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What are the mermaid heritages?

Abyssal- deep water, darkvision, immune to water pressure

What new animal companions are there? Really hoping for a frog or spider one.

Antilope, Elk, Flying Squirrel, Giraffe, Kangaroo, Mole, Salamander, and Sholashu (uncommon, psychic catrovellian dino mounts)

Also has Advanced AC. They list a minimum level to select.
Giant eel (4), giant frog (6), giant wasp (14), griffon (14), hippocampus (4) hippogriff (14), orca (6), riding tarantula (6), Roc (16), umbrella mushroom (14).

Thank you for this thread!!

My pleasure. I always appreciate it when others do the same.

Do any of the new ancestries have a "have more than 5' of reach" option?

Minotaur have a level 5 feat stretching reach gives a two handed weapon reach. That's it.

So we know of unholy animals (like the Thrunosaurus), what holy animals/beasts are there in here?

Karkadann looks like an ugly unicorn. Creature 7 with Fey and Holy trait.

Alicorn- Flying unicorn Creature 11

Minotaur Feat 9 Friendly Flying- ally takes 1d6 piercing from your horns as you throw them 20 feet, can strike adjacent foe upon landing as reaction.

Info about the 3 new Witch Patrons and the 4 Wardens?

New Patrons- all primal

Ripple in the Deep
Cantrip- failure dazzled, new save each round.

Whisper of Wings
Cantrip- if creature moves closer to target of spell, take sonic or piercing damage (basic save)

Zoophonia Muse for Bard- make requests or command animal using Performance.

New Warden Spells
Distracting Decoy (off guard), Keen Smell, Slim Spit (2d6 poison & dazzled)

In your scholarly opinion, would an animal barb benefit from taking the were creature archetype or is it better left for other classes to catch some of that vibe?

I don't think animal instinct is a good idea for Werecreature since the animal instinct only grants benefits to the instinct provided attack. Another instinct may work better, like elemental or fury. Only issue for them would be that change shape has the concentrate trait (can't do while raging).

Are there any earth-trait beasties, or new dragons? Also, any new heritages for pre-existing ancestries?

WARDEN OF CAVERNS AND BURROWS CREATURE 22 (unique giant cricket)

Storm Snake is a dragon; level 5, flying snake with electricity damage,

Only heritages are for new ancestries in book

*peeks over countertop* psst, what's the new beast master stuff?

fun feats for companion. creature adjacent to AC hits you, they get frightened 1. 1d4 precision damage for agile/finesse attacks. Pack Movement (2 actions) both stride and strike.

I am also quite curious how they handled the Large PCs, I’m assuming they have a sidebar like the tiny PCs did?

four paragraphs about it. difficult terrain in 5ft wide, squeezing otherwise.

Kelseus wrote:

Ostilli Host
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Thlipit Contestant

What are these ?

Ostilli Host- you get a symbiote that allow you to have new magic abilities. Spit magic (1d6 piercing, +1d6 lvl 6, 10, 14, 18). Cloaking Pulse (become hidden) Spell Swallowing (reaction, counteract spell).

Thlipit- Prereq: prehensile tail or tongue or similar. appendage gets 1d4 damage, grab and reach. Feats give you more tonguing options.

Do you mind sharing a list of the archetypes if possible?

Beastmaster (feats for beastmaster archetype from PC2)

Are there any new dinosaurs that are based on real animals?

Troodon (level 1), Protoceratops (level 2), Majungasaurus (6), Carnotaurus (7), Therizinosaurus (9), Titanosour (16).

Thruneosaurus Rex (level 17) is not based on a real animal.

Kelseus wrote:

Just got my PDF. Ask away!

Why are you luckier than me?! Lol.

Seriously though, gimme as much info about Wild Mimic archetype as you are comfortable with.

They get access to Monk animal style feats (Crane, Gorilla, Wolf, Tiger). have special Lore to allow them to RK on any creature, only increases to expert if Legendary in Nature.

Can you share how awakened animals work, especially how they can hold/manipulate objects? Do they get hands?

Their standard abilities include "Awakened Form" (listed in the sidebar along with ability boosts and low-light vision) which allow them to walk bipedally and "hold, wield, and use items." It says "for the rules you function like a humanoid with two hands."

Just got my PDF. Ask away!

Just got my shipping notification.

Answering questions over in AMA thread

Howl of Wild AMA

Playtest is UP!

Battlecry Playtest

It affects all creatures within 20 feet, not all enemies, so you have to be careful not to tag your allies.

"Go Beyond Legendary!" seems to imply an additional level of proficiency...

