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How would you feel about a high-magic homebrew rule that lets people make a ranged weapon strike with a staff that's 1d4 and a fixed energy type with a ~30ft range, maybe in the sling weapon group like foxfire? Kinda like the idea of doing some old school WoW style wand spam, and making it a bit cooler to have a staff handy.
Eager Assistant: At the start of your turn, you gain one additional reaction, which you can use only to Aid. Aid Trigger: An ally is about to use an action that requires a skill check or attack roll. Aid Requirement: The ally is willing to accept your aid, and you have prepared to help (see below). See Below: To use this reaction, you must first prepare to help, usually by using an action during your turn. You must explain to the GM exactly how you're trying to help, and they determine whether you can Aid your ally. I don't see whether this requires you to use two Prepare to Aid actions on your turn in order to Aid an ally twice with your two reactions. Thoughts?
Elf step lets you step twice for one action. Liturgist gives you: "Dancing Invocation (9th) The movement of your body grants power to your magic. When you Leap, Step, or Tumble Through, you also Sustain an apparition spell or vessel spell." Would this allow you to sustain two apparition spells or vessel spells for one action as long as you use Elf Step?
I planned to have the party go to a VR gaming center called "The First Volt" run by a NPC technomancer and I thought it was a good pun and now I have to wait another week before I can share it. Abadar's First Vault houses a perfect copy of everything that's ever existed, sort of like this guy's electronic VR machines can do! Anyway, I gotta get back to staring out the window wistfully.
In brief: Science fiction settings tend to encourage faster paced action, which makes resting for 8+ hours to recover resources less narratively satisfying than in Fantasy. In boxer: What I've found since at least as early as SF1 is that our group tends to instinctively assume a more strict background ticking clock when we're playing in a modern or futuristic setting. With cell-phones, email, security cameras, automated alert systems, internet, software assisted background checks, faster modes of travel... getting your objectives done as quick as possible always seemed to feel much more urgent. Missions also tend to be more complex with more moving parts (robotics megacorp factory infiltration versus cave full of skeletons), and reducing time spent on them reduces unexpected variables. In our SF2 playtesting this trend has continued, and what it has meant is that spellcasters run out of spells (at least at lower levels so far) with much more regularity. This is exacerbated by the lack of staves giving you a reliable source of extra slots. In Fantasy settings, news travels at the speed of horse, we have expectations of things like hunting for your own food, making camp, and talking around a campfire. The world turns at the pace of the seasons. Resting for a day or more feels a whole lot more acceptable in a wider range of situations in classical fantasy. I wonder if it might be worthwhile to build in a spell slot recharge mechanic so that long adventuring days aren't so punishing in Starfinder. I certainly don't want to force Starfinder to adhere to the narrative expectations of Pathfinder, and I don't want casters to feel spell starved. Thoughts?
Got tired of waiting. My walls remain incompletely decorated in framed paizo puzzle art.
I am drawing a complete blank, but I thought there was a feat somewhere that lets you apply your weapon's critical specialization effects at the cost of damage on a hit, or something along those lines. Was I hallucinating?
Hear me out. The Drift exists as a technologically-only accessed and experienced plane of reality with its own rules and permanence. Drift engines let you physically enter, navigate, and exit. What if someone created a scaled down drift engine using the same basic premise to partially access the Drift, creating a quasi-real bubble of Drift-like space with its own rules, access requirements, and features. Why: * Why bother programming virtual realities to sit on expensive servers when you can create ones with internally consistent and permanent rules and spaces via things like demiplanes? * Creating a demiplane or jumping planes is difficult and expensive. It also requires magic. Borrowing the narrative conceit of the Drift as a relatively easily accessible planar technology might be easier to swallow. * Virtual Reality is way cooler if you can actually enter it, and not even require magic to do so. * I like the idea of being able to program realities, like Drift technology is borrowing the source code of the universe. * Since a mini-drift-engine-for-VR is not for transporting whole ships, and doesn't travel the cosmos, it could be a small-sized or low cost device, like a VR headset or a personal transporter pad. * You can easily tell stories where the party fully enters a VR space with all of their gear and abilities. * You can introduce levels of depth: some spaces could be accessed through brain-computer interfaces and you don't fully enter, some could have rules that prohibit harm, some could be like 2b2t minecraft anarchy servers. * It's a natural area to explore the "civilization uploads themselves to a simulated utopia" trope. * Both the universe and the Drift are infinite and coterminous so this could work for a pretty ubiquitous version of AR as well. * Technomancers having a fundamental connection to both the Drift and VR is SUPER satisfying.
