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Variant channeling is definitely legal. 15th sounds great!

Seeker Oracle looks intriguing; divine support AND the traps-person. In a series that ends at level 7, it's hard for me to go spontaneous over prepared and not get 4th level spells. But I do love Oracles. I'm gonna mess around with a Seeker Oracle in Hero Lab and see what I can come up with.

Hello fellow players and GM! I have a variety of characters in range: Skald 3, Archer Warpriest 3, Bloodrager 4, Pistolero 2/Inquisitor 2. Looks like a frontliner would help round the party out. Kinda leaning towards the Skald; I've been having fun with him lately.

Hello, fellow players and GM! This will be a really fun module series with a good seven levels of character/party growth.

I tend to enjoy playing full casters the most. I've also enjoyed playing 3/4 BAB 2/3 caster classes a bit lately. I thought maybe it'd be fun to try an Archeologist Bard (they get Trapfinding) and be the sneaky/traps guy; a role I've only ever done by having an improved familiar and abusing using the Aram Zey's Focus spell.

I see someone mentioned Wizard. If no one else is feeling like playing a Cleric, I'll happily play one. Clerics are probably my favorite class. I enjoy playing support and helping the rest of the party shine.

Yeah, Zin & Gummy that's a good point. @GM: character creation guidelines, if you please. If it helps for reference when I GM campaign mode modules or APs my guidelines are: anything Paizo is OK. 20 point buy. 150 GP. 2 Traits. A Drawback gets you a third Trait but the Drawback must actually hinder your character mechanically and it can't be something disruptive to gameplay.

Aw yeah. Thanks, GM! Campaign mode is the most fun.

Dotting in. If Hawthwile goes summons-focused Druid I'll go arcane full caster of some variety. I strongly prefer to play full casters and have lots of experience with pretty much all Paizo spells.

Still deciding on a character. My vine leshy level 1 is still finishing a scenario that probably won't be done before this one starts. But my PFS-30 character is unplayed with a couple GM chronicles. And I have unused Duskwalker and Ganzi race boons. I've been making my Ganzi into a dual-cursed oracle of the heavens, which is probably my next choice for this scenario.

Anyway, I'm leaving in a bit for the holiday weekend but I'm bringing my laptop and have hero lab. So I'll finalize a character soon and be ready to go and post regularly by tomorrow morning.

Question about the upcoming Retrocon: I'm first on the waitlist on the signup doc for Year of the Shadow Lodge (I've played all the other specials). There's room in some not-Paizo tables, but I don't feel ready for the learning curve of a different PbP system right now. Will there be an overflow Paizo.com table for waitlisters? I have characters in every sub tier.

1462 GP is the difference for this scenario. I can make that happen on Kije's chronicle, if Tiki wants to deduct that figure from the GP he pays for the spellcasting services, sure.

for my reference

Jezebel tries to dispel the slow effect on herself.
dispel magic: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19

Can I take one too, since I already have chronicle sheet for that game?

Pretty sure you still can, since your character adventured with me. IIRC when you replay for no credit, you still have to mark off expended consumables on your ITS. I'd say just mark it on your ITS with my PFS# and the spell level.

Light spells counter darkness spells of an equal or lower level :)

My options are:

• Charlemagne Caligula Desiderius: Human Unchained Summoner 1 (out of combat scout/skills eidolon, Summon Monster SLA in combat)
  
• Breezy Sunshine Essence: Vine Leshy Cleric 1 (Evangelist) of Erastil (support/archer)
  
• Engelbert Hrolf Feidlimid: Suli Skald 2 (support/front line)
  
• Nicodemo Viggo: Human Cleric 2 of Lamashtu (debuffer/a bit of support. Why the Society let him join is anyone's guess)

Hello, I heard there was room here. I have several characters in range and would love to play.

@Dennis I just switched from a 7-8 table to the open 10-11 spot.

In that case its a no-brainer - Warpac will spend the 2 PP for that atonement and take Resilient Armor as his feat in the stone.

Wow, that is a nice boon!

Isn't it?! I used a GM star replay for this game we just finished to get it again :)

If a wizard who was subject to Nightmare had open spell slots from the previous day, could they still spend the time and prepare spells in them? Nightmare says arcane casters cannot regain arcane spells for the next 24 hours.

Reductions in duration, number of targets, and the power of the actual spell effect are very disappointing to me. Here are some comparisons of classic/iconic spells:

Air Walk

• 1e: 1 minute/level
  
• 2e: 1 minute

• 1e: 1 minute/level, 2 buff effects.
  
