Heh, heh. Nice.
Elves vs. Bugbears
Dwarves vs. Giants
Gnomes vs. Kobolds
How perfect, I also love the title font and colour of the cover! Fantastic stuff!
I've updated the product description and cover image to match the finished product.
Thanks, it looks great Vic!
Awesome cover!
I deeply crave this book. I've had three separate gnomes over the years, and they rank as my top three favorite PC/NPCs.
I will gladly give you every Bag of Tricks I own for an advance copy of this book. I will still offer at least three DAYS worth of pulls from my gray bag of tricks if advance copies are not permissible, forcing me to buy it on release. That's more weasels than you can shake a 10-ft pole at.
Gnomes > Halflings. Can't wait for this release, though the only thing that bothers me is their hair color. I know it's explained as fey influence, which is great and something I had always hoped for, but I don't think it should necessarily make an entire race look like the cast of a bad anime.
Inside this Pathfinder Companion, you’ll find the following:
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Map and descriptions of the major gnome settlements.I has a lair!
(walking by minding my own business...notices 4E gnome)
Me: ..."hmm?" "Oh, you're one of those 4E gnomes, right"
'gnome': "Yep. I've got a lair. Rowrr!"
Me: "Hm. What are you doing in Golarion?"
'gnome': (looks downcast) "I got lost. Hard to find current maps and not many knowledgable travelers. Points-of-light and all that."
Me: "Ahh." (nods head understandingly) "Say, I think there's a gnome settlement over that way."
'gnome': "REALLY? Is it a lair?"
Me: "Nah, it's a settlement. Gnomes are PCs around here, not monsters. That place is a little rough though, so it's kind of like a lair I guess."
'gnome': "Thanks." gnome shuffles off.
I walk away whistling to myself as the screams of the 4e gnome reach my ears and I envision the Golarion goblins that are gleefully hacking him to pieces with their dogslicers...
Me: "Lairs. What a putz."
Can't wait for this - my boyfriend & I both want to play gnome characters eventually =)
Love the cover art - this one's going to be fun to read, I can tell =)
Does anyone know if the content is going to be legal in PFSoc by mid-July (let's say, by 16th July, hint, hint)?
Version 2.2 of the Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play lists the legal material from this book, so once you get a copy of it, in either print or pdf, you can use the listed elements.
It is somewhat appropriate that I have questions about the Bewildering Koan feat on page 30.
It says, "If the creature fails its check," but I'm not sure what check they have to make. Do they have to make a Bluff check, a Knowledge check, a Sense Motive check, or something else?
It then says that the target creature "loses its next action." Does that mean it loses it's next turn, that it loses a readied action, or that it loses a move or standard action during it's turn to contemplation?
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It is somewhat appropriate that I have questions about the Bewildering Koan feat on page 30.
It says, "If the creature fails its check," but I'm not sure what check they have to make. Do they have to make a Bluff check, a Knowledge check, a Sense Motive check, or something else?
It then says that the target creature "loses its next action." Does that mean it loses it's next turn, that it loses a readied action, or that it loses a move or standard action during it's turn to contemplation?
Bluff is always an opposed check against the target's Sense Motive check.
If the target fails, it loses its next turn.
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Bluff is always an opposed check against the target's Sense Motive check. If the target fails, it loses its next turn.
Actually Sean, that isn't clear-cut. While that's what the first sentence of Bluff says, in actuality the uses are done as a check against a DC based on your opponent. For example, to feint someone, you make a check against DC 10 + foe's base attack bonus + foe's Wisdom modifier, or against a DC of 10 + foe's Sense Motive bonus. So it's not actually check vs check.
Attempting to deceive someone does seem to be opposed checks, but not everything is.
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Bluff is always an opposed check against the target's Sense Motive check. If the target fails, it loses its next turn.
Actually Sean, that isn't clear-cut. While that's what the first sentence of Bluff says, in actuality the uses are done as a check against a DC based on your opponent. For example, to feint someone, you make a check against DC 10 + foe's base attack bonus + foe's Wisdom modifier, or against a DC of 10 + foe's Sense Motive bonus. So it's not actually check vs check.