I agree. I am interested to see if they do Mythic as a extension of levels after 20 or if it is like a special archetype, with a new bucket of Mythic only feats.

Michael Sayre wrote:

Runnetib wrote:

So is fiction coming back coming back, or is this a special release only?

If you would like to see more novels, it would likely behoove you to buy this and encourage all your friends to do the same.

I would love to see more novels, but a cheaper paperback option would be appreciated.

Problem is the cheap paperbacks don't make money.

Remaster Buckets:

Moderate + 0 for all age categories: mirage, omen, diabolic, adamantine
High + 0 for all age categories: empyreal, conspiracy, fortune
High + 1 for all age categories: horned and all linnorms

I think that it makes sense for the Dragons in each category.

Mirage, Omen, Diabolic and Adamantine dragons all have very strong defensive abilities. Mirage has reaction to gain concealment, Omen has reaction to force misfortune on an attack. These both make the dragons harder to hit, so you off set that with a slightly lower AC. Diabolic dragons are immune to fire, have reactive strike and frightful presence. All abilities that make it harder to hurt. Adamantine has straight resist all physical.

Horned and Linnorms are more in your face, hard hitting bag of HP monsters, so they have AC like a frontline melee monster.

TLDR; there are other things to look at than just AC when designing a monster.

Can we get a bit more info about these? Maybe a picture of them in the books?

Stirges are already renamed Bloodseekers.

Even some of the D&D creatures may make a come back in one form or another.

Per James Jacobs, even a Drider could be in Remaster

Fleshwarps are all ours. Driders being called fleshwarps is something we did. But driders being so tied to drow means we'll need to do some adjusments, and at the very least rename them, but a "spider centaur" is not something that D&D can own, and the weird appearance we gave to our driders (which don't have sexy elf heads) are also ours. So it'll probably be limited to a new name and the scrubbing of the drow bit of flavor.

Some of these are just not in Monster Core. Others are so generic that you could easily recreate it with a different name.

Assassin Vine is just a level 3 plant creature. Snapping Flytrap (pg 154) is more interesting and does the same thing.

Efreeti are in the Monster Core as an Ifrit. They didn't even change the art.

Several Golems are reprinted, just without the Golem name. I expect many to make a return.

Divine Immolation is good. Don't over think it either. Vitality Lash cantrip at rank 7 is 8d6 vitality damage with basic Fort. That's as good as a rank 4 or 5 slotted spell and almost as good as a level 7 heal (avg. 31.5 v. 28)

It appears that Paizo chose to be more intentional about avoiding the "hidden" immunities couched under other traits. In pre-Remaster, none of teh undead list bleed immunity. Not zombies, skeletons, wights, mummies, graveknights. Every one I looked at lacked that immunity.

In Monster Core ALL undead list bleed immunity. Even incorporeal undead like the ghost, shadow, and poltergeist have it explicitly listed.

The only exception is the Vampire. Considering all those things, I think it is pretty clear the intent was to intentionally allow vampires to be subject to bleed damage.

azrazalea wrote:

Vampires don't have bleed immunity listed. Every other undead creature does (I checked). The undead trait does not have bleed immunity listed.

This would imply vampires can bleed? Then Player Core states nonliving beings can't take bleed damage, so RAW it appears vampires can bleed but don't take damage from doing so?

That would mean they can use Blood Vendetta spell, DEINONYCHUS can cause them to be off guard from bleeding, KROOTH can track them better if they are bleeding, and the Bird support benefit of dazzling while bleeding would function. Anything else I'm missing that specifically works on bleeding targets would work. However, no damage would be taken by any of the bleeding?

Is this the RAI here? I think it makes sense.

Isn't the immunity to bleed damage in the bleed damage rules.

Book text
Another special type of physical damage is bleed damage. This is persistent damage that represents loss of blood. As such, it has no effect on nonliving creatures or living creatures that don’t need blood to live. Weaknesses and resistances to physical damage apply. Bleed damage ends automatically if you’re

So since they're non living theyre immune to bleed right?

The fact that the immunity is NOT listed should be read as intentional. I mean, a Vampire is an undead full of blood that it consumes to maintain its power. I think it is 100% appropriate for a Vampire to take bleed damage like a living creature.

Did we lose the doppelganger and the rust monster?

Doppelganger was confirmed with its removal from the Remastered Beginner Box. Rust Monster is 100% invented by Gygax for D&D based off a toy set he purchased as stop gap minis.

Same pack that spawned the Umber Hulk, Owlbear, and Bulette.

