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My high tier option of choice is Janus, a heavy-hitting fey-touched inquisitor (lvl 6, would level up after part 1). They come with a crocodile figment familiar who'll "level up" into a mephit.

At low tier, I've got a fun little leshy with a gunpowder obsession at level 4 (would also level up after part 1). Boom Sticks is a barbarian (savage technologist) with a gunslinger dip, who plays mostly like a reach fighter but has a few firearms tricks.

I can start whenever.

Hey, thanks for running this buddy :)

I also have possibilities in both tiers, though I've a slight preference for higher tier. I'd like to run my green marshal inquisitor if possible.

There's a Campaign Clarification for Noble Stipend. It just gives you 100gp at the start of each adventure, any remainder not used by the end of the adventure is lost.

Just saw the above; not seeing the "nonsense" in any of the preceding (PDK's unhelpful 2-bitz notwithstanding), but let's see if this is any easier:

Touch of blindness. I'm trying to figure it out (and if it's worth taking):

If a character has the BAB for multiple attacks in a round, can it deliver multiple magical touch attacks in a round (this would be very good to know in general, of course, would certainly help redeem chill touch in the face of Pathfinder's nerfing single-point ability-damage)?

If the answer is yes, then if, say, something gets poked three times in a single round with touch of blindness, and fails all three saving throws, would that mean it is then blinded for the next 3 rounds, or would that part not work that way?

(Q) Touch Spells: In the Magic and Combat chapters, it says that I can touch a single ally as a standard action or up to six allies as a full-round action and that I can combine delivering a touch spell with a natural attack or unarmed strike. But what if I just want to deliver the touch spell to an enemy? It just says I can do it “round after round.”

(A) Making a touch attack against an enemy by touching it, beyond the free action to do so as part of casting the spell, is a standard action. It can’t be used with a full attack.

linky to FAQ

A Magus can break this rule, using Spellstrike and Spell Combat. Touch of Blindness can certainly be used by a Magus with high BAB to Spellstrike more than once a round, but other than forcing more saves there's no benefit. Nothing in the spell description causes the duration to stack on multiple hits.

Regarding the Tripping Staff Feat, any Enhancement bonus on the weapon will also apply to Combat Manoeuvres that you make with it. That, and the clause allowing Spellstrike on a Trip if you're a Staff Magus, would seem to be the benefits.

How about this bit?

Sirius Sa'luk wrote:

Also, suppose he's got the Thieves' Guild Membership vanity: Could he apply the Sleight of Hand bonus to his "Day" Job rolls?

Permanent bonuses from the following list affect your

Day Job check as they would any check for the rolled skill.
Temporary bonuses from sources other than crafter’s
fortune do not affect Day Job checks.
• Equipment
• Feats
• Racial bonuses
• Class features
• Traits
• Familiar bonuses
• Crafter’s fortune spell

I don't have the wording for the vanity at hand, but if it doesn't read as a bonus that fits with the list above then it doesn't apply to the Day Job roll.

supervillan wrote:

In the Kingmaker CRPG you'll reach a point where you can hire "Pathfinders" - hirelings who'll join your party. You can build these hirelings as you wish.

Is this "point" sooner, or later?

It's pretty early after the prologue, once you're into "The Stolen Lands" chapter. Look for Oleg's Trading Post. The main quest takes you there.

"Build"? Is that different from 'make', like I did with my initial character?

Same, though I don't recall how much control you have over hirelings/mercenaries appearance.

supervillan wrote:

[Y]ou pay more GP the higher your level. The hirelings will join at the same xp level as the main character.

So why not just buy a full contingent as soon as I can?

You can indeed do that, you're just limited by your wealth.

Anyone else around here play the KINGMAKER computer-game? I just started it, and I have a question I'm hoping is simple enough that I don't have to bother making a thread in the Computer Game forum for it:

Is it like Baldur's Gate, where you only get to make one character of your own, or Icewind Dale/Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir, where you get to make more than one character of your own?

I was hoping it was the latter (the KINGMAKER campaign seemed like a good fit for that), but so far, although I've barely started, it seems like the former. I'm hoping I get the opportunity to make/add more after the initial few scenes.

