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Jesus Christ, get some unholy water. Unless, of course you have a devil you can drain...
At least, that would be my answer. Which is also why they put the OR in there would be my guess. :-)
Go tiefling. Cast from own body.
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The second is that since there is no price listed for devil blood then the spell qualifies for eschew materials.
What are your thoughts?
I would say eschew works, but each time you eschew this component, a small part of your soul is claimed by Hell at the time of your death. The infernal accountants have accurate records of such 'if you click here, you agree to this' small deals... :)
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I would say eschew works, but each time you eschew this component, a small part of your soul is claimed by Hell at the time of your death. The infernal accountants have accurate records of such 'if you click here, you agree to this' small deals... :)The second is that since there is no price listed for devil blood then the spell qualifies for eschew materials.
What are your thoughts?
I wouldn't doubt it.
I believe Eschew Material Components wouldn't work. Devil's blood is obviously more valuable than a single gp.
Of course, you can go all Mad Max Fury Road with a Tiefling...
Hey Mark, since I can't seem to find the ruling for it, how do you deal with clerics that have access to a subdomain of a domain the cleric normally wouldn't have access to? Like how clerics of Kostchtchie have access to the Ice subdomain, even though they don't have access to the Water domain. Do they only gain that specific power and gain half of a domain in exchange for getting one they wouldn't normally have, or would they technically get the Water domain entirely but with the Ice subdomain modifier?
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Hey Mark, since I can't seem to find the ruling for it, how do you deal with clerics that have access to a subdomain of a domain the cleric normally wouldn't have access to? Like how clerics of Kostchtchie have access to the Ice subdomain, even though they don't have access to the Water domain. Do they only gain that specific power and gain half of a domain in exchange for getting one they wouldn't normally have, or would they technically get the Water domain entirely but with the Ice subdomain modifier?
This was brought up in JJ's thread, you get the whole domain with the modifying subdomain.
The reason being is that Ice is very thematic for Kotschie to the point of it being weird if he didn't have it, whereas Water doesn't make a whole lot of sense for him.
He's not the only deity like that either.
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Crikeys Mark, did you guys just name a class "Medium"? ;-) Did you learn nothing from "level"?
Can I play a Large Medium? How about a Small Medium? Most will be Medium Mediums. If I play it pretty good, does it become a "Medium Well"? Or if I am cheerful, am I a "Happy Medium"? Snort.
Even worse, he followed the 3.5 trend of giving new classes the same names as old! It was bad enough when a multi-class Samurai (Oriental Adventures)/Samurai (Complete Warrior) decided to prestige into Master Samurai (Sword and Fist) and Dragon Samurai (Miniatures Handbook).
Now, though, a Medium (Legendary Classes: Covenant Magic) can multiclass to Medium (Occult Adventures), before having Enlarge Person cast on them to become a multiclass Large/Large!
Wouldn't that become a Large Medium/Medium?
If you have a Halfling on-the-run who took this class, would you have a...
... small Medium at large?!
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(Oh, also, I'm on pg 58, trying to catch up. Will I make it?! WHO KNOWS~! probably not today)
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* Dang it, like six posts later. Hey! I'm unique**! I'm original**! I'm hip**!
** No guarantees that I am actually any of these things.
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I highly recommend making a Medium Tacticslion. I think it's probably my favorite class right now.
Although, Psychic is also turning out to be really fun. :-)
it's about the system of checks and balances we use to ensure that nobody in the company (including me) can just make a weird (or flat-out wrong) off-the-cuff ruling and have it be official.
We remember Doli.
May he rest in peace.
This is probably really old news, and I'm probably the only person shere that doesn't know it, but... what?
I highly recommend making a Medium Tacticslion. I think it's probably my favorite class right now.
Although, Psychic is also turning out to be really fun. :-)
Probably after I'm done nerding out a bit over Mesmerist and Vigilante. :D
Thinking about it a bit, there's a lot of things I learned this GenCon, more so than last year's, due to people actually knowing who I am. The #1 thing I gained was more of an emotional/happy thing than a piece of knowledge or anything; basically I learned (in some ways reminded myself, in some ways, really saw for the first time) just how unrepresentative the messageboards are overall for indicating the overall emotional state of the fans. I talked to tons of PFS players, tons of non-PFS players, and even a bunch of non-Pathfinder players. Overall, I discovered that there were a lot of plugged-in people who actually would want to post on the messageboards but feel that the negativity pushes them away, and since I can relate to that feeling, it's a little sad that there isn't any way to foster a community that welcomes those people. But the positive/happy thing is tied to that sadness, and it is thus: people are more likely to post on the boards about what makes them upset because being upset is a much stronger psychological impetus towards going through the steps of posting something (which has a greater net effort than just talking aloud), but when you get people talking, the barrier is lower, and they are actually as a whole really happy! And that's a very happy thing for me too. This whole thing is all about making people happy, when it comes down to it.