Just some questions that we might want to think about: 1. Do lasers work under water? They deal fire damage, does that stop them from being fired under water? 2. Should there be an Underwater upgrade, similar to the Underwater rune? 3. How is the range and area of Area weapons affected? (Does the unexploded Stellar Cannon projectile count as a piercing weapon) 4. Should there be a "Traveler's Chair" to grant a swim speed? (Effectively a waterjet pack, or other propulsion pack) 5. An automatic machine gun's auto fire would have a pathetic 10ft cone RAW. Is that too punishing?
My hot take is that it's a good idea to try to make PF2 classes fit in well with SF2 if you don't have to go far out of your way for it. Partly because there are so, so many Science Fantasy stories I want to tell with PF2 style characters, and partly because it's good value for money and a huge benefit for cross compatibility. A Necromancer in Space is such a juicy concept (and Eox proves that) and I just want to point out that thralls look *rough* in Starfinder. Low range for summoning, no mobility, no ranged attacks, and susceptibility to the more common AoE damage all add up to a bad time. Wondering how much of that is overly punishing even in PF2's more "melee meta" against certain types of encounters. I'd love to see options for "archer" thralls with ranged attacks, and thralls that stick-to/chase a target to get some more flexible and dynamic play.
I'm making a character for a Starfinder game that's essentially a Shirren that was modified by the swarm to have a Hydralisk type battle form, but outside of that they're a kind of naive, inquisitive fellow. I think I'm leaning toward trying to build this idea as a Summoner who takes on their Eidolon form with "Meld Into Eidolon". Meld Into Eidolon appears to mostly just make me a bad martial. Is there a way to optimize it to get the most out of it? Has anyone played a summoner where you don't use the Eidolon separately at all? Any advice?
Let's say a player multiclasses into Investigator for Devise a Stratagem. Let's say they're in a Deep Rock Galactic style one-shot, facing off against a bunch of bugs, with no great mysteries. Devise a Stratagem is a free action if you're aware that creature could help answer the question at the heart of one of your active investigations. Q1: Would you allow this player to get free action Devise a Stratagems because each bug is helping to answer the investigative question "How many bugs am I going to kill today?" or some other sham investigation? Q2: If a sniper operative *can* get reliable free-action Devise a Stratagems, how busted is that? Q3: If Devise a Stratagem was always going to be 1 action in such a game, how would you optimize around it? Basically since this is going to be a fun birthday oneshot I made a Devise a Stratagem Sniper for a player to use, and I really like how much better a sniper feels with that ability. If you're making one shot a round, dumping bad rolls and switching targets is so juicy. It makes me wonder if we're going to see a lot of investigator multiclass snipers.
Forgive me if you haven't gotten access to the book yourself yet, but I was extremely disappointed to see the Bloodrager get turned into a blood-gorger/vampire/bloat-mage style class archetype. I've always loved martial versions of the sorcerer, people using the magic in their blood in different ways, and Bloodrager was one of my favorite flavored classes in 1e. I was hoping the PF2 incarnation of Bloodrager would be able to take advantage of the new Sorcerer theme with its access to various spell lists for a wide variety of gishy-flavor. Unfortunately, the flavor of the Bloodrager was locked down into its current ultra-specific, blood-obsessed form. I threw together what I think is the minimal set of changes to bring it back in line with the Sorcerer aligned version from PF1. Can you tell me what you think? Notes: * Took out Bleed damage as default, looked for a simple way to lock in a damage type that feels important to your character, wondering if this solution makes sense at all. * Reworded text to indicate power is in your bloodline * Latched into Sorcerer Multiclass Dedication, which gives access to a bunch more feats there, including Bloodline Breadth. The original version of the Bloodrager doesn't have a breadth feat, which I think it could really use, since the Rage trait thing is locking you out of a lot of options to go elsewhere for more lower level slots. This Sorcerer dedication access is the biggest buff I gave, and I'm wondering if it's to much. * Turned Spelldrinker into a way to get your Bloodline granted spells in a limited form * Largely removed reliance on enemies that can bleed, but introduced susceptibility to other immunities. I think it's a wash?