** spoiler omitted **

In the Kingmaker CRPG you'll reach a point where you can hire "Pathfinders" - hirelings who'll join your party. You can build these hirelings as you wish. If memory serves - it's been a long while since I played - you pay more GP the higher your level. The hirelings will join at the same xp level as the main character.

Hirelings of course do not get story quests like the NPC companions do, nor specific dialogue.

I have yet to play these scenarios.

Whilst I'd love to reunite Flyn with Kiboko and Mvumbu - my hunter/barbarian and his wise and beautiful hippo companion - Kiboko has been rather less active than Flyn since completing Eyes of the Ten. (Kiboko is level 13.2).

But I also have a level 14 oracle who has adventured with Flyn several times before, Quenly.

I enjoy both Kiboko and Quenly and would be equally happy bringing either, but they are my highest level PCs.

Solo Tactics lets you treat everyone else as having the feat, but only for the purpose of granting you bonuses, and they still have to conform with positioning or other requirements of using the feat.

So one of them can play the Fall Guy to give you bonuses (and they take the penalty), but not vice versa, because they don't have the feat.

That's my 2cp anyway.

A remote-first workforce needn't prevent organising in-person events. I think there's more to it than that.

In port today and have access :)

I'd love to see Soddy Daisy again :)

Big props for supporting unionisation and remote working!

roll4initiative wrote:

I've GM'd both of those but haven't played. I might be interested

0-26 Lost at Bitter End would be a much easier run, but might be more suitable for a fresh scenario. 2-08 The Sarkorian Prophecy is also an option. And I do enjoy 2-16 The Flesh Collector.

I've not played any of those yet ;)

Chronciles are here!

I have issued 0xp chronicles. To get 1xp you have to complete 3 encounters. Since you fled from both the undead and the beast demons you did not do so. You earn gold from completing the initial combat successfully.

I have assumed Take 10 on your day job rolls.

You receive 0 Prestige. The first prestige point requires that you survey the three potential campsites, signal Aram Zey at your preferred site, and either win over the Red Winter tribe or defeat them in combat. The second prestige point is earned by winning over the Red Winter by fulfilling their condition of besting a powerful demon (which also earns a boon, albeit one with little to no use).

I'll get the game reported presently. Let me know if there are any errors on the chronicles.

Sorry it ended this way. I'm sure I'll see you around on the boards though.

I've only played (not run) #7-99 and it was good fun, with definite 'strangeness' vibes to it.

Also, Hi, sv!

<waves>

"Hi YiM!"

It's a great scenario! Definitely qualifies as strange - is this for Outpost I assume?

Looks like that link is broken? It goes to the Flaxseed Campaign Info tab.

Happy new year all!

In lieu of any kind of resolution (which I don't really do) I have decided that, with PF1e clearly on the wane on these boards, it's high time I actually launched the Rokugan campaign I've been brewing up. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it here once or twice.

Basically a D&D3.p campaign set in the L5R world. I've enough material already to go from level 1 to around 8.

Anyone interested? I've already got Maria/Pete on board and will ask around my regular players before considering open recruitment.

campaign primer if you want to take a look.

Please keep the Recruitment thread for Recruitment, and by all means discuss characters in Discussion, thank you :)

I will shortly be GM'ing for a friend of mine who runs a Sound Striker/Duettist bard. No problem there :)

The PC is equipped with a magic item called Three Reasons to Live. One of the things that this item does is boost Bardic Performances by 6 levels "if a bard uses the horn to start a bardic performance". Super strong.

Now, using a horn to start a bardic performance means that the performance is using Perform (Wind Instruments). All good for regular bardic stuff like Inspire Courage.

Here's the Rules question: can you use Three Reasons to Live to do the Sound Striker's Wordstrike and Weird Words performances?

Wordstrike says "direct a burst of sonically charged words" to do damage.

Weird Words says "At 6th level the bard can start a performance that is always a standard action to speak up to one word per 4 bard levels laden with sonic energy."