Hi Mark! I met you last GenCon, though I don't think I introduced myself as "that Weirdo from the internet." Wanted to let you know that despite some online grumbling I am also as a whole pretty happy, and I especially appreciate your involvement in the community! I will try to express that more often.
I'll probably be playing a hydrokineticist in about a year when our next round of games starts up, and may be experimenting with a few NPCs in my current campaign. I'm really looking forwards to seeing some new stuff for them in Occult Origins and anything else you can put together in that time. After all, a lot of what...
I wanted to be clear on this: I wholly agree with Weirdo. While I don't agree with everything you guys say for my own reasons, I really respect you guys and, over-all, really like the game and what you're doing. Thank you, and please, please keep it up!
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Can you ask why the Psychic didn't get Protection (Magic Circle Against) from Evil on its spell list, or the new Thaumaturgic Circle on its spell list? It's a pretty weird oversight given that they have Planar Binding as an option, so I wonder if it was deliberate, an oversight, or an unfortunate loss due to space concerns?
Mark, how are your personal games going? Having fun? Playing, GMing, or both? Or are you too busy?
Also, do you have a current "favorite" (or maybe just "default") snack food?
(Mine is currently "freezer chicken" of various kinds by Tyson, acquired from Publix.)
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Tac, Publix is mostly a Florida thing - I don't think he's likely to have heard of its awesomeness, being from Massachusetts and now Washington.
He may never know of the glory of their subs, either, which is...just the saddest thing I think I may know Paizo employees have to deal with.
Tac, Publix is mostly a Florida thing - I don't think he's likely to have heard of its awesomeness, being from Massachusetts and now Washington.
He may never know of the glory of their subs, either, which is...just the saddest thing I think I may know Paizo employees have to deal with.
Fair enough. Fair... e... nough.
Alas, I have once again been defeated. Having arrived at the top of page 75, I have run out of time. I... need more time.
Mark, how do I l33t h4x some magical forces to get more time?
Heh.
Also, Mark, have you ever seen, Scooby Doo!: Mystery Incorporated, and if so, how much did you like it? :)
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What's your opinion about Rage and Bardic performance working together?
First line of bardic performance says it uses perform skill, but then many don't reference making a perform check, and JJ said that the line was leftover and not meant to be in. But then there's the storyteller medium that causes more issues.
Storyteller Medium
"This ability is similar in all respects to bardic performance as used by a bard of the storyteller's medium level (including interactions with feats, spells, and other abilities), and uses Perform (act), Perform (comedy), or Perform (oratory) as the storyteller's performance skill. However, a storyteller gains only the following types of bardic performance: inspire courage (2nd level), inspire competence (3rd level), inspire greatness (9th level), and inspire heroics (15th level)."
This is from an RPG line book, and says it's limited to certain perform skills, yet none of the types of performances it can do require a skill check. So why say it can only use certain skills as the performance skill if none of them need a performance skill, or are all performances using a skill and just not caring about the result, or something else?
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Mark, do you think a Mythic Path power that increased all of the fixed numeric scores for a Judgment by 3 would be ok or do you think it would be overpowered for a number of minutes equal to his tier for 1 mythic power point?
On the same mein would a path power that allowed an inquisitor to have an additional Judgment active would be a good path power?
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And now it's time for another exciting episode of FAQ Friday!
Reach increases and size increases: The description of Large or larger creatures with reach weapons says that they can strike up to double their natural reach but can’t strike at their natural reach or less. Do I calculate this doubling before or after effects that alter my reach like Lunge or longarm?
Double the base reach for a creature of your size first, then add in all the other abilities afterwards. So for instance, an ogre with the longarm spell wielding a longspear and using the Lunge feat would be able to attack creatures that were 15, 20, 25, or 30 feet away but not creatures that were 0, 5, or 10 feet away.
Thank you for the FAQ! I always enjoy FAQ Friday, but this one is particularly helpful.
Now how does this work if the ogre is using a whip instead of a longspear? ;)
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Dang it. Top of page 83 - eight more pages to "caught up" alas...
Can you explain in detail the number of melee attacks a magus with spellstrike and spell combat would get if using them together with a zeroth level touch spell?
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Mark, I was wondering if you could give a pointer as to how best to interpret a rule concerning the Brawler's Martial Training ability.
For reference:
At 1st level, a brawler counts her total brawler levels as both fighter levels and monk levels for the purpose of qualifying for feats. She also counts as both a fighter and a monk for feats and magic items that have different effects based on whether the character has levels in those classes (such as Stunning Fist and a monk's robe). This ability does not automatically grant feats normally granted to fighters and monks based on class level, namely Stunning Fist.
I embolded the key issue that I and others are having with this. The debate stems from how to interpret "counts as". Does this mean that Brawler levels in these conditions are to be "in the place of" Fighter and Monk levels? Or are they "in addition to"?
For example, does a Brawler-2/Fighter-2 qualify for Weapon Specialization? Or how many times per day can a Brawler-4/Monk-4 perform a Stunning Fist?
