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Smoked Googles are not magic items, they are mundane equipment. my bad, I saw that they protected from a gaze attack and assumed the must of been a magic item.
"Unless otherwise noted, activating a magic item is a standard action." It could be argued that Smoked Goggles need to be activated - since it makes no mention of always being on.
Just play a straight Eldritch archer, and perhaps go for the musket instead of a pistol. Mage Bullets would be almost worthless for this build as you already are targeting touch AC most of the time and cast boost your attack via arcana or arcane strike. As soon as you can put Distance on your musket (80' range for touch AC), and use your Magus Arcana for whatever boosts you need (flaming, etc). Buy some deliquescent Gloves and all your attacks already have Acid. Pick up Ranged Spell combat and Reach Spellstrike. use your spells mostly for things like dimension door, phase step, haste, or shield. but have a few shocking grasps, lightning bolts, umbral strike, and cosmic ray type spells. Be sure you have Rapid Reload and Alchemical cartridges (Paper).
Halfway through book 1 and only at level 2 seems a little low. be sure to check the passage at the front of the book that tells you when the party should be levelling. If you are using actual XP, you should still be throwing enough random encounters so that they still level at the appropriate points in the book pr the listing in the front of the book. The other option is to use milestone leveling. either way, the party still needs to stay on track level wise per the AP.
So APs are written for 4 20 point build non-optimized characters, with a non-optimized party, played by less experienced players. Anything outside of this would necessitate a bump in the CR of the encounters. If your players are experienced, build optimized characters, or optimized parties, then you might need to up the CR to make things a bit of a challenge. The original Summoner was overly powerful, the unchained one is more in line, but the summoner/eidolon still has a huge action economy benefit. We tend to think of the eidolon as adding a character to the party when calculating APL. Halfway through book 1 and only at level 2 seems a little low. be sure to check the passage at the front of the book that tells you when the party should be levelling.
So during a typical round, as the characters are fighting, each character will need to make a save against the gaze. During the Euryale's turn it can also target an individual with it's gaze attack, forcing that one character to make an extra save against the gaze attack.
I quite often run dex based melee types with little or no armor. Once you get the dex high enough, you actually start not wanting the negatives associated with armor. Rogues, Magus, Ninja, etc.I do wanna try a unchained rogue sometime... I just worry a lot about finding myself unable to get a flank and thus not doing anything in the combat due to lack of sneak attack... And I dont know if the two weapon fighting to Two Weapon Feint feat line will be good with their lower BAB.... there are lots of ways to get sneak without using flanking. You need to definitely try to get a way to use Greater invisibility. with that alone, you attack against flat footed, and get a +2, if you flank, its +4. look at all of the rogue tricks. there's a couple that you just get sneak attack damage for a round. some that let you use a wall, or an enemy as a flanking partner, and be sure to look at the ninja tricks (invisible blade).
I quite often run dex based melee types with little or no armor. Once you get the dex high enough, you actually start not wanting the negatives associated with armor. Rogues, Magus, Ninja, etc.
Archers benefit in 3 major areas when you consider DPS. 1. They normally get to go first dues to having a high Dex based Iniative2. They get a lot of shots, Many shot, rapid shot and a haste item give them 3 extra shots above their level progression. 3. they usually don't have to move, meaning a composite bow arhcer can begin shooting at no penalty at 100'+, yet a melee has to move to get into melee.
I'm with TxSam... Straight-up archer fighter is disgusting and the player that made the PC loved playing it. yeah - so disgusting that we had to ban it in our games.
human fighter - no archetype - just get a Composite Bow and do a traditional archer build. Get a haste item and at 11th level you should be firing around 6 arrows per round dealing about 15-20 points each, on a non crit.
it's not a reality simulation, many things are that way due to game balance, and/or game simplicity
Shocking robe
These are my favorite ways of boosting Caster level, combine one of the robes with the Admixture School, and pretty much ANY damaging spell gets the boost.
I haven't played that one before, but with a name like Carrion Crown, we expect a lot of undead stuff. Your necromancer may be meant to handle part of that, but I think you would still benefit from a positive energy channeler, and selective channel will be maybe more useful than usual. it does have undead - but not as much as you would think. It actually covers a bunch of horror tropes. That's all I'm going to say on it, as you asked for no spoilers.
I would personally add a dex based rogue type. maybe a Swashbuckler, or ninja. Your Archer Ranger is a good idea. Someone that's good at either being sneaky, or good at ranged combat. It looks to me like you have someone who can heal, someone who can cast divine spells, someone who can cast arcane spell, someone who can be a frontline fighter, what's missing to me is the sneak/lockpick, and/or the ranged fighter.
we're about to finish up that AP, someone in the party needs to max out persuasion and diplomacy. Preferably someone with a high Charisma. You'll want to invest in ways to do combat underwater, cloak of the manta works, there are a couple of feats that allow you to fight underwater, aquadynamic weapon enhancement, waterproof spell, etc. there are LOTS of underwater stuff.
this is where I think the Blackblade is superior to a regular magic weapon, it's literally a swiss army knife. Need flaming, making it flaming, need ghost touch, make it ghost touch, need shock, make it shocking, etc. the fact that once you have a few arcana chosen, you can build almost anything you need on the fly is extremely powerful.
