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Are there dates (years, at least) for the start of each of the Mendevian Crusades?
The pathfinder wiki page for the crusades seems to give a few of them, but not the most recent two.
Thanks very much!
No dates yet. There will be soon, though, as part of the backstory info for "Wrath of the Righteous."
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Demonskunk:
The written rules do not state you have to pay someone for pieces to make armor. They state you need to spend x amount of money equal to 1/3 of the cost of the item to be made.
With that said, a GM can hand you a treasure pile of materials with which to make armor. It has a GP value. That is all you are really asking here. This is not a reduction in material cost. It IS the material cost.
Step 1: Kill an creature.
Step 2: Make the appropriate checks to salvage its hide.
Step 3: GM assigns a value to what you salvaged. This value is what is used in step 4.
Step 4: Make the appropriate checks to turn hide into armor.Note: for realism I would make it 3 checks. A (heal?) check to skin the beast. A (craft leather) check to turn it into leather. A craft armor to turn the leather into armor.
For simplicity I would make it two checks. Heal check to skin the beast, a craft armor check to turn the skin into armor.
- Gauss
That's a good way to do things. Sort of what I do in my games when it comes up, but I use Survival checks instead of Heal checks, since skinning something seems more like a hunter's trick and less like a doctor's trick...
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1: Do classes that stack with Monk for the purpose of Flurry get full BAB during flurry ("the monk's base attack bonus from his monk class levels is equal to his monk level.")? (Unlike the next two, this is for Brother of the Seal and not CoI which is full BAB anyways)
2: Does Champion of Irori's Ki Pool that "levels in this class stack with levels in other classes that grant a ki pool" require the ki pool be "unlocked" to stack (In other words, does Monk 3 not stack for ki)
3: How is the stacking done?
a:(1/2 Monk)+(1/2 CoI)+Wis
b:((Monk+CoI)/2)+Wis (The end result differs if you have an odd level in both)
c: Monk Ki+CoI Ki.4: Does a Ki Pool have a minimum size of 1?
4b: If no, does it have a minimum size of zero?
1) Yes.
2) Yes.
3) Monk Ki + CoI Ki.
4) Minimum size of zero, since that way you can use that last point.
If you had a quality soapbox and a captive audience, what would you say?
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When Paizo releases the virtual table top on the website, will you GM or play in a game with me?I WOULD like to run or play in some games that involve folks from the boards. Not sure how I'll decide who gets into that group though... that could be tricky if more than 6 people are interested.
I think you would easily get 666 interested people.
The problem is what we should do when [insert preferred elder god] come to take his seat.
The ring of sustenance provides life sustaining nourishment eliminating the need to, I assume, eat and drink. It also refreshes the body so that it only needs 2 hours a rest in a 24 hour period. WOW! That's incredible. That's better then having a strict healthy diet.
So if you wear a ring of sustenance wouldn't it help you lose weight and/or achieve a perfect health for your lifestyle?
I did indeed design the silthilar.
Yay!
If you could put the silthilar in the Pathfinder setting, where in Golarion (and other planets) would they be?
Moving on...
What does an immortal wizard research? Spells probably won't take longer than 1 week/level each, and there're only so many true names that would make a difference for someone so high-level.
Speaking of true names, what other benefit do they provide besides easier binding?
And speaking of binding, how do you get things like the ubiquitous "permanently bound elemental?"
And speaking of bound outsiders, how does an immortal wizard keep them from attacking her when she's in thrashing distance?
Mr. James Jacobs,
Can demon lords and Horsemen make use of the Red Mantis's services or are they not god enough to contract him?
Do temporary hit points from multiple spells stack? For instance, can a Wizard cast false life for 13 hp, then have a cleric cast aid for 18 and heroes feast for 12, adding all of those together for a total of 43 temporary hit points? Or would only the highest one take effect?
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Do temporary hit points from multiple spells stack? For instance, can a Wizard cast false life for 13 hp, then have a cleric cast aid for 18 and heroes feast for 12, adding all of those together for a total of 43 temporary hit points? Or would only the highest one take effect?
I want to add something to the above question: as far as I know temporary hit point overlap and don't stack, but there are a few instances where that leave me perplexed, as an example, a wight or vampire energy drain.
To me it it seem logic to have the temporary hit point it gain from using its power stack.So, there are exceptions to the rule that temporary hit points don't stack but overlap?
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4) Minimum size of zero, since that way you can use that last point.Perhaps I should rephrase: "does a 5 wisdom Monk 3 have a Ki pool size of 1, 0 or -2"
The answer for 3 was the one I was least expecting: Does it differ from Ninja (notes ability score is added once) because the rules have different wording (though still make a vs b confusing), or you didn't realize Ninja had Ki stacking rules (I couldn't think of a way to note them without making the question confusing)?