• 2e: 1 minute max, requires spending an action to concentrate each round, 1 buff effect

• 1e: standard action cast, 1 minute/level, CON damage, save for half
  
• 2e: 3 actions to cast, 1 minute max, does HP damage (an average of 17.5 damage on a failed save), there’s now a mechanic for holding your breath. Cloudkill stands out because it’s a legacy spell. It doesn’t even cause Drained, which is close enough to what it did in 1e. Instead, it just does a small amount of HP damage

• 1e: 1 round/level (7 when you first get access), 15’ AOE.
  
• 2e: 1 minute, single target, get a new save each round

• 1e: 600+ feet minimum, self and 1+ (scales) targets.
  
• 2e: flat 60’ and you must see the space, self-only

• 1e: 5th level spell, 1 day/level, need to concentrate 1 round/day or target gets a new save.
  
• 2e: 6th level spell, flat 1 day duration, new save every round (except on a critical failure, then each time a new order is given)

• 1e: 3rd level spell, 1 minute/level.
  
• 2e: 4th level spell, 1 minute flat, flying in 2e is much more restrictive (you fall out of the air if you don’t spend an action to move, and you can’t Step)

• 1e: blind on a failed save, no save to prevent becoming fully visible.
  
• 2e: target is Concealed if invisibility is negated, 1 round on a successful save, Dazzled (not blindness) secondary effect

• 1e: 1 target/caster level, multiple buff effects.
  
• 2e: single target until heightened to 7th level, one buff effect that can only be used to Stride or Strike

Those are some pretty drastic differences. It does look like blasting as a caster is somewhat improved in some regards. But blasting has always been a subpar use of your limited spell slots because your martial party members can do HP damage all day without spending resources. Casters can alter reality in ways that martial cannot, so why spend your spells doing something they can already do without expending a resource? With many buff/debuff spells being much less effective, it feels casters are intended to mainly just do more HP damage in combat like other PCs. Or heal. I don’t think this much of a drastic cut in overall power is an okay solution to the caster/martial power discrepancy. I enjoy playing casters, especially full casters, and these changes to spells significantly decrease my enjoyment of playing Pathfinder.

@GM I GMed Waking Rune recently at a local shop on -regular- mode and the party fled without finishing the mission, once half of them were either dead or no longer on the material plane. So I'm familiar with the challenge.

Tentatively interested in using a GM star replay for this, depending on my confidence in the rest of the party.

Characters I could play:
level 7: druid (nature fang archetype; archery feats + support caster), wizard (exploiter archetype; general arcane support + save-or-suck), chained summoner (non-combat skill-monkey eidolon; uses SMX SLA in combat and casts support spells)
level 8: mesmerist (melee frontliner + debuffer), shaman of the dark tapestry (summons advanced-templated monsters, divine support spells)
level 9: bard (dirge bard archetype; support/debuffer/archer), arcanist (occultist archetype; summons monsters, casts a mix of support + offense)
level 10: necromancer wizard

Several have improved familiars with high disable device, knowledges, and UMD.

My characters I'd like to play:
level 7: druid (nature fang), wizard (exploiter), chained summoner
level 8: mesmerist, shaman of the dark tapestry
level 9: bard (dirge bard), arcanist (occultist)
level 10: necromancer wizard

How funny, I'm GMing this tonight at a shop. I'd love to play. I have lots of characters in range.

Backstory is in the hero lab stat block below.

Definitely interested in playing a CG Exploiter wizard, the ultimate rebel/rule-breaker. I'll work up a complete concept tomorrow.

Pretty much what I thought. Thank you.

Can a boon that is for "one newly created PC" be used on a PC that has GM chronicles applied but has never actually been played?

Animate dead comes with a minimum caster level of 5 meaning you cannot animate more than 10HD of undead with a scroll. That makes the cost 375gp +250gp of onyx for 625gp.

Various chronicles have animate scrolls with greater amounts of onyx component attached to them with a higher CL.

I know that at CL 5 the scribe of the scroll could only animate a maximum 10 HD of dead (unless they scribed it in a permanent desecrate effect; wouldn't some clerics of evil deities hang out in desecrated temples? I realize that for PFS that's not how it works).

But could you buy a scroll with extra onyx attached, intending to use it in a desecrate effect? For that matter, could you buy a scroll with less onyx attached than that needed to animate the maximum amount of dead? I've never thought about scrolls with material components that can vary.

Yeah Jezebel, my dhampir cleric of Set is 9 and Yazdan "the mad Qadiran" necromancer wizard is 7. They're both really fun to play.

I just thought for my other less-nercromancy-focused characters it'd be nice to have a potential 15 HD of recently deceased minion in their back pocket. I've been spending all my prestige on scrolls for every occasion lately.

3rd level cleric scroll of animate dead = 375 gp
material component of onyx worth 25 gp per HD @ 15 HD = 375 gp
total cost = 750 gp, which can be purchased for 2 PP

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seems really straightforward, just want to make sure I'm not missing anything before I start buying these.

