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Hey folks. I recently entered a miniatures painting competition at a local gaming convention and somebody seems to like my paint jobs. I entered a Pathfinder Red Dragon mini in the large category (50mm or larger), and the Pathfinder Lini and Droogami mini's in the small category. The red dragon (the same one I posted pics of in the "reaper red dragon chronicles" thread) didn't win the large category, but Droogami the snow leopard took the small category. I had this mini at PaizoCon last year so some of you may have already seen it.

and here are the pics.

Droogami
another Droogami

And the Red Dragon

Hey guys, I just started working on the Red Dragon Pathfinder mini from Reaper and I was very happy with my first day of work on him. So happy in fact that I thought I would show you my work and hopefully keep posting until completion. Remember, this is about 3 hours of work and he's far from done.

My Red Dragon

I'm going to be driving up to Washington from Missouri by myself as of right now so if anyone needs a ride to PaizoCon I'd be willing to split gas with someone. Your hotel room is your own affair but the travel would be cheaper than a plane ticket. my car can only hold one other person so I can only get one taker. thanks!

Would Bless affect a combat maneuver that takes the place of an attack?
The spell Bless reads: pg249 PFRPG

"Bless fills your allies with courage. Each ally gains a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls and on saving throws against fear effects."

When making a combat maneuver that takes the place of an attack would Bless affect that roll?
The first sentence of Trip reads: pg:201 PFRPG

"You can attempt to trip your opponent in place of a melee attack."

Our group pondered it for a few minutes but never came to a definite conclusion. What do you guys think?

My friends and I were wondering about these this whilst rebuilding our Pathfinder Society characters.

- Can you make your character in the advanced age categories such as middle age, old age,etc?

- Is the feat: Additional Traits, available for use with the Pathfinder Society? (the wording on the society guide is a little confusing.)

- What book do we use for the spell: Summon Monster, until the Pathfinder Bestiary comes out? (I would assume the 3.5 Monster Manual but I just wanted to make sure.)

Thanks for you help!

R.F.B.U.#107 Row Like You Believe.

I'm starting a thread to immortalize all of the plans that have gone horribly wrong. things like spells not working, or an extremely inconveinient critical failure, getting caught in a really awkward bluff, or whatever.

I'll start.

Our party was 2nd level and had set up camp for the night when we were attacked by a minotaur. everyone gets up and engages the minotaur and just when the fighting had started the wizard in our group (whom you might know as Kikai13 on the boards) spotted two more creatures sneaking up behind us to flank the party. my character (2nd level spellthief) noticed them as well and went to hide and abush the creatures as they passed by. as soon as the creatures(two gricks) passed the rock I was hiding behind I attacked and soon found myself flanked by the Gricks. while the rest of the party was fighting the minotaur the wizard was forced to leave the tree he was sleeping in to use more close range spells. he moves up to the Gricks who were on either side of me at the time and cast color spray on them. both of them were caught in the blast, but so was I. We all rolled our saves... one Grick succeded... and the second one did too... and I succeded in rolling a 2.

So the fight when from a wizard and a spellthief fighting two Gricks and turned into a wizard looking dumbfounded at the two Gricks dragging off a Stunned, Blinded, Paralized, and Unconcious me into the darkness.

Lucky for me another party member saved me just before I left the map and became a Stunned, Blinded, Paralized, and Unconcious snack.

I was thinking about making a fighter/rouge thats was good with a crossbow and good at poison making. my question is: is the skill craft alchemy or is it some other kind of skill. also, are there any good feats that i could take that would make it easier to make poison or make a more potent poison?

This is my first time dealing with poison so all the help you could give me would be great.

Okay, i'll put this as simply as i can. This campaign is very strange. this is a homebrewed campaign that a good friend of mine made up. the world doesn't have a name as far as i am aware. there are no dieties, there used to be but they all left when they finished builing the world.(all divine casters take a -1 to their caster level because all of their divine power comes from books about the deities)

Next we have the dragons, all of the dragons are there (chromatic and metalic) however there are a lot of them. There are dragons everywhere. Our party (human ninja, tiefling swordsage, something else, half elf swashbuckler, killeren bard, and somekind of hell something ranger) is only 5th level right now. we have already met four or five dragons. A young bronze dragon that acts like scrappy doo. an evil medium green dragon chick, a silver dragon tavern owner, the bartender's half dragon daughter. there are others but i cant remember them.

and finally for now, the weather. that game has gone for about five sessions and we have been through, week long rain, fog so thick you could cut it with a knife, two hurricanes, and if there's no hurricane, it's gale force winds.

almost every monster we fight is at least two above our parties CR and we have nearly died at least three times. once five goblins almost killed the party of four when we were second level. somethings wrong here.

I was wondering how i could incorperate the gates of dawn into my campaign withoput just saying, okay you guys want to change then go here. by the way the gates of dawn is a small side quest for those who want to change the characters ( everything about their characters) without dying and making new people. one of the players wants to be someone else now but i cant just kill him so he can make a new person, his character doesn't want to die and i'm not going to kill just so someone else can come in. (the gates of dawn mini-quest is in the players handbook II)

i wondering if anybody had some advice about how to make a good arcane caster. my character is a human sorcerer and this is the first arcane caster that i've ever played, i've been playing D&D for a little over a year now. the books i have for reference are:

- players handbook
- dungeon master's guide
- monster manual
- complete adventurer, warrior, and scoundrel
- players handbook II
- magic item compendium

i was also wondering about some cool spells that i might have skimmed over.

How could i make the best out of my swashbuckler character, what are some good feats to take and things like that? i'm open for suggestions, he's still only a lvl 4 character.