Ah! Gotcha. Yah, a monk with a low enough Wisdom can indeed effectively have a negative ki pool. This is similar to how a low mental stat can prevent a spellcaster from casting higher level spells.
Ninja ki stacking rules are unusual and different when compared to monk ki rules.
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The ring of sustenance provides life sustaining nourishment eliminating the need to, I assume, eat and drink. It also refreshes the body so that it only needs 2 hours a rest in a 24 hour period. WOW! That's incredible. That's better then having a strict healthy diet.
So if you wear a ring of sustenance wouldn't it help you lose weight and/or achieve a perfect health for your lifestyle?
Your weight would lock in at the current weight. So don't start wearing it until you're where you wanna be!
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I did indeed design the silthilar.Yay!
If you could put the silthilar in the Pathfinder setting, where in Golarion (and other planets) would they be?
Moving on...
What does an immortal wizard research? Spells probably won't take longer than 1 week/level each, and there're only so many true names that would make a difference for someone so high-level.
Speaking of true names, what other benefit do they provide besides easier binding?
And speaking of binding, how do you get things like the ubiquitous "permanently bound elemental?"
And speaking of bound outsiders, how does an immortal wizard keep them from attacking her when she's in thrashing distance?
I'd make the silthilar into an alien race, probably from Castrovel.
Immortal wizards have plenty more to research. New and better spells. Ways to restore youth (if they didn't immortalize while young). Transmuting materials (like lead into gold). Methdos of self improvement (higher stats). Answers to fundamental questions. What is the meaning of life, and all that.
At this point, true names don't provide much more, although we talk about them a bit more, I think, in the Books of the Damned.
"Perfectly bound elementals" are usually the result of a binding spell, or if not that, GM/adventure writing fiat.
Spells. Things like walls of force, magic circles, prismatic spheres, and the like.
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Mr. James Jacobs,
Can demon lords and Horsemen make use of the Red Mantis's services or are they not god enough to contract him?
Their minions can... but the demon lords and horsemen would not do so unless they were in disguise an wanted to mess with people. They're tough enough to take care of anything the Red Mantis can do.
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Do temporary hit points from multiple spells stack? For instance, can a Wizard cast false life for 13 hp, then have a cleric cast aid for 18 and heroes feast for 12, adding all of those together for a total of 43 temporary hit points? Or would only the highest one take effect?
Nope; take the highest effect.
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Do temporary hit points from multiple spells stack? For instance, can a Wizard cast false life for 13 hp, then have a cleric cast aid for 18 and heroes feast for 12, adding all of those together for a total of 43 temporary hit points? Or would only the highest one take effect?I want to add something to the above question: as far as I know temporary hit point overlap and don't stack, but there are a few instances where that leave me perplexed, as an example, a wight or vampire energy drain.
To me it it seem logic to have the temporary hit point it gain from using its power stack.So, there are exceptions to the rule that temporary hit points don't stack but overlap?
If it seems logical to let certain sources of temporary hit points stack, that's fine. When they do stack, we're specific about it in the text; for the most part, I'd not let them stack, though.
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When Paizo releases the virtual table top on the website, will you GM or play in a game with me?I WOULD like to run or play in some games that involve folks from the boards. Not sure how I'll decide who gets into that group though... that could be tricky if more than 6 people are interested.The only for for you to pull it off would be to do so incognito. That way you'd get people who'd be interested in playing for it's own sake rather than accruing bragging rights on having played with one of the Big Boys.
Because whether you like it or not, you've got groupies.
Running it incognito would defeat the purpose.
I'll CERTAINLY run some Gamespace games for my own friends... such as my friend who's about to move to the east coast after nearly 20 years!
If I were to run a game for folks from the internets, I'd probably post the campaign's details and call for people who were interested to post a "me!" in the announcement thread. I'd keep that open call open for an hour or something, then close it and randomly pick 6 folks, then run a single session or two or three (a single adventure). Depending on how that went, I might do one again with a different random group.
We'll see how things all work out, though!
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Mr. Jacobs, what do you think of this idea for Andoran-based organization, asecret of society of Gunslingers that's one part Freemasons and one part NRA?
Also, is Assassins Creed 3 likely to be very inspirational for an Andoran-located campaign?
A secret society of gunslingers would make more sense in Alkenstar. Carrying guns anywhere else is a great way to NOT remain secret.
