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Another fitting option for a succubus style character would be a seducer-witch. Charisma based, focus on charm and enchantment. Depending on your and your tables gusto, you might want to talk with you gm to tweak her a little, to make her a little less sexual.
Long time no update, but still playing. Strange Aeons:
After awakening without memories, scrambling around and killing some doppelganger (while almost beeing killed twice) we managed to convince the survivors that we mean no harm. We talked with Winter about the strange things happening in the Asylum and discussed how we could help. We continued exploring the asylum and after another few near-death experiences final found the "rift" seeping out of Dr Losandro and "closed" it. Afterwards we nearly died again against the ratling sorcerer and decided to head back into the chapel, briefing Winter and licking our wounds.
We quickly realized, that our party (Half-Orc Skald, Elf Rogue, Half-Elf Hunter and my Human Cartomancer Witch) were severely lacking the healing resources we needed, so our DM adjusted the loot to contain some "experimental healing concoctions". Also she was a little bit "frustrated" as we managed to kill most of what we could have talked through to gain information and tried to talk with most of what just wanted to kill us, but we're working on that ^^ What already became a reoccurring joke, is that our nemesis are inanimate objects, as things like random tables, curtains or other stuff originally mentioned just as fluff/description gave us some serious problems. We'll see what will await us next, bets are running whom of us will die first (my witch and the rogue beeing the top candidates). Homebrew Game:
After finishing the previous story-arc with a party of three and a DM-PC after one player left, I ran a slightly modified version of The Harrowing as a way to introduce the new player/character to the party and story.
It went quite well the group had lots of fun and one of the most dramatic situations until now, as the party's bard almost died to the mute hags poison, which lead to some player/character emotional trauma (triggering some character backgroundstory related stuff), as they could just stand there and hope she makes her last and save (which she did, leaving her at 13 Con-Damage with a Con of 14), living another day. Since then, the druid always has neutralize poison or delay poison prepared. The managed quite well, killing some more encounters than necessary, and reached the striding fortress. After struggling against the bishop and succubi, the finally reached zassrion and defeated him (easier than expected, but still with the new rogue/slayer going down once and using some pretty expensive consumables from earlier adventures). After leaving the harrowed realm they'll now head back to Sandpoint and Magnimar, for some shopping and catching up before deciding what to do next. For me that means, the time of lay back module-running is over, and I'll have to head back to the drawing board of planning future encounters and plots myself. I'm curious, as to which challenge they are going to tackle next. I expect fewer sessions the next months, as festival and medieval fair season is starting, which will take up most of our upcoming weekends.
Not quiet if you take a look at the conditions: 1st failed save
2nd failed save
3rd failed save
Mh, somehow I never thought about that.
If you want to go ahead and allow it, eh... it's probably not too strong if she casts fireball once a day using a 3rd-level bard slot. Think of it as a 5000 gp item that lets a bard cast fireball once a day. That's probably a little low but not too far out of scale. BUT you're going to keep a tighter rein on loot and purchased item than you might otherwise want to. Otherwise the player can accumulate a library of sorcerer scrolls that can be used with the vestment. 5000 gp for a once-a-day fireball is one thing. 5000 gp for once-a-day "bard can choose a sorcerer spell" is far too low, even with the requirement to possess the scroll. I see your reasoning. I might go with limiting her to sorcerer spells with the fire descriptor. She has the elemental fire bloodline, the feat fire music and fire plays a role in her backstory.As fire is the most resisted energy type, I think it shouldn't be a problem giving her rhe ability to cast a non-bard fire spell once per day. I'll talk it through with her, as we all want to have fun and the while group/game isn't really about going for the min/max anyway, so it should be fine. Thanks for your input.
That was my first thought as well, but thinking about it and strictly looking at the vestment's requirements the character in question would fulfill all requirements as it's nowhere mentioned that the spell slot must come from the same class that grants the relevant spell-list. That was probably not written down to save space as it is a special case, but still. She could easily activate a wand of fireball, as she has the sorcerers spell list. She could activate a scroll of fireball (although with a caster-level check). I am not against some leeway for the sake of fun and rp, so woul it be too strong to allow her to use a sorcerer scroll with the vestment once per day?
