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What would be suitable neutral or good alternatives to the Cthulhu gods for a pathfinder game?*
Dagon = Besmara
Etc.*= Will also accept outsider demigods.
Why would you want to substitute good or neutral alternatives to Lovecraftian gods for Pathfinder? That doesn't make sense.
I'd also like to chime in with the point. The Lovecraft Gods were slated as evil in Dieties and DemiGods because that's wheere their activities and those of their cultists made them fit in that nine slot straitjacket.
The Cthulu entities aren't moustachioed twirled evil schemers. They impact the way they do on us because they are fundamentally alien. The reverse mirror to them.... is us.
You can still be evil or chaotic without being a mustache twirler.
And the concept of "evil" is a human construction anyway.
And there are no instances in Lovecraft where a cultists of the old ones OR one of the monsters really went out of their way to be kind or helpful. Usually quite the opposite.
Therefore... evil and chaos are the best fits as far as alignemnt is concerned for most of his creations. There are some exceptions, of course; we made the yithians lawful neutral, for example.
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Hi James, I was wondering if you could help me with a question I posted in the rules forum (which got one reply for yes, and one for no, so I'm not 100% sure on which way I should think of it).
So here is the description of improved ki throw:
** spoiler omitted **
My question is, if you throw creature A who is adjacent to you into creature B who is also adjacent to you, can creature B end up prone adjacent to you after being pushed back by A?
Before (A is opponent A, B is opponent B and O is my character):
XAX
XOX
BXXAfter:
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XOX
ABXkind of swinging A around to hit B in a circle.
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That's a GM call. If I were your GM, I'd say no; being pushed "back" means away from you as far as I interpret it, not away from the thing you're using to push someone back.
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After what you did there I just hope there aren't any corners in your shower. The great old ones have no senses of humor when they deign to notice mere mortals. At least you stopped before Nyarlothotep or The King in Yellow. :)What would be suitable neutral or good alternatives to the Cthulhu gods for a pathfinder game?*
Dagon = Besmara
Etc.*= Will also accept outsider demigods.
Why would you want to substitute good or neutral alternatives to Lovecraftian gods for Pathfinder? That doesn't make sense.
And while Lovecraft also used Dagon in his fiction, in Pathfinder, Dagon is a demon lord (in fact, a transformed form qlippoth demon lord), not a Great Old One.
THAT SAID...
I guess...
Azathoth = Nethys, but with 0 Int and 0 Wis and 0 Cha
Yog Sothoth = Desna
Shub-Niggurath = Gozreh
Nyarlathotep = ...Okay. This broke my brain and made me feel unclean. Gonna go take an Eldritch Shower.
Sounds like this topic's got enough steam for its own thread. It's no longer asking me questions, in any event...
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But you added a house rule that created the problem. Are you allowed to create house rules as a PFS judge?
There's a difference between a house rule and a rules adjudication made at the table in order to prevent the game from grinding to a halt while folks argue rules during the game. Arguing rules during a game, especially when you have a limited amount of time to PLAY the game, is bad. PFS GMs should be able to adjudicate rules on the spot, because they are, after all, GMs.
If not... that'd be yet another reason, I guess, why I'm not a fan of this type of gaming experience.
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Desna is the best deity for summoning things from beyond.This reminds me if a question that I've had lingering in my head for quite a while... just how is Desna related to the Dark Tapestry?
I know that she tries to protect Golarion from Dark Tapestry monsters and that she is linked to the stars and such. However, I've felt that there's more to it than that, and I haven't been able to find any information on the subject.
Desna knows a lot about the Dark Tapestry... more than she typically reveals to her worshipers... but she is not HERSELF from the Dark Tapestry.
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1) If i fired with the same action both barrels with a double-barreled firearm, apply all the bonuses to each shot?
DEX bonuses, feats, vital strike etc.?