Assassin's Creed 3 could well be inspirational for an Arcadia-based campaign... but Andoran is a lot more developed and a lot less gun-filled.
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What is the DC for a Sangudaemon's contagious gore?
Also can you give anymore information on urdefaden society and culture?
The Sangudaemon's contagious gore DC is 20. In a case like this, you can always use the formula of DC = 10 + 1/2 the creature's HD + the creature's ability score on which the attack is based. In this case: 10 + 6 +4, for DC 20.
And the urdefhans have been a part of my homebrew world for decades. I think I first made them up back in 1989 or thereabouts. So... yeah, I've got a LOT of stuff I could talk about them... too much to unleash here in a messageboard post, alas.
Awesome thank you so much for the quick posting. As for the urdefaden I would love to hear more about them somewhere what little we got on them in horsemen was just not enough and to me they seem to be one of those unique pathfinder races that is begging for some in depth writing on like an ecology of article at least.
Now other question, when I read over them in bestiary 3 and into the darklands the urdefaden seemed to me a lot like the reavers from firefly, these terrifying monsters from the darkness that you hope kill you first rather then let you live, I was wondering if that was a fairly accurate assumption to play off of when designing adventures around them?
If some other type of Gremlin absolutely had to, with no way not to, save either a pugwampi or a mite, which would it save?
Or I guess, which do other gremlins hate more? Pugwampis or mites?
1.) It is my understanding that in Golarion driders breed true. In your view, does this mean live birth or eggs?
2.) Have you watched the H.P Lovecraft Historical Society productions of Call of Cthulhu and Whisperer in Darkness? If so, how did you like each of them?
Also, I just wanted to thank you for all of the work that you've put into this community, both for the fantastic products that you've worked on and the great interaction here on the board.
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Mr. Jacobs, what do you think of this idea for Andoran-based organization, asecret of society of Gunslingers that's one part Freemasons and one part NRA?
Also, is Assassins Creed 3 likely to be very inspirational for an Andoran-located campaign?
A secret society of gunslingers would make more sense in Alkenstar. Carrying guns anywhere else is a great way to NOT remain secret.
Assassin's Creed 3 could well be inspirational for an Arcadia-based campaign... but Andoran is a lot more developed and a lot less gun-filled.
Is Arcadia gun-filled? O.o
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If you had a quality soapbox and a captive audience, what would you say?What WOULDN'T I say?
What the APs for 2014 are. Or when the Numeria stuff is coming out, would be my guess.
Also, how Aroden died, which AP is really his "favorite" one, and the answer to life, the universe and everything.
The answer to life, the universe and everything is 42.
That's what they want you to think.
The cake is a lie. Arr...
I'd make the silthilar into an alien race, probably from Castrovel.
I figured they'd end up on that planet, it just makes so much sense.
Immortal wizards have plenty more to research. New and better spells.
Even after 1,000+ years?
Transmuting materials (like lead into gold).
Or simply how to lower or negate the gp costs of permanent spells. Could a wizard use genie wishes to pay for the cost of permanency spells and such?
At this point, true names don't provide much more, although we talk about them a bit more, I think, in the Books of the Damned.
They don't say much more even there.
Say...would true names make the binding spell more difficult to resist?
"Perfectly bound elementals" are usually the result of a binding spell, or if not that, GM/adventure writing fiat.
That's a shame there isn't more detail, because I really want to know how to make earth elementals into construction slaves. It can't really do much in the area of a binding spell.
Or can it? How big can the confined area of a hedged prison be?
Spells. Things like walls of force, magic circles, prismatic spheres, and the like [are used to protect wizards from bound outsiders].
What if said wizard has a succubus summoned as a playmate? And what would be the point of a ceustodaemon if it can't attack intruders because it's stuck in a magic circle?
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Mr. Jacobs, what do you think of this idea for Andoran-based organization, asecret of society of Gunslingers that's one part Freemasons and one part NRA?
Also, is Assassins Creed 3 likely to be very inspirational for an Andoran-located campaign?
A secret society of gunslingers would make more sense in Alkenstar. Carrying guns anywhere else is a great way to NOT remain secret.
Assassin's Creed 3 could well be inspirational for an Arcadia-based campaign... but Andoran is a lot more developed and a lot less gun-filled.
Obviously I'm going to fine-tune it them.
Also, how's it coming on that Iconic crimes thing I suggested?
Finally, do you have any idea on when we see the backstores for Imrijka and Balazar?
It's not coming on the Iconic crimes. Played Warcraft and Call of Cthulhu instead. :-)
And the last two backstories are in the works! Hopefully soon!