Heavy armor is at least 3 bulk, most two handed weapons are 2 bulk, there are feats that require two 2-handers (and a spare is always a good idea) so before any other gear you're at 7 bulk. 5 + (1/2 con) is 7 bulk until level 10. What's the deal here? Are we supposed to be dipping into strength just to carry the bare minimum?
I finished running my group through Strength of Thousands, and boy were there issues. It left me with the distinct impression that the "magical school AP" would have massively benefited from being a 3 book, levels 1-10 AP with graduation at the end. So, if we took a trip to an alternate world where that was the case, what do you think the adventure would look like? What would be kept? What's the first to cut? I'd like to imagine it would be much more tightly based in and around Nantambu, with more consistent NPC interactions. The first two books could almost stand as is with a significant amount of filler trimming, then the whole Red Planet and books 6 plot could be remixed and served up at a lower level. Teachers would stay higher level than you, a graduation scene could be a climactic ending, and your fellow students scaling with you or not wouldn't be such a big question mark. It would then set you up to go off on a big 10-20 adventure as graduates, with all the bonus feats and skills showing off your alma mater.
If you had to guess, in general, how many 10 minute rests do you typically take: 1. Between moderate encounters? 2. After an extreme encounter? 3. Over the course of a whole level? If you had to turn in a token for each 10 minute rest, how many tokens would be enough to last you for one whole level (assuming standard experience point leveling)? If I look at it from Trivial an Extreme ends I might be able to bound the problem: For Trivial: My estimate is that you need at least one 10 minute break per encounter as a baseline, so that focus point reliant characters can get a focus point back. Add another 10 minute break to allow for one round of healing in addition to a refocus activity. With 25 potential trivial encounters over a level, that's 50 ten minute break tokens. For Extreme: Start with 3, assuming all players need to refocus their whole pool. Then let's assume two PCs need to be healed from zero to full with a slowish healing source (Lay on Hands). That changes as HP pools change over the 20 levels, so looking at around level 10, we can estimate around 6 Lay on Hands to get to full. So, 15 ten minute breaks per Extreme encounter. With a potential ~6 extreme encounters for a full level, you'd need 90 ten minute break tokens. So, imagining that there's roughly 12 encounters per level of varying difficulties and you got on average 5.5 tokens per encounter, you should have plenty of ten minute breaks. Does that align with your experience at all?
Forcing a GM to come up with some "erroneous knowledge" is one of the worst mechanics of PF2. As a GM it feels like garbage, especially when I can't come up with a good lie at the drop of a hat so I come up with something and the players just laugh at the obvious fake info. It's like what was the point? Making the monkey GM dance so you can point and laugh? Having a heritage or background drop Dubious Knowledge in your lap feels somehow worse than getting nothing at all. Please just pretend this feat doesn't exist in Starfinder, and let us get back to ignoring the critical failure effect of Recall Knowledge as well.
I love that they gave the mystic bond a 10 person limit right out the gate. I believe by the way it's worded you could have a bond with an important NPC back on Absalom station while you're out mining asteroids in another star system and if they get hurt you would know. Really interesting "I sense something is wrong, we must return" type scenes available just because there's enough headroom in your bond count to allow it. I also really like the Healing connection focus spell. It's basically a slightly weaker Heal with all its useful action scaling. The Healing connection's ability to heal Void-healing creatures right out the gate is SUCH a breath of fresh air. No jumping through hoops to make sure the healing character can actually heal everyone. The vitality pool looks like it's going to be so much fun. I'm planning on making a Baymax style automaton healer mystic, with high strength for carrying people around and grappling enemies to stop them from causing harm. Looking forward to digging into this!
You got a runty little sprite running around between your legs with its 0ft reach stabbing at your ankles. You look down and try to stab them with your sword. Should the GM give it lesser cover against your attack? Same question but you're a huge dragon with a small goblin climbing up your back.
Last year I was asking about alternatives to Barbarian for recreating a silly dual-greatsword character I used to like to play back in the day. The new changes to Barbarian makes it a whole lot more attractive, so now I'm back to ask for any thoughts on cramming more fun stuff into this style of character! Using Free Archetype. The main idea is to wield two Large-Sized Two-Hand trait swords (for the aesthetics) and get the most out of dual wielding them with Double Slice. I was looking into Juggler to open up a hand for maneuvers because all the Two-Hand weapons have few traits, but I think the weapon bulk is a show stopper. I wasn't sure if Mauler could have any benefit since some of the requirements are "wielding a two handed weapon" and I don't *think* a 1h weapon with the Two-Hand trait counts. Any good general advice for a two-weapon build that doesn't have any good weapon traits like Agile?