So, is Vital Strike applying to the weapon or to the ammunition? It's the weapon providing the damage dice, not the ammunition, correct?1) It's one attack, so in most cases, you'd apply those bonuses only once. In the case of Vital Strike, though... the wording is pretty clear—you only increase the weapon's damage dice. Even though you roll extra damage... shooting both barrels doesn't change the weapon's fundamental statistics, including its base damage. Thus, Vital Strike only increases the damage of one of the two bullets.
Look at the weapon tables. Ammunition doesn't do damage. The weapon does. Vital Strike therefore augments the weapon's damage.
When we list new ammo, it's more convenient for us to list variant damage it might inflict in the ammo itself, but that doesn't change the fact that ammo must be fired from the weapon before it can do its thing.
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Desna is the best deity for summoning things from beyond.It's the implied flavor of making the Lovecraftian deities good and nice and helpful that made me sad. It's like talking to a Star Wars fan and saying "Darth Vader grew up as a wacky kid that says "YIPPPEEE"."
As for Dagon... it being a Lovecraftian movie, of COURSE I've seen it! In fact, I saw it in an independent theater here in Seattle back during its release, and the director, Stuart Gordon, was there to introduce the movie and do a question & answer session afterwards. It's one of my top 5 movie experiences.
I was trying to get some of the flavor without going all of the way. I'm not trying to put Cthulhu in Leather Panta (Fan Artists Go!).
How would you compare Desna to Nodens?
She's very different from Nodens. Nodens is a real-world mythological deity from Celtic tradition. In that tradition, he's more a deity of hunting and community, and as such is a lot more like Erastil if he's like anyone at all.
Also, I'm kinda bored by Erastil (even though I invented him), and I'm NOT bored by Desna (who I also invented), and thus since I'm kinda bored by Nodens (I didn't invent him, but neither did Lovecraft), associating him more with Erastil than Desna makes sense.
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James: I asked this in the Magic Item Crafting Unresolved Questions thread, but I was hoping to get a more immediate response here as this is a current, ongoing issue in my own games.
How does one consider the variable costs of certain spells with the set costs of spell items, such as potions and scrolls?
Take animate dead (cost based on undead HD), restoration (cost based on what it cures), permanency (cost based on spell made permanent), or limited wish/wish (which can duplicate other spells, incurring their costs) for example. When making a scroll of these spells, how do the material components factor in exactly?
If I make a scroll of restoration, how much am I paying for the material component? Do I need to choose whether or not the spell can heal permanent negative levels during the crafting period, paying the appropriate costs? If so, and I pay the higher costs (1,000gp in this case to remove a permanent negative level) can the spell still heal ability damage, or can it now only heal permanent negative levels?
Same question in regards permanency.
If I make a scroll of permanency, how much am I paying for the material components? Do I need to choose then and there which spell it can make permanent, paying the appropriate costs? Or can I pay an arbitrary amount, and have the spell permanency anything under that amount?
Or are these spells an exception and their material component costs can be paid when cast, rather than when crafted?
In short, when one of my players says he wants to make a scroll of one of the above spells, how much does it end up costing him, and what are its limitations (if any) when cast? <--- Emphasized since you wanted me to be more direct with my questions.
If you must pay the appropriate cost for the appropriate effect, then why doesn't this appear to be reflected in the magic item generation rules of Ultimate Equipment or any other source? Also, when a module gives you a ring of three wishes, or a scroll of restoration, can it be used to duplicate a spell with a material component cost of more than 10,000gp or to remove a permanent negative level, respectively?
When you make a scroll of something like animate dead or other spells with variable costs, you have to include that variable cost in the calculations. If you see something like this in print, you can generally assume that it uses the MINIMUM possible value unless we specifically say otherwise, such as this: wand of animate dead (23 charges, CL 10th, 4 HD undead). A wand without all that would be assumed to be a 7th level caster (unless it was specifically a cleric wand, in which case we'd say that as well) that could only animate undead with 1 HD, since the minimum component cost is 25 gp for 1 HD. Same goes for scrolls and whatever else.
When you make the magic item, you decide how much money of the variable cost material component you want to include in the item at the time it is created.
