Venture-Lieutenant, Florida—Melbourne
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I am growing particularly fond of dazzling blade. The bonuses are highly circumstantial, but a 1st level Swift casting time spell that blinds and can be given to other party members to deliver as a Free action is just awesome.
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Cold iron arrows only cost double what normal arrows do. Buy 2000 of them and never worry about tracking ammo purchases again.
you explicitely can coat a cold iron arrow with silver weapon blanch. Do so, and if it has horns and wings, shoot it with one of those arrows.
Demon?, devils? I'm the one with the bow.
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Planar Weapon Enchant from UE:
A planar weapon is effective against all types of extradimensional beings, able to pierce their resistance to physical harm. When used to attack outsiders, a planar weapon ignores 5 points of their damage reduction.
+1 Enchant Cost
Also, as BNW said, my archer only ever buys Cold Iron Arrows. Next Level she will only buy Silver Arrows (Lanternbearer treats all weapons as cold iron at level 2).
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silver arrows do 1 point less in damage don't they?Planar Weapon Enchant from UE:
A planar weapon is effective against all types of extradimensional beings, able to pierce their resistance to physical harm. When used to attack outsiders, a planar weapon ignores 5 points of their damage reduction.
+1 Enchant Cost
Also, as BNW said, my archer only ever buys Cold Iron Arrows. Next Level she will only buy Silver Arrows (Lanternbearer treats all weapons as cold iron at level 2).
Yeah, and they cost more than buying silver blanch and applying it to arrows. You can coat 10 arrows for 5 GP for the blanch, vs. an extra 20GP to have them made of alchemical silver.
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I am growing particularly fond of dazzling blade. The bonuses are highly circumstantial, but a 1st level Swift casting time spell that blinds and can be given to other party members to deliver as a Free action is just awesome.
WOW~! That is an AWESOME spell!
I want to get Spell Blending and grab it for my Magus...
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I am also very fond of liberating command. It's a 'save someone's butt' spell that gets used almost every time I play one of my characters that can cast it.Indeed! Best of all is that it's an immediate action to cast. :)
And allows an immediate action to the recipient as well...I like to double down and cast grease first to make it a big boost for those tanks in armor and no training of Escape Artist and a hefty ACP.
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And more should...these tools should definitely be used against the well stocked adventurer.I miss when liberating command was only in Andoran, Spirits of Liberty. Made an awesome spell to see. Now it's pretty commonplace.
Hey, at least now I can have NPCs prep it.
Careful. Giving the NPCs (and by extension GMs) too many tools leads to a higher variance in encounter difficulty, especially when the GM interprets these additional options incorrectly.
/tangent
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Venture-Lieutenant, Florida—Melbourne
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What's the source for that spell please?I am growing particularly fond of dazzling blade. The bonuses are highly circumstantial, but a 1st level Swift casting time spell that blinds and can be given to other party members to deliver as a Free action is just awesome.WOW~! That is an AWESOME spell!
I want to get Spell Blending and grab it for my Magus...
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Venture-Lieutenant, Florida—Melbourne
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Unlike holy smite burst of radiance does zero damage to anyone who is not evil. Good and Neutral people are entirely unaffected barring the risk of extremely short (1d4 rounds) blindness.Fair Warning. It has been my longstanding opinion that aligment checking with Holy Smite is a deliberately evil action, and I will GM it as such, with warning.Hey, it can be a great spell to use on any of those "helpless lost and sad children" who pop up from time to time in scenarios.
"Now dearie, just close you eyes, this wont hurt a bit, it will just be a flash of light and then you will be fine...."
I still wouldn't consider temporarily blinding someone just to check their alignment a good act, unless they gave you permission first.
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I still wouldn't consider temporarily blinding someone just to check their alignment a good act, unless they gave you permission first.Unlike holy smite burst of radiance does zero damage to anyone who is not evil. Good and Neutral people are entirely unaffected barring the risk of extremely short (1d4 rounds) blindness.Fair Warning. It has been my longstanding opinion that aligment checking with Holy Smite is a deliberately evil action, and I will GM it as such, with warning.Hey, it can be a great spell to use on any of those "helpless lost and sad children" who pop up from time to time in scenarios.
"Now dearie, just close you eyes, this wont hurt a bit, it will just be a flash of light and then you will be fine...."
Then there's also the fact that if they are Evil you just murdered someone with no justification or provocation, that's a fallen Paladin right there.
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Fair Warning. It has been my longstanding opinion that aligment checking with Holy Smite is a deliberately evil action, and I will GM it as such, with warning.Hey, it can be a great spell to use on any of those "helpless lost and sad children" who pop up from time to time in scenarios.
"Now dearie, just close you eyes, this wont hurt a bit, it will just be a flash of light and then you will be fine...."
This is sort of what I'm building my Inheritor's Crusader for, so that can be done and if the person is good/fine, the weapon doesn't hit :P
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In general:
Remembering that you are part of a team.
Pick up items someone else might get some mileage out of: Tired of martials running year of the demon with no cold iron? Get a cold iron longspear and hand it to them.
If you're a monk carry a wand of mage armor. Pass it off to someone in the party to cast it.
If you are a paladin or have UMD, bless weapon is a ridiculously good wand. Even if you don't need good to get through dr, automatically confirming crits against evil things is amazing given how many of them are in between us and the loot.
So can you combine them to make Ghost Smelling Salts?
But if you used them, how would the ghost smell?