So, although there's a "fluff" sentence in the archetype description saying that it "music and words as a weapon", I do not think that a PC can use these abilities with Three Reasons to Live, which is a shofar (horn). You can't speak words through a shofar.

I have seen another GM rule differently on the Paizo forums, and this will be for PFS, so I ask the question here. (The magic item isn't normally PFS legal but it does appear on a chronicle sheet that grants access).

No worries Quiella, I had a busy weekend myself and hardly posted anywhere.

I'm comfortable with a slower than typical pace for this game if you guys are.

Raise thread!

Next up after Day of the Demon looks like Noral's Call of the Copper Gate, and after that I'm down to run Test of Tar Kuata.

Dwarf Name: Halali Wowote (a Mbe'ke dwarf - the name means "Lawful Any" in Swahili if Google Translate is right)

Dwarf Class: UnMonk (initially - will be building towards Storm Kindler which I think is just a very cool prestige class)

Dwarf Joke: "A dwarf, a halfling and an elf are hiding from a hobgoblin army at a ruined farmhouse. An entire brigade is closing in on them when the dwarf spots a pile of old sacks. 'In there, quick' she says, and the three all climb in to a sack each. Very soon the hobgoblins are searching the farmyard. They poke at the sack that the dwarf is hiding in. 'Woof-woof!' says the dwarf. 'Just dogs in here' says the dumb hobgoblin. Then they poke the sack with the halfling in it. 'Meeeoooww' goes the halfling. 'Huh, it's just a cat'. Then they poke the sack with the elf in it. 'Err... potatoes!' says the elf."

Tempted, matey, tempted...

I was in the recent high tier PbP run of Bonekeep 1.

We prepared :)

It was still tough.

That's the appeal of Bonekeep - it is a degree more difficult than most PFS scenarios, by deliberate design, and thus presents a challenge all of its own.

I'm very glad that the series been authorised for PbP now.

divination: 1d100 ⇒ 28

To be fair the armour plus the shield are needed to enable overland flight and together they cost a lot more than a flying carpet or a broomstick, although of course those items don't give you AC.

Ultimate Equipment on its own is not a legal source for the Celestial Shield - see Additional Resources.

I suspect this is one of those cases where they specifically wanted to make something a chronicle sheet exclusive reward.

There are a couple of chronicles it appears on, but I'll pm you Skorn to avoid spoilers.

A shifter doesn't need to overcome a golem's DR if the party wizard drops it down an Acid Pit.

Not every character needs a solution to every problem. This is a co-operative game with 4-6 PCs at a table.

Explore. Report. Cooperate.

The indentation did not work for mobile browsers (at least not for Chrome for Android) - it just shunted the text to the right whereas what we have now is easily readable centre-justification.

This discussion would really be more likely to be seen by the people who make decisions if it were in website feedback.

I already made a thread.

So how's everyone getting on with the grey spoilers?

I have to admit, for me it's a major fail. They're ugly, they disrupt PbP character sheets, text is more difficult to read and dice expressions even more so. On mobile browsers the new indentation is not compensated, so where we had nice centre-justification now all the spoiler text is just shunted to the right and it jars.

Website admin say it's a deliberate change but they're looking at the green-on-grey contrast issue.

If you haven't noticed the change, here's an example:

Thanks Brian.

From my perspective the grey is not in any way an improvement. I know I'm only one user, but I am a heavy user of play-by-post on the forums and the grey makes reading everything under spoiler more difficult.

Hi, is there a deliberate change made today to spoilers on the forums?

Can we change back please?

You may have been reading the archetype write-up on a website that does not have permission to use certain proprietary terms, such as deity names.

Be sure to use the original sources. In this case, Dirty Tactics Toolbox.

You can indeed multiclass barbarian and bloodrager. I'll dig out a reference for you.

ETA: here you go

Parent Classes: Each of the following classes draws upon
two classes to form the basis of its theme. While a character
can multiclass with these parent classes, doing so usually
results in redundant abilities. Such abilities don’t stack
unless specified. If a class feature allows the character to
make a one-time choice (such as a bloodline), that choice
must match similar choices made by the parent classes and
vice-versa (such as selecting the same bloodline).