Most wishes in a ring of three wishes don't have the higher gp cost in there, so yeah, you wouldn't be able to do something with a higher cost than 10,000 gold. Assuming you don't have a GM like me who generally ignores the wish spell guidelines and plays it more by ear.
And thanks for bolding the main question! It does help! :-)
What do you think about drawing weapons with regards to gameplay/verisimilitude?
A lot of players will tell me they already had/have there weapon out.
I assume that assuming players already have there weapons out would damage(some of) the effectiveness of the feat Quickdraw.
But assuming players always have there weapons sheathed is perhaps a little unreasonable.
Because players aren't going to always mention that they have their weapon out(although they will swear they did) it becomes the job of GM to decided this. They would have to do it seemingly arbitrary. Players might resent that.
Under protest, I just give in and let them have there weapons out. I always say I'll look into it for next session but I don't think the book goes over such a seemingly trivial matter, but it isn't trivial considering how much damage a character can do if they don't have to worry about drawing. Damage that they wouldn't normally be getting without Quickdraw.
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Desna knows a lot about the Dark Tapestry... more than she typically reveals to her worshipers... but she is not HERSELF from the Dark Tapestry.Desna is the best deity for summoning things from beyond.This reminds me if a question that I've had lingering in my head for quite a while... just how is Desna related to the Dark Tapestry?
I know that she tries to protect Golarion from Dark Tapestry monsters and that she is linked to the stars and such. However, I've felt that there's more to it than that, and I haven't been able to find any information on the subject.
Good to know ;)
Hmmm, another question if you don't mind. How did she gain this knowledge? Is it because she has traveled through the Dark Tapestry (and somehow didn't get corrupted), or is it because she has had conflicts with Dark Tapestry creatures? Or is it just knowledge she gained because of her association with the stars?
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What do you think about drawing weapons with regards to gameplay/verisimilitude?
A lot of players will tell me they already had/have there weapon out.
I assume that assuming players already have there weapons out would damage(some of) the effectiveness of the feat Quickdraw.
But assuming players always have there weapons sheathed is perhaps a little unreasonable.
Because players aren't going to always mention that they have there weapon out(although they will swear they did) it becomes the job of GM to decided this. They would have to do it seemingly arbitrary. Players might resent that.
Under protest, I just give in and let them have there weapons out. I always say I'll look into it for next session but I don't think the book goes over such a seemingly trivial matter, but it isn't trivial considering how much damage a character can do if they don't have to worry about drawing. Damage that they wouldn't normally be getting without Quickdraw.
Doesn't bother me at all. If the PCs are in a dungeon where they know things are dangerous, I generally assume they've got their weapons out and ready unless they're not a weapon-using character. Quick Draw's usefulness is more something that comes into play during ambushes outside of obviously dangerous areas, switching weapons in the middle of combat, or getting those weapons out when you're in a city or somewhere else.
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Hmmm, another question if you don't mind. How did she gain this knowledge? Is it because she has traveled through the Dark Tapestry (and somehow didn't get corrupted), or is it because she has had conflicts with Dark Tapestry creatures? Or is it just knowledge she gained because of her association with the stars?
Desna is one of the oldest gods. She only relatively recently (AKA when she discovered humanoids) took a humanoid shape as her own. What her form was before that is unknown. How she gained her knowledge of the Dark Tapestry is also unknown, but has something to do with the fact that she prefers outer space as her home (even though she also has a domain on Elysium) and that place is where the Dark Tapestry is located, and so she comes into conflict now and then with Great Old Ones and Outer Gods and the Dominion of the Black and whatever else is in the Dark Tapestry.
Doesn't bother me at all. If the PCs are in a dungeon where they know things are dangerous, I generally assume they've got their weapons out and ready unless they're not a weapon-using character. Quick Draw's usefulness is more something that comes into play during ambushes outside of obviously dangerous areas, switching weapons in the middle of combat, or getting those weapons out when you're in a city or somewhere else.
