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Greetings all,
Both as a DM and as a player, I've seen characters encounter sticky situations in Pathfinder Society in which they had no deal with the problem at hand. In order to combat that in my own games, I usually set aside around 10% of the gold my characters earn in order to buy (fairly cheap) solutions to deal with most situations that might come up, and to ensure that I'm not left feeling helpless and useless.
Today I share that list with you. Hopefully it serves you as well as it has me. If you have any other situations that come up fairly often in Pathfinder Society and cannot simply be fixed with "hit it with that sword a lot", or additional cheap counters to any of the situations in the list, please comment on the document or on here and I'll try to add them to the list post-haste!
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I am not sure potion of remove sickness works on nausated as you cannot take a standard action. It does work vs sickness. I do have a character with a wand of remove sickness. I do not know if this spell has a lot of exposure but a scroll of climbing beanstalk has a dc of 5 and makes an instant ladder easily if someone can cast it off druid or witch spell list.
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I am not sure potion of remove sickness works on nausated as you cannot take a standard action.
I was thinking more that you would have it, and someone would administer it to you if you became nauseated.
For energy damage a riffle scroll of communal resist is spell level 4 and therefore caster level 7 giving you resist 20.
Isn't that level 3 since it appears on the wizard spell list at that level? And I think you can only create consumables of the lowest possible level?
EDIT: Ah, riffle scroll. Smart way of getting past that level floor! I had never thought of that!
Potions of Life Bubble are also not legal as the lowest level from the cleric/wizard/druid list is 4th on the druid list.
Good catch! Changing that to a scroll.
For miss chances a wand of faerie fire has no save and helps your entire party, it does allow SR though.
Good call, adding that as well.
This is extremely useful! Thanks for sharing!
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Riffle Scrolls are different because they are Silent, thus adding 1 to the effective Spell level of the scroll. This affects the minimum caster level.
For incorporeal enemies I carry Oil of Bless Weapon.
Yep, I was a bit slow on the uptake and only realized that afterwards.
How does Oil of Bless Weapon help with incorps? I've got it under DR, but I'm not sure how it interacts with incorporeal enemies...
This is extremely useful! Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure :-)
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bless weapon. Weapon counts as having an enhsncement bonus for purposes of bypassing DR and striking evil incorporeals.
*ninja'd by supervillan*
Well, I was going to say something about the FAQ but it looks like the text of the spell is even more clear.
Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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You got a couple of inventive ideas on there, but you seem to like potions too much for status removal. Remember that drawing a potion takes a move action (provokes), and that there aren't actually rules for feeding a potion to a nauseated person. You can feed potions to helpless people, but nauseated isn't quite helpless enough; just bad enough not to drink it himself.
So consider using scrolls for a lot of these instead. You can cast a spell from a scroll, then move to the party member needing help and deliver the touch. The logistics are easier, assuming you have party members that can use the scroll.
There's just a handful of really classic potions that spring to mind:
- Remove Blindness, because blind people can't read scrolls. Very much a self-help thing.
- Oil of Daylight, same reason.
- Oil of Bless Weapon, because not enough people can use the scroll. Scroll of Align Weapon has slightly better logistics but OoBW is affordable at level 1.
I consider this one of the most urgent buys because a first level character can get into real trouble with DR otherwise.
- Lesser Restoration, because casting it from a scroll/wand/memory takes 3 rounds and a potion only one.
Good for removing fatigue from mountain climbing barbarians that get into combat at the summit, and to offset ability damage in the middle of combat.
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What can I tell ya? You get what you pay for. If you want sure-fire solutions, be prepared to pay dozens of thousands of gold pieces for a single item. This is mostly for cheap stuff you can pull out at the drop of a hat. That said, if you have more suggestions for things to be added, feel free to speak up.
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I am not sure potion of remove sickness works on nausated as you cannot take a standard action.I was thinking more that you would have it, and someone would administer it to you if you became nauseated.
You can only administer potions to unconscious characters.
A character can carefully administer a potion to an unconscious creature as a full-round action, trickling the liquid down the creature's throat.
Though I would also extend this to helpless characters.
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If you would extend this to helpless characters, then I would say that a character can elect to act helpless towards another character, and thus extend it towards them as well.
That said, that's when someone is completely helpless, and can't voluntarily drink anything or force their throat muscles to work. When that isn't the case, I'd drop it down to a standard action if it were a home game.
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There's another way to apply a beneficial liquid to a patient you know...
You can only administer potions to unconscious characters.
It does not say that. It merely says that its a full round action to administer it to an unconscious patient. Whether you can and what kind of action it is to do the boxing manager in the corner thing and squirt a potion into someone's mouth is unspecified, not disallowed.
