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How different from each other are the Longsword and the Bastard Sword compared to the playtest? If you could write their stats that would be great!
Without going into detail, several features apply the flat-footed condition on a hit (or on a crit), sometimes even until the end of your next turn.Great stuff here!
Curious on ranged rogues. Getting the flat-footed condition for ranged attacks for sneak attack were tricky at best. Has this remained the same or are there rogue tricks to help in 2e?
Going into some detail on some other options I like.
- I think my favorite way would be with fear to double your debuff fun; 4th level rogue feat Dread Striker makes anyone who is frightened flat-footed against your attacks. Pairs nicely with 1st level "You're Next" to get a reaction to intimidate every time you down a guy. Rogues have so many skills and skill feats that it's easy to afford throwing boosts into Intimidate. If you wanted to consider going Ruffian because you were going to throw points into Str for more damage with your propulsive ranged weapons, 2nd level Brutal Beating lets your crits that deal damage give the target frightened 1. Also, the skill feat Scare to Death is just amazing fun, so high levels only get better.
- Another more sneaky one is to multiclass into Wizard and use heightened invisibility at higher levels and enjoy the general benefits that some limited spellcasting gets you.
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What is/are the primary attributes of champion? Only Str or are there other options?
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What is/are the primary attributes of champion? Only Str or are there other options?
Strength. See this handy chart, which was shared in the character creation blog.
EDIT: But according to The Orb, above, the chart is wrong! Add this to day-1 errata I guess
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Kind of a loaded question but has anyone noticed a way to become immortal? As in, not die of old age. I heard they took out reincarnate and clone so far.
I choose to believe that this makes you quietly immortal. You should pair it with Verdant Metmorphosis (Leaf Order, 14) to also be a plant and get healed by spending time in a plant form in the sunlight.
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What is/are the primary attributes of champion? Only Str or are there other options?** spoiler omitted **
That is really nice to hear - I was worried for a bit, thx ^^
I am grateful for the bone earlier, but now I have grow greedy and kinda want to know the other 2 focus spells of Imperial bloodline.
And what is your favorite background and ancestry feat in the book?
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We know about the "Grab Edge" reaction for when you get pushed down a cliff or a pit trap opens under your feet.
What other general reactions are listed in the book? Anything to grab a potion tossed by a friend during their turn?
Grabbing a potion would probably require readying an interact action, which would be a 2-action activity. Whether you could drink it immediately (or would have to spend another interact action on your turn) would be up to the GM.
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How do NPCs work? Given that we no longer have Commoner, Aristocrat, Expert etc. what does an ordinary human person look like in the Bestiary? And how do we make her an expert (a sailor for instance)? Just give her Sailing Lore and Acrobatic proficiency? How are HP and other normally level-dependent attributes calculated?
And it's pretty easy to wing it when you need a check for an NPC on the fly. Pick a level. Pick a proficiency. Pick a stat bonus from 1-4. Bam, you've got a check that would stack up.
Or...just use the DC table.
Is there a way to ready a 2-action spell?
Last I heard it still takes 2 actions to ready an action.
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What is/are the primary attributes of champion? Only Str or are there other options?Strength. See this handy chart, which was shared in the character creation blog.
EDIT: But according to The Orb, above, the chart is wrong!
That chart is incorrect, and seems to still be incorrect in the actual book. Something to point out in the error thread, for sure.
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I am grateful for the bone earlier, but now I have grow greedy and kinda want to know the other 2 focus spells of Imperial bloodline.
And what is your favorite background and ancestry feat in the book?
I posted the other two Imperial bloodline focus spells for you earlier this morning, so scroll back a page or so.
Ancestry feat will probably vary wildly by build, but I'm partial to a bunch of the gnome ones, because cantrips and familiars are cool things to just throw on a random character. Humans enable some interesting builds, I like the elf speed and floating skill feats. Dwarves are probably the least interesting ancestry to me in terms of feats
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Bulk of a spellbook/formula book- 1 or L?
It depends on whether you remember to buy a writing set.
- Writing set is L and also costs 1 gp.
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TL;DR: What's the prerequisites for Monk dedication? And can a character multiclassed to monk get his unarmed and unarmored proficiencies up to expert+?