So say random Kingmaker encounters? They don't know they are in danger.
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So say random Kingmaker encounters? They don't know they are in danger.
Doesn't bother me at all. If the PCs are in a dungeon where they know things are dangerous, I generally assume they've got their weapons out and ready unless they're not a weapon-using character. Quick Draw's usefulness is more something that comes into play during ambushes outside of obviously dangerous areas, switching weapons in the middle of combat, or getting those weapons out when you're in a city or somewhere else.
Depends on the situation, but in that case, just walking through unexplored wilderness... yes, probably.
After all, soldiers on the march through hostile territory do so with their weapons out.
Zombies attack the Paizo office.
Name two gals or guys to be on your zombie survival team and why you picked them. (It never works if there's more than three!)
1)Since Desna looks like an elf with butterfly wings does that mean the first humaniod creatures she emcountered were elves or maybe fey?
2)Have you seen any of the Resident Evil movies? If so what did you think?
3)Is it true that the final cover art for the Innersea Bestiary will still have the mech-scorpion on the cover?
4)Is there any reason why you guys haven't revealed were Halflings came from? Since we got origin stories for Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs I was wondering why no them.
5)Are the Fey Lords considered gods, demigods, or a mix of both?
6)Do Catfolk have a God/Goddess? Is it a Catfolk?
7)Is there any chance we will get a hardcover book that will give us the tools to have planes, trains, automobiles, modern(and futuristic) weapons, so if you wanted a prehistoric, steampunk, space opera, or end of the world type settings?
She's very different from Nodens. Nodens is a real-world mythological deity from Celtic tradition. In that tradition, he's more a deity of hunting and community, and as such is a lot more like Erastil if he's like anyone at all.Also, I'm kinda bored by Erastil (even though I invented him), and I'm NOT bored by Desna (who I also invented), and thus since I'm kinda bored by Nodens (I didn't invent him, but neither did Lovecraft), associating him more with Erastil than Desna makes sense.
I only ask because as far as I understand Noden's in HPL Works was an elder god who was not hostile and even helped humanity from time to time. The question of comparison arose due to Desna being a helpful deity to mortals and having some kind of association with the Outer/Elder gods.
Desna is one of the oldest gods. She only relatively recently (AKA when she discovered humanoids) took a humanoid shape as her own. What her form was before that is unknown. How she gained her knowledge of the Dark Tapestry is also unknown, but has something to do with the fact that she prefers outer space as her home (even though she also has a domain on Elysium) and that place is where the Dark Tapestry is located, and so she comes into conflict now and then with Great Old Ones and Outer Gods and the Dominion of the Black and whatever else is in the Dark Tapestry.
Cool, thanks for the info! Heh, somehow I continue to find Desna to be one of the most interesting gods despite her butterfly theme. ;)
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Zombies attack the Paizo office.
Name two gals or guys to be on your zombie survival team and why you picked them. (It never works if there's more than three!)
Jeff Alvarez: He has guns and knows how to build stuff, like zombie-proof buildings.
Mike Brock: He's the closest thing we have to the Road Warrior.
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1)Since Desna looks like an elf with butterfly wings does that mean the first humaniod creatures she emcountered were elves or maybe fey?
2)Have you seen any of the Resident Evil movies? If so what did you think?
3)Is it true that the final cover art for the Innersea Bestiary will still have the mech-scorpion on the cover?
4)Is there any reason why you guys haven't revealed were Halflings came from? Since we got origin stories for Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs I was wondering why no them.
5)Are the Fey Lords considered gods, demigods, or a mix of both?
6)Do Catfolk have a God/Goddess? Is it a Catfolk?
7)Is there any chance we will get a hardcover book that will give us the tools to have planes, trains, automobiles, modern(and futuristic) weapons, so if you wanted a prehistoric, steampunk, space opera, or end of the world type settings?
1) Perhaps.
2) I've seen them all but the one that just came out. They're entertaining, but I've never seen any of them more than once.
