, the creature recovers and isn’t slowed. On a failure, the creature remains petrified, but can try again in 24 hours. On a critical failure, the petrification is permanent, and the creature can’t attempt any more saves.

Have I missed something? I cannot seem to find a duration listed for the slowed condition it applies. I was going to just rule that it lasts for 1 minute, but wanted to know what others thought. Thanks!

Hello,

I have a player who wants to know what, if any, kind of action it would be to pass a weapon or item he is wielding in his main hand to his offhand. Would that be an interact action? A free action?

Thanks.

I want to make the Lorax into a fun, playable character for myself. I'm picturing an orange haired, bare-chested, massively-moustached gnome harboring an excess of body hair with a spunky, in-your-face attitude and a voice like Danny DeVito's. Yes, I recently saw the Lorax. No, I wouldn't recommend it, but different strokes for different folks (a cute kids movie, at least). Regardless, the thought of a fiery, over-moustached gnome greeting people with "...and I speak for the trees" tickled some strange fancy of mine.

I want to go with a druid/monk build, figuring the Lorax would be a fairly minimalist person when it came to equipment. I also picture him trying to take on things much larger than him and smack them in the face. I can't envision him with an animal companion, but having druidic powers would compliment his nature.

The thing is, I'm not sure how to go about building him. I realize that a gnome monk/druid likely isn't going to be setting any new records in terms of optimization, but I'm just looking to have a little fun with the guy; if he can be made to effectively knock some teeth out in combat, then by all means! My DM typically uses 20 point buy and starts us at level 1. Do you guys have any suggestions regarding ability scores, feats, and all that jazz? Is this character even viable? Thanks for any help. :)

PS: Most paizo products such as the Core, UC, UM, and APG are fair game. Third party supplements are pretty much out, though on occasion we let one or two slide by.

Hey everyone, I just have a quick question that I've been wondering about. Next session, my players will be fighting in a barley field (the barley being fairly large, about 3 feet in height), and I was looking at the cover and concealment rules to see if it should or would provide either. I may not be looking thoroughly enough, but I'm not sure what to consider it, if anything. What would you rule it as?

Thanks for your help!

Alright, so I'm DMing a game that revolves around the PCs eventually breaking into the BBEG's mighty fortress and killing him. That might sound boring, but I'm intentionally watering down the plot to its extremely barest bones, so have faith that it isn't that bland at heart.

Anyways, that's intended to be some big, high level dungeon crawl thing; as a DM I need to successfully bring them to that level with scheduled reinforcement through smaller goalposts and rewards, ultimately leading up to the final climactic encounter! Or, so I hope. See, in the past I've done what many of you may already be familiar with: the fetch-quest. For those who don't know, the fetch-quest is exactly as it sounds: "You must collect X items before you can enter the castle," or something akin to that. Now, I love that sort of thing... perhaps a little too much. I've most recently (in another campaign) had them gather 5 artifacts of power before the evil enemy cult could, providing an excellent 'race-aganst-the-clock!' feel, and it was great. BUT, I'd like to sport a little more originality in my latest endeavor, and I seem to be stuck in the mindset of fetch-quests. I was wondering if any of you would be so kind as to help me branch out and learn/try some different methods.

Now, I'm not actually trying to discard the idea of going around gathering artifact easter eggs or something; in fact, I've even been trying to think of a way to involve a sort of 'fetch-quest' anyways, just disguising it well enough so as not to make it immediately apparent that it really is one. I mean, my plot at its bare bones is clearly a worn and unoriginal one, but when I sprinkle the plot back in it's something my players and I really enjoy. I think the same could be said of a fetch-quest... if I could figure out to properly orchestrate one, or maybe even just think of something entirely different altogether! So anyways, I ask if anyone has any advice or suggestions for this sort of thing.

Thanks for any help! I really appreciate it.

I'm just curious since I rarely see any talk of it. Do you make your players write down all the pounds of gear they are carrying, making sure it doesn't exceed their light, medium, or heavy load? For that matter, do you do the "50 gold = 1lb" rule?

For us, we do use the somewhat meticulous recording of equipment weight, but interestingly enough, we don't apply it to gold... we just set a hard limit on the amount you can feasibly carry.

What does everyone else do?