Attempting to deceive someone does seem to be opposed checks, but not everything is.
Well, the feat says "if the creature fails its check," so it's clear that the target is making a check (as opposed to its stats setting a flat DC).
Blazej's question was "what kind of check is the target making?" and the answer to that is "a Sense Motive check."
I'm not arguing that the feat isn't 100% clear (it could say "You make a Bluff check against the target's Sense Motive check"), and that disappoints me (as I developed the text and felt it was clear enough), but the logic of
"the feat says the target makes a check"
combined with
"the Bluff skill says it's either against the target's Sense Motive check or a flat number"
leads to
"therefore it has to be a Sense Motive check"
is straightforward.
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The description of teh Flickmace seems to be missing. It sounds like it could be an interesting weapon.
It got cut for space when the body text ran long, but it remains in the table like an evil, gnome ghost. IIRC it was a mace with a built-in spring, allowing you to use an action to change it from a normal mace to a reach weapon.
It is somewhat appropriate that I have questions about the Bewildering Koan feat on page 30.
It says, "If the creature fails its check," but I'm not sure what check they have to make. Do they have to make a Bluff check, a Knowledge check, a Sense Motive check, or something else?
It then says that the target creature "loses its next action." Does that mean it loses it's next turn, that it loses a readied action, or that it loses a move or standard action during it's turn to contemplation?Bluff is always an opposed check against the target's Sense Motive check.
If the target fails, it loses its next turn.
Alright, thank you. I am a tad concerned that at higher levels that the character might be able to often use it to consistently prevent enemies from acting for 10+ rounds each day. Although, honestly, it still is my favorite feat concept at the moment.
Again, thank you for the quick response to my question.
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This is probably my favourite Companion so far, I really want to play a gnome now.
It looks like the table entry for the switchscythe was removed instead of the flickmace. And speaking of the switchscythe, it seems to imply that an opponent needs to make a bluff check to notice it is not a staff, either that or a paper maché disguise makes it more difficult to hide its true nature... without a paper maché it apparently takes a DC15 bluff check (either to notice it, or hide it, I'm not entirely sure either way), and with the paper maché it takes a DC20 bluff check. Should those DCs be reversed, or should they actually be perception checks?
I realize that flavor text almost never needs any clarification, but I am totally willing to talk about it for gnomes... you know, just in case.
This will be an instant purchase.
I love Gnomes...portrayed as the fey/forest/mischieveous race they "should" be.
But if this has any "Tinker" Gnome crap in it, I'll be sad.
I HATE "Tinker" Gnomes...
I "tinkle" on "Tinker" Gnomes.
Can't wait for this release, though the only thing that bothers me is their hair color. I know it's explained as fey influence, which is great and something I had always hoped for, but I don't think it should necessarily make an entire race look like the cast of a bad anime.
I agree. The poor Pathfinder Druid iconic is Gnome...poor, poor thing. Her art doesn't fit with the other iconics.
Oh my god, this book looks like an LSD trip on the inside (or so I imagine).
I'd like everyone to know (as you didn't already) that Paizo's developers and editors rock. I was happy with my turnover, but they made it awesome.
So officially: Thanks, Paizo.
Grrr..logged on and this showed as being in my downloads..great I thought..went to my downloads and it wasn't there..went back to the product page to find it no longer showing in my downloads..Grrrrrrrr
Grrr..logged on and this showed as being in my downloads..great I thought..went to my downloads and it wasn't there..went back to the product page to find it no longer showing in my downloads..Grrrrrrrr
Gnome pranks at work!
pah..Gnomes indeed..any off the lawyers out there want to help me sue Paizo for mental cruelty..I won't want much just say..ohh 10% of the company..j/k
Nor is there a description of the flickmace.
On the map inside the back cover I would guess that the northernmost Omesta should be labeled Thom.
CJ
I'm late to this party, but, YAY! GNOMES!!!
I love the 1e/2e halfling descriptions.