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Hello,

One of my players is playing a monk going into the monkey shen prestige class (an old 3.5 prestige class from dragon magazine). For purposes of monk AC and monk unarmed damage, the prestige class stacks with monk levels for determining those bonuses. I have likewise extended those to include the monk's ability to add their class level instead of their BAB to their CMB.

However, the player wants to know if the monk levels and monkey shen levels stack for purposes of qualifying for feats that have a monk level requirement (cloud step and spider step is what she is specifically looking at). I haven't been able to locate any monk-specific prestige classes within the sets of pathfinder books to help me make a judgement on it.

How have other people handled this? I don't remember that there were any feats in 3.5 that required a certain number of monk levels to get, nor any classes that said that monk levels and its levels stacked for everything a monk got (most stacked for damage and flurry, but few if any for slowfall or ac bonuses, for example).

I am thinking that since Pathfinder's design philosophy seems in part to encourage base classes over prestige classes, and that some things ought to remain completely unique to base classes, that I should say no. There are also very few fighter prestige classes that ever stacked with fighter levels to qualify for fighter bonus feats, as I recall, which is another strike against monk & monk prestige classes stacking in Pathfinder or 3.5.

However, I don't want to punish the player for seeking out a prestige class that helps her play the character she wants to portray. This particular player is also my least metagamey/least inclined to min/max player.

Any advice, thoughts, or comments would be appreciated!

My husband wants to make an inquisitor with the Family Subdomain. The Binding Ties power allows him to transfer a condition from another person to himself. Grappled is a condition and he and I disagree as to whether the power should allow one to transfer the condition (he thinks yes, I think no). How have other people handled this power and things like Entangled, Death, Grappled, Helpless, Petrified, Pinned, and Prone?

I am running my group through the adventure. When they got into the room with the three vats of concentrated oozing plague, the warmage decided (after being told not to use fireball) that an ice storm would be just the thing! I gave the vats fortitude saves, under the assumption that a sudden drop in temperature would be bad for the metal plus being pelted by bludgeoning hailstones - I don't think they were built to withstand an elemental tempest.

Two of them shattered and oozed all over the place, splitting the party up as some of them made a mad dash for safety and one got plagued. Sadly, it was the monk already paralyzed by the ghoul touch so he was immune. :(

This time around, at least, the party (specifically, the warmage) did more to introduce more deadly danger to themselves than I did! They practically did my job for me.. ;)

I have a player that wants to play an oriental adventures flavored shaman in the Curse of the Crimson Thrones path I'm gearing up to run next month. Any suggestions for fitting her in, culturally? I thought about suggesting Shoanti, but they seem a little more native americanly influenced than oriental to me. Can an oriental-flavored tribe fit in amongst the Shoanti, or does she belong somewhere else?

Thanks =)

/ali

There is no mention of taking a penalty to tumble for moving more than half your speed. Has that been intentionally removed?

Also, it's never been clear to me how the "+2 for each additional opponent avoided in one round" works with tumble. We've always played it that you roll a tumble check for each opponent, and it gets harder each time. If you're rolling past 3 people, you need to roll a 15, 17, and 19 to get past them. But I've always suspected you make one roll for all oponents at the highest number. Could that be clarified in Pathfinder?

Lastly, DC 15 + base attack bonus seems high for tumbling to me.

/ali

Barbarian:

Pg. 14 - under the "Increased Damage Reduction" Rage Power, it states that the barbarian cannot increase her damage reduction by more than 3/-, and that the power cannot be selected until 12th level. A 13th level barbarian has 3/- damage reduction. Does that mean this Rage Power is only useful for one level, or does it mean she can't have an overall total more than 6/-? It seems like this could be clearer.

Cleric:

Pg. 22 - under Channel Energy we could really use a page reference for the rule on how it works. Personally, I would rather see the rule for channel energy in with the cleric write-up (since it doesn't need a table for turning anymore) and the Channel Energy amount added to the class progression chart much like the Rogue's sneak attack damage is.

Monk:

Pg. 30 - Does the extra attack a monk can gain (on a full attack) by spending a Ki Point stack with extra attacks gained via haste and other similar spells?

Paladin:

Pg. 35 - In order for a Paladin's mount to Command an animal that is being ridden it must make a DC 21 spellcraft check. As there is no mention of a paladin's mount sharing his paladin's skills (as with familiars), that means that even if you put every skill point (minimum 1) the horse gets for bonus HD, it's going to have a maximum of 8 ranks (+8 bonus HD) for a total of 7 (9 int) before you roll the die. This is a pretty slim chance of success. Is this intentional?

Rogue:

Pg. 39 - Under Rogue Talents, it states that a rogue cannot select an individual talent more than once - does (should) this include the combat trick (feat) and weapon training (wpn focus) talents?

Sorcerer:

Pg. 43 - The feats for Celestial Bloodline struck me as very odd - Mobility, mounted combat, ride-by attack, and weapon finesse? Actually, alot of the feats seem odd, it makes me curious what the criteria was.

Wizard:

Pg. 49 - Under Arcane Bond, it states that if you choose an item to bond with, you may enchant it as if you had the required feat - does the wizard have to otherwise qualify to enchant the item? For example, Forge Ring and Craft Staff require caster level 12. Can a wizard with those items not enchant it until 12th caster level?

Pg. 194 - Under Arcane Schools - "Whenever a wizard attains the listed level, he can choose one spell from his school to prepare every day as a bonus spell." - there is no mention of whether the Wizard has to have the spell in his spellbook in order to prepare it. Is this intentional?

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I know Class Discussion isn't open yet, but my players are starting to consider what classes they'll play, and I'd like some ideas on how I might handle some of these issues (especially the Rogue, Monk and Wizard).

/ali

We were playing tonight and the sorcerer had the fey bloodline. She used her first level ability (making someone laugh) and we wanted to know if there was a save.. ? There wasn't anything in the entry itself, or that I could find in the bloodline general description.. am I missing something?

Thanks

/ali

I meant to order these when they were initially released, but of course I missed the date and let time wander by and now they're all backordered.. *sigh*

Can anyone tell me when they are expected to be back in stock? I'm trying to decide whether to hold the rest of the items until they arrive or find the module I want soonest at a LGS instead.

/ali

Well, this seems to be the place to get answers.

When I placed my order on the 7th of December, everything was listed as "ready to go in one day" except for a miniature that said 3-5 days. I thought it'd be no problem to get it before Christmas.

The website still shows that my order is awaiting shipment. I've got two order of the stick books - Origins of the PCs - Are these experiencing the same delay as mentioned for Dungeon Crawling Fools in another thread?

If I need to cancel all or part of my order, how do I get ahold of someone? I sent an email on the 12th and still have received no answer.

Thanks,

/alison