The personality of the Black Blade is up to the player and GM. While it could be jealous, it may just be happy that its guiding purpose is being accomplished at all. I could even imagine one who gets upset at being used for day to day activities, considering it's purpose to be the only completely correct time to use it, and begrudingly letting you use its power more regularly just to keep you alive.Still, don’t be shocked if you end up with a main weapon that outclasses your black blade at certain levels.Since the Black blade is intelligent, a magus would typically not want to upset it by doing that, and unless the other weapon is of the same type, the feats used to get better with the Black Blade will still allow it to outclass the "other blade" Sure, that was a side point, the main point being that since you probably have Feats like Weapon focus etc with your black blade, unless the other weapon is of the same type, losing the bonus from those feats is usually not worth whatever cool thing the alternate weapon has.
So, if he was able to play a dwarf - Stone Lord Paladin is the way to go.
Still, don’t be shocked if you end up with a main weapon that outclasses your black blade at certain levels. Since the Black blade is intelligent, a magus would typically not want to upset it by doing that, and unless the other weapon is of the same type, the feats used to get better with the Black Blade will still allow it to outclass the "other blade"
Wouldn't this be a case of specific rule overriding a general rule, So even though the FAQ says to increase the damage by two steps, the template would be a more specific rule, and it says to increase by one step.
especially once a weapons magic bonus gets high enough to penetrate most DR's on it's own. Many of the FAQ's are BS at many tables. This is an example of a rules complication that was not needed. But ok, so the ammunition doesn't go through DR, It's not difficult to deal enough damage and get enough attacks for DR to be a non issue even for ranged. Our table usually forgets that high enhancement bonus weapons go through DR anyway, and we don't have an issue taking down bad guys with substantial DR.
If you want to branch away from Paizo products, there's a book out there entitled "World's Largest Dungeon", a huge tome that is one giant dungeon, and IIRC rules neutral.
We long ago got tired of the ledger keeping of tracking gear (especially ammunition) to this level. We assume that a ranged character can make new ammunition during the evening camp/downtime, and will have enough made for a days worth of adventuring, thus negating the need for durable arrows. We have also discovered that DR is not usually enough of an issue to warrant the use of special materials, especially once a weapons magic bonus gets high enough to penetrate most DR's on it's own. Of course your game may differ, but we have found that getting rid of this level of bookkeeping freed game time up so that we can concentrate on the other aspects of game.
Yep, I've quite often said that Haste is one of the most damage dealing spell a wizard can cast.
Are you asking how far away the party without a light source can see the light from the lantern, or are you asking how far away the party without the light source can see the party with the lantern? Those are two separate issues. They will be able to see the lantern from quite a distance away assuming that nothing blocks the light. In order to identify the character in the party with the lantern they will need to be a lot closer. What spurred the discussion was an archer hiding in the darkness in the woods wanted to know if he could see a party riding down the road at night with a few lanterns well enough to shoot one of them. We've always just allowed it, but someone asked if there should be a penalty of some sort. from what we could tell by the "rules" that since he was in a dark area, he couldn't see them at all, but that didn't make any sense to us, hence the question.
as they are monsters, the GM can have them heal however much he wants.
Class level.
Is there any feat or other ability that allows you to use your STR modifier as the "to hit" stat instead of DEX when using a thrown weapon? don't worry about doing a STR build for shuriken, go DEX and embrace it, build it as you would an archer build. use Deadly Aim, and One of the gloves that gives your weapon flaming of acid, at 10th level you should have around 4 or 5 Shuriken throws all at around 1d2 + 4 + 1d6 fire + 5d6 sneak attack. 30d6 potential damage in one round is pretty nice.
Typically, some method of getting your thrown magic weapon to return to your hand after each throw is mandatory after a few levels, Shuriken are considered ammunition, any that hit are "destroyed or rendered useless" and those that miss have a 50% chance of the same. so making them returning is generally worthless. That being said, you can indeed Sneak attack with every shuriken you throw if you qualify for sneak attack with those attacks. At 10th level, a Ninja can become invisible as Greater Invisibility using the Invisible Blade Ninja Trick, this works perfectly to provide sneak attack damage for all the shuriken in a shuriken flurry. I typically don't even bother with the weapon damage, and just roll the sneak attack damage.
The rules on lighting define what you can see in an area that is illuminated by a light source, not what light sources you can see. There are no rules for the latter, and you'll need to use your discretion. In total darkness, a bright light source can be seen from a considerable distance. that's what I was thinking. Thanks everyone.