I hate how quickly items with static DCs become useless. The bottom of my players' bags are lined with cruft from items a couple levels old. It's not unreasonable to expect an item only two levels old to be useful against a likely enemy (+2 APL). Maybe someone as suggested this before, but: I propose that all item DCs automatically scale based on the level of the user by an amount calculated by the difference between the character's level and the item level. So a level 7 item with a DC 25 save goes to DC 27 in the hands of a level 9 character. The way this works is it linearly improves the item DC which means the nonlinear boosts aren't accounted for, making higher level items still have a better base DC. Quick Check using poor save progression from monster builder rules: RAW Black Tendril Shot vs at-level target's worst save Lvl 7 Arrow vs Lvl 7 Creature: 60% chance of success
RAW Black Tendril Shot vs +4-level target's worst save Lvl 7 Arrow vs Lvl 11 Creature: 30% chance of success
Proposed Modified Black Tendril Shot vs +4-level target's worst save Lvl 7 Arrow vs Lvl 11 Creature: 50% chance of success
Spending valuable actions in combat to levy an attack against a target's worst save (assuming they have a poor save) and having only a 30% chance of having an effect is *worthless*. Bumping that up to a 50% chance feels like the bare minimum for such a hail mary type situation. The main problem with this approach is that you end up with small (5%-20%) differences in success chances between scaled up low level items and higher level items, but I argue: 1. Success chances in those ranges are hard to overestimate (every +1 matters)
Thoughts?
Nowhere in the spell description does it say it's super noisy. A bolt of lightning, even a small one, should produce a thunderclap. Would you rule the sound is more audible than typical combat noise (cannon fire, gunfire(?)), about the same as combat noise (shouts, gunfire(?), maces on shields), or no more noisy than the most verbal spellcasting
According to this spell it fails if "you aren't on your home plane when you cast it." So if you're on the Plane of Wood and fighting a demon, you can't, RAW, cast Banishment on the demon. Do you think this is a mistake? Why would this be the case?
1. What happens if a foe attempts to grab the weapon? 2. What happens if you release it, then grab onto it yourself?
I was planning on rewarding a sorcerer player with a 20th level Staff of Arcane Might at level 13 for reasons. Then I looked it up and... 1. Their level 6 staff of divination has Sure Strike on it, which they use a lot, so their most common use case is downgraded by the switch 2. The high level spells on the staff aren't accessible until they can cast them, so having the staff early is meaningless there. They were already using charges mostly on level 1 spells anyway. 3. The +3 greater striking feature makes it legitimately more likely to be handed off to the fighter for a backup bludgeoning weapon. They have never made a staff strike, despite me even letting them put property runes on theirs. 4. The only benefit that might appeal is being able to destroy the staff to one-shot a boss, which is a cool feature as a last ditch save-the-day thing but not the primary purpose of the loot I'm trying to give out. Should I make all staves Relics just to get some excitement going?
Whenever I imagine Netherworld versions of Golarion cities, I imagine dried riverbeds which contribute to the picture of a desolate, ruinous locale. However, I don't recall every hearing about water. Do you think there are bodies of water in the Netherworld? If so, what do you think they're like? If not, do you picture the ocean areas simply yet more desolate landscape?
I'm considering implementing a house rule to ensure that players will always be able to take advantage of magical crafting feats and character build resources even if downtime isn't available for one reason or another. My proposed rule is: "Once per level, during your daily preparations, you can choose to put the finishing touches on a crafted object that you had been working on during free moments in the past. Perform the Craft downtime action, but ignore the time requirements. You cannot achieve a critical success when crafting in this manner." The idea being: I've had several scenarios where multiple levels have passed by and there has been zero downtime available, making the players' crafting skills useless for uncomfortably long stretches. What do you think?
I've put together a few of my thoughts regarding what I would like to see for Starship design and combat for SF2. I've put it in a presentation layout because it helps me be a bit more organized and concise. Here is a link to the presentation Here are the key takeaways: 1. Silo combat and non-combat ship customization
Is there a way to wield (ideally dual-wield) oversized weapons outside of Barbarian? I'm talkin' anything that is mechanically an unusually large weapon to be able to heft one-handed, like Greatswords or giant-sized longswords or what-have-you. I was just fondly reminiscing about an old neverwinter nights tiefling character of mine who used two greatswords, accuracy be danged, with monkey grip. It was aesthetically satisfying.