Or can you? After the recent release of the APG, one of my players has shown clear interest in playing a paladin. As many could guess, the issue is that my campaign world doesn't (and never has before) taken alignment into consideration. It hasn't been an issue in the many years we've been playing, and we've simply avoided spells like "Protection from ______." I personally never liked the concept of it, so I ditched it early on. Unfortunately, the Paladin seems to be totally interwoven into the concept of alignment, and I know there are other DMs out there who play alignmentless games, so I was looking for some advice.

I once before had a player who wanted to play a paladin, but since there was no alignment, I simply let him smite anything except truly neutral creatures, like animals. I soon realized that was a foolish mistake, and the class dominated most everything. Luckily for me, that campaign ended quickly, and we moved on. Now I'm back looking to see if anyone has any suggestions/experience with this kind of situation, and if they could offer any helpful advice. Also, I don't intend to start a debate about alignment, I'm just looking for alternatives is all.

Thanks!

I have a setting that I've been developing for several years now thats based off a sort of Jungian dreamscape. Its one of my prime enjoyments because I have to purposely think outside of the regular scheme of how things might work, which is surprisingly tough. One of my latest thoughts regarded the "gods" of the setting, which are essentially the physical manifestation of cultural memes. As in, they're created from humanoid kind's collective thoughts. It would take an immense amount of collective thought to give a meme a physical appearance (to prevent there from being millions of memes for every small group of like-minded thinkers), but then I wondered: why should this stop at memes?

So from there I've been contemplating the repercussions of allowing whatever is collectively believed to be, well, made true over time (like the gods). For instance, because the vast majority of sailers believe in the tales of the kraken, the kraken thus becomes a real thing.

I've been giving this some thought and I don't think I can work it all out on my own without creating some guidelines... I understand that things can get crazy real fast with this idea, but it nonetheless interests me.

So I ask, would anyone be willing to help me with this? Give some scenarios where this might be interesting, or where it might get crazy? This isn't set in stone, but I see it as a sort of creative thought exercise for myself. What do you guys and gals think?

EDIT: Also, I wasn't sure where to post this, but I apologize if its in the wrong forum.

Recently, while wrapping up a campaign that I've been at for about 4 years, I realized that as the levels got higher, so too did death become more of a threat. If one of my players beloved PCs died, they would throw a monkey wrench into the plot, so to speak. One character carried a secret with him that was pivotal he kept hidden until the right moment, and should he die early, I'd really have to scramble to get things back in order.

Granted, at higher levels death becomes more of a speed bump than a real problem with spells like resurrection and their ilk, but thats not to say that this could happen at earlier levels, when revival isn't so easy to obtain.

Perhaps this is my flaw, but I was always fond of rewarding characters with intricate backstories by weaving them into the plot as important characters. That's not to say that every time I do it's pivotal that they live throughout the campaign, but there have a been a handful of instances like this in my many years of DMing that would really break my players envelopment in the story to just have another fellow come along and take the dead PCs place.

I know I'm not perfect, but I really like to try and emphasize destiny and other heroic concepts. I'm also not the type of DM who's afraid to let them die; I don't spoon feed the adventure to them or railroad them. They're generally very fond of my adventures, and grow very attached to their characters, especially when they realize that the very world hinges on their heroics (a little bit of an exaggeration, but I think you get my point).

Anyways, I was wondering how other DMs handle this, or even what players think of this. I usually do a single BIG, multi-year long campaign with occasional small but separate campaigns along the way. My big campaigns are known for their epic and grand plots with a high emphasis on adventure and action. Do other people have this sort of problem? If so, how do you handle it? Do you think I'm doing something wrong, or perhaps being too extreme?

Again, this isn't necessarily a problem of mine, but I'm curious to see if anyone else did this like me.

Hey guys, I'm trying to figure out what a "meme" is. I've tried wikipedia and dictionaries, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around the word itself. Meme's are going to be an important thing in my upcoming campaign, but I'm not sure they're what I thought they were.

I tend to learn best through examples, so I was wondering if someone could help to point out a specific meme and help me understand why its a meme.

What I know so far is they're imitable things that pass from generation to generation. Am I right in assuming that "Leeroy Jenkins" or the expression "An eye for an eye" is an appropriate meme? Also, what constitutes something not being a meme? Would the act of gathering food be a meme, since its passed from generation to generation and is imitable? I don't think the latter is true, but I don't really have an understanding of why its not (forgive me, I'm a youngster).

