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After casting the detect magic and deciding you don't like this location, you can also cast scry and set up another location for your liking.

I dunno though. taking a look at each of the existing characters, the breakdown looks like this:

Amiri Melee +2, survival +3

Ezren Arcane +2, Knowledge +2

Harsk ranged +3, fortitude +2, perception +2, Survival +2

Kyra melee +2, Fortitude +3, divine +2

Lem knowledge +3, Diplomacy +3, arcane +1, divine +1

Lini knowledge +3, Divine +1, Survival +2

Meresiel acrobatics +2, disable +2, stealth +2, perception +2

Sajan Acrobatics +2, Fortitude +2

Seelah melee +2, divine +2

Seoni diplomacy +2, arcane +2

Valeros melee +3, diplomacy +2

breaking that down, we get:
amiri, ezren, sajan, seelah, seoni, and valeros all support my line of thought;

harsk, Kyra, lem, lini (who could almost fall into "my" camp), and meresiel all support the "5 skills not +5" school of thought.

As a final point, I think it's useful to point out that should your interpretation be correct, there's little to nothing to do about a character who takes 5 different skills at +3.

All that proves is that there isn't a set rule. My character has a number of skill bonuses that falls in the normal range (2-4) and has a number of total skill bonus points that fall between the range of the normal characters (4-9).

Also, I think if a character is designed correctly, it wouldn't be broken to have 5 skills at +3. You could have a character that has lower base stats but specializes at particular things.

Can I, as Ezren, play a toxic cloud in response to revealing a monster, then play an attack spell, then reveal mirror image because I didn't defeat the monster and will take damage?

My understanding is the Toxic cloud is before the check, the attack spell is during the check, and the mirror image is a different check.

You only play a card when you activate a power on that card, not when you use it to activate another power.

Rulebook v3 p9 wrote:

Playing a card means activating that card’s power by revealing, displaying, discarding, recharging, burying, or banishing that card. Doing something with a card that does not activate that card’s power does not count as playing that card.

So Lem recharging a card for his power is not playing a card. But like motrax said, Lem revealing a weapon and discarding a blessing would be 2 cards played, so he couldn't do that.

Sweet. Thank you for the explanation.

Recharging a card is different than playing a card, correct?

Lem can reveal a weapon, play a blessing, and recharge a card (to give himself d4+3).

Armor does its job, but it's not exciting.

I also like having armor. I am not in the "armor is completely useless" camp.

Vietorn, our customer service lines are open Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm Pacific time. Current time is 11am so if you were calling 2. 5 hours ago, we were not open yet ;)

Didn't see the Pacific time. Thank you.

I agree about the customer service here at Paizo, they have been great any other time I have called.

I really want to play the 4th adventure pack.

Has anyone else had a delivery problem? my USPS tracking number says my pack 4 was delivered 9 days ago and I never actually received the item. I have called the Paizo customer service number but it keeps hanging up when I select customer service.

If someone else has had a problem of not getting a pack I would like to know what steps you took to get what you paid for. Thank you.

No worries. I love the game. Customer Service was very helpful when I called and it was easily worked out.

On 3/7/14 Vic said the second printing should be ready to ship in a couple of weeks.

Out of curiosity: Are you a new subscriber or had you been subscribing for a while?

Thank you for the link.

I recently subscribed 2 weeks ago. I received the 3rd pack and then had to call customer service because they were saying the next pack they were sending me was 5. They changed it to 4 and it listed as back order. I wasn't sure if because of the previous mixup (skipping 4) something else strange was happening with my account, or the backorder was a normal thing.

My subscription says Adventure Deck 4 is on backorder. Is there any idea on how long this Adventure Deck will be on backorder?

I am excited at the prospect of getting a pack every month.

From reading over this, it looks like you would have to be in a pretty rare situation, and also very close to death. I personally don't see the fun in that. I am sure that if I put enough thought into min-maxing each character I could find something. One of the major things I like about this game is that it is cooperative instead of antagonistic. If it wasn't cooperative I could see more players trying to do what you did and it would be boring for everyone involved.

Why do you say 5 skills? Seelah has 4. Kyra has 7. Harsk has 9.

As for 4 powers, it does look like everyone only has 4 boxes. I would drop the 2nd +2 on the Charisma power.

In a different thread a guy was talking about a Samurai he had made and I suggested a Ronin. I wanted to get other players thoughts on the build before I try him in a game.

Ronin

Skills:
Str: D6 o+1 o+2
Dex: D10 (Melee +3)(Acrobatics +1) o+1 o+2 o+3 o+4
Con: D4 o+1
Int: D6 o+1 o+2 o+3
Wis: D10 (Perception +2) (Survival +1) o+1 o+2 o+3
Char: D6 o+1 o+2

Hand Size: 4 o5 o6

Proficient with: Light armor, Weapons, o Heavy Armor

Powers:
Reveal two weapons with the "Sword" trait to add a D6 (o +1)(o +2) to a Charisma Check.
If you would discard a blessing to explore a location, instead recharge that blessing.

Card List: Favored Card : Weapon
Weapon: 5 o6 o7 o8
Spell: 0
Armor: 3 o4 o5
Item: 3 o4 o5
Ally: 0 o1
Blessing: 4 o5 o6

vietorn wrote:

I recently subscribed and received pack 3. It says the next pack to ship to me is pack 5. Why is it not shipping pack 4 to me? I would think that makes the most sense?

That is a good question. If your subscription started with pack 3, you should get pack 4 next (actually I think you should have it by now). You should contact customer service.

http://paizo.com/paizo/faq#v5748eaic9n0m

I called on the phone a few times and they answered right away, no hold time or anything. No guarantee you will get that quick of a response, but they do their best.

Thank you. I called and they fixed the problem quickly.

I recently subscribed and received pack 3. It says the next pack to ship to me is pack 5. Why is it not shipping pack 4 to me? I would think that makes the most sense?

It looks like you put a lot of work and thought into this character. I like it, but I think it could still be improved on. The main problem I see is that it is still very close to the Fighter. They have very similar powers, and almost identical card list. I would suggest looking over this website and trying to work in some virtues of a samurai.

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2008/09/14/the-bushido-code-the-eight-virtues -of-the-samurai/

I would also suggest changing some of the powers to have something to do with 2 swords.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daish%C5%8D

I believe another idea could be to change the character class to Ronin. You could drop the Allies to 0 and thus make it different than the Fighter. Here is an idea.

Ronin

Skills:
Str: D6 o+1 o+2
Dex: D12 (Melee +2)(Acrobatics +1) o+1 o+2 o+3 o+4
Con: D4 o+1
Int: D6 o+1 o+2 o+3
Wis: D8 (Perception +2) (Survival +1) o+1 o+2 o+3
Char: D6 o+1 o+2

Hand Size: 4 o5 o6

Proficient with: Light armor Weapons

Powers:
Reveal two weapons with the "Sword" trait to add a D6 (o +1)(o +2) to a Charisma Check.
If you discard a blessing to explore a location, instead recharge that blessing.

Card List: Favored Card : Weapon
Weapon: 5 o6 o7 o8
Spell: 0
Armor: 3 o4 o5
Item: 3 o4 o5 o6
Ally: 0 o1
Blessing: 4 o5

http://paizo.com/download/pathfinder/PZO6000-Rulebook.zip

Thank you.

I seem to be having a problem finding this "latest" rulebook you are referring too. Can someone please provide me a link?

I agree with Fenis. I would also add that he should have some type of ability to recharge a chard.