Let's get this out of the way. While I can certainly see some legends being intimately associated with a worn or wielded object, I find it thematically limiting, uncomfortably similar to the Thaumaturges, and running counter to the idea of being essentially a godling. The first idea that came to mind when I heard of this class was to play a Dragon Exemplar, and I always play dragons to have as little dependence on gear of any kind as possible. The second idea, after hearing about Fishing from the Fall's Edge, was to play as an Awakened Bear, with the similar goal of being a paragon of it's kind which naturally lends itself toward reduced thematic dependence on items. Should there perhaps be an option to allow you to choose 3 Body icons to switch your power between, or something along those lines? Thoughts?
I'd just like to start a thread to remind people that next year we're going into the playtesting phase of an entire new edition, which happens so infrequently that it's easy to forget what that really means. When you're playtesting classes, they're already locked into fitting within the framework of the existing system. When you're playtesting a *system* you can ask for a whole lot more. Granted, unlike PF2 we're going into SF2 with more limitations due to compatibility, but there's a lot more on the table than you might be aware. I see people talking about the Field Test content the same way they talk about class playtests when it's entirely possible to build a weapon type around a class instead of the other way around, for example. I thought it might be fun to talk about things that you think are wide open for development, and build hype for people in the run up to the actual playtest. For many of us, this type of thing is the closest we'll actually get to designing a game. From my experience with PF2, seeing the way things worked out differently based on my (cumulative with others' of course) feedback gives me warm feelings to this day. Some examples! * Virtual Reality. I think virtual reality is a fun concept that wasn't explored enough in SF1, and wasn't done well in Shadowrun, but could be handled quite well with the excellent Paizo team revisiting. Even if it merely ended up being sort of another Plane (Techy First World?) it could open up a bunch of new stories without landing us in "Hacker does their thing while we all get lunch" mode. * Starship Combat. Let's get creative! I can't wait to see what people come up with, and what other excellent systems we might borrow from. * Melee Combat Balance. We're all wondering how we can make sure melee doesn't dominate again, but based on some recent discussion about special abilities granted by gear traits, we might seem some really interesting solutions. * Magic Worldbuilding. We haven't seen magic standing on its own nearly as much as I would have liked in SF1, mostly it was used as a Deus Ex Machina of the Gaps(tm) only really filling in where people's technology imagination struggled. I want a hoity toity society of rich, old, influential pure magic users, or a John Henry story of a pure magic spaceship racing a pure tech one, or Secrets of Magic style books all about how the scholars of different fields feel about their work! * Comm Units Not Being Just Cell Phones. How can we show that carrying around a modern day supercomputer on your lapel could be more useful than making booty calls back to the ship? * Noncombat Challenges and Goals. We could have whole new subsystems devoted to things like space ship races, NPC favor, colonization, or anything you can imagine that's not just about beating up aliens. Stuff built into the core of the system, and not tacked on after the fact.
I've finished the four Pathfinder jigsaw puzzles a little while ago and now my hands are shaking and I need another fix. Has anyone heard if they're going to be putting out more with Toy Vault?
I guess our clamoring for a technology book really paid off! I can't wait to give my players their beloved rail guns and laser rifles again!
Low level spell slots are still great for buffs, debuffs, and utility, but damage options are just flat out wasted. How would you feel about a feat or something that makes it so that no damage-focused spell can do less than approximately cantrip-tier damage?
Lost Omens: Highhelm is just around the corner and we all need to get ready to rock and stone.
