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What increases when a character goes up in level?

A) Hit Points only.
B) Stamina Points only.
C) Both, Hit Points and Stamina Points.
D) Neither.

If it's anything like Star Wars d20, Stamina Points will go up whenever you gain a level while Hit Points are purely based off Con.

We'll have to wait for more info on it, though.

Forget the artwork - I went giddy with excitement when I read that bit about a "mute musician".

PLEASE let Erich Zann actually be an NPC in this AP!

very very very interested to see what the grim reaper is all about

It's probably a port of the Grim Reaper from "Shadows of Gallowspire".

We have a phone-it-in Life Oracle Healbot in our game. He does nothing but suck up exp and doesn't contribute. All of the new players I meet lately thinks there needs to be a WoW type healer that does absolutely nothing except for cast maybe one spell once per combat.

WoW is ruining "healers"

To be fair, Life Oracle's entire schtick is being a healbot. Though being a healbot is no excuse to be lazy; I hate players who choose a class that's intended for a certain role, and then do jack all when not acting in that role (the worst offenders tend to be people who choose combat classes and sit with their thumb up their ass when not in combat).

And the "party healer is only there to heal people" mentality is far older than WoW; I've had 1st Ed. veterans question why the party Cleric was doing anything but healing party members. It's a big part of the reason I refuse to play divine casters; I don't want to be lumped in as the guy who's only there to keep the rest of the party alive.

requiem_in_mortis wrote:

My group has been pushing the idea of a Traveling Bards game for some time now, and we're just waiting for the right moment to run it. Basically, everyone would specialize in a different type of Bard - one person would play a skill monkey Bard (probably an Archaeologist), one would play a social Bard, one would play a buff/debuff Bard (my buddy wants to play a Diva for this role), and one would play a combat Bard (I'd be doing this, using my Skald for it).

Those work out well until the inevitable breakup over "creative differences."

I'm okay with this, so long as I continue to receive royalties for our performances of "Sweet Home Augustana" and and a new set of +1 Impact Drumsticks.

My group has been pushing the idea of a Traveling Bards game for some time now, and we're just waiting for the right moment to run it. Basically, everyone would specialize in a different type of Bard - one person would play a skill monkey Bard (probably an Archaeologist), one would play a social Bard, one would play a buff/debuff Bard (my buddy wants to play a Diva for this role), and one would play a combat Bard (I'd be doing this, using my Skald for it).

A few ideas for themed games have been brought up in my group, including:

- a party of Goblins (basically running the We Be Goblins! trilogy)
- a party of traveling Bards, each with a different specialty for Perform and possibly a different archetype (I'd be playing a Skald who specialized in percussion instruments and oration)
- an undead party
- a deathless party (modifying the "deathless" creature type from 3.5's Book of Exalted Deeds)
- a game where the party works in an interdimensional brothel (using the Book of Erotic Fantasy; my group is obsessed with that damn thing....)
- a party of super-rich primadonnas who decide to go adventuring for a lark
- a pirate game (not Skulls & Shackles; our resident DM actually built a pirate campaign from scratch)

So I've been perusing Occult Adventures (and have already built a Kineticist, with a Spiritualist coming soon), and I've been thinking about two ideas that should be discussed. The first, simply put, is a psychic specialization for Vigilante, similar to the Zealot and Warlock specializations. It could be done; if not as a core part of the class when Ultimate Intrigue comes out, then perhaps as an archetype later on.

The second is the idea of a mythic path specifically for psychic classes. Admittedly, I'm not super familiar with the psychic classes, but while I'm sure some of the current paths might work for them (Archmage, Trickster and Marshal come to mind), a dedicated psychic path (Psyker? Psionic?) seems like a great idea to me.

Thoughts?

Oh my god... excitement, thy name is... uh, Feb, Mar 2016? WHY IS IT NOT OUT YET!!

Anyways, I do so, sooo hope that the campaign offers ways for the players (and DM's to handle) to get templates like vampire, lich, even complete the Demonic Ritual from the Book of the Damned. Playing those, especially the vampire, adds a lot in terms of nuances with weaknesses and such. Sure, all that power of being undead... but g#&&@!n do those Smite Evils HURT.

So excited.

I notice you said it's going to be the only one for awhile, if the only one period... but would you perhaps consider a 'cultist' evil campaign of the Outer Gods? Get some alien Shub-Niggurath worship, and some 'Summon Cthulu!' up in this.

I'd rather they didn't. I love the Mythos, and I love how they integrated it into Pathfinder's lore via the Dark Tapestry (Leng having connections with Thassilon, Desna opposing the Outer Gods, the towns of Ilmarsh and Carrion Hill basically being Innsmouth and Dunwich respectively, the Reanimator archetype for Alchemist, connecting Dagon to it, etc), but I'd rather leave full-blown Lovecraftian campaigns to the guys at Chaosium. To put it bluntly (and no offense to the guys at Paizo), Pathfinder is the wrong type of game to handle the Mythos; cosmic horror loses its meaning when you can just whack whatever you call up until it dies.

Hell, I'm having trouble keeping my group from doing just that in friggin' Call of Cthulhu.....

(Also, I kindly request that whoever decided to give Great Cthulhu a stat block after Wake of the Watcher flat-out said there'd be no point in giving him one be slapped. I'm STILL annoyed about that.)