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Shelyn is mentioned as Zon-Kuthon's brother. She's a bit more distant with her followers these days, some think she's off trying to find a way to help him.Wait, did something happen here?
Whoops. You humanoids and your gendered language. Confusing for an inorganic crystal.
The theme bonuses are useful for qualifying for feats, heavy armor requires 13 str.Given ability score increases at every 5 levels makes this redundant, this is only really an argument if you want to get the feat early.
... In the case you give, if you don't really care for getting heavy armour until like... 10th level... Then one shouldn't see a need for this.
Not everyone's going to get much out of the theme's ability score bonus. The main draw is the suite of abilities the theme gives you.
The theme bonuses are useful for qualifying for feats, heavy armor requires 13 str.Given ability score increases at every 5 levels makes this redundant, this is only really an argument if you want to get the feat early.
... In the case you give, if you don't really care for getting heavy armour until like... 10th level... Then one shouldn't see a need for this.
Yeah. It's nice that you can get the theme bonus either in the stat where you want it for qualifying, or in your primary stat to free up more point buy.
Is Androffa mentioned at all?
Do the Pact Worlds have any kind of governing body?
Scholar:
Beginning: INT bonus, -5 DC for skill checks to recall knowledge in 1 specialized field of a science skill.
Early Career: 1/day reroll on a skill check to recall knowledge
Mid Career: Greatly reduced research times with access to sources
Late Career: 2/day recover Resolve by thinking about information related to your specialty when the GM says it could be useful
Themeless:
Beginning: a bonus to any stat.
Early: 1/day, a small bonus to any skill check
Mid: 1/day, reroll a skill check from a previously chosen skill.
Late: +1 Resolve.
... creating a single system-wide government capable of defending against...
The Pact is not a single system-wide government, but rather an association of independent worlds bound by treaty to work together and acknowledge each other's sovereignty
For those among us slowly boiling within over the idea the Theme bonus to ability score is never going to equate to a Modifier bonus, is there any way in the book to pair off the bonus without its existence being effectively nullified?
A case of the bonus being nullified (or effectively nullified) is something like how score increases every 5 levels will take one from 16 to 18, but also 17 to 18.
You just have to accept that at some point you aren't really losing anything. In either case you're spending an increase to get an 18.
With the 18 starting cap, it is a poor choice for a primary stat (as you won't be able to hit 22 (before the stat boosters)
But for a secondary stat that you don't intend to take over 18, you aren't really losing out.
So throw it on Con, raise it twice(or three times) to 18, then spend the increases elsewhere.
More importantly, though, you'll probably never take a character to level 20, so the fact that it's fairly cosmetic really doesn't matter at all.
How easy is it to get extra arms?
Easy. More so if you only need one.
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How easy is it to get extra arms?
Your character needs a strength of at least 12 (single) or 14 (dual) to use them. The item levels are 11 and 14 for single or dual arms. They do not increase the number of attacks you can make.