Dear esteemed colleague, Please forgive my late response, I have been quite busy tracking down these bags over the last several weeks. You will be pleased to know that I have secured eight bags that have been confirmed to predate the estimated 2750 AR cut-off you had proposed, and another two which may also have been contemporary. You will find them individually sealed in the satchel I pray accompanies this letter. Of those, fully five of them display the phenomenon! Given the frequency and extent of this behavior, I took the liberty of contracting a capable group of Pathfinders to investigate the danger it might pose to other unsuspecting owners of likewise affected bags (I have attached an invoice to the academy for their fee, and you have my apology and thanks as always). You will find their full report delivered in due time, but, in short, the demiplane to which all five bags are now linked is temperate, comfortable, and devoid of apparent threat. In all respects, it appears to be a facsimile of a pleasant, grassy plain. My concern, however, is the sheer, unprecedented size of the space. It will take a team (and budget) much larger than mine to even begin mapping it. I have no knowledge of a wizard with the wherewithal or desire to create such an enormous demiplane, least of all one who would crash it into such a well documented astral web. The absurdity of the idea lends credence to your speculation about the coincidental formation of an astral bubble, however if that were the case why would it be so ordinary? I am baffled, and hope that your inspection of the bags’ dweomers will shed some light on the issue. In the meantime, I will continue searching for more such bags, and providing counsel to their owners. I fear that the phenomenon is temporary, and some foolhardy youth might find themselves stuck in here when the link is broken. Yours,
P.S. I am writing this upon a particularly high knoll within the demiplane, a thread tied at my ankle leading back to my entrance some ways off. It is a beautiful night here, a faint sweetness on the breeze, the rushing of the grass is akin to the sound of the sea lapping at the shore. Looking at the stars glittering overhead, I must admit: if this place was made by a foolish wizard I think I would dearly like to meet them.
I think Paizo should launch a line of merch (T-shirts, pins, stickers, mugs; essentially as generic merch as you like) that anyone could buy, even if they're not PF or SF fans, that would contribute to the legal fund for the development and maintenance of ORC, as well as potential future legal battles against OGL1.1 (or OGL2.0 if that's what they're going with). Paizo has put their flag down and are prepared to foot the bill for legal costs, and buying Paizo products can indirectly help with that, but it'd be nice to buy something that says "I am specifically making the purchase to help out", and such an option may be more attractive for people who maybe aren't that interested in Paizo itself. I don't know, I just worry about the Paizo staff not getting raises because Wizards is costing them an arm an a leg in legal fees. Also, I've already bought pretty much everything Paizo has to offer from their regular catalog.
Let's say I want to join a party as a helpful, pretty smart, lovable dog. Everyone in the world is okay with just letting it slide that a dog is in every important scene in this adventure, wagging its tail and just generally being a good boi.
Hello! So I've been working on a homebrew version of a hot-seat GM, procedurally-generated game mode inspired by Deep Rock Galactic. I still believe Paizo should do something similar to this, which is why I wrote up my proposal a while back, but being realistic I'm tinkering away! A big part of this project is creating monster families which cover the full range of levels so that the GM can pull from a deck that says something like "3 Grunts APL-2, 1 Spitter APL+1", and the GM just has to flip to the page for the right stats for that level monster without any manual calculation. I'm no programming genius, so I put together a tool in Google Sheets to help me create monster families that I can print out for a hands-on prototype. Here is the spreadsheet that I've come up with so far:
The first sheet has the reference tables from the creature creation rules, as well as some default matrices for the different base road maps. The second sheet has the species template, where the blue fields are where you edit. At the bottom of that page you can find the creature level selector and printout area. I was hoping people could look over the five species I put together: Grunt, Spitter, Warden, Praetorian, Dreadnought. Since I've pretty much only played to level 11, and I almost always reskin monsters rather than creating my own, I would very much appreciate any thoughts people have regarding the higher level abilities and stats for each species! My next step will be working on the randomization elements including the encounter deck, dungeon layout deck, room deck, and bonus deck. Cheers and happy holidays!
I'm going to be playing a dragon (from battlezoo) that can turn Large (later up to Gargantuan) and having a high strength combined with the bulk conversion for size I can easily carry my team. The book suggests that when using allies as mounts, both the mount-character and the mounted-character should burn an action to coordinate. Would you allow a third character to climb on, and if so, would you simply have the mount-character burn a second action? Can you think of ways that this could be abused, or is it pretty innocuous and sub-optimal as I think it is?
I was noodling around with a way to get my players to dip their toes into GMing (and let me actually play for once) and stumbled across an idea that might not be too original, but just might be worth it for Paizo to consider. At first I was angling for an official Deep Rock Galactic partnership product, but decided there's too much potential for showcasing parts of Golarion using this game mode. I've posed this as a proposal for Paizo, and I've bulleted why I think that's a good route (and why this is in General instead of Homebrew), but in the end I'm an amateur and could just be taking my spot in a long line of backseat Paizo designers. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the concept, since I'm planning on continuing to develop a playable version to test out the concept and maybe actually play instead of GM for 10 gosh darn minutes. However, I'd also love to hear if anyone else agrees that this would be a good idea for an official Paizo product. Cheers!
