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How often do you use Pathfinder inside jokes and puns in your everyday life? Do you ever get weird looks when you do so? Or do you strictly keep it to gaming friends?
In case you are unclear of my meaning:
The DC ones may get a circumstance bonus, though, by my knowledge of that universe through the cartoons as a kid.^ stuff like that.
I tend to make plenty of allusions and puns anywhere, but I tend to pick a topic that someone or everyone present will "get."
Mr. Mark Seifter,
In your estimation would taking the APG summoner and switching out the spell list for the unchained spell list and leaving pounce as a 3 point evolution be an acceptable course of action? Would you allow it at your table?
Anything's an acceptable course of action if that's what you want to do. With Unchained, it's all about tweaking to perfect things for you and your group!
Heck, I played a summoner in Linda's Council of Thieves game, and it worked out fine (for one thing, we ban summon eidolon, though; if the eidolon goes down, it's down, not just back again and again for the rest of the day), though part of that came down to RP things that limited my use of the eidolon for many levels (thought it was an imaginary friend that no one else could see, so why would my imaginary friend fight things?).
Flash and Arrow have their moments, but they also have the CW drama, sometimes too much. Agents of Shield S1 was so boring and utterly unengaging that I couldn't keep watching it. I can't even remember it that well, which is rare for me. I watched to the point where they brought back the super from episode 1 and something boring happened; I think there was a hiatus, and I didn't return. I have heard that it gets better, but I couldn't motivate myself to get to that point. The DC ones may get a circumstance bonus, though, by my knowledge of that universe through the cartoons as a kid.
I feel you on the drama. Arrow's been kind of annoying me lately.
Loving the Flash though. It's incredibly upbeat, and I've always had a soft spot for Flash anyway, so it's just fun to watch.
Agents of Shield is great if you watch like the first episode, and then the last 4-6 episodes. Maybe read a synopsis of the others, but skip watching them. There's some gems scattered here and there, but for the most part the first 2/3 of season 1 is...meh, because they were in a holding pattern until Winter Soldier came out.
Season 2 is pretty good though. Without spoiling too much, the characters of both Ward (Blandy No Personality) and Skye (grating and annoying at best) get HUGE leaps in quality as characters, and the overall quality of the show jumps as well.
For one, transferring curses can make an unexpected trap item.
I wouldn't expect anyone to ever overwrite a magic item they have on hand - this spell encourages folks to carry masterwork copies of their main gear in case they find a better enchantment than what they already have.
Not that that's a problem necessarily... I would, however, encourage you to require the caster to have Craft Magic Arms/Armor, or this spell will provide a means to bypass one significant opportunity cost (feat expense) already built into the game.
With that modification, the spell effectively sells the item and crafts the new item with the gold you would have gained (nearly) instantaneously without the need for spellcraft checks. This is still great for dungeon crawling, as the major block there has always been time.
The risk (wasting the item) is significant, which means nobody will ever use the spell on (very) expensive items unless they can guarantee success. I'd actually attempt to dial back the risk to make it more palatable -- so more people might actually accept the risk and get burned -- maybe you get targeted by a random spellblight if you fail, or you get cursed, or something.
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Meh, Mr Seifter will probably have better ideas.
And to ease my discomfort in discussing something in this thread without asking a question... I'll ask a question:
Are you satisfied/dissatisfied with the current reaction of the customer base with regard to the recent release of Pathfinder Unchained? It must be pretty interesting to see the reaction from the other side of the curtain, if you will. (Possibly difficult to answer from a Public Affairs view-point -- sorry)
I can't help but think some people really got their hopes up and are venting their disappointment, but from what I've heard it sounds like a pretty decent product.
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Are you satisfied/dissatisfied with the current reaction of the customer base with regard to the recent release of Pathfinder Unchained? It must be pretty interesting to see the reaction from the other side of the curtain, if you will. (Possibly difficult to answer from a Public Affairs view-point -- sorry)
I can't help but think some people really got their hopes up and are venting their disappointment, but from what I've heard it sounds like a pretty decent product.
Honestly, this has been a really positive reaction so far, I think.
Honestly, this has been a really positive reaction so far, I think.Are you satisfied/dissatisfied with the current reaction of the customer base with regard to the recent release of Pathfinder Unchained? It must be pretty interesting to see the reaction from the other side of the curtain, if you will. (Possibly difficult to answer from a Public Affairs view-point -- sorry)
I can't help but think some people really got their hopes up and are venting their disappointment, but from what I've heard it sounds like a pretty decent product.
