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1)What is the Bonded Wizard and what does it get?The bonded wizard must take the item option for arcane bond. The item gains hardness and hit points as the wizard levels. They get the ability to alter the type (weapon, ring, amulet, etc.) and aura of the bonded item. They get a pool of "force points" that they can spend to duplicate the effects of mage armor, shield and spiritual weapon. They also get the ability to repair damage to their bonded item.
Huh, that sounds kind of attractive.
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3)What is the Proselyter and what does it get?
Loses heavy armor and martial weapon proficiency but gains proficiency with deity's favored weapon. They gain a list of spells that basically control emotions. Can deal nonlethal damage using sacred weapon damage. They get "conversion bonuses" for every NPC they convert to their religion. Last, they get the ability to use a major blessing to communicate with any creature that has a language.
4)What is the Dread Investigator and what does it get?
Dread Investigator gains inspiration, studied combat and studied strike at delayed levels. They gain a list of necromancy spells as extracts to effect dead bodies as the infusion discovery. Gain a bonus against death effects, negative levels and negative energy. When taking the alchemical discovery talent, they can choose from alchemical zombie, mummification, or preserve organs. They gain the undead anatomy series of extracts and can use them to mess with dying people. This is so gross. xD
5)What is the Esquire and what does it get?
They gain a cohort that has a few limitation on class selection. Whenever the cohort is adjacent to the cavalier, they gain any teamwork feats the cavalier has. The cavalier can share his challenge bonuses with the cohort. The cohort can carry your banner for you providing the same effect to everyone and double the effect for the cohort. The cohort can avenge the cavalier if he is killed or otherwise out of commission and gains the ranger's quarry ability. The capstone staggers enemies the cavalier and cohort crit on the same round.
Not needing it to sing and dance. Just wanting the animal companion so I can make use of the PFS boon.
Would this work for you? As marked by the name, it is PFS legal. It's from the book "Faith's and Philosophies". Two feats and you have an animal companion.
Any expanded options for Hag cohorts/Witch covens?
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Not needing it to sing and dance. Just wanting the animal companion so I can make use of the PFS boon.Would this work for you? As marked by the name, it is PFS legal. It's from the book "Faith's and Philosophies". Two feats and you have an animal companion.
No. It specifically states no bears.
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Any expanded options for Hag cohorts/Witch covens?
Not seeing anything specifically for witches nor any hag cohorts.
What are the New campaign-focused rules?
Unscrupulous characters can use downtime to manipulate evidence for their crimes, prepare resources or discretely recruit people for your nefarious deeds.
You can also hire people for contingency services which are like contacts, but are usually only used for one specific event prepared ahead of time such as breaking into a building, finding a creature or body in the wilderness or fighting bodyguards to get to your party. You negotiate with people for services and the DC varies by how dangerous the situation is. You can also trust hirelings with emergency funds to pay for things like spellcasting or bribes, but if their loyalty is low, they may embezzle your money!
What can you tell me about tauric eidolons? What free evolutions do they have? The basics would seem to cast at least six evolution points.
Also, are there any mechanics for gaining a cohort without also gaining followers?
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What can you tell me about tauric eidolons? What free evolutions do they have? The basics would seem to cast at least six evolution points.
Tauric eidolons start as small unless you pay 2 evolution points to make them medium. Free evolutions are claws, limbs (arms) and limbs (legs)x2.
Also, are there any mechanices for gaining a cohort without followers?
The Divine Guardian (paladin), Esquire (cavalier), and Instructor (wizard) archetypes all provide unique cohorts as class features that do not come with followers. The Recruits feat lets you gain a number of cohorts equal to half your character level, all of which must be 4 character levels below you. No "followers", but the cohorts are more like followers than cohorts so I guess it doesn't count. Finally, if you have an animal companion, you can swap it out for a magical beast cohort via Monstrous Companion feat. I think that covers all the means of gaining cohorts in the book.
Well that's weird...what's the difference between that and taking Leadership? Other than not having followers?
Well, I haven't read the book, but leadership imposes limitations (like when you have animal companions or no home base) and feeds off charisma.