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Now that you've lived there awhile. What's your favorite park in Seattle. :-)
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If this is the case shouldn't you be removing the posts that are bringing the conversation here?
It's in the form of a question.
And
It's asked politely.
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In the other thread, I mentioned early on how I believed the idea of a Brawler archetype (who gave up his AC and Unarmed Damage) dipping into Monk and wearing Robes in order to get access to certain bonuses seemed overpowered to me. But as a PFS GM, I wasn't aware of any precedent in the rules that would disallow this. This generated a number of questions for me, the key one being the stacking of levels through the text of "counts as" in the Martial Training ability.
Hence my question here. I was asking more than just what Mark thinks it should be, but also asking for a pointer in how to interpret it...meaning if there was anything in the rules that would lend itself to supporting a specific way of reading it over another.
Thanks to you, Chess Pwn, your citing of Mark's original answer to a similar question helps to show what his opinion on the matter is.
And thanks to Kazaan's mention of the Magus rule that explicitly points out stacking (where the Brawler rule does not), this seemed to be the precedent I was looking for....which also happens to agree with a Developer's viewpoint.
So unless Mark has any further comments for this, I can withdraw my question as it has been satisfactorily answered since its posting.
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Hi, Mark!
I've been thinking about playing a telekineticist in a (hopefully not too fat off) game of Mummy's Mask. What does gather power look like for a telekineticist? Maybe the strands of aether in the radius levitating or rattling all the unattended objects nearby? I'm having a harder time coming up with what it would look like for aether's elemental overflow; what do you imagine for that effect?
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Hey Mark. I was curious if double slice would allow the Unchained Rogue to get full dex to damage on his offhand weapon while Two-weapon fighting?
I've seen this questioned multiple times in threads, with about a fairly even split between people who say it does and people who say it doesn't.
If you could offer clarification I'd really appreciate it.
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Hey Mark. I was curious if double slice would allow the Unchained Rogue to get full dex to damage on his offhand weapon while Two-weapon fighting?
I've seen this questioned multiple times in threads, with about a fairly even split between people who say it does and people who say it doesn't.
If you could offer clarification I'd really appreciate it.
That was before the FAQ that came out and said that anything that increases str doesn't work for Rogue's dex. So no double slice
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That was before the FAQ that came out and said that anything that increases str doesn't work for Rogue's dex. So no double sliceHey Mark. I was curious if double slice would allow the Unchained Rogue to get full dex to damage on his offhand weapon while Two-weapon fighting?
I've seen this questioned multiple times in threads, with about a fairly even split between people who say it does and people who say it doesn't.
If you could offer clarification I'd really appreciate it.
Ah, I appear to have missed the last part of that FAQ. Well that sucks considering unchained Rogue's were looking to be the TWF masters.
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Ah, I appear to have missed the last part of that FAQ. Well that sucks considering unchained Rogue's were looking to be the TWF masters.That was before the FAQ that came out and said that anything that increases str doesn't work for Rogue's dex. So no double sliceHey Mark. I was curious if double slice would allow the Unchained Rogue to get full dex to damage on his offhand weapon while Two-weapon fighting?
I've seen this questioned multiple times in threads, with about a fairly even split between people who say it does and people who say it doesn't.
If you could offer clarification I'd really appreciate it.
They are still very much TWF masters, with or without Double Slice.
before we all take it as gospel.
As a friendly reminder, the boilerplate still holds: it shouldn't be taken as gospel at all, and shouldn't be taken as rules, unless it's the PDT account making the statement. :)
Mark, while I like the kineticist's burning infusion, especially for its bonus to attack, DCs, and caster level checks against the on-fire target, I find myself hesitant to use it at times due to still not fully understanding how exactly the target puts it out:
I assume the "Reflex negates" is to avoid getting set on fire to begin with. But if already on fire from burning infusion, does the target:
1) Start suffering taking the 1d6 on-fire damage immediately once they fail the initial saving throw? Or on its next turn like with alchemist's fire?
2) What's the actions to put out the fire? Is it a full round action (like with immolation bombs, explosive bombs, and alchemist's fire)? Is it like the like the Environment Catch on Fire rules where I think it's a free Reflex save at beginning of target's turn (if they fail, more damage) and during their turn they can get another saving throw if "rolling on the ground or smothering the fire with cloaks or the like permits the character another save with a +4 bonus" (I assume full-round action for that too)?
3) What's the DC to put out the fire? Is it like the Environment Catch on Fire rules of a flat DC 15 Reflex save to put out fires on clothing and equipment or does one use the initial saving throw DC of 10 + half kineticist level + Con modifier?
As of late I've been doing target starts takes on-fire damage on their subsequent turns (like with alchemist fire, but where it actually sticks around) and full-round action to put it out using the initial Reflex DC because I felt that DC 15 Reflex of the Environment rules was rather low and for equipment rather than actual person on fire and the actual DC used is the "avoiding set on fire DC to begin with" in general. But I'd like to be sure on the procedures and difficulties so as to not be unfairly penalizing my burning infusion victims.