And then there's Negative Nancy me over here :P
And then there's Negative Nancy me over here :PHonestly, this has been a really positive reaction so far, I think.Are you satisfied/dissatisfied with the current reaction of the customer base with regard to the recent release of Pathfinder Unchained? It must be pretty interesting to see the reaction from the other side of the curtain, if you will. (Possibly difficult to answer from a Public Affairs view-point -- sorry)
I can't help but think some people really got their hopes up and are venting their disappointment, but from what I've heard it sounds like a pretty decent product.
There will be some negative responses to everything. Even books or TV shows that I enjoy have some people who dislike them, and I dislike some very popular things too. Doesn't mean you're being a Negative Nancy at all, it's your legitimate opinion, and it doesn't affect my view that the reaction was quite positive. I even looked over some other corners of the internet that are usually pretty negative, and they weren't even being that negative. I'm only seeing a few negative responses too. Some of them (like the monk and the people who want even more out of VMC) I think will be more positive when people start working these things out, building them, and playing them (while some people want even more from VMC than is in the book, which they're welcome to adjust for their game, the amount you already get is super good already for 5 feats and there are some very strong combinations). The summoner is just a necessary thing given that it's changing to be weaker in some areas.
Could you give an example of what you mean? I would have assumed that transfering a curse from one cursed sword to a mace or vice versa would have very little affect, since either way, you end up with one cursed item, is there something I am missing? its not like you could transfer a curse from a ring to a sword or some other such exploit.
Admittedly it wont come up often, but sometimes there might be significant lore attached to say, the cursed dagger of doom, which means everyone second guesses picking up a dagger out of habit. On the other hand, anybody might be tempted to pick up the unsuspecting mace with a hidden aura (which now carries the dagger's curse). It's not the strongest example, but it might come up eventually as a new thing opened up by that spell. (Rycaut's example is good too!)
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not all that many people masterwork spares, at least in the groups I play with
This could be subject to change if people are saving the cost of their +5 weapon by carrying a spare -- it does depend on the availability of weight saving mechanics like bags of holding, carts/donkeys, or handy haversacks. I usually suspect those are available, though I admit things would be different if those aren't base assumptions.
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I think this is less of an issue, unless you are typically finding weapons with the combination of enchants that perfectly matches your preferences but on the wrong weapon type (sadistic gm)
I thought the spell presupposed a bit of sadistic GMing (giving good enchantments on an item you cant use effectively) - did I misinterpret? Why would you use this spell if not to put better enchantments on an item you want to use?
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To some extent this is true, but while crafting a magic weapon has always been half price to buying them, this is still more expensive because at the very least, you are spending 300 more of a masterwork weapon, or 150 more for a masterwork armor, and if special materials were involved the amount that using the spell costs you is even higher, though in this regard, I should probably add a caveat of requiring 2000 gold gems as an additional material component if the targeted item is made of cold iron.
The only sure price difference is half of the masterwork cost (youd usually recoup half of it by selling the original item). That cost is (in my opinion) very low for the schedule reduction you achieve.
Regardless, the comparison is close, showing that the proposed houserule isn't too far out of the realm of the possible.
And yeah, the cold iron thing would give players a way to generate cash (not that any GM would let that happen, so that in itself isn't a problem with the houserule)
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I assume you are talking about version 1 for the high risk? since a will save is much more likely to cause a failure than the caster level check, but in any case in both versions of the spell, the will save or caster level check only applies if you try to overwrite a cursed or intelligent item, so the risk can be avoided merely by not trying to overwrite cursed or intelligent items.
For both options actually, though one is easier to buff high enough to make failure moot. As it stands, the thought only applies to intelligent/cursed items... That said, I find risks in magic to be interesting, so I'd likely make the penalty apply to every attempt.
granted you can destroy a magic item with it, but so can a level one barbarian, and in most cases he will do it faster. Really curious about this one because you are not the only person who has brought this specific issue up, but why is it so special to destroy an item with magic when hitting it with a hammer does the same thing?
since you are not the only one who suggested that having the original item listed as a material component made it unclear that the original item was destroyed, do you have any suggestions for wording that would be more clear?
as for your example, it seems a little overly contrived to me, but I don't have very permissive gm's in a lot of cases, so maybe you can help me solve some hitches with that plan.
so, you first aquire a weapon with a curse bad enough to matter, sneak into a well guarded location where a powerful magic item is kept, spend ten minutes casting a spell, manage to discard the newly cursed item since it was effectively in your possesion for you to target it with this spell this should require at the very least, remove curse, then you sneak out, and hope nobody notices that the powerful magic item has a significantly different aura.Why is this better than just casting bestow curse on the king while he is sleeping? why is this better than just taking whatever cursed item in question, and giving it to the king with either the beguiling gift spell, or just as a present?