Hm. No ghast in here. Looks like the ghoul soldier replaces it. Yes? No?

All a ghast was was a level 2 ghoul. Only thing it had over a regular ghoul was stench, and now all ghouls get that.

I guess a question I have about these tradition-based dragons is:

Do they inherently have spells that relate to their various traditions? or is the tradition less about the magical essence of the dragon and more about their role in the world? Will we get lots of caster dragons that study different traditions of magic than is their core essence?

They have the trait associated with their assigned tradition: Adamantine has primal, conspirator occult, etc.

They don't have spells as a default, but there is a sidebar for adding spells to each of the dragon types. I am only 100% on what spells are in what tradition, but on quick glance the suggested spells seem to follow their tradition assignment, as above.

3) Do undead, demons, or devils do extra damage to holy enemies like sanctified Clerics.

Some Celestials do additional damage to Unholy targets. Tabellia (angel) deal 1d4 spirit with their warhammer, 2d4 v. unholy target. Rekhep (shield archon) has the same.

Quetz Coatl's venom is treated as a curse for unholy creatures, its radiant wings have an additional affect against unholy targets on a crit fail.

All demons, devils, daemons, and Rakshasas have holy weakness.

Coarti's (devil) Despairing Shriek causes holy creatures to also be frightened 2 on a fail.

Holy creatures treat their save vs. the Diabolic Dragon's Hell's Sting ability as one step worse.

Herexen's Strikes deal extra 1d6 spirt to holy creatures.

That seems like a good clarification, Kelseus. I think it was the universal monster rule that caused confusion. And thanks as always to JJ for weighing in!

Even the Bestiary itself doesn't follow the rule. Dero stalker doesn't have an agile or finesse attack, but has sneak attack (pg 84).

In the monster core there is no "Sneak Attack" universal monster ability. However are still 29 monster with the Sneak Attack ability. The language for each is nearly identical.

"Sneak Attack The [Creature]'s Strikes deal an additional XdY precision damage to off-guard targets."

The only thing that changes is the name of the creature and the dice amount, which ranges from 1d4 to 3d6, with 1d6 being the average amount.

The language quoted above appears in the Bestiary, but its not in B2 or B3 or Rage of Elements either. Looks like after the Bestiary that language was abandoned.

Howl of the Wild product description states that it contains "A menagerie of Golarion’s animals and beasts for GMs to unleash on players..."

What are aeons like now? Did they fully absorb inevitables?

The Arbiter, which was an Inevitable, is now an aeon.

Have the algollthus been changed much?

Only 2 appear. The faceless stalker is identical, except for change of tounges to truespeech.

Veiled Master loses the Slim ability. They exchanges Mucus Cloud for Numbing Light (dim light, save v. stupefied). Consume Memories does mental damage now. Gain new ability Shape Flesh, rider on claw Strike. Save v. permanent clumsy or enfeebled 2 or -10 speed.

What stands out about the Empyrean and Omen Dragons?

Empyrean- reaction to give itself resistance if hit with a crit. Breath is spirit damage, has holy trait.

Omen- reaction to give misfortune on attack roll. Attacks and breath weapon do mental damage.

Are there any animals? Dinosaurs/pterosaurs especially? (The pterosaurs from the Bestiary need a serious rework IMO)

yes, no surprises. Pteranodon is essentially unchanged, 10 fewer hp.

Imp is no longer a devil but an all purpose level 1 Fiend.

Like rats infesting cities, imps litter the

fiendish Outer Planes—Abaddon, the
Outer Rifts, and most especially Hell.

Kelseus wrote:

Just got my PDF, willing to answer questions.

Are there any changes to the giant lineup? I'm curious if they got hit by the OGL stuff like dragons and hags did.

Marsh, Stone, Frost, Fire, Cloud, Shadow, and Rune.

Just glancing at Frost Giant, they loose Catch Rock and Throw Rock, gain Nature Skill and Reactive Strike. Otherwise same.

Similar changes for Stone Giant. No Catch Rock and Throw Rock, but get reaction to swat away a projectile, and can create a rock and throw as a single action.

My biggest problem with Golems is that Golem Anti-magic is so vague. Do weapon runes work? They're magic? Does your frost rune trigger the GA weakness? What about alchemical? What does it mean for them to be immune to spells that create an effect without a save? Is the golem immune to the hole in the ground? Can they see through all magical fog since the fog is affecting the light in the room and not the golem itself? What does "targeted by" mean? Do I have to roll to hit? Does the golem get a save to see if it crit succeeds (i.e. is unaffected?