So this question came up while i was planning the loot for an upcoming encounter in my campaigns. In the hoard my group might find will be a mnemonic vestment. One of my players is a Bard 9 / Sorcerer 1 (RP-Reasons and spelllist for wands and scrolls) and I was wondering how this would work for her. Let's say she had an arcane scroll of fireball. Question 1
Question 2
Thoughts on 1 Is the spell on herr spell list?
Can she expend a same level spell slot?
Is the expended slot the same type as the scroll?
So, by sticking straight to the raw requirements of the mnemonic vestment (which don't include special cases for multiclassing), she would be able to cast the spell. Thoughts on 2
As far as I understood multiclassing till know, if you multiclass in a caster you get access to the whole spell list (and can use Wands and scroll accordingly) but only can cast spells according the relevant caster level (Fight X/Sorcerer 3, casts as a 3rd level sorcerer). But I'm not sure how the above situation would work RAW/RAI.
Anyone had this on their table or thoughts aboutnit and could share insight with me?
From the ready action rules:
1- The sorcerer casting triggers the wizard’s readied action (counterspell).
Quicken allows you to cast a spell as a swift action, therefore using your standard action for something else. It doesn't change anything about order of operation regarding readied actions. Maybe you mixed up swift action and immediate action (the later one could in theory "interupt" the wizards readied action).
Minor correction, the only requirement is a Fly speed. Beeing large or larger is only relevant for whirling up a dust/debris cloud.
I know many people use EITR, but I was wondering what other Houserules you all use in your games? We for example play without crit-confirmation, what probably only works, as nobody plays a crit-fishing build. In addition abilities and feats which only improve confirmation-rolls are either swapped out or simply skipped if they are a requirement for other feats. We also don't play with negative hit points, instead we switched to the wounded/dying rules from PF2e, also with changing/swapping relevant abilities accordingly.
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Only what is written in the abilities in question.
That beeing said something I found: Add +1/2 point of fire damage to spells that deal fire damage cast by the sorcerer. As this RAW affects fire damage by of spells cast by the (half-orc) sorcerer and not only damage rolls, a level 20 Half-Orc Sorcerer with this FCB on all levels, would deal 11 points of fire damage per round with boiling blood. There might be more abilities that could affect it.
I am totally on board with RAI that it should be free and rhe sorcerer beeing able to just magically pop a tattoo on his shoulder, but still to my understanding strict RAW (what Karmic wants) stands against it. The thing is, spell tattoos, inscribe magical tattoo and the tattooed sorcerer are all from the same book.
So strictly RAW everything listed by the Sorcerers Create Spell Tattooo ability is a specific rule over-ruling the general rules. It takes less time than normal, that only one can be maintained at a time, that she can do it more than once per day at higher levels and even mentions that those created by Inscribe Magic Tattoo do not count against the abilities limit. However, the ability doesn't contain a specific rule regarding cost or craft checks. The simplest solution would be to add to the abilities description: Create Spell Tattoo (Su): At 7th level, a tattooed sorcerer can create a spell tattoo (see page 16) once per day with a single touch as a standard action, at no cost and without making an appropriate craft check.[...] And while I (by all means) believe that this is RAI, it is not RAW. As we won't get any official clarification on that, it's up to every GM to decide. The closest to an official response would probably be someone who played a tattooed sorcerer in PFS, used the ability and could tell us how it was ruled. charging a magus the difference in creation cost of enhancing a weapon from using points from the magus's arcane pool The difference here is that the magus ability says, he can grant his weapon and enhancement bonus for a certain duration, while the sorcerers ability specifically says he creates a spell tattoo (see page 16). The magus doesn't create a magical item he just temporarily enhances it, so his ability is unrelated to the rules for magic item creation, unlike the sorcerer whose ability even references the magical item he creates. A point to support the RAW reading can be found in druidic herbalism:
A druid can create a number of free herbal concoctions per day equal to her Wisdom modifier. Additional concoctions cost the same as creating an equivalent potion using Brew Potion. This ability says he can create something for free (not to question the balancing of druidic herbalist in general, which isnt balanced at all, just the only example I had in my mind right now).