As to using the spell to remove a curse, why is that so potent, unless the specific mundane item mattered, hypothetically, you have a + 1 dagger with a curse, and a + 1 dagger with no curse, you use this spell, which destroys the non cursed item to give the cursed dagger a +1 enchantment with no curse, whats the difference from just casting remove curse and dropping the item?
In any case, thank you for your feedback, I am grateful for everyone taking the time to respond.
I'm guessing that it's different in his opinion due to the fact that make whole can fix what the hammer did, but using it as a material component means it's gone forever.
Honestly, this has been a really positive reaction so far, I think.
Is there a metric for the neigh inevitable cries of "NED OF THE WORLD! WORST THING EVER!?", like background radiation for geek umbrage?
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I am trying to come up with a spell that moves an enchantment from one item to another.
It's not a spell, but rather a magic item. Would this work for you?
Can I get your opinion on the finer points of fuse grenade timing?
So is there anything you miss about Boston, that could potentially fit in a checked bag. Also you said you got baked goods for a FAQ what did you guys get?
Hmm...The things I loved about Boston are probably bigger things than a checked bag, but I will ask Linda on that one.
As for FAQ food, we've gotten a few of them since I came here. After Boar Style, we got some pig-related food (and a vegetarian dish for me) from a local pizza place from one fan. Then, for both soundstriker and then again more recently another FAQ, a group of fans teaming up got us this white box that contained a bunch of snickedoodles, chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, blondies, and some other member of the blondie/brownie family if I recall correctly.
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Despite not being in the RPG line and thus not FAQable, freebooter has taken control from the scorpion whip! But mithral, light and stealthy, manages to grab the FAQ, leaving Light and Darkness to wait at least until we stop doing Unchained blogs before it slinks back out of the darkness. Will scorpion whip
Mithral FAQ is live!
Mithral armor: What exactly does it mean when it says mithral armor is counted as one category lighter for “other limitations?”
This means that mithral armor allows its wearer to use it when her own class features or special abilities demand her to wear lighter armor; in other words, the character wearing the armor is less limited. For example, a bard can cast spells in mithral breastplate without arcane spell failure, a barbarian can use her fast movement in mithral fullplate, a ranger can use his combat style in mithral fullplate, brawlers, swashbucklers, and gunslingers can keep their nimble bonus in mithral breastplate, rogues keep evasion in mithral breastplate, a brawler can flurry in mithral breastplate, characters without Endurance can sleep in mithral breastplate without becoming fatigued, and so on. It does not change the armor’s actual category, which means that you can still store a creature one size category larger in a hosteling mithral fullplate, and you can’t enhance a mithral breastplate with special abilities that require it to be light armor, like brawling (though you could enhance it with special abilities that require it to be medium armor), and so on.
Will scorpion whip take the FAQ next week, or will it be taking 10 on Knowledge checks, or something else? Find out next week on FAQ Friday!
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Yay! I've been wondering if that is how mithral was intended to work, glad to hear it :D
Just a request: if you do a FAQ about taking 10, please make it cover taking 10 in general and not just knowledge checks. To this day I constantly get into arguments with people who think you can't take 10 on a climb or disable device check because they say "Failing would cause something bad to happen, so you can't take 10". D:
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Double for our trouble?! Way to go Mark! Is Slashing Grace even in the top 5 of interest for the PDT? How about the bloodrager/dd interaction? Just curious if it will be anytime near the agenda, or if there's a lot of stuff in line befoe those two.
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Double for our trouble?! Way to go Mark! Is Slashing Grace even in the top 5 of interest for the PDT? How about the bloodrager/dd interaction? Just curious if it will be anytime near the agenda, or if there's a lot of stuff in line befoe those two.
Don't just thank me; Owen and I worked together to get that to happen.
@Those FAQs: I have to scroll down a while to find those, but I can see them. That said, Slashing Grace at least is a race between FAQ and the ACG errata.
I have an question about two variant rules systems. First, am I correct in thinking that "Armor as DR" makes things a little more lethal? It seems like characters will get hit more often and take small amounts of damage here and there.
Secondly, am I correct in thinking that characters can take fewer hits at higher levels with the "Wounds and Vigor" system? Also, it seems that lower level characters can take more hits.
I have an question about two variant rules systems. First, am I correct in thinking that "Armor as DR" makes things a little more lethal? It seems like characters will get hit more often and take small amounts of damage here and there.
Secondly, am I correct in thinking that characters can take fewer hits at higher levels with the "Wounds and Vigor" system? Also, it seems that lower level characters can take more hits.