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Well that's weird...what's the difference between that and taking Leadership? Other than not having followers?
The Monstrous Companion is weaker than a cohort gained through Leadership and they can gain the AC's link and share spells, evasion and devotion abilities, but only if the character level of the cohort is low enough to have 1, 3 and 6 class levels respectively.
For example, a blink dog (ECL 4) with 6 class levels would have all the animal companion abilities and only require you to have 17 druid levels. Yup. Imagine a druid sending a 9HD blink dog after a CR17 monster with an all of +10 bite and 14 AC... At least it can dimension door at will to gtfo, right?
To put it even more in perspective, a normal dog animal companion at druid level 17 has 14HD, +16 Bite and 24 AC.
That dimension door, though!
So I believe that the Instructor wizard is the only archetype which has yet to be detailed. Could we please have any spoilers for that as well?
I'm looking forward to seeing what they've got in the organization side of things. The more material to flesh out dealing with all those followers, the better. Likewise, the more ways to involve hiring people and building organizations *without* having to spend the feat, the better.
Would someone kindly explain the harmonies?
Bard teamwork feats, correct? Sounds like another use for Battle Hymn of the People's Revolt!
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So I believe that the Instructor wizard is the only archetype which has yet to be detailed. Could we please have any spoilers for that as well?
The instructor starts out with an apprentice cohort who starts as a commoner, but eventually becomes a real wizard. It still uses a Leadership score to determine how strong your cohort can be, but it's based on Int rather than Cha. When the wizard gains a bonus feat, they can choose a Teamwork feat that they share with the apprentice as long as it's nearby.
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Would someone kindly explain the harmonies?
Bard teamwork feats, correct? Sounds like another use for Battle Hymn of the People's Revolt!
Basic Harmony (teamwork) - You can use aid another to help the performance check of another with this feat. The bonus to the other's perform check increases the higher your aid roll is.
Charming Performance - You can use perform as diplomacy to improve the attitude of an NPC toward you or another person.
Compelling Harmonies (teamwork) - You can spend a round of bardic performance to increase the DC of another with the feat's performance.
Counterpoint to Inspiration (teamwork) - Increase an ally with this feat's moral bonus from their performance by performing the same song yourself.
Rouse Emotions - You can use Charming Performance on a group of people and opt to have it influence their attitude toward a well-known group or organization.
What does the alchemist construct rider archetype get/do? And what abilities does it replace?
re-posting a question I put up earlier. what does it get?
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*looks at Binding Ritual Mythic universal path ability*
*looks at WotR diabolist*
*cackles*
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What does the alchemist construct rider archetype get/do? And what abilities does it replace?re-posting a question I put up earlier. what does it get?
Construct Rider gains the ability to build their own mount based on an animal. It advances as an animal companion (gaining str/dex bonuses, natural armor, etc.) but has no constitution score and gains hit points as a construct based on HD. It also has construct immunities except mind-affecting effects because it does have a mind. The alchemist can use craft (alchemy) instead of Handle Animal for all things related to the construct. The number of extracts they can prepare is reduced. Finally, they get a few discoveries unique to the archetype that can do things like add potion tanks to the construct or use bombs to create breath weapons.
Would someone kindly explain the harmonies?
Bard teamwork feats, correct? Sounds like another use for Battle Hymn of the People's Revolt!Basic Harmony (teamwork) - You can use aid another to help the performance check of another with this feat. The bonus to the other's perform check increases the higher your aid roll is.
Charming Performance - You can use perform as diplomacy to improve the attitude of an NPC toward you or another person.
Compelling Harmonies (teamwork) - You can spend a round of bardic performance to increase the DC of another with the feat's performance.
Counterpoint to Inspiration (teamwork) - Increase an ally with this feat's moral bonus from their performance by performing the same song yourself.
Rouse Emotions - You can use Charming Performance on a group of people and opt to have it influence their attitude toward a well-known group or organization.
Thank you very much! Intriguing for bards with bardic cohorts or...a BAND!
what does the Binding Ritual Mythic universal path ability do?
Adds planar binding and related support spells to your spell book and/or spells known. Let's you spend mythic power to cast them, even if you're not a spell caster.