Kobolds are extremely social creatures, having evolved to live in close proximity with dozens of their kin in cramped tunnels. Touch is a normal part of their communication and social navigation, and is a built-in instinct. In short, your kobold traveling companions WILL absentmindedly try to hold your hand like a toddler.
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Let's say you're playing a cleric of Nethys and you *really* want a specific arcane spell on your spell list, and you want Nethys's moderate boon real bad. [For reference:
How would you go about helping set up an appropriate circumstance for acquiring that divine boon? Broader questions: 1. What guidelines should GMs follow when considering granting boons?
Hi! I'm working on an archetypical dwarf who is outwardly and in most respects a bog-standard dwarfy dwarf, except that his hobby and life's work has been to invent a lightsaber. He rolls around in heavy armor, brews and chugs beer, is stout and strong, and when a fight breaks out KSSHH! out pops a lightsaber. I was hoping people could give me suggestions to improve my plan, and perhaps make the lightsaber more lightsabery. Fluff-wise I want it to be a small looking rod that has a thaumo-magneto-field that acts as a blade, but also contains and shapes the plasmothermal energy that he can sometimes get to work. He's supposed to be good in combat, but not necessarily super strong. Also likes to hand out drinks and help his team mates. Mechanically I'm planning on going with a strength based Dwarf Inventor with Weapon Innovation on a Clan Dagger. Using the Agile to capture the quickness of the lightsaber and Parry to get the cinematic feel of lots of blocking and parrying happening. Inventor's bonus damage will be fire, and the offensive boost will be fire too. I'll pick up Clan's Edge to get the attack-attack-parry for two actions, then Protective Sheath to up the AC. With the free hand I'll be using my Free Archetype Alchemist dedication to mix/brew/drink beers as buffs for me and the party in the vein of Deep Rock Galactic. I'll pick up Sentinel dedication to go up to heavy armor so I can leave dex at 10 (classic non-graceful dwarf), and pick up Unburdened Iron to help my speed. Modifications I'm looking at are:
Runes I'm looking at are:
So, anything you would change? Any ideas to make a lightsaber more lightsabery?
Let's say I wanted to give something to a player who burns a spell slot on a missed attack spell. Perhaps not as much as the save spells' success conditions, since attack spells are ostensibly tuned up to account for that lack. What would be a good thing to add that wouldn't be too strong, and isn't too annoying to track? Here's my idea that I wanted to bounce off you guys: A Rune you can only carve into a staff that gives you a bonus charge when you expend a Spell Slot of 3rd level or higher on a spell with the Attack trait, and you miss. Eh? eh? Maybe?
Good or evil doesn't matter, but which deity might continue to give divine powers to a follower who has the explicit goal of one day usurping their god?
On the one hand, the Shadow Plane generally has decayed/decrepit/twisted reflections of places on the Material Plane, while on the other hand the Magaambya is the oldest center of magical learning on the planet. What would you expect to see if you crossed over to the Shadow Plane from the school? Would you expect to find nothing much different than other Shadow Plane places, because the Magaambya doesn't do much Shadow research? Would you find evidence of active or previous student expeditions? Would the magic that has seeped into the bones of the school somehow show itself in the Shadow Plane? I'm just curious what other people would imagine it being like.
Some traits: 1. At least partially divine, but ideally reaching the point of being closely related to a god
Or, if you prefer, how would you go about making a more general character type inspired by divine blooded characters from greek mythology?
I'm making a rogue who I want to be using a firearm equivalent of a Shortbow. A Reload 0 ranged weapon that has the whole firearm aesthetic going on. The Long Air Repeater seems to be the closest I can get, but it's Simple so it's a step down in damage compared to the Shortbow. It's frustrating that my rogue has no good reason to use the thing instead of the shortbow, and if I want to go up to Martial with a gun I have to accept Reload 1. Why aren't there any Repeating martial firearms?
Free Action (command, metamagic): If your next action is to Cast a Spell that requires a spell attack roll against Armor Class, choose Fortitude DC or Reflex DC. You make your spell attack roll against that defense instead of AC. If the spell has multiple targets, the choice of DC applies to all of them. The discussion on reddit seems to think this item's action cost is intended, and is likely going to be a must-have item for any attack spell user. Personally, I think this might have been intended to be One Action, rather than Free. It's essentially a good metamagic feat built into a ring. Metamagic feats tend to be one action costs. I would certainly still love to have it as an attack spell user, even with the action cost. What do you think?
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