When the mountain stance feat for monks was revealed, I was dreaming about making a stoic dwarven cleric of Irori who multiclassed to monk and used this stance to ignore dex and armor. According to the transcript of all multiclass archetypes, monk dedication requires 14 strength AND dex. Can someone confirm that his is indeed the case so I might bury this concept before investing too much additional time thinking about it.
How does the propulsive trait for bows work? Is it still 1/2 str like in the playtest?
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What are the exotic weapons available?
They're called advanced weapons now.
Gnome flickmace is the best because reach with 1 hand is great for a lot of concepts.
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Readability request
Hey guys, if you're answering other people's questions, could you please use the spoiler tags? It's much harder to scroll through and find questions and identify which ones have already been answered when there are these long answers from random folks.
Readability request
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The points about spellcasting changes across the board are super valid and I didn't mean to ignore them. In my head I was thinking about how, in my opinion, it felt like the muses had a little less overall impact on the direction of your character than a lot of similar level 1 "paths," did and I was particularly curious if that was adjusted in anyway. Obviously there was no way to get that out of the question I asked so my bad. Your answer was super helpful regardless of how poorly I worded my question so I appreciate it!Did Bards get anything new or exciting? Most of what I've seen says they are pretty much unchanged.This one has an underlying issue that bugs me, and I'll talk a little about changes to how all classes work more generally.
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That wasn't intended to be a criticism of you in particular, just the general answers of "x hasn't changed much" that you and others have received that really understate how much work Paizo's team clearly did to polish things up.
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Any changes to the wizard's arcane focus? Is it still once per day for specialist and once per day and level for universalist?
Any interesting feats (other than the focus regenerating one that was already spoiled) that interact with it?
Linked Focus lets you regain focus once per day when you use Drain Bonded Item to cast a school spell.
Bonded Focus lets you regain more focus while refocusing so long as you have your bonded item on hand.
Superior Bond gives you an extra use of Drain Bonded Item, but only for a spell 2 levels lower than your highest.
Since it seems there are quite a few helpful question-answerers in this thread right now, The Orb will take this time to compose a longer post of interesting tidbits. Stay tuned!
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What does the rogue feat Scared to death do?
Not a rogue feat, still a skill feat (like the playtest).
For people already familiar with it, it works basically the same as in the playtest, except if you critically succeed on the check and then the target critically succeeds on the fortitude save to not die, they actually completely cancel the frightened/fleeing effect.
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TL;DR: What's the prerequisites for Monk dedication? And can a character multiclassed to monk get his unarmed and unarmored proficiencies up to expert+?
When the mountain stance feat for monks was revealed, I was dreaming about making a stoic dwarven cleric of Irori who multiclassed to monk and used this stance to ignore dex and armor. According to the transcript of all multiclass archetypes, monk dedication requires 14 strength AND dex. Can someone confirm that his is indeed the case so I might bury this concept before investing too much additional time thinking about it.
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Do monk Ki Feats grant extra Ki/focus points as well or is there some other way to increase them?
The general rule is that you cap at 3 focus for a focus pool, but there are some ways to stretch that with limited faster refreshes. (Familiar ability can refresh one, a couple of class items like druid vestments effectively give one).
What sort of bodyguard options are there? Anything like In Harm's Way in PF1?
With multicasting and such, how many pets can one person get: familiars, mounts, animal companions, ... eidolons?
How distinctive are the different types of dragons?
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Is there anything super interesting or notable to you you'd like to share that nobody has asked about yet?
These are a little scattershot.
Ride's benefits are clear and don't conflict weirdly with other animal friend design space.
Incredible Investiture requires 16 charisma and lets you invest in two more magic items (12 instead of the normal limit of 10), which is interesting for those considering houseruling more benefits to charisma as it's the highest attribute prereq I've seen.
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No one's asked about staves, which seem viable. They have reasonable prices, the recharge mechanics are simple and solid (and slightly different in what looks like a fun way between prepared and spontaneous casters), and largely they expand your spell selection and give effectively one more top-level slot.
Wands are fun one-trick ponies to cast a single spell (once a day, or if you're desperate, a second time with a 45% chance the wand is destroyed outright) that could totally justify picking up the Trick Magic Item skill feat. A wand of smoldering fireballs lets you cast a fireball that adds persistent fire damage on a failed save.
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How are the ranger snare and favored enemy/terrain feats?
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Are Elemental Grab and Blast Just standard Damage abilities?