Okay, first everyone takes a deep breath. Second I have to admit, that first I was agreeing with Azothath and Name Violation that it should be free for a tattooed sorcerer to create his tattoos. But there more I read into it, the more I lean to Karmics interpretation. While Swift alchemy and spell tattoo are different things (one mundane/alchemy the other magical) the basic point stays. Swift alchemy allows the creation of alchemical items in half the normal time, everything else stays normal (cost, skills check, etc.) Create Spell Tattoo specifies many things like taking only a standard action, how many he can mantain, not counting against the limit of Inscribe Magic Tattoo and some things more.
So while I also think RAI it should be free, and not require a skill check, RAW nothing in the ability says it works different from a normal spell tattoo regarding cost and craft check.
RAW no.
Because first, going from highest to lowest is RAW:
Another thing to take into account, is your build is pretty MAD. STR 13+2 (damage, hit, 15 req. Thunder and fang)
With that you won't have spent a point for CON for those hitpoints you'll want as a melee. You'll probably have to dump INT and CHA if you want to survive some Hits to increase CON, or accept the fact you won't cast save-spells and focus only on to-hit and buffs spells, so your save DC won't matter (still need WIS 19 to be able to cast 9th level spells eventually).
If you want to focus on fighting with your companion, have you looked into the hunter?
You won't get sneak attack or slayer talents, but bonus team work feats which you automatically grant your (full-level) companion, so you'll become a nice tag team, with things like outflank, pack-tactics, etc. You also get animal aspects to buff your companion and yourself, which fits the concept of connecting with (animal-)spirits and spontaneous spellcasting up to 6th level. A hunter is proficient with martial weapons, so you won't necessarily have to take the shoanti tattoo trait and the half-orcs favored class bonus for hunter grants his companion extra hitpoints. Just throwing in another option, if you haven't thought about it already.
May I ask why you want to go for nature fang druid? Full-Caster? Slayer-Talents/Sneak Attack? Companion? Combination of all? As already mentioned the level depended Shift from martial to full-caster might be troublesome so another class might work better mechanicwise. But if you don't mind, have fun, who am I to judge ^^ Another thing i would like to mention isn't as much of a "rules problem", rather than a "lore problem". How much it matters depends entirely on your table and how strict you are with the lore restricting your raw options. As you want to go for the shoanti tattoo trait which gives you the proficiencies needed for your build, the tattoo is something given by a shoanti shaman after a rite of passage.
Either you are a half-orc born into a shoanti tribe (which would mean a pretty rough childhood and miracle that you survived) or a shoanti tribe would have adopted you into their tribe as a token of honor. Lorewise a shoanti tribe would never adopt a orc, half-orc or chelaxian so the latter is very unlikely. As I already said, this is mostly lore and many tables don't care about it that much but better check in with your DM to be sure.
I would go in the same direction as Pizza Lord.
I could imagine a ranger/archer-fighter/eldritch archer/musketeer hailing arrows or bullets from above, without worrying about allies providing soft cover for the enemies. Casters of any kind wizard/cleric/bard love to worry less about the enemy beeing able to step up to them and hinder their casting. I personally would avoid sneak attack classes, as they usually want to be in melee and flank, so you would often end up staying on the ground with your non-winged allies.
I'd throw in the slayer:
The -4 size penalty on Intimidate checks against foes larger than you makes this a bit problematic for a halfling or other small character: The Taunt feat will probably work better and probably save you a skill... A halfling could also take the alternative racial trait Creepy Doll, which eliminates the size penalty to intimidate. One could go with a whip and the dazzling display route, to have an AoE demoralize. On another note the bard in my group is mostly using her turns to restart her performance, after ending it with purging or saving finale, after the fighter failed/messed up again.
Okay, as I had some time before the campaign begins, I was thinking through some options. This is all pure theory-crafting under the assumption that the campaign goes that far and my witch survives long enough for the following to matter at all. So far I'm set with my cartomancer witch and a one level dip in harrower for flavor and the fun and very thematic blessing of the harrow ability. I thought about going more into harrower for the other abilities, but since harrower only progresses my spellcasting, but not my hexes I think, I'll loose to much for it. What I stumbled across is the stargazer prestige class. It would advance my spellcasting AND stack with my witch levels for hexes. The additional stars domain, some Oracle mystery abilities and the sideral Arcana sound nice.
