paizo.com Recent Posts by asymmetriciapaizo.com Recent Posts by asymmetricia2023-08-29T00:15:29Z2023-08-29T00:15:29ZRe: Forums: Pathfinder Playtest General Discussion: Paizo Blog: Ongoing Changesasymmetriciahttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs4290o?Paizo-Blog-Ongoing-Changes#112018-09-04T19:28:50Z2018-09-04T19:28:50Z<p>How would you feel about including a page number reference next to `Basic Reflex Save` (or `Basic Damage Reflex Save` or whatever?)</p>
<p>Especially in picking up the new edition, it's very hard to know where to look up exactly what that means. (I _still_ have a very hard time finding the calculation for spell save DC...)</p>How would you feel about including a page number reference next to `Basic Reflex Save` (or `Basic Damage Reflex Save` or whatever?)
Especially in picking up the new edition, it's very hard to know where to look up exactly what that means. (I _still_ have a very hard time finding the calculation for spell save DC...)asymmetricia2018-09-04T19:28:50ZRe: Forums: Rules Questions: Ultimate Campaign buildings and earning capitalasymmetriciahttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2pxi4?Ultimate-Campaign-buildings-and-earning-capital#102015-09-29T16:12:15Z2015-09-29T16:12:15Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Shaun wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Is it required to additionally pay gold for each point of capital you earn following the table 2-1: Capital Values? If my inn gives me a +44 to generate influence and I roll at total of 54, do I also need to pay 75 gold to get my 5 points of earned influence? </p>
<p>That seems like a lot of money every day. </blockquote><p>Yes, you always have to pay the "earned cost" in gold for capital you earn. Think of it this way- if you're rolling to get Influence, as in your example, you're basically giving away the service in exchange for good will; if you have an Inn, you're giving Important People in town free dinners and free nights' stay in the inn. You're burning commodities (via the proxy of "gold") to do so. In fact, if you're getting five capital in a day, you're putting on a lot of very fancy dinners.
<p>The alternative is to have the inn earn gold, which is basically "business as usual." You take in some money, you don't gain or lose capital. (Remember, in "business" speak capital isn't a consumable thing, you don't spend it; you turn it into other things. In UCa, you turn it into buildings, for example.)</p>
<p>Regarding the main point of the thread-</p>
<p>My opinion is that each "business" gets one roll for whatever you want to roll for that day. A business may not be an entire building, but is probably more than one room, and it depends on what you said it was when you created it. Your Brewery has "Storage," but that storage is not a warehouse, and you're not renting it out; it's part of the Brewery.</p>
<p>The rules don't care if you have a one-room bar, a one-room brewery, two one-room storages somewhere else in the city, etc.; but I, as the GM, will make you declare; and then you'd need to have Managers for all of them if they're separate, plus you can only "Run The Business" at one of them.</p>Shaun wrote:Is it required to additionally pay gold for each point of capital you earn following the table 2-1: Capital Values? If my inn gives me a +44 to generate influence and I roll at total of 54, do I also need to pay 75 gold to get my 5 points of earned influence?
That seems like a lot of money every day.
Yes, you always have to pay the "earned cost" in gold for capital you earn. Think of it this way- if you're rolling to get Influence, as in your example, you're basically giving...asymmetricia2015-09-29T16:12:15ZForums: Pathfinder Society: Retraining Class Levels vs Archetypesasymmetriciahttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2sw23?Retraining-Class-Levels-vs-Archetypes#12015-08-26T21:26:09Z2015-08-26T21:26:09Z<p>Specific context: I want to retrain Ecclestitheurge 1/Ouat Monk 1 into Ecclestitheurge 1/Zen Archer 1.</p>
<p>Questions:
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1. It looks like it would take 10 days to train out of Ouat Monk into regular Monk- 5 for Awaken Divinity, 5 for Spurn Tradition. This assumes that I don't have to worry about the •racial• features that are removed/added, since the Ouat Monk has class features that replace racial features. Is this assumption correct?</p>
<p>2. Training into Zen Archer would require replacing base Flurry of Blows with ZA's Flurry, base monk's weapon proficiencies with ZA's weapon proficiencies, base monk's base feats with ZA's base feats; (•and• posisbly retrain that feat); and finally retrain stunning fist into perfect strike. Flurry, 5; weapon prof, 5; feat feature, 5; perfect strike, 5; for a total of 20 days. Is this math correct?</p>
<p>My _real_ question is: Can I just retrain as though changing classes instead? This would take either 7 days or 5 days; 5 days if we treat Zen Archer as having retraining synergy with Ouat Monk.</p>
<p>(I can understand that retraining an archetype would be cheaper if I had more levels or the class in question; or if the archetype was one with fewer first-level-applicable changes; but that's not the case with this change.)</p>
<p>(Also, side commentary: This is my first multiclass build, and I found at first play at Level 2 that it was really ineffective, by which I mean likely to die and not able to greatly impact combat. By definition, I'd never get to 'free retrain' a multiclass, it makes it hard to figure this stuff out in the context of PFS.)</p>Specific context: I want to retrain Ecclestitheurge 1/Ouat Monk 1 into Ecclestitheurge 1/Zen Archer 1.
Questions:
1. It looks like it would take 10 days to train out of Ouat Monk into regular Monk- 5 for Awaken Divinity, 5 for Spurn Tradition. This assumes that I don't have to worry about the *racial* features that are removed/added, since the Ouat Monk has class features that replace racial features. Is this assumption correct?
