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Congratulations Gary a well deserved nomination, now for the win.

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Why, thank you for volunteering to attempt salvage of that malfunctioning plasma cannon. A noble gesture. Of course, with such a dangerous mission, it would be unwise for you to further risk any of The Computer’s valuable equipment by exposing it to any explosion that might result if you should fail. Therefore, I regret you will have to leave all your equipment here with us in the bunker. Yes, I’m afraid that means your tool kit, too.

Oh what fun!!

I'm not in your game but if brought some dice and a sense of humor you should be fine.

‘. . . obviously the work of Commie saboteurs . . .’

Hope everything goes well for your dad, best wishes.
I purchased your wish list for you I’m assuming it should show up in your downloads section. Enjoy.

Mmmm Halfling. Thanks for running Creeps of the Borderlands for us Russ it was indeed lots of fun. I don’t normally get to fight angels or defile St.Cuthbert’s alter. Some cool monsters to play from a Skeletal Minotaur to Goblin/Lycanthrope Barbarian, Bugbear Monk, a couple of Hobgoblins and a Medusa. I played the Hobgoblin Sorcerer and man I looked good. Hope to see you next year as well.

I'm in The Harrowing and very much looking forward to it. Although my dice are just coming out of the microwave as punishment for my last week's play.

If you look at Rend in the Bestiary pg 303 you will see it has to be a natural attack. If you look at natural attacks pg 301 you will see that none of them are ranged. You could be throwing anything a dagger your sword it doesn't matter it still a ranged attack and goes against my rules interpretation. Stephen E, I could swear your sitting to my left every Saturday LOL. Please don't take offense i like my gaming group and mean no disrespect.

To me two weapon rend fall under the two weapon fighting style selection of feats. While it doesn't specify melee or ranged weapons ,to me that is why you have the point blank shot feat and all the other feats that fall under it. One set of feats for two weapon melee attacks and the other for ranged. If you look at where the feat Rend came form ( the monster manual ) and was available to creatures with claw attacks, it seems that TWR with ranged weapons goes against flavor of the rules. At least that's how I would rule on it.

2 Weapon rend says if you hit with both primary and off-hand weapons you do 1d10 +1.5 Str.

So if I hit an apponent with a Net from 1 hand, and do a Ranged Trip with a Bolas with the otherhand, I do 1d10 +1.5 Str bonus in damage.
Yes?

Stephen E

I wouldn't allow it because they ( net and bolas ) are both ranged weapons and not melee weapons.

Hey there! So, I know Paizo's opinion on monsters as PCs and I know the position that they plan to devote an entire book to the subject before it'll ever really be all cleared up, but I'm a person very drawn to non-standard options when I roleplay, so I'm trying to get a handle on the current possibilities for monster PCs as best I can.

Here are my questions:

1) Does a monster only fail to have racial hit dice when its entry explicitly says so (ie. kobold, goblin, etc.)? Does, for instance, a vegepygmy have racial hit dice, despite its CR of 1/2?

2) Assuming the answers above are "yes," how do you adjust for a monster with racial hit dice, but only 1/2 CR as a PC? How can we treat the monster as having half a class-level by default? And if the answer is as simple as rounding, is a being a vegepygmy really as good as having a class level?

3) Assuming the answers to question one are "no," does it amount (as it did with 3.5) to any creature with only one hit die officially having no racial hit dice, thus making the vegepygmy a fully playable character?

4) Racial hit dice don't get full hit points at first level, right?

5) How are ability modifiers determined when not explicitly broken down in the form of PC stat blocks? I remember that for 3.5 the answer was to just subtract 10 or 11 (whichever gave you an even result) from each ability score to get the modifiers, but that doesn't seem to be the case for Pathfinder, based on the few listings in the Bestiary that do provide PC stat blocks. Is there an established system for determining these at all?

And I believe those are all my questions. I'm pretty sure I understand the CR to class-levels conversion, and I'm certainly glad to see level adjustments done away with (even though the current system preserves the possibility of races with level adjustment-esque CRs). If I think of anything else, I'll keep posting in this thread.

Thanks!

My 2cents. I'll first state that I personally do not like monsters as characters. Once in a while is ok but as soon as on pc has one they all want one.

1) All Monsters have hit dice based on their creature type. Your Vegepygmy is a plant and has a d8 hit dice.

2) As soon as a monster gains a class level such as fighter it would gain those hit dice on top of it's normal monster hit dice.

3) In 3.5 if your race had a fraction of the hit dice that fraction was ignored as you gained a class level.

4) Creature hit dice don't appear to be maxed at 1st level as they have basically 1/2 their max hit points. If they were pc's I'd let them roll.

5) don't know but that's what nice about having them as strictly monsters and not making them into playable races. As a DM you shouldn't have to justify why this monster has that ability or plus to hit.