3) Yes. Like all of our Bestiaries, it'll have a "three monster cover" with a little, middle, and big monster composition.
4) No reason. Just haven't gotten around to it yet.
5) If by "Fey Lords" you mean the Eldest... they're demigods.
6) They do, but until we do more about them (likely not gonna happen until we do a southern Garund book or something like that, which is unlikely to happen for a long while), we're not going to reveal more about the catfolk deity(s).
7) Some day, I'd love there to be something like this. Maybe not an all-inclusive in one book format though. Modern, space opera, steampunk, and post-apocalyptic are all settings that could host their own series of books. Prehistoric you can already do with rules we've scattered through existing books, I suspect.
Why would you want to substitute good or neutral alternatives to Lovecraftian gods for Pathfinder? That doesn't make sense.And while Lovecraft also used Dagon in his fiction, in Pathfinder, Dagon is a demon lord (in fact, a transformed form qlippoth demon lord), not a Great Old One.
THAT SAID...
I guess...
Azathoth = Nethys, but with 0 Int and 0 Wis and 0 Cha
Yog Sothoth = Desna
Shub-Niggurath = Gozreh
Nyarlathotep = ...Okay. This broke my brain and made me feel unclean. Gonna go take an Eldritch Shower.
Hmm... I have caused you to duck your head for fear of your sanity, I have caused you to shed tears, and now I have broken your brain and caused you to feel unclean. I don't know how I should take that. Should I feel guilty, accomplished, maybe amused?
Anyway, if one was to use one of the HPL gods which one would you recommend for a chaotic good summoner with a tentacled thing from beyond eidolon named Shela?
Also, as a (In)sanity offering to make you feel better I suggest the Spanish 2001 movie Dagon. It has cultists and fish people and should make your brain happy.
Please don't break James Jacobs.
There was a hint that Erastil wasn't necessarily a male chauvinist religion. Surely, the religion isn't against women, but it's implied by supportive material in Kingmaker that the church of Erastil places men over women. In one of the Pathfinder Chronicles book detailing the Pathfinder Society, there is a cleric of Erastil who is a woman that apparently discovered some ruins that the church wasn't always like this and in fact differed to women instead of men. Can you elaborate more on this or just leave it as a mystery?
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So, I heard that you were working on the encounters for Into The Nightmare Rift at Guiltspur, But the book's page says it's written by Richard Pett, how does that work? You mentioned that Developing was going over the book after it's been written (basically somewhere between editing and rewriting it entirely based on how well the author did initially) but according to Today's Blog it sounded more like you were creating this encounter yourself. What's happening there?
It's an action. It's not a free or a standard or a full-round or an immediate or a swift action, but it IS still an action. Since it's something you're doing.The other issue is that coms with AoO...
Is an AoO an action? I believe no.
Can this be FAQ'd, please with respect to Combat Reflexes in the surprise round?
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There was a hint that Erastil wasn't necessarily a male chauvinist religion. Surely, the religion isn't against women, but it's implied by supportive material in Kingmaker that the church of Erastil places men over women. In one of the Pathfinder Chronicles book detailing the Pathfinder Society, there is a cleric of Erastil who is a woman that apparently discovered some ruins that the church wasn't always like this and in fact differed to women instead of men. Can you elaborate more on this or just leave it as a mystery?
The fact that the god of communities has a streak of male chauvinism is kinda not something I'd really intended for Erastil... Sean added that bit in his deity article, and I suspect that if we ever revise that article, the chauvinism bit will be downplayed a lot. It's really not an appropriate trait for a lawful good god, in my opinion.
That bit about the ruined church implying that's not the case is us more or less preparing for a revision or something like that... but I don't have much more to reveal about that other than that we'll be probably edging away from that element at some point in the future for Erastil.
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So, I heard that you were working on the encounters for Into The Nightmare Rift at Guiltspur, But the book's page says it's written by Richard Pett, how does that work? You mentioned that Developing was going over the book after it's been written (basically somewhere between editing and rewriting it entirely based on how well the author did initially) but according to Today's Blog it sounded more like you were creating this encounter yourself. What's happening there?