One question though: Mystery Magic (Ex)::
At 1st and 9th levels, the stargazer gains a hex from the witch’s list of hexes. His stargazer levels count as (and stack with) witch levels when determining the effects of hexes. In addition, the stargazer adds all hexes available to a shaman with the heavens spirit (Pathfinder RPG Advanced Class Guide 40) to the witch list. Does this mean the levels only stack for effects (meaning DC, duration, etc.), but not for qualifying for major hexes at witch level 10? If so, it's probably less useful as I thought, but an option nonetheless. Maybe something along the line as
As Strange Aeons ends with level 17, grand hexes at level 18 are out of the equation anyway. I would miss out some additional major hexes, but depending on how challenging the campaign will be for the group constellation, I might be able to go for more flavor than optimization. Opinions/suggestions? Edit
The scaling items not beeing the best cost/benefit solution, won't be much of a problem. My players are already going strong, without overly optimizing their gear.
The goal is not to make the item the most optimized at every stage. The players like thise items for their plot and relationships to their characters.
Going along with this train of thought, at which level would normal boots of speed be a reasonable character investment/reward?
No, the finale stage doesn't stack with the previous ones. Stages 1 to 3 add up.
So in the final stage the item is the same as the already existing (and linked in my original post) Boots of Speed which I used as a reference point. But after reading your post and rereading haste I realized I somehow messed up. It should be +1 to hit in one stage and +1 AC, +1 Ref-Save in the other, I messed up reading the haste spell. The final value of 12.000gp should be fine, as it equals an already existing identical item, just need to tune the steps to it.
Oh great masters of custom magic item pricing, I beseech your wisdom. I really like scaling magic items, that grow in power with the characters. I would like to create a scaling version of the boots of speed, but am a bit unsure with the pricing, so please help me out. The basic boots of speed cost 12.000gp
3×10 (Haste, SL3, CL 10)
I want to scale the item as follows:
Roughly following the above calculation, I would end up with something like this: Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Does this sound reasonable?
Bauble
Prize
I thought about adding the full price for armor and weapon bonus (ignoring the 10 rounds duration discount) to better spread the scaling more even and have a smaller gap befor the final stage: Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Would you make such an item a bauble or rather a prize regarding normal player wealth and item progression? Any suggestions, additions or corrections to my train of thought and math would be appreciated.
Long time no post, so here some updates: Dragon's Demand:
We swapped it up, my players had an epic fight against Aeteperax, with a hefty crit, plus flametongue and a high roll on sneak attack sealing the dragons fate. He tried to get some distance but the fly buffed bloodrager/fighter gave chase an finished the fight, saving belhaim from impending doom. Homebrew Game:
We'll finally play again next week, after over a year. We'll finally wrap up the open story arc and then I'll discuss with my remaining players how We'll go on from there. Rise of the Runelords (Online):
My group finished the Nualia/Thistletop Plotline. While it was fun, I early noticed that some players just didn't fully get into PF1, which I someway expected. We decided to let it end here and switch to something else. We'll probably try out Savage Worlds, with a homebrew campaign, based on Weird West Deadlands. Strange Aeons: New game, as a follow up for the finished Dragon's Demand game. I'll get to be a player here (first time in pathfinder) and am more than happy about it. I look forward to see how my Cartomancer Witch will deal with the cosmic horrors she'll eventually face.
Ah, seems I totally missed that.
Just a quick question: If one would play an oradin, Life Oracle (Pei Zin) + Paladin (Hospitaler), with the channel revelation one would have two separate pools of LoH and Channel Energy. If one would now take the feats extra LoH and/or extra Channel would you increase both pools (Oracle and paladin) or just one? None of the class features say they stack with similar abilities, oracle LoH explicitly states it only counts as the paladin feature for feats, effects and spells that affect LoH and not that it stacks with said paladin feature? This would basically mean you would increase your total LoH/Channel pool by 4 instead of 2 with one feat, or am I mistaken?