I started reading as much as a could on it, but I came upon something called "The Selfish Gene" and evolutionary concepts and got in over my head. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I've been trying to figure this out for weeks now.

Thanks!

When a creature falls in combat, do you simply remove the miniature (or whatever marker you use) from the board and treat the space as empty? I've always marked it and treated the space as difficult terrain. With larger corpses, it might be able to provide cover. More recently, it's become a little tedious in fights with a large amount of creatures or fights in restricted spaces. Some creatures I have dissipate when they fall, all for flavor (like a cloud giant decomposing into a cloud), but most of the time stuff just falls and stays.

What do you guys do?

QUESTION
Does damage reduction stop bleed? Under DR, it says:

“whenever damage reduction completely negates the damage from an attack, it also negates most special effects that accompany the attack, such as injury poison, a monk’s stunning, and injury-based disease.”

So, when our Alchemist (with two daggers of wounding) was dealing 2-3 overall points of damage with his daggers after DR from a Bearded Devil, would it still cause the full bleed damage, since it doesn’t seem to negate it? At first I said no, then after reading it, I let it happen, but it felt strange to me. Could I get a clarification?

QUESTION
How does splash damage work with creatures larger than medium size? Are they treated as a single, big square in which the splash emanates from? Or does the alchemist "choose" some sort of square to hit that they occupy and have the splash emanate from there? Something else? Clarification would be helpful!

QUESTION
This next one might seem silly... Do Fireballs catch people on fire?

Thanks guys!

Alright, day 2. They fought 3 Cloud Giants, all still level 8. Also, we have a new member:

An Oracle of Stone

The plan was for them to fight a single giant (CR 11), but after defeating it, they insisted on fighting two more immediately. I obliged. The first fight took place over a large, open field, where Calvin could take full advantage of his dire wolf mount and dish out the damage to the Giants. He was a huge factor in taking it down, but the real MVP was...

THE ALCHEMIST! Surprisingly, the Alchemist actually made the difference between success and defeat in both battles, utilizing his bombs and a single potion of Fox's Cunning and Force/Explosive Bombs. The force bombs never failed to knock the giants over, where the Cavalier, Inquisitor, Witch and Oracle surrounded them and took their full attacks and AoO's.

The giant was no push-over, though (pun). When he attacked, he hit, and he hit hard (it was supposed to test their limits). The Cavalier suffered large amounts of damage, but managed to stay alive thanks to the Inquisitors occasional healing spell. The Cavalier's charge and challenge were both excellent in play, and we're very satisfied with the class so far... though we haven't really touched on Oaths.

The Witch didn't really do much the first fight (mainly throwing an occasional lightning bolt out and Fortune-ing the Cavalier to hit), but was a real help during the second one.

The Oracle player had a LOT of fun with this class. He loved the earthglide ability, and the crystal sight revelation to see his enemies "above" him. He summoned a group of small earth elementals to help surround the giant, which really didn't end up doing much but help the Inquisitor flank, and would sometimes go in for an attack or two when he felt safe enough.

QUESTION
How does splash damage work with creatures larger than medium size? Are they treated as a single, big square in which the splash emanates from? Or does the alchemist "choose" some sort of square to hit that they occupy and have the splash emanate from there? Something else? Clarification would be helpful :].

THE SECOND FIGHT

After they brought down the first giant (ended with a crit from the cavalier), I had two more appear at their request. If it weren't for the force bombs of the alchemist, they would have died.

One entered behind them and moved in to awesome blow the alchemist onto the ground, hoping to keep him from making his bombs, and the other appeared far in front of them to hurl rocks.

The first half of the fight consisted of the Cavalier using ride-by attack to zig and zag around it, landing many successful hits with his challenge and helping others hit with his order ability. His mobility was key in him surviving.

The Oracle started going underground and using his Shard Explosion to damage it from below, keeping his summons moving around on top for flanking positions. Though he didn't contribute as much as the others, he was an invaluable support character and the player loved it.

The Inquisitor almost died, but thanks to the Alchemist, survived long enough to deal the final blow. He got hit by a ranged rock and an occasional morning star, but managed to stay up. As expected, he wasn't nearly as effective as the combat with the devils, but he remained a standing force to be reckoned with, thanks to his giant-bane spear.