If I remember correctly, the playtest versions of the hybrid classes in ACG precluded multiclassing with the parent classes, but that prohibition was removed in the final publication.

Thundercaller is a fun bard archetype that gets an AoE performance.

I don't mind swapping tiers either, as long as a level 5 is good for low tier.

So I can play -

Poh (sensei) in high tier
Malachi (kraken caller) in high tier

OR

Lucky (mouser) in low tier

Whatever we end up with in terms of table mix, I much approve of planning for the expedition to Bonekeep.

Well our high tier table is looking problematic. It's 5 martials plus one wizard, no divine casting at all. There doesn't seem to be much availability, if any, of alternative characters amongst the high tier players.

Would anyone on the low tier table be up for a swap to high tier?

This is surely a scenario that needs balanced parties.

Reposting in Discussion:

For anyone looking for it:

Here is the PFS1 additional resources document.

(I do wish that there was an easy to find link on the website - I saved this via a list a while ago).

The sanctioned modules are all listed, along with links to their chronicle sheets and special rules. This is where you find out which allow Campaign Mode - the special rules will say if they do.

Hi NotEspi

Here is the PFS1 additional resources document.

(I do wish that there was an easy to find link on the website - I saved this via a list a while ago).

The sanctioned modules are all listed, along with links to their chronicle sheets and special rules. This is where you find out which allow Campaign Mode - the special rules will say if they are.

I have a couple of queries.

I've never played the Bonekeep modules and would like to do so - but my preference would be to take the same character through all three. This isn't feasible within one PbP convention - will we retain access to the Bonekeep modules post-con? Or would we need to do 1 per convention?

Second query: I see that all the old retired scenarios are on the drop down list for registering games. They're not available to run - are they?

I'm not sure those spells were ever legal. But sometimes Nethys doesn't update as quickly as Additional Resources and Nethys has been plain wrong on occasion.

In any event, the character has to be made legal so you swap the spell for a legal choice before the character is played again. Any potions, scrolls or wands that use the spell must be sold back (full price, proportional to charges remaining if appropriate).

See pages 8-9 of the Season 10 Guide.

Since I don't have a PC in the 8-9 tier currently, I'm going for the 10-11 tier.

Enjoy the game GM :)

Hi GM, will this table be tier 8-9 as per the spreadsheet? All the other multi-table specials I've played in have a tier 7-8 and a tier 10-11.

Mystic Theurge gets a lot of stick that it doesn't deserve imho. I played one under D&D3.5e, which didn't even get any of the special abilities that the PF version gets, up to level 13. I enjoyed it immensely. I was also the only character to survive the campaign because I had a spell for every occasion.

Getting all those spells gives a ton of options in a single character. But of course it changes the character's approach to adventures compared to being a single classed full caster.

YMMV.

ETA: regarding the OP's question, avr seems to have the solution. Wiz 7 / Clr 1 + Faith Magic.

Would anyone be against high tier with 4 player adjustment? I really like the challenge so is supervillan changing to his level 7 an option for anyone?? :-D

I'd prefer to play Janus since they're 1xp off leveling up and playing up with nobody actually in tier is sometimes more than a 'challenge' :O

But there is a small possibility of Janus being invited into another game that's pending, I think I shall know within 24 hours. If that happens and if everyone wants to play up and/or switch characters I could bring Revered Master Poh, a vanara drunken sensei.

At first glance, I thought GM Erich was insinuating Janus was a "supervillain" - which, having previously seen the character in action, sounds about right.

That was a table that GGG ran I believe :) For those who have yet to be introduced to Janus, the basic concept is Green Faith "assassin": a sanctified slayer / green faith marshal inquisitor of Imbrex, Eldest of Endings, Twins and Statues.

I'm interested in dipping a toe into CORE - haven't done so yet.

I'll have to create a new 1st level PC, but I have a couple of concepts bouncing around.

Thinking of making a dwarf "wizard" - his master disappeared before he could finish his apprenticeship, and he's ANGRY about it. (Barbarian, going into Wizard then Eldritch Knight).