I think I'll go with Warpriest as a backup, seems easier and more versatile. So thanks for the input. Someone wants to give his two copper pieces on this one? We all know the life link Oradin. Would a similar build be possible with a Life Shaman 4 / Warpriest X? With the shamans Life link Hex and the Warpriests fervor and swift self cast to heal, on paper it should work? Or are both classes to depended on their own class levels to consider such a multiclass?
Why not play a Bard I'd like not to, as we'll already have a skald in our starting group. Alignment We are not that strict with Alignment, so a CG paladin of a CG deity following a more lenient "code" will probably be fine, but I'll check with the DM. I'll check out the modified Warpriest build though.Divine Hunter downside Yeah, I missed the divine Hunter loosing heavy armor and I see the standard abilities might be more useful. Maybe I'll stay with the standard paladin, just have to fit in Precise Shot then. As a warpriest with divine fighting technique, I'll have to focus on two mental stats, which will penalize my survivability with less points for Dex or Con, and no heavy armor. Don't know if I'd like that. Cleric or Oracle We had an Oracle in our last campaign and I like to switch things up a bit (not picking classes we already had). Cleric might be an option, but with lower BAB and no increased weapon damage or divine bond buff to complement offensive, I'm not sure if I'd go with that. On another case
So, for an upcoming campaign (Strange aeons or hell's rebels) my character will be a cartomancer witch. But since character deaths are possible, I'd like to have a backup. I heavily lean into a divine fighter type of desna. I want to go with a starknife(tossing) build and am currently indecisive between paladin and warpriest. I'll be a backrow damage dealer with support/heal potential. For race I'll probably Human or maybe Aasimar (which will delay feats, but brings more flavor). Here is what I got so far: Paladin (Divine Hunter):
Cha > Con > Str/Dex, with probably heavy armor Level 1 - Divine Fighting Technique (Desna's Shooting Star)
Level 3 - Point Blank Shot Level 5 - Startoss Style Level 7 - Startoss Comet Level 9 - Quick Draw Level 11 - Startoss Shower I would have cha to hit and damage, smite, LoH, channel, divine bond and mercies.
Warpriest:
Dex > Wis > Con/Str, light/medium armor Level 1 - Weapon Finesse
Level 3 - Point Blank Shot
Level 5 - Startoss Style Level 6 - Startoss Comet Level 7 - Quick Draw Level 9 - Startoss Shower
I would have Dex to hit and damage,fervor, channel, blessings, sacred Weapon. Wondering if Guided Star should be earlier (maybe at level 6).
Warpriest would have better spellcasting and better self-buff (via fervor swift castings), but the paladin will probably be bulkier and better for support via LoH, Mercy and Channel, since I can use heavy armor and allocate more points to Con. Blinkback-Belt will be a goto for both. Since I hope my witch will survive a few levels, I'm not too much concerned about the early levels (especially getting a way to retrieve the thrown starknife, either via returning/called or blinkback belt) What do you think of each? I would like to stay between those two classes and am fixed to the theme of desna and a starknife. Any suggestions to improve or complement aforementioned builds?
Once you have given a dominated creature a command, it continues to attempt to carry out that command to the exclusion of all other activities except those necessary for day-to-day survival (such as sleeping, eating, and so forth). What will he do: If the last command was "Come and stand by my side", he will try to do exactly that. He will do nothing than trying to find him, to again stand by his side, except things necessary to survive. He will do so until this task is completed, the duration expires, he recieves another command (which Inhetef can do telepathically without range restriction, as long as they are on the same plane) or the spell is otherwise lifted. In theory he could command the barbarian to act normal and have him as a eyes and ears by concentrating on the spell to get intel about the party and order him to maybe sabotage the party in a way
Prehensile hair is less of deal for me, since I can deliver all touch spells as ranged touch attacks via my spell deck. I'll probably take mor of a support role (buffing/debuffing).
In addition, does anyone know of a simple way (within the upper frame) of getting a single psychic spell as a witch (looking at you, mind thrust I)?
Hello everyone, for an upcoming campaign, where I as a forever DM will be a player (whoo hoo), I'm strongly inclined to play a witch. As I really like the flavor I'd go with the cartomancer archetype and maybe pick up some levels in the harrower prestige class. I don't want to build a full optimized character, but avoid things that would be straight bad choices. We'll probably run either Strange Aeons or Hell's Rebels, and be a group of four players.