How it works is that Rich Pett writes the adventure, but then I develop it.
A developer of an adventure takes the author's words and goes through and does several things to them:
1) Makes sure all the rules and stat blocks are working right.
2) Does an initial editing pass.
3) Rewrites as necessary. Sometimes, this rewriting is only to clean up sentences to make them read better here and there. There's usually an element of rewriting elements of EVERY adventure so that they mesh better with our world (we have a better grip on the details of Golarion than freelancers in most cases), or so that they work better with other adventures in the Adventure Path. And now and then, there's areas where the developer sees something that an author did that could be improved... or simply gets inspired to add a new encounter here and there. The process is really rather collaborative, and in some cases so much so that the development process is as much co-authoring the adventure as anything else.
In this particular case... we have some nagas that are in the Shattered Star set. When I wrote the outline, the idea was that there was going to be nagas encountered in the Kaer Maga adventure, since there are lots of nagas there. But James Sutter forgot to put any nagas into the adventure, and I forgot to add them in during development. By the time I realized that the nagas had been left out, I had already finished developing Part Four of the adventure path.
And that means the dark nagas had to go in ASAP, before the adventure path moved totally out of the level band where they'd even be appropriate to encounter. Frankly, Rich's adventure is already pretty close... but I figured out how to fit in some of them anyway in a part of the adventure. Which meant rewriting some encounters and changing some stuff.
Namely... putting dark nagas into the adventure!
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Can this be FAQ'd, please with respect to Combat Reflexes in the surprise round?It's an action. It's not a free or a standard or a full-round or an immediate or a swift action, but it IS still an action. Since it's something you're doing.The other issue is that coms with AoO...
Is an AoO an action? I believe no.
Not here. Post the question in a forum where the FAQ tag is enabled and hit it and then it'll go into the FAQ queue.
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So, I love Captain America, and would like to build a PC who fights with a shield only, but I have a few questions:
1) Is an attack with a shield always "off hand"?
2) Can I threaten with a shield, and retain it's AC, if I have improved shield bash?
3) If I have improved shield bash, can I make AoOs with a shield, and retain it's AC bonus?
4) As a one-handed weapon, can I wield a Heavy Shield with two hands for x1.5 strength to damage, and extra damage from power attack?
Isn't his shield more of a discus, though?
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In this particular case... we have some nagas that are in the Shattered Star set. When I wrote the outline, the idea was that there was going to be nagas encountered in the Kaer Maga adventure, since there are lots of nagas there. But James Sutter forgot to put any nagas into the adventure, and I forgot to add them in during development. By the time I realized that the nagas had been left out, I had already finished developing Part Four of the adventure path.
And that means the dark nagas had to go in ASAP, before the...
Does having the minis of a set decided before the AP is written make it harder to write an AP? I understand the theory behind making the PPMs support a specific AP, but is it worth it considering this won't be the last time a creature got forgotten?
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How come no eros-like outsider? A good, pretty-boy antithesis to the succubus?
Two reasons.
1) Because mythology and religion more often views sex as evil than good. And as a result, there's more evil sex monsters out there in myth than good ones, and we base a lot of our monster design on mythology.
2) Because we haven't gotten around to designing one yet. We will some day.
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So, I love Captain America, and would like to build a PC who fights with a shield only, but I have a few questions:
1) Is an attack with a shield always "off hand"?
2) Can I threaten with a shield, and retain it's AC, if I have improved shield bash?
3) If I have improved shield bash, can I make AoOs with a shield, and retain it's AC bonus?
4) As a one-handed weapon, can I wield a Heavy Shield with two hands for x1.5 strength to damage, and extra damage from power attack?
1) Not if you wield the shield as a weapon in your main hand.
2) If you can wield a shield as a martial weapon, you threaten with it for the duration of a round in which you attempt an attack with the shield.
3) Yes, if you're also doing #2 above.
4) Technically, yes... although the visual for such an attack is a little weird and awkward feeling.