EDIT: I see I'd need to cast desecrate, otherwise the HD cap would be 10.

Thanks everyone for the thoughts and insight. How about this plan: I command the original shadow to command its spawn to go far far away when it's time for the daily saving throw, and come back after. Then maybe UMD a wand of Ill Omen on the shadow. And if it still succeeds on the save I just start spam channeling again until it fails to save again. Maybe I could also trap it under a ghost touch net until it is back under my command.

Create Spawn (Su)

A humanoid creature killed by a shadow's Strength damage becomes a shadow under the control of its killer in 1d4 rounds.

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If I have a Shadow enslaved via Command Undead, and it kills a humanoid creature, thus turning it into a shadow under the control of the shadow who killed it, do I indirectly also have control of the new shadow, by telling my slave shadow to tell the new shadow what to do?

How is the damage for telekinetic throw calculated? Does it increase with augment summoning, or any other strength score increase?

I love the flavor of the Dark Tapestry. The Black Butterfly is Desna's accidental representative within this cosmic void. How would an Inquisitor of this deity act as part of a group?

animate dead says, "A skeleton can be created only from a mostly intact corpse or skeleton."

How long does a corpse remain "mostly intact"? If a human skeleton were butchered for meat, can the pile of bones be animated as a skeleton? How about a dozen or so human corpses each butchered, then transported for several days to a city to buy the onyx needed to animate them?

Can anyone list all of the current 4-stars-required, single table specials? Apparently I need to provide my VO with a list to get them in my downloads. I've tried searching but haven't found a comprehensive list.

Thank you!

Can I apply a newly-acquired race boon to a PFS character that has 9 GM chronicles but has not yet actually been played?

I will be running this scenario in a few days and I have a couple questions:

Could I buy a Handy Haversack for my faerie dragon familiar, to keep wands, scrolls, rods, etc. in?

Essentially I'd like to be able to say, "Riddywipple, would you kindly pass me my scroll of Breath of Life, please?"

Does an ooze catch fire if hit by an alchemist's explosive bomb? If the ooze has two creatures engulfed, how are those creatures affected by that explosive bomb?

Surprise round: Summoner uses his standard action to use his summon monster ability. Does the summoned monster get a full turn or only a standard or move action?

Does wearing a Mask of Stony Demeanor prevent a character from making a bite attack?

If you signed off on a proof and it came back from the printer different than the proof you signed off, the printer is at fault and should reprint them at their cost. And why would you send them to a landfill instead of recycling them?

Where did it all go??

Black Powder: 10gp (1gp for a Gunslinger)

Regular Bullet: 1gp (1sp for a...)
Alchemical Silver Bullet: 3gp (3sp for...)
Silver Bullet: 25gp (2gp, 5sp)
Cold Iron Bullet: 2gp (2sp)
Adamantine Bullet: 61gp (6gp, 1sp)
Elysian Bronze Bullet: 21gp (2gp, 1sp)
30 Mithral Bullets: 280gp (28gp)
10 Ghost Salted Bullets: 210gp (201gp)
Paper Cartridge: 12gp (6gp)
Alchemical Silver Paper Cartridge: 14gp (7gp)
Cold Iron Paper Cartridge: 24gp (12gp)
Adamantine Paper Cartridge: 72gp (36gp)
Elysian Bronze Paper Cartridge: 32gp (16gp)
Mithral Paper Cartridge: 262gp (131gp)
Dry Load Cartridge (any): +30gp

I'd like to confirm that these are all purchasable in the quantities listed. I just read this in another thread:

And, in case your Gunslinger doesn't have the ability to cast spells themselves, you can take care of things with a friendly spellcaster, and a couple of items:

Wand of Abundant Ammunition (2 PP per wand, 50 castings)
Cracked purple prism Ioun stone (2000 gp, acts as a spell storing item for a single level of spell)

Have a spellcaster with AA on their spell list use the wand between encounters to fill the Ioun stone, use the Ioun stone yourself to cast AA on your ammo supply.
Rinse and repeat.

I'd like to start making use of that technique.

Alright, I'll get a GM to sign off on it. And that's a great link - thanks!

Darby is actually level 9.

Thanks!

Also, an interesting option is taking 2 lvls of of Flowing Monk and continuing with Scout / Thug Rogue or Scout Ninja. Use a monk weapon with the agile property, make Dex your highest stat and take the feats Greater trip, fury's fall and viscious stomp. This way, every time you trip them you attack them twice and forcing them tomake two Reflex saves or become flat-footed. Procede with sneak attacking the hell out of them.

A Cestus or a Kama will do the trick.

Can someone help me build this idea with Ninja? I've been messing around in PCGen for hours and I'm having a hard time figuring out how to qualify for all the feats and at what levels to take them. This would be for PFS - is it even possible to get this build to be effective at a reasonable level?