What i got so far: Malika Crowe
20 Point-Buy (Human +2 Int)
Traits
Level 1, Witch
Level 2, Witch
Level 3, Witch
Level 4, Witch
Level 5, Witch
Level 6, Harrower
Level 7, Witch
As her patron i imagine some chaotic fey spirit or beeing, whose power manifested in the heirloom harrowdeck, so I'm indecisive between trickery, deception (which both fit the fey theme), healing (to be a better support) or elements for some damaging options (especially shocking grasp in combination with the spell deck delivery). As I'm probably focusing on the supportive/utility side of my hexes, so my hex-dc won't be super relevant, which made me consider the harrower prestige class for more flavor. I choose Evil Eye to have some offensive hex option, but consider changig it to either the healing hex (and probably retrain as soon as we have a CLW-wand) or the fortune hex, as my main role will be support and avoid (and heal) party damage. Soothsayer is specifically chosen at 4th level and not at first to be not too strong at level 1 and beeing symbolic for beeing more in touch with the patron's power and herr skills regarding the harrow. I'm looking for suggestions for spells and thoughts/comments on what I've got so far. Anything that should be changed?
Does a monstrous humanoid count as humanoid for armor pricing? One might assume that humanoid refers to bipedal, with two arms. Since the trox has extra arms protruding from its torso, one might rule it as non-humanoid for armor pricing, which would increase the cost to about 15.800gp.
A 3-foot-long, blazing beam of red-hot fire springs forth from your hand. You wield this blade-like beam as if it were a scimitar. Attacks with the flame blade are melee touch attacks. The blade deals 1d8 points of fire damage + 1 point per two caster levels (maximum +10). Since the blade is immaterial, your Strength modifier does not apply to the damage. A flame blade can ignite combustible materials such as parchment, straw, dry sticks, and cloth. It is wielded as if it were a scimitar. Is your hand free while wielding a scimitar? No. So it's not free while wielding the flame blade. That means no somatic components with this hand, no wielding of other weapons and no benefit of anything requiring this hand to be free. And you can't drop or sheathe the flame blade to temporarily free up the hand, like you could with a normal blade, but you get to attack touch AC with it. I image it like you cast the spell and the flame blade springs from your hand. Then you have "to wield it like a scimitar" to keep the blade manifested. However since the spell is not (D) dismissable and has a fixed duration RAW it would stay regardless of what you do with the hand. That would support Diego's point. If I were the DM I would propably rule that as long as the Spell persists, that hand is occupied. As it specifically mentions wielded as if it were a scimitar one could argue if things like weapon focus (scimitar) would apply, but that would be a different topic.
Adding Spells to a Wizard's Spellbook
Writing a New Spell into a Spellbook
0 => 5gp
As a DM depending on which level the characters start I would probably award a wizard/witch/alchemist a number of spells to add to their Spell-/Formulae Book or familiar for free and additional spells for the cost of copying the spell (without the renting fee).
As a player, RAW you would only start with the number of spells listed in the class entry, but ask your DM how he handles it, as you might see a lot of table variation there.
Thanks for the answers so far, but maybe I wrote to much, as my main question hasn't been touched yet: 1 weapon = 1 dose = 1 standard or full-round action (nothing in question here) 10 pieces ammunition = 1 dose, but
Quick question, since my Google-Fu seems to have failed me: Example Holy Weapon Balm It says applying it to a weapon is a standard action, for blanches it's a full-round action. It also says one dose is enough for one weapon or 10 pieces of ammunition. What would be the action economy for ammunition?
In case of the latter if in-combat it would almost always be better to apply it to 10 pieces of ammunition instead of 1 weapon regarding you only get one successful attack with it, since you get more possible hits per "apply-action". Bonus-Question: would a weapon or ammunition coated in the holy weapon balm be considered "good" for overcoming DR/good and deal weapon damage as well or only the listed bonus damage (2d4) against evil outsiders?