I still wouldn't consider temporarily blinding someone just to check their alignment a good act, unless they gave you permission first.I went to this one town and they had vampires. So I was colorspraying suspects to check'em out!
I have used disrupt undead as an undead checker before. If it burns a hole, kill it.
I'll just go ahead and flag Roger's passport selling post.
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In general:
Remembering that you are part of a team.
Pick up items someone else might get some mileage out of: Tired of martials running year of the demon with no cold iron? Get a cold iron longspear and hand it to them.
If you're a monk carry a wand of mage armor. Pass it off to someone in the party to cast it.
If you are a paladin or have UMD, bless weapon is a ridiculously good wand. Even if you don't need good to get through dr, automatically confirming crits against evil things is amazing given how many of them are in between us and the loot.
This!
I carry a number of utility items to lend to the unprepared: golembane amulet, various weapon blanches, etc. I'd probably carry a swarmbane clasp if I wasn't myself pretty capable of killing swarms.
Because I can generally see invisible beings, I always carry a wand of faerie fire.
If you're good aligned and have a charisma bonus, a wand of bestow grace is amazing - paladin for a minute! It's the number one reason to have a good-aligned oracle or sorcerer.
Somewhat more esoteric (ie. high level) are things which can be used by bound outsiders, like a ring of counterspells (dispel magic) - for those situations where someone wants to dispel your binding - ioun stones which grant skills (lend a crimson sphere (disable device) to an elder air elemental for an instant high-level rogue!), etc. (I used to like bracers of falcon's aim for erinyes before they were banned!)
Use that haversack!
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I've gotten more than a few people saying "really? that exists?" when I describe the Determination armor upgrade that I was wondering what other things are out there that folks just don't seem to know about but should?
Vermin Repellent at low level very useful and cheap - I've had it save characters at the expense of the vermin going after others.
I have a character with a wand of grease to hit himself to get a bonus to escape black tentacles and the like, but alchemical grease (5gp I think) gives you +5 for an hour.
Sleeves of Many Garments are great to have when you suddenly want a Swarmsuit (a non-magical DR vs swarms item). You have to be NOT using them, and choose the suit as you put them on. I once saw someone claim the sleeves to make smoked goggles as part of their wardrobe.
earplugs (3 sets for a silver - I don't calculate money below that - have an extra set for other)
A pathfinder pouch is early on for a lot of characters - I can recall many times when all the packs are searched for things, but i could hide stuff in the pouch and I don't think it detects as magic either.
Oils of Cure light wounds (to avoid pushing critters to drink and full round actions to force unconscious to drink) and potions of infernal healing are both usually on my lists. The latter is very nice for fights you know are going to be bad to auto-stabilize and heal in combat. And if you object to drinking devils blood, get an oil and smear it over yourself.
Potions of Lesser Restoration (300gp) - the spell takes 3 rounds, the potion a standard action.
Gloves of Reconnaissance are amazing (2000gp) (10 rounds of seeing through up to 15 feet of materiel - though not as useful if you don't have darkvision.
Oracles - don't forget you mnemoic vestments (5000gp) - most upper level oracles I know have several. Put a breath of life scroll in one and never use up the scroll. Not good for spell component spells like raise dead, but very useful. Sorcerers could use it too.
Potion sponge is important because some GMs rule that since that is legal it is not possible to drink a potion underwater.
Invorgate and touch of the sea are both useful "oh cr*p" potions.
the first magic item I think my characters buy is an oil of magic weapon - even for non-melee or ranged attackers, so there is one in the party when our 1st or 2nd level party runs into incorporeals or gargoyles.
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Sleeves of Many Garments are great to have when you suddenly want a Swarmsuit (a non-magical DR vs swarms item). You have to be NOT using them, and choose the suit as you put them on. I once saw someone claim the sleeves to make smoked goggles as part of their wardrobe.
This one is subject to table variation. The sleeves can become any clothing and there is an interpretation (which I agree with) that "clothing" only refers to items on the "Clothing" list, not to items on such as a Swarmsuit which is classified as "Adventuring Gear".
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Venture-Captain, California—Sacramento
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Sleeves of Many Garments are great to have when you suddenly want a Swarmsuit (a non-magical DR vs swarms item). You have to be NOT using them, and choose the suit as you put them on. I once saw someone claim the sleeves to make smoked goggles as part of their wardrobe.This one is subject to table variation. The sleeves can become any clothing and there is an interpretation (which I agree with) that "clothing" only refers to items on the "Clothing" list, not to items on such as a Swarmsuit which is classified as "Adventuring Gear".
There also are those who believe that since the item in question is an illusion (glamor) effect, then per the rules on illusion, it can change the appearance of the clothing, but cannot alter it's mechanics. So it can make your bikini look like a swarm suit, but it will still protect you like a bikini...
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Venture-Captain, Michigan—Mt. Pleasant
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I have a character with a wand of grease to hit himself to get a bonus to escape black tentacles and the like, but alchemical grease (5gp I think) gives you +5 for an hour.
And the nice thing is it gives a +5 alchemical bonus which stacks with the spell's +10 circumstance bonus. (You can also use the alchemical grease as an extra material component for the grease spell to give yourself another +1)
Per RAW the Sleeves literally transform their clothes into the desired clothing.While the description certainly states that your clothes "transform" into the other outfit (the language clearly indicates that the clothes actually change form), it's at odds not only with the way the prerequisite spell works, but also with the illusion aura the item has.
There's an active 200 post thread arguing about the Sleeves turning into the swarm suit. It might be best to argue about it there, rather than derail this thread with another argument about it.