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Does having the minis of a set decided before the AP is written make it harder to write an AP? I understand the theory behind making the PPMs support a specific AP, but is it worth it considering this won't be the last time a creature got forgotten?In this particular case... we have some nagas that are in the Shattered Star set. When I wrote the outline, the idea was that there was going to be nagas encountered in the Kaer Maga adventure, since there are lots of nagas there. But James Sutter forgot to put any nagas into the adventure, and I forgot to add them in during development. By the time I realized that the nagas had been left out, I had already finished developing Part Four of the adventure path.
And that means the dark nagas had to go in ASAP, before the...
It makes it significantly harder in some ways, and kind of frustrating in that we can't make minis of important NPCs that the authors invent during the actual writing of the AP, since we have to "order" the minis before the first author starts writing the first adventure.
And for all of that, the minis set is only JUST BARELY going to come out while Shattered Star is the current AP. And still-unforseen delays might make that still not work.
In my opinion... the trouble's not worth it. Far better to do sets based on established Adventure Paths or other themes.
The Eidolon's Large evolution says:
"The ability increase evolution costs twice as much (4 evolution points) when adding to the Strength or Constitution scores of a Large or Huge eidolon."
I want to know if this refers to Ability Increase evolutions taken after the eidolon get the Large evolution or also affects the Ability Increase evolutions taken before. If the second option is the right one, I like to know what happens with this previous Ability Increase evolutions you could have.
Thank you!
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What's the timeline difference for ordering a Pawn collection for an Adventure Path instead of PPMs? Does that allow more time to get things in that the writers came up with (such as the aforementioned awesome NPCs)
A pawn collection doesn't involve sculpting, painting, and a lot of other thigns. All we need for a pawn collection is the art, and as such, it's a LOT quicker to do them. It's also more or less even more impossible to do a pawn collection before the AP is done, since we won't have all the art until the last one... but since the finished products for a pawn collection take so much less time after that compared to minis... they can come out a lot more quickly.
A pawn collection isn't any more efficient at including writer-created NPCs than minis, though.
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The Eidolon's Large evolution says:
"The ability increase evolution costs twice as much (4 evolution points) when adding to the Strength or Constitution scores of a Large or Huge eidolon."
I want to know if this refers to Ability Increase evolutions taken after the eidolon get the Large evolution or also affects the Ability Increase evolutions taken before. If the second option is the right one, I like to know what happens with this previous Ability Increase evolutions you could have.
Thank you!
It's nice and confusing, isn't it?
The way I'd run it is to have getting large cost the normal cost for becoming Large, but I'd add on the extra costs for ability increase at that time as well.
AKA: If you have Ability increase, it costs more to become Large.
The Eidolon's Large evolution says:
"The ability increase evolution costs twice as much (4 evolution points) when adding to the Strength or Constitution scores of a Large or Huge eidolon."
I want to know if this refers to Ability Increase evolutions taken after the eidolon get the Large evolution or also affects the Ability Increase evolutions taken before. If the second option is the right one, I like to know what happens with this previous Ability Increase evolutions you could have.
Thank you!
It's nice and confusing, isn't it?
The way I'd run it is to have getting large cost the normal cost for becoming Large, but I'd add on the extra costs for ability increase at that time as well.
AKA: If you have Ability increase, it costs more to become Large.
I think another way of thinking is that since at every level you can change your eidolon, you are actually always adding Large at the same 'time' you are adding (or re-adding) the ability score increases.
Which part of Ultimate Campaign are you most excited for? [redacted] works as an answer.
I heard you guys brought someone very familiar with the kingdom building rules to revise them. Is it the author of the 3rd party supplement for kingdom building, Dale?
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I think another way of thinking is that since at every level you can change your eidolon, you are actually always adding Large at the same 'time' you are adding (or re-adding) the ability score increases.
Which part of Ultimate Campaign are you most excited for? [redacted] works as an answer.