All these issues go out the window with the Bastion. My options with a golem are either spamming my Ray of Frost to cheese the encounter or ripping my hair out because I didn't pick it. Now I actually have to use my rank 6 and 7 spells against the level 14 creature. I don't know about you but spamming cantrips isn't really why I choose high level play.

While the Metal kineticist will be fine and the fire kineticist was already fine, the wood, water, air, earth, and any other kineticists they may add latter are not fine. Better, but still very much not fine.

As written now, these kineticists can't do anything to a golem unless they have the right element. Golem anti-magic makes them 100% immune to all impulses, even if you are doing physical damage. At least with the Bastion setup, you can at least try to muscle through the resistance.

Brass Bastion is level 14 creature. Even in a level +4 fight, your level 10 kineticist is dealing at least 3d6+5 (average 12.5) with a ranged blast. They can do 3d8+9 (avg 22) with a two action melee blast. So you can at least do something.

And that is just with the standard blast. There are plenty of impulses can get you even higher damage. Elemental Artillery and Lightning Dash will each do 4d12 (avg 26), shard strike does 5d6 (avg 17.5), etc.

This also avoids all the weird corner cases where we have to decide if the golem can see through a darkness spell, or can walk through a wall of force, etc.

WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING?

Came here to say this.

I can't find it in the store, so I'll ask directly: will this bad boy be getting a pocket edition like previous "themed" rulebooks?

Pretty much all Paizo's rules line books get a pocket addition, about 3 months after release.

This is a May release, and they only just announced their June/July releases. Since pocket Ed would come out in August, that's why you can't find it yet.

I think your best current spells to look at are Holy Light and Chilling Darkness.

You shine a blazing ray of light tinged with holy energy. Make a ranged spell attack. The ray deals 5d6 fire damage. If the target has the unholy trait, you deal an extra 5d6 spirit damage

Chilling Darkness has identical language, but for unholy.

So my suggestion would be to change Wall of Virtue to read:

Any creature that crosses the wall or is occupying the wall's area at the start of its turn takes 1d8 vitality damage. If the creature has the unholy trait, you deal an extra 1d8 spirit damage.

The spell itself should have the Holy trait, so it will trigger Holy weaknesses (just like Holy Light).

To this day I don't know what Paizo was thinking with Pathfinder Nexus. I get the wanted to have their D&D Beyond, but why give yourself the trouble to pay another company for a rules reposity + character creator when you already have Archives of Nethys and Pathbuilder. If anything, pay the guys behind those two to work on their respective projects faster and with more dedication. Archives of Netyhs in particular already works with Paizo, since they have DNAs and other stuff to not filter the content of the books earlier, so this whole situation seems really weird.

My understanding is that Nexus is a licensed product. Which means Paizo isn't paying them, Nexis is paying Paizo.

In this case though, I think something should have happened to the AoN staff because it is really weird is taking this long. They initially stimated a 2-3 week delay with the Remaster content, and it's not like they are unexperienced programmers that didn't know how much time it would really take for them to entry all the data and program whatever was necesary, so I assume something behind the scenes happened which slowed down everything.

While it's pretty frustrating that the free rules website is still not updated, we can't lose sight of the fact that it is 100% free. I am happy to let them take their time to get it right. Once the framework is built for the remaster toggle, I would expect the next book to go up relatively fast.

We also have to remember that it often takes AoN several weeks to get out books normally. Cult of the Cave Worm came out 8/30, it wasn't on the site until 10/18.

What are the differences between adventure paths and society and adventure card games?

Can all three of them be played by post?

Notice Paizos has a range of PF products.

Also, what do you recommend a newbie to get?

An adventure path (or AP) is a large 3 to 6 part adventure designed to take PCs on a full campaign. 3 part APs span 10 levels, while 6 part APs take a PC from level 1 to level 20. Even with a dedicated group playing every week, you should expect an AP to take the better part of a year or more to complete.

Pathfinder Society is a cooperative gaming platform where players and GMs can meet up to do Society Scenario. A Scenario is designed to be played in one sitting for up to 4 hours. A PS Scenario may have specialized rules or have certain expectations that a general Pathfinder adventure would not because of the specialized Society only rules.

The Adventure Card Game is a completely separate card game that is not Pathfinder. It my have similar elements or stories, but uses completely different rules.

As far as recommendations, if you are brand new to Pathfinder I would recommend the Beginner Box. It is designed to help both players and GMs learn the rules. There is also Troubles in Otari which is a stand alone adventure which picks up after the events of the Beginner Box and allows you to continue playing your same characters.