Since an alchemist doesn't cast spells, but rather creates potion like extracts, all of his spells are single target - the imbiber. It doesn't matter where he got the knowledge for haste from (a wizards spellbook, another alchemists formulae book, or by level-up). Normally only the alchemist himself can use his extracts, unless he has the infusion discovery. If so he can hand the extract to an ally whi in turn can drink it to get the effect of haste. Nonetheless it would only target one creature, namely the one which drinks the extract.
Ok, thanks. Then I'll go with as I intended, that that a character can accept or refuse the song on the beginning of his turn and the songs effects persist till the beginning of his next turn unless they end because of another reason.
Since in my next camapign one if the players will go for a skald I took some time to read through it's abilities. However I found something I find rather strange and wonder if in this case RAW=RAI or not: If accepted, the raging song’s effects last for that ally’s turn or until the song ends, whichever comes first. RAW that would mean, that as soon as initiative passes own, everyone looses the benefits of the corresponding song until they can accept it again at the start of their turn. That would result in some weird Boni-Jumps, like getting more STR, CON, AC for your turn, but loose them after it, only to regain them if you accept it again next turn. Is this really the way it'ssupposed to work? Especially defensive Boni or defensive Rage-Powers like Superstition which are recommended for a skald to pass with his song, would have greatly diminished use, if they are just active during one's turn. I'm inclined to rule it like, a character can accept a ragin song, which benefits would last until the start of the player's next turn, when they can choose again. Is there an official statement?
Rise of the Runelords
Dragon's Demand
Homebrew Game
As Elemental Impossibility clearly states: "This ability replaces expanded element, as well as the 11th- and 19th-level infusions." Therefore you won't get any benefits from expanded element, except those mentioned in Elemental Impossibility.
There are some archetypes that replace only certain parts or stages of an advancing class ability, but it would say so in the description, which is not the case here.
I have to congratulate Tottemas for finding a RAW method for allowing a swift action to be performed as a standard action. While I agree that it doesn't change a swift action into a standard action, it would still allow you to spend a standard action to use another swift action. Ready Action
So swift actions can be readied. Swift action
One swift action per turn, not per round.
Unlike a 5ft step, which can also be readied, but not if you have otherwise moved in that round and it prevents you from moving in the round that you take the readied 5ft-step. Maybe rephrase the trigger to something like "as soon as the next character acts" instead of "as soon as my turn ends" to have a more legitimate trigger. Sounds cheesy, but otherwise RAW it should work.
While I can't find a direct rule, I would say no. Reasoning as follows:
As noted in Black Blade Strike, it is not a standard action, but a free one. An SP works like a spell, so what does the descriptions of spells say about free action casting and provoking?
Okay so a swift action cast, doesn't provoke an AoO, but nothing about free action castings. Free actions don’t take any time at all, though there may be limits to the number of free actions you can perform in a turn. Free actions rarely incur attacks of opportunity. So, free actions take even less time than swift actions and swift action castings already don't provoke. Even more, it's also mentioned that free actions rarely incur AoOs. In conclusion I would rule, that it doesn't provoke an AoO. But I might be corrected, as the description of spell-like abilities I quoted in the beginning, could also be read that all spell-like abilities provoke AoOs, regardless of their "casting time".
Using this ability is a standard action, unless the paladin targets herself, in which case it is a swift action. Emphasis on "is" Using LoH on someone else is a standard action.
So RAW, no a Paladin can't use LoH on himself as a standard action.
Some GMs might houserule in a way as above, that a Paladin might choose to use a standard action to LoH on himself instead of a swift, but not both in the same turn, but that would be up to the GM.
This. In a group of mine I also had a bard, sometimes thinking she wasn't doing enough in battles. Then we started another game in a slightly different player composition where she played a fighter. She wondered why she wasn't dealing nearly as much damage as the fighter in the group she plays the bard in. Well because the group with her playing the fighter was missing her - the bard from the other round. Inspire Courage and Heroism are going a great way hitting stuff especially when using power attack and iterative attacks. And that doesn't even take into consideration how often she saved a fight going south by helping the fighter not to kill his allies by letting him re-roll another failed Will-Save by using her saving finale. So Buffers and Healers often enable most of the damage to even be dealt in the first place. And things like saving finale, the oracles misfortune and stuff like that prevents the heavy hitters from dealing that potential damage to the wrong guys as well. |