2. Training into Zen Archer would require replacing base...asymmetricia2015-08-26T21:26:09ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Society Scenario #6–19: Test of Tar Kuata (PFRPG) PDFasymmetriciahttps://paizo.com/products/btpy9ch3/discuss?Pathfinder-Society-Scenario-6-19-Test-of-Tar-Kuata#82015-05-26T18:00:28Z2015-05-26T18:00:28Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Sniggevert wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">pdbogen wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Hmmm. In Trial #6...
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•• spoiler omitted •• </blockquote><a href="http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2s8cx?PFS-619-Test-of-Tar-Kuata#5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Here's</a> the author's take on the issue. The general reasoning is in the first quote of the linked thread. </blockquote><p>It's nice that he addressed that, but...
<p>[Spoiler omitted]</p>Sniggevert wrote:pdbogen wrote:Hmmm. In Trial #6...
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Here's the author's take on the issue. The general reasoning is in the first quote of the linked thread. It's nice that he addressed that, but... [Spoiler omitted]asymmetricia2015-05-26T18:00:28ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Society Scenario #6–19: Test of Tar Kuata (PFRPG) PDFasymmetriciahttps://paizo.com/products/btpy9ch3/discuss?Pathfinder-Society-Scenario-6-19-Test-of-Tar-Kuata#62015-05-22T17:41:01Z2015-05-22T17:41:01Z<p>Hmmm. In Trial #6...
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[Spoiler omitted]</p>Hmmm. In Trial #6...
[Spoiler omitted]asymmetricia2015-05-22T17:41:01ZRe: Forums: Pathfinder Society: Scenario 43 - Pallid Plague Questionsasymmetriciahttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qkm3?Scenario-43-Pallid-Plague-Questions#92014-01-16T18:17:36Z2014-01-16T18:17:36Z<p>Thank you for your feedback, Belafon.</p>
<p>As to your first point:
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<p>As to your second point:
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<p>I believe Michael Eshleman and Dame Kerline have both quite adequately addressed your third point (thanks!); I'll add this text from the PRD (http://paizo.com/prd/usingSkills.html):</p>
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Quote:</div><blockquote><p><b>Aid Another</b></p>
<p>You can help someone achieve success on a skill check by making the same kind of skill check in a cooperative effort. If you roll a 10 or higher on your check, the character you're helping gets a +2 bonus on his or her check.
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</blockquote><p>As to your fourth point:
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<p>(Most of my concerns were about Act 3, so I didn't read the scenario word-for-word before now. Holy crap:</p>
<p>[Spoiler omitted])</p>Thank you for your feedback, Belafon.
As to your first point:
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As to your second point:
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I believe Michael Eshleman and Dame Kerline have both quite adequately addressed your third point (thanks!); I'll add this text from the PRD (http://paizo.com/prd/usingSkills.html):
Quote:Aid Another
You can help someone achieve success on a skill check by making the same kind of skill check in a cooperative effort. If you roll a 10 or higher on your check, the...asymmetricia2014-01-16T18:17:36ZRe: Forums: Pathfinder Society: Scenario 43 - Pallid Plague Questionsasymmetriciahttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qkm3?Scenario-43-Pallid-Plague-Questions#32014-01-14T18:30:58Z2014-01-14T18:30:58Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Jiggy wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Sometimes GMs make mistakes, and you need to just go with it. If you think the consequences of potential errors are serious enough, go back to your GM and <b>politely and clearly</b> make your case. If he's not receptive, repeat the process with your local VC/VL. If you're still unsatisfied after that and think it's necessary, contact Mike Brock.</p>
<p>Hope that helps! </blockquote><p>Thanks; that does, and that was what I was planning to do.
<p>I wasn't trying to get action against the GM here, or anything. Mostly I wanted to see if <i>I</i> was misinterpreting the scenario somehow, and if others had a different perspective that would show the GM's rulings in a different light; or if indeed, there was some consensus that the GM had misinterpreted the scenario, which I believe makes it much harder than it should have been.</p>
<p><b>Edited for grammar and clarity.</b></p>Jiggy wrote:Sometimes GMs make mistakes, and you need to just go with it. If you think the consequences of potential errors are serious enough, go back to your GM and politely and clearly make your case. If he's not receptive, repeat the process with your local VC/VL. If you're still unsatisfied after that and think it's necessary, contact Mike Brock.
Hope that helps!
Thanks; that does, and that was what I was planning to do. I wasn't trying to get action against the GM here, or anything....asymmetricia2014-01-14T18:30:58ZForums: Pathfinder Society: Scenario 43 - Pallid Plague Questionsasymmetriciahttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qkm3?Scenario-43-Pallid-Plague-Questions#12014-01-14T18:00:19Z2014-01-14T17:56:11Z<p>Hi, guys. Our GM ran Pallid Plague last night, and I found it frustrating and unsatisfying in the extreme. We didn't die, but we failed both success conditions; and in this case, I think the GM made some incorrect calls. I'd appreciate if someone could check my thinking on this.</p>
<p>I downloaded the scenario and read through it, and have a few questions...
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<p>Furthermore, during this encounter, we divided the party a bit...
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<p>Still speaking of all those rolls...
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<p>Which brings me to something in the scenario I don't agree with, but it's written that way...
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<p><b>Edited for grammar.</b></p>Hi, guys. Our GM ran Pallid Plague last night, and I found it frustrating and unsatisfying in the extreme. We didn't die, but we failed both success conditions; and in this case, I think the GM made some incorrect calls. I'd appreciate if someone could check my thinking on this.
I downloaded the scenario and read through it, and have a few questions...
[Spoiler omitted]
Furthermore, during this encounter, we divided the party a bit...
[Spoiler omitted]
Still speaking of all those rolls......asymmetricia2014-01-14T17:56:11Z