Also The Damage Type Shift is just for turn fire into Bludgeoning? that a bit of a bummer, thought we'd get the corresponding energy types like in pf1.
Is Storm of Vengeance pretty much the same as PF1?
Thanks guys ^_^
Yeah, they're just damage spells.
All elements but fire deal bludgeoning for the bloodline, because...that's basically what matter does when it hits you and it's not sharp.
Storm of Vengeance is a 9th level Primal spell.
A quick skim didn't show it being notably different from the 1.6 playtest version.
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Is there a way to ready a 2-action spell?
Last I heard it still takes 2 actions to ready an action.
A few more questions (including one from a different thread):
1) Wizard-available metamagic feats pretty please? :) Just a quick rundown, perhaps if they look good/not so good.
2) Barbarian animal instinct, are you still prevented from using normal weapons?
3) Any cool backgrounds? :)
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How does the propulsive trait for bows work? Is it still 1/2 str like in the playtest?
Do any wands still give item bonuses for spell attack rolls?
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Woo! Good to hear.
Probably a good thing then that Flurry Edge Rangers can't pick it up. 0/-2/-4/-4/-4/-4 is not an attack routine you want to face each turn. XDI like that we can pop off a 0/0/-6/-6 with Fighters now though.
If Sunstone Beads are still a thing though, I guess you could pull 0/-3/-6/-6/-6/-6 if you really needed to. XD
There aren't any Talismans (new name for trinkets) named Sunstone Beads. I skimmed the talismans to see if the effect of letting you start a turn with a press attack still exists with a new talisman name, and it doesn't look like it.
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Do any wands still give item bonuses for spell attack rolls?
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I am definitely going to still be using the houserule from the playtest that for 2-actions spells you can spend 3 actions to a) take the first action of the spell and then b) ready the second action.
If readying spells seems really strong, I might make it a General feat instead of a freebie, but still.
My players will riot if there is no way to ready spells at all.
How does Weapon Specialization actually work?
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TL;DR: What's the prerequisites for Monk dedication? And can a character multiclassed to monk get his unarmed and unarmored proficiencies up to expert+?
When the mountain stance feat for monks was revealed, I was dreaming about making a stoic dwarven cleric of Irori who multiclassed to monk and used this stance to ignore dex and armor. According to the transcript of all multiclass archetypes, monk dedication requires 14 strength AND dex. Can someone confirm that his is indeed the case so I might bury this concept before investing too much additional time thinking about it.
It's definitely a little lame that both strength and dex have to be 14 to qualify for Monk instead of just one or the other, especially if you end up wanting Mountain stance.
Depending on what you want to do with your cleric, may I suggest being a monk and multiclassing into cleric? It's still pretty good, and if you want to focus on the punching more, it's what I'd recommend.
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What sort of bodyguard options are there? Anything like In Harm's Way in PF1?
I'm not going to look through a bunch of stuff, but I have some experience in this arena.
My playtest party had two "paladins" (by PF2 terms). One was focused on getting extra attacks with a reach weapon ally, the other built around the shield ally (and also carrying a reach weapon because gnome flickmaces are cool). Their ability to grant damage reduction, the defender-y one providing shield blocks, all the bonus reaction attacks happening whenever someone else in the party (mostly the rogue) was attacked just wrecked stuff.
Edit: Whoops, only answered the first question. Breaking them apart now.
With multicasting and such, how many pets can one person get: familiars, mounts, animal companions, ... eidolons?
...Unless you use rituals, in which case you can get up to four minions like animated objects or undead.
Rituals are all uncommon, though, so they're not default assumptions.
Bonded animal (skill feat) doesn't stack with animal companions.
You can also just buy regular animals or something, but that's less reliable because you have to make skill checks. Should be fine for someone who mostly wants a horse for transport and not for combat.
No eidolons at present.
How distinctive are the different types of dragons?
Seriously though, mostly they have a big common set of "dragon" things like that they have breath weapons and basic jaws/claw/tail/horn melee attacks. They'll have different innate spells, and generally one or two unique abilities like using different limbs for reactions, or the green dragon's poison miasma after using their breath attack.
Were there any notable changes to weapon traits or critical specializations?
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** spoiler omitted **2) Barbarian animal instinct, are you still prevented from using normal weapons?
To clarify