The Witch was pretty important this time around, using his evil-eye hex to reduce their attack output and enervation to debuff them further. He Cackled to keep his Fortune on the Cavalier as long as he could, but eventually dropped it begin throwing more lightning bolts. The Witch was never touched during both combats.

Again, the Alchemist meant the difference between life and death, and knocked the giants prone. Using his boots of haste, he also managed to stay mobile enough to keep out of range of the giants, taking only a two hits from a morning star (he drank a cure potion he made after those), and once from a rock throw. The Inquisitor and the Cavalier, as well as the Oracle, to some degree, kept the two giants off of him.

When the first giant went down, the other levitated upwards and attempted to rain rocks down upon them, despite the fact that the penalties would stack against him overtime. That strategy failed. The Witch Evil-Eyed him for his saves, and threw a Hold Person on him. I rolled abysmally and he consistently failed. Meanwhile, the Alchemist threw some explosive bombs and set the Giant on fire for extra damage. The Inquisitor whipped out a bow and dished out some damage, and the Cavalier didn't have a ranged weapon, so just sat around yelling "BRING HIM DOOOOOWN!" He still had fun. The Oracle cast acid arrow, but by the time his next turn came, the Giant was down.

OVERALL

Our opinions have changed on the Alchemist; it was very fun this combat and seemed alchemist-y. The Witch was also brought up in opinion, being far more useful this combat. We still wish for more melee Hexes, but so far so good. The Inquisitor and Cavalier are still excellent, and we don't think they need a change so far.

More to come, we're losing the Cavalier and the Witch and adding a Summoner and a new Inquisitor (the old player is picking up the Summoner). We figured it would be good to see how other players would build up their classes to get a more generalized opinion.

Hey guys! I have a question to ask of you.

So, one of my players was interested in making a Dwarf fighter who would craft arms and equipment. Unfortunately, a few searches on the topic reveals that it takes quite a large amount of time to make most armor.

I'll be honest with you though, I haven't yet fully grasped the craft rules, so I'm in no position to start pumping out rules on it. I think I understand enough to get the basic concept, though.

Now, I also know that in real time it takes a long, long time to make full plate and its ilk, but I'm not necessarily looking for realism here.

That aside, I was wondering if anyone had tried to shorten the crafting times to allow a PC to play that sort of role. Bear in mind though, my player has no intention of "ruining the economy" or anything like that with this; he just wants to be able to craft armor for himself and maybe another PC or some NPC friends. I trust him. He's been a faithful player for some time now, and as a DM I want to help him be able to fulfill his desired role rather than outright deny it. So, I'm looking to compromise.

Now, as a DM, I don't want to take those 77 or so weeks it takes to make full plate and cut them down to 3 days; I still want there to be a sense of accomplishment when he finally finishes. Maybe (lets say, through magic or something) its cut down to several weeks or so. Maybe more, I'm not quite sure.

So, I'm asking if anyone has ever tried this, and what the ramifications were of the changes? Was it possible?

ALSO: I won't be changing the rules on enchanting or making magic items, those are fine as is. It's primarily the armor I'm worried about.

One of my players decided to play a Paladin recently, and asked me about the gods of my campaign setting. I'll admit, I hadn't given much thought to them until now (for some reason, somehow, it's never been a huge issue). But I think the big problem is the fact that I'm TERRIBLY brain-dead on how to incorporate something like "the divine" into my specific setting. Let me explain:

The setting itself is fairly abstract and isn't always completely understandable, but thats been done on purpose! Thats because the setting itself is a dream. The plane has fallen asleep and dreamt up whatever it wants, including humans, elves, orcs, monsters (nightmares), etc. Spellcasters are able to manipulate the world to their bidding through the power of lucidity (which is basically the understanding that you are, in fact, dreaming, and can thus do whatever you want - if you're really interested, I suggest you look it up; it's fascinating stuff).

Gods have never fit into the equation... I never felt the need for them, and in my games they were always left on the back burner. Technically, since magic is the way it is, I never felt the need for there to be a differentiation between divine and arcane magic, but (like the gods) its always been there, just in the background and never before brought to my attention. I understand that there could just be a cleric or paladin that worships some sort of ideal or whatnot, but I would really like to substantiate something for them (and yes, I do understand that this technically contradicts what I said earlier about abstraction, but bear with me).