Yeah, although perhaps less lethal at low levels; armor as DR also makes adamantine a god option (which should probably cost way more) and is super-bad for TWF and the like, since only one big hit will do much. Feats like Clustered Shot certainly need to be banned when using that variant, since they affect the meta too much.
For wounds and vigor, it for sure gives fewer overall hit points, and it does so pretty quickly if you have a high Con. For example, at 20 Con, you equal out at level 3.
Which of your two lottery event tables are you most excited to run for PaizoCon? Are you and Linda going to get a chance to play anything, or are you two constantly scheduled to run things?
First World Problems and Anagnorisis are pretty different, and I like them both enough that I think it's going to come down to whether I get a particularly awesome group in one of them.
Unlike Gencon, schedules are not packed to the extreme at Paizocon, so we each have two big games, three seminars, and then likely they'll add a couple of delve tables, but overall should be plenty of time to schmooze and wander around. We don't generally enter the lottery, but if there are open seats at some point, I suppose we might be able to play. Due to being hired after having my Paizocon ticket last year, I did manage to play the Special.
I have an question about two variant rules systems. First, am I correct in thinking that "Armor as DR" makes things a little more lethal? It seems like characters will get hit more often and take small amounts of damage here and there.
Secondly, am I correct in thinking that characters can take fewer hits at higher levels with the "Wounds and Vigor" system? Also, it seems that lower level characters can take more hits.
Yeah, although perhaps less lethal at low levels; armor as DR also makes adamantine a god option (which should probably cost way more) and is super-bad for TWF and the like, since only one big hit will do much. Feats like Clustered Shot certainly need to be banned when using that variant, since they affect the meta too much.
For wounds and vigor, it for sure gives fewer overall hit points, and it does so pretty quickly if you have a high Con. For example, at 20 Con, you equal out at level 3.
Well, that is some good insight there. I'm gonna try and use both (along with a bunch of other optional rules) and see how things pan out. It seems like the arc of the game will start out easier and get much harder, which intrigues me.
So, one further question. What kind of price change would you recommend on adamantine in this case?
I have an question about two variant rules systems. First, am I correct in thinking that "Armor as DR" makes things a little more lethal? It seems like characters will get hit more often and take small amounts of damage here and there.
Secondly, am I correct in thinking that characters can take fewer hits at higher levels with the "Wounds and Vigor" system? Also, it seems that lower level characters can take more hits.
Yeah, although perhaps less lethal at low levels; armor as DR also makes adamantine a god option (which should probably cost way more) and is super-bad for TWF and the like, since only one big hit will do much. Feats like Clustered Shot certainly need to be banned when using that variant, since they affect the meta too much.
For wounds and vigor, it for sure gives fewer overall hit points, and it does so pretty quickly if you have a high Con. For example, at 20 Con, you equal out at level 3.
Well, that is some good insight there. I'm gonna try and use both (along with a bunch of other optional rules) and see how things pan out. It seems like the arc of the game will start out easier and get much harder, which intrigues me.
So, one further question. What kind of price change would you recommend on adamantine in this case?
Hmm, I'm not sure. It seems like a god item in that rule system; almost any price you might request is worth paying, since it winds up giving you over +10 damage most of the time. I guess also monsters that don't have DR/magic are really screwed, since they lose all their DR to all magic weapons (aka all weapons after a few levels). One way to balance it might be to not allow bypass of armor DR by certain weapons, and keep adamantine at the same cost?
What level cohort would you say a standard ogre counts as?
Given that a stone giant is supposedly a crazily high level 18 (whaaaat?) and the ettin is 15, it's hard to predict what the official formula would say. I think 7 is "safe" and 6 is possibly OK (depends on how much of an attempt to optimize out being naturally large, and enlarge further to Huge, etc), but based on those I'm sure it would officially be more.
I would like to make a character (most likely Druid) with a Forest Drake companion. Are there options within RAW that I am overlooking to make this possible?
I also know of the Cohorts and Companions book coming out, will this shed some light on my character idea?
It should give more guidance about that sort of thing, yes. Won't give any specifics (and honestly, Designers usually have little idea what's in an upcoming Player Companion; I just happen to know about this one because I finished developing Occult Adventures early and served as a pinch-hitter editor for Cohorts and Companions).
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Huh, I just noticed that the product page mentions "Multiple new ways to gain and use cohorts, including using magical beasts to serve as animal companions, conscripting teams of low-level recruits, and using magic items as cohorts." and "Tables arranged by theme listing dozens of new monster cohorts of many different creature types, along with their effective cohort levels."
Thus, let me go ahead and confirm both of those for ya!
Mark,
Sarah and I will be going to our first PaizoCon this year. Anything we should keep in mind about event registration / the lottery / good times to get out and see some of Seattle (as this will be our first time there)?