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Now other question, when I read over them in bestiary 3 and into the darklands the urdefaden seemed to me a lot like the reavers from firefly, these terrifying monsters from the darkness that you hope kill you first rather then let you live, I was wondering if that was a fairly accurate assumption to play off of when designing adventures around them?
You could certainly do that, but I've always envisioned the urdefhans as a lot more intelligent and cultured than the reavers. That doesn't mean they're nicer, of course!
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1.) It is my understanding that in Golarion driders breed true. In your view, does this mean live birth or eggs?
2.) Have you watched the H.P Lovecraft Historical Society productions of Call of Cthulhu and Whisperer in Darkness? If so, how did you like each of them?
Also, I just wanted to thank you for all of the work that you've put into this community, both for the fantastic products that you've worked on and the great interaction here on the board.
1) Eggs.
2) They're both the best two adaptations of Lovecraft to film I've ever seen.
And thanks! :-)
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Bestiary 1
Whirlwind (Su)
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Creatures one or more size categories smaller than the whirlwind might take damage when caught in the whirlwind (generally damage equal to the monster's slam attack for a creature of its size) and may be lifted into the air.
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Bestiary 2
Whirlwind (Su)
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A creature that comes in contact with the whirlwind must succeed on a Reflex save (DC 10 + 1/2 the monster’s HD + the monster’s Strength modifier) or take damage as if it were hit by the whirlwind creature’s slam attack. It must also succeed on a second Reflex save or be picked up bodily and held suspended in the powerful winds, automatically taking the indicated damage each round. A creature that can fly is allowed a Ref lex save each round on its turn to escape the whirlwind. The creature still takes damage that round but can leave if the save is successful.
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So apparently the size limit has been removed. It is an official change?
The PRD is still using the Bestiary 1 version, so I am a bit unsure, and the idea of a horse (to use a large creature with few HD) being "picked up bodily and held suspended in the powerful winds" of a small sized air elemental seem a bit weird.
Heya James Jacobs,
I had an idea the other night for a drow worshiper of Nocticula who prefers to worship her in male form, as Our Lord in Shadow. This normally would probably just be personal preference on the worshiper's part, seeing as how Nocticula changes form and gender so easily, but within the society of the dark elves, it could cause quite a stir for those who learn of it.
The cleric in question would likely worship her in such a way due to holding a grudge against the matriarchy. I envisioned a leader of a heresy among the drow who wages a sort of semi-secret, underground, dark crusade against the female nobility. While it may not mean much to the demons, it could be quite a blasphemy among the drow matriarchy.
Would Nocticula allow or sponsor such a heresy, considering the secret shadow war it could cause, and the assassinations, strife, chaos, seduction, conversion, and murder to follow? Or is the whole thing kind of moot, since she changes form and gender so frequently and easily? For example, would the drow in question merely be ridiculed for not knowing his demonic lore? Would such a personal preference be enough to cause a schism in her cult among the drow? With spells like commune and such, the cleric in question could eventually ask Nocticula herself, so that might throw a kink into things.
I just thought it was a kind of neat idea! How would you handle something like this in a campaign?
I don't mean to be a pest, James, but I think you overlooked my latest questions when you answered your last batch.
Why do people keep asking you rules questions when it's been made clear that you are NOT the rules guy?
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Lol probably because getting an unofficial answer from JJ is better than getting no answer at all :)
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While James isn't the "rules guy" he knows the rules and is willing to answer questions about them. What bothers me is that people will take his responses as "the Official Paizo response" as a means to end dumb internet arguments. Seriously, who cares if the Monk can't do a million damage while hopping on one foot and then dodge everything in the universe therefore taking no damage?
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Mr. James Jacob,
I am trying to figure out if additional bonuses from feats/traits or spells even grant those bonuses on overcoming Spell Resistance of creatures?
Example: Level 3 Wizard casts Magic Missile
He has Varisian Tattoo as a feat so his caster level with Evocations is +4 in total.
Is his caster level check Vs SR 1d20+3 or 1d20+4?
Thank you up in front for answering the question.
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Why do people keep asking you rules questions when it's been made clear that you are NOT the rules guy?
I hate it when people say he isn't the rules guy since he did a lot with the Core Rulebook (like bards!). It's better to say that his answers are from the perspective of a GM, not an official Paizo response. That's why I still ask him questions because I trust his judgement as a GM.
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NO one likes mites.
Thou speakst too quick sir!
Mites are one of my favorite creatures. They have googly eyes and get all sorts of nifty creepy crawly critters. I even ran a mite centric campaign (complete with mite based players guide). I want more mites! And they have their own entry and not lumped in with the gremlins.