I heard you guys brought someone very familiar with the kingdom building rules to revise them. Is it the author of the 3rd party supplement for kingdom building, Dale?
The parts of Ultimate Campaign I'm most eager to see are the character background creation rules, but the downtime system is gonna be fun too.
The author of the Kingdom Building rules is not Dale; it's an author we've worked with a lot before.
Fortune (Su): The witch can grant a creature within 30 feet a bit of good luck for 1 round. The target can call upon this good luck once per round, allowing him to reroll any ability check, attack roll, saving throw, or skill check, taking the better result. He must decide to use this ability before the first roll is made. At 8th level and 16th level, the duration of this hex is extended by 1 round. Once a creature has benefited from the fortune hex, it cannot benefit from it again for 24 hours. [emphasis added]
My home DM reads this last sentence with the logic that as soon as you roll twice, and take the better result, you have received benefit. Therefore hex ends, cackle provides more time in which to decide to use said benefit.
Is this correct?
How often can a witch cackle, is there a limit?
Can evil eye be extended via cackle even if save is made? (Still lasts one round)
Can Misfortune really be increased in duration indefinitely (For an entire combat)?
These are the questions that keep being debated at our table, so I am asking in hopes that we can put these hex questions to bed.
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I think another way of thinking is that since at every level you can change your eidolon, you are actually always adding Large at the same 'time' you are adding (or re-adding) the ability score increases.
Which part of Ultimate Campaign are you most excited for? [redacted] works as an answer.
I heard you guys brought someone very familiar with the kingdom building rules to revise them. Is it the author of the 3rd party supplement for kingdom building, Dale?
The parts of Ultimate Campaign I'm most eager to see are the character background creation rules, but the downtime system is gonna be fun too.
The author of the Kingdom Building rules is not Dale; it's an author we've worked with a lot before.
Is it the guy who wrote the Kingdom Building rules in Kingmaker? Who was that by the way?
Side note: Since you're on Shattered Star 5 now, what so far is your favorite module of that path?
For additional bonus points? What is your favorite module of all the APs you've published so far in Golarion?
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Is it the guy who wrote the Kingdom Building rules in Kingmaker? Who was that by the way?
Side note: Since you're on Shattered Star 5 now, what so far is your favorite module of that path?
For additional bonus points? What is your favorite module of all the APs you've published so far in Golarion?
I wrote the kingdom building rules for Kingmaker, and no, I'm not the one who's writing the revised rules for the book. We'll reveal all that soon enough. Have patience!
I don't nominate favorite adventures in an AP, since to me, that's the same as saying five of the six are my least favorite. I don't want to show favoritism to things I hire people to write. Same goes for "favorite module of them all." Sorry!
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Fortune (Su): The witch can grant a creature within 30 feet a bit of good luck for 1 round. The target can call upon this good luck once per round, allowing him to reroll any ability check, attack roll, saving throw, or skill check, taking the better result. He must decide to use this ability before the first roll is made. At 8th level and 16th level, the duration of this hex is extended by 1 round. Once a creature has benefited from the fortune hex, it cannot benefit from it again for 24 hours. [emphasis added]
My home DM reads this last sentence with the logic that as soon as you roll twice, and take the better result, you have received benefit. Therefore hex ends, cackle provides more time in which to decide to use said benefit.
Is this correct?
How often can a witch cackle, is there a limit?
Can evil eye be extended via cackle even if save is made? (Still lasts one round)
Can Misfortune really be increased in duration indefinitely (For an entire combat)?
These are the questions that keep being debated at our table, so I am asking in hopes that we can put these hex questions to bed.
Correct. No matter how long a fortune lasts, once you use it and gain a benefit from it... you have to wait 24 hours to benefit from it again. Your GM is correct.
A witch can cackle as long as she wants.
If you make the save against an evil eye, that effect lasts 1 round. Cackle won't help extend it. You'd have to activate evil eye again and hope the victim fails their save.
Misfortune, like fortune, only lasts until it's activated. Cackle can extend the period of time that passes before it activates, though.