Can we get a list of the "dozens of new monster cohorts"?
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Can we get a list of the "dozens of new monster cohorts"?
There are a lot of them, all in sidebars and I am not going to type out each one. It is also overlapping with old material too.
The sidebars are
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How do you win the love of enthusiasts of the arts with the new rules?
Can I know something more on "Familial Cohorts"?
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Can I know something more on "Familial Cohorts"?
I don't have my copy with me, but they introduce the 'family' trait category, which unlike other traits they specifically spell out as being open to multiple selections from the same category. Beyond that, i don't recall much.
Info on Outsider cohorts would be awesome!
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Can I know something more on "Familial Cohorts"?
and then as Irnk said it talks about family traits. It also has a new shaman spirit, Ancestors
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Info on Outsider cohorts would be awesome!
Outsider cohorts are in more then one location. But I will give you the mean set from
That chapter also talks about binding outsiders.
Can I know something more on "Familial Cohorts"?** spoiler omitted **
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I rather like this idea. A lot.
But couldn't almost any undead or outsider be some sort of lost family relative turned cohort, especially if we're getting into long-gone ancestors?
Hullo, I would like some information on the Channel options! Channel Surge and such.
It also has a new shaman spirit, Ancestors
That seems....odd, how does that look to interact with the speaker for the past ?
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It also has a new shaman spirit, AncestorsThat seems....odd, how does that look to interact with the speaker for the past ?
After looking up speaker of the past (i have never made or really looked at the shaman.) It looks like they would work just fine together as one is an archetype and the other the spirit. The only thing I see that does not over lap is that the ancestors shaman spirit animal gets to speak and understand a number of bonus languages equal to the shaman's charisma bonus. I could be missing something because of me being uninformed about the shaman.
This book was a fun read. I got tons of neat character ideas from it, especially in conjunction with the Andoran Campaign Setting book. An Esquire Eagle Knight, or one of the Eagle Knight naval guys with Recruits that he picks up and drops off at various ports.
I love this book!
I like the idea of a rogue character with the Recruits Feat training his partners. Now only if they gave us a Cohort Level for Darkcreepers (since the Dark Dancer and Dark Stalker are both there), =)
One minor thing I found:
Under Unicorn, on the Heroic Cohorts Table, there is an unexplained asterisk. The table shows Cohort Level 9. whereas the Bestiary shows Cohort Level 8. Is the asterisk to show an official updated Cohort Level?
The cohort level tables raise a lot of questions for me. Mostly, how to figure out those levels - For instance, a Silvanshee is four levels higher than a harbinger archon, despite having the same CR, general role, and being accessible at the same level as an Improved Familiar instead of cohort.
Or how a bearded devil has a cohort level of 13 (requiring a 15th level character) despite being CR 5 (and being accessible via planar binding at 9th level). Outside of teleportation, its abilities are not so impressive that I'd rather have a bearded devil instead of, say, a 13th level warpriest.
Outside of teleportation, its abilities are not so impressive that I'd rather have a bearded devil instead of, say, a 13th level warpriest.
Which one is more badass though? :P
By the way, greater teleport at will is fantastic for all kind of game breaking. I can think on so many uses for that, that it wouldnt even be fair with my GM.
I should add that I realize CR is a poor proxy for power on the PCs side of the table - certain spell-like abilities (especially ones accessible at-will) are certainly justification for making the PCs wait until higher level for a cohort. As are certain defenses and whatever. The cohort level tables ave all the same problems that evaluating 'ECL' did in 3.5 - Pathfinder was wise to jettison ECL.
But looking at the silvanshee and bearded devil, the only offending abilities would appear to be the self-only teleportation. And I have no framework to evaluate if that's fair or not - or if it's merely a typo (for instance, maybe a different agathion was supposed to be cohort level 8 and was swapped at the last minute.)
"Self-only" is not exactly correct either, as you can put living creatures inside a bag of holding. They can survive for as long as they have breath, and i believe the bag has enough air for 10 minutes for a single creature.
Im not sure if i forgot any rule that prevent this, but im sure the bag is an object for all that teleportation cares about.