The thing is, I'm not looking for your standard "big guns from upstairs" approach on gods, in fact, I'm not even looking to necessarily exemplify a singular being so much as have a "religion." And now that I've thought about it, I really can't think of how to explain them. Sure, maybe you could worship the Dreamer (the plane), but that always felt more druidic to me. Should "gods" just be really renown people who aren't so much omnipotent as they are powerful? Should people just worship certain ideals?

I've thought of maybe having some really strange dreamt-up things that people could revere (a giant gear that floats in the sky), but that always gave off a sot of isolated tribal feel. I've dug deep into my wells of creativity and books on psychology to see if maybe there's some gold to be had there... but alas, I haven't stumbled upon any. Can anybody spur some imagination into me? Or am I hopelessly blabbing on about something that doesn't make sense?

So my party last night faced off against a low level lich (odd, I know) It was a CR 12 all together, and my players were all level 9 (it was intended to be a tough fight). When the Lichs fear aura kicked in, half of my players had to take off running and decided, in the midst of things, it would be best to just sit it out and watch TV upstairs.

After a few turns, it became apparent that the remaining players weren't having as much fun because they were struggling, and the players upstairs were equally sad that they couldn't be a part of it. So, with the fight still in it early stages, I decided to make the fear a 60 foot barrier that, should a feared character enter, must leave on his turn. Otherwise, they could still attack at a distance, just as long as it was outside of the 60 foot radius. This for one character, but the other one didn't have his ranged weapon on him at the time, and was still rendered useless (being a barbarian and all). So then, in an effort to bring back the fun, I had them continuously make the fear will save each round on their turn until they saved (they did fairly quick).

I don't think I want to get into the habit of doing roundly saves for fear, and I'm still not sure about the fear aura thingy (I've heard a few people use it before, but I can't remember the details of their variants). I took the decision to bring the fun back into the game despite what the rules say, but should I have two problems:

Should I have allowed a roundly save against the fear, simply because a character was unprepared? Also...

What are your opinions on fear effects? We only have one spellcaster (with a great will save) and everyone else got by on rolls primarily. In their defense, I didn't think the fear would calculate this much into the equation of things, so this is partly my fault. Has anyone here tried anything besides the traditional "run away" effect it gives?

So, before I get into things here, I understand that what is mentioned here wont affect the book (being at the printer and whatnot), I just thought this would be the best place to get playtest opinions on what I may or may not houserule about CMB.

Now then, I've been running some sessions in our latest campaign using PF RPG rules, and boy, do we love em. But, they don't seem to be completely sold on the aspect of CMBs. They enjoy the streamlined nature of it, but (like most people I've heard from) think that a 15+CMB is too high. Unlike most people, half of them seem to be in favor of returning to opposed rolls (while still using CMB), the other half doesn't mind either way. What do you guys think of this?

Also, I have a level 3 Dex Fighter (going into the Duelist prestige class), who is trying to become adept at disarming his foes. In the most recent fight, he successfully disarmed one of the four foes, and failed the three other times he tried it. Though by no means was he furious about this, he was a little frustrated that he couldn't do what he tried to, even when he had built his character towards it (Improved Disarm, using weapons that give disarm bonuses, etc). It surely wasn't due to rolling poorly either, he just couldn't match his foe's CMB.

Since I allow characters to choose upon creation whether or not they use Dex or Str for their attack (it can't be changed after chosen), he asked why he couldn't simply use Dex for his CMB instead of Str, being a Dex Fighter and all. Personally speaking, this seems reasonable to me. Has anyone else done this or have any precautions I should know of? I understand that the level of power goes up a tad, but I'm okay with that.

And finally, I informed my players of the fact that Disarm and Sunder can be done as part of an attack action in a round. I presume this to mean that a character with three attacks can choose to attack normally on the first attack, and then use his other two attacks to disarm a foe. I thought that was cool, as did my players. But, one of them pointed out that wouldn't it be smarter to, should a character have four available attacks, attack with the first one at the highest bonus, and then spend his next attacks sundering or disarming foes (since his BAB will be lower on those attacks, but his CMB will stay the same). He wondered if that was, well, overpowered is far from the word I'm looking for, but you know what I mean.

EDIT: I actually have one last request: Would it be overpowered to allow a player to use his weapons enhancement bonus on Disarm checks? Personally, my guess is yes, but I would like to see others input.

Thanks for any help!