So we had a discussion at last nights game, and we can't find anything official on it, so if someone could please point us to something official, it would be a great help. If a party is in an area of darkness, with no light source of their own, and encounters another party using a lantern, campfire, sunrod etc as a light source, from how far away can they see them. The rules seem to imply that if you are in an area of darkness, that you can't see the other party at all until you are in the area of their light source. But we all know from experience that out in the woods, you can clearly see people around a campfire, yet be beyond it's range. I know this is using real world concepts, but I'm curious if the game just left this out, of are there official rules for it.
in no particular order Vanishing Trick
If you are doing TWF, then you want Piranha Strike.
Swashbuckler Flying Blade.
So in real life you guys can see a person at 800 ft fighting your friend with total clarity and shoot it with a bow with no penalty. That mean all person are Legolas I not asking for concealment, illumination, etc . I'm asking about distance of the weapon and the range of sight ( your vision with your eyes) to a target that is in melee with a friend of yours but they are far away from your "normal range of view", still apply the preciset shot In Pathfinder you take a -2 penalty to shoot for each range increment beyond the first. As long as you can see them, and they are within your max range, then yes Precise shot can be used.
Still unsure what you are asking. There is no "Max sight of vision", unless there is darkness of some kind involved. If you can't see a target due to darkness, then you really can't make an attack. However, anytime you can make an attack, you can use Precise shot. Also, the max Range on a thrown weapon is 5x its range increment, for projectile weapons, it's 10X (so for a longbow, this is 1000 feet). As long as there is enough light to see the target within these range increments - then you can use Precise Shot.
...but be aware of the limits. Silence is a 20' radius emanation, while Disrupt Silence is only a 10' radius emanation. So it won't completely cover the silenced area. Worst case, you end up with a donut shape area where sound works in the middle but still doesn't reach outside the silenced area. That's good enough for the bard to cast spells with verbal components, but sound still won't reach people "outside". "Additionally, disrupt silence can automatically counter or dispel any magical silence effect of equal or lower level cast upon the same target, such as silence." Silence would be dispelled.
https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/d/disrupt-silence/ Cast this.....
Honestly, if I was one of your players, I'd just tell you to ban all spell using classes, as these rules put them in the close to unplayable area, especially considering the boost you've given to martials. Or, just swap to a system built around low-magic. I think zweihander and Conan bot are built that way.
just make sure your archer can deal with the other two common arrows shutdowns (beside deflecting\cut from air) - wind wall and a fighter who move and ready his tower shield once you start shooting. yep - never had a bad guy in an AP with those either.
"Black iron axe" is it's name, not it's description.
I think that a special material weapon can benefit either from the Blanch or its original material, not both at the same time. The arrowhead is completely coated by the blanch, so the target isn't hit by the original special material. We play the AP's and DR isn't enough of an issue to ever worry about being able to bypass it. Like, we're in book 5 of Skulls and Shackles, and I think we've had DR in like 3 encounters.... And when you can del 30-50 points of damage in a hit, DR 5 is not slownig you down much.
I just happen to think that, mechanically and flavor-wise, melee has as much going for it. Most Certainly - Lots of fun to be had with almost any build. The issue we had with archers was the high init score, combined with range and huge damage, typically meant the encounter boss was dead before the melee fighter got to even act. So while that melee guy could chew through the minions to get to the boss, the big target would already be dead.
Assuming that that's true, which I'm not arguing, aside from play style what incentive does anyone have to build a melee fighter? first range increment for a longbow is 100'. the archer, who will probably go fist, will get 1 or 2 rounds of shooting before the melee with pounce gets to attack. but it's seldom about PC vs PC, is PC vs bad guy, and they seldom have those specialized type builds.
https://aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?ID=303 RAW - Shocking weapons work as normal, aside from the normal weapon attack penalties.
The other must haves are Rapid Shot, Many Shot and Deadly Aim. A fighter Class can have all the feats he needs to be an exceptional Archer by level 11.
Assuming that that's true, which I'm not arguing, aside from play style what incentive does anyone have to build a melee fighter? well, it's a ROLE playing game, not a ROLL playing game. That enough should make people want to play all kinds of sub-par characters.
I assume I have the feats that negate most of those penalties and just look at potential damage on a hit (basically assume I hit) Also, a well built fighter archer will out pace the damage of a well built melee fighter, simply due to not having to move, but also having more iterative attacks due to many shot and rapid shot.
I'm not saying that Mythic isn't powerful, I haven't played it yet, so I don't know, all I'm saying is that it seems that many of the things it gives can be obtained by a regular character. Your spell caster example - easily duplicated by a metamagic rod of quicken. Fighter, Haste will give an extra attack at full BAB. (There are a number of full BAB classes that can self haste). Not to mention the feats Many shot and Rapid Shot Barbarian that can teleport and make full Attack - Multi class as Magus/Barbarian. agreed, it's not ideal - I'm simply saying it's possible.
Spell combat and just about any teleport spell will give a teleport and full around attack..... my current character is using Phase Step, I wish it worked with Dimensional Slide. Shadow Duplicate is pretty close to the Loki trick, just lacking the teleport, and there's always the Cloak of fiery vanishing, or the Cape of the Mountebank. both would be similar to the Loki effect.
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