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Is it within the rules to apply the Fiendish template to a demon? For example could I make a Nalfeshnee Fiendish in order to grant it the Smite Good ability?

If a banshee wails while in range of a dhampir, will the target take damage given that the ability itself does not heal undead ONLY harm living? Or will there simply be no effect. I have a dhampir PC in my CC campaign and this is causing some debate. Help is appreciated.

I have run into a situation in my CC campaign where the group Paladin's actions have been questionable.

I am currently running a campaign in which our rogue player has vanished. In lieu of running an NPC and skewing CRs and XP, etc., I am considering creating a magic item that in effect grants the wearer the ability to use Disable Device as a class skill with a +10 competency bonus, no additional ranks gain be gained using this item. If the wearer has Disable Device as a class skill, the competency bonus is reduced to +5. Thoughts and feedback on how this can be created and how it would effect balance would be greatly appreciated....

Adding a new player is not an available option at this time unfortunately.

I am trying to find ways to safely store and carry my painted minis and see a lot of folks use magnets. Has anyone tried using adhesive velcro tabs for this purpose, and if so how did it work?

I started putting this mini together tonight, and the backpack has two triangular projections coming off the sides. They look like the could be sprues or molding artifacts, but when I put the backpack on the mini body, it looks like they might be meant to be straps. Does anyone who has put this mini together have any input on how they treated these things?

My gaming group is entering the second phase of our homebrew campaign, a setting in which after a cataclysmic battle brought on by an attempted freeing of Rovagug, magic has been lost in the world.

Essentially, there are no spells, older wizards are only just now figuring out how to cast Cantrips, there are no magical items, item creation, or creatures, and even (Su) and (Sp) abilities do not currently work until they are somehow mysteriously unlocked.

I am not trying to bash the concept, I am just wondering what the consensus would be among other PF players as far as interest in this type of game.

(NOTE: I am not the GM for this...)

I saw this at my local game store today and I would love to get a PDF version of this if there is one out there

If a monster stat block says the following:

1/day- acid fog, dimension door

does this mean that once per day the creature can use acid fog AND dimension door, or that it has to choose one of those abilities and use it to the exclusion of the other for that day?

I tried searching the archives and I cannot find where this has been addressed. In this weekends game I had a BBEG cast phantasmal killer on the party Barbarian, who was tactically in position to be the best target for the spell, and in a meta-game sense, the target I wanted to cast it on since he had a decent chance to live through it. ( I dont like to outright kill PCs, but I understand it happens.) According to the spell description, the character is flat out dead, no HP damage is actually taken if the target fails both the Will save to disbelieve and the Fortitude save to take the damage. The party Cleric happened to have breath of life prayed for, and I ruled to allow the Cleric to cast it, saying that the Barbarian had the dead condition and was at exactly negative CON HP. Was this ruling correct, or should I have let the Barbarian remain dead?

A friend and I are heading to 3CON in a couple weeks and there is some confusion about Midngiht Mauler. Is this scenario exclusive to GMs to play, or can any PFS character ran by a non-GM player play, and it is just exclusive to 4 star GMs and V-Cs to RUN?

We tested out the Critical Hit deck last night in our game session, and honestly I do not see how this ever benefits the players. We have a Barbarian who uses a greataxe ( x3 crit ). When he confirmed a crit he would get cards like "Do normal damage and the target takes 4 CHA damage". Does the "normal dmage" mean base damage for a hit, or the normal damage from a critical hit plus the CHA damage. If it is the former, this player would go from doing 90+ dmamage to 30 damage and -4 CHA to an already ugly dire boar. It didnt seem fun or flavorful to him, and it doesnt to me either. How should this "normal damage" be interpreted?

If a devil, say a Barbed Devil ( CR 11 ) successfully summons a second, is this still a CR 11 encounter as the summon is built in to the CR of the original monster, or is it now a CR 13 encounter ( 2 CR11 = 13 ) ? Trying to determine how to award XP from an encounter where this happened, and feedback is appreciated.

I am building up a Rogue that uses feints to get in sneak attacks when not in flanking position or catching opponents in the surprise round. If a target that has a DEX penalty to their AC ( ie Dexterity 8 ), when feint "removes" their DEX bonus to AC, are they now harder to hit?
Also, are flat-footed targets that have a DEX penalty harder to hit?
It seems to me that DEX penalties should apply to AC even when flat-footed. Thoughts?

To prepare for an upcoming adventure, our Wizard has declared he is summoning a Lantern Archon and commanding it to cast Continual Flame on 20 or so rocks, so the party will basically have a stack of Everburning Torches for free. We round robin DM in this particular campaign, so it is up for a vote between the DMs whether to allow this. The Summon Monster description states summoned creatures cannot be ordered to use spell like abilities with expensive material components, such as Wish. I guess the real question is, does the 50 gp worth of ruby dust used to cast Continual Flame count as "expensive" ?