So the idea of a "Iron Kings" AP mashup is a bit terrible then? Would any amount of GM work fix it and could a noob GM do it?
Leo Reed
Looks like Mind book has gotten some updates.
Jaxson Evans
Can I prematurely retired a character on purpose so he can help the party from a position of power?
Ethan Ward
Would Lunar Oracle's Prophetic Armor stack with Prescient Dodger?
Adrian Morris
What strength score is ideal for a beach bod? I'm trying to make a total hunk and I need something that's got abs, but not too much slab.
Also, what rogue archetypes are best for a lovable scamp?
Liam Johnson
Remider that the Beach Bod isn't the strongman body
Hunter Brown
Conquering Numeria could be a thing, but it's so difficult to mash the two APs together that it's really not worth it.
Adding technology to Brevoy and the Stolen Lands is not only just as hard if not more so, it's a worse idea due to how busted the tech rules are.
Using the basic idea of a mad AI (or any other creature) starting up a cult and becoming a mythic demigod while trying to spread its influence and become a true deity is decent, and you could even add in other parts of Iron Gods' plot.
But overall, no, a noob GM couldn't do it, and shouldn't waste their time on it.
Aaron Cox
Str 20, Dex 24, Con 20. Nothing less than that can ever be counted as "ideal"
>t. Veeky Forums
William Kelly
New game when?
Nathaniel Powell
So! How was your weekend, /pfg? Do anything fun or exciting, game-related or otherwise?
Charles Martin
>rogues >having str scores >beach bods
Probably 13, because that's "higher than average" and also the minimum requirement for Power Attack/Furious Focus/etc. Grab EWP for something you can two-hand with finesse, pump Dex, and laugh as you are now the only class in the game with 1.5x dex-to damage while 2-handing.
Aaron Thompson
Thought so.
What changes could I make to Kingmaker to make it less... shit?
Mason Richardson
>literally unattainable by a human without using magic or isn't a savage technologist barbarian
Ian Jackson
We're all gonna make it brah.
Jace Williams
This is the board that calls everyone under 190 cm a manlet when that's like 85th percentile.
James Reed
My aunt who has been living with my family for a few years had a stroke. I found out this last friday when I went to visit my family. They didn't want to tell me over the phone because they thought it was important to tell me in person.
I feel really guilty about it. She was old and senile but when I left last time I told her "I'd be back in two weeks". Things came up and it turned into three weeks. So the last weekend before she had the stroke I was supposed to be there and wasn't.
She isn't conscious, she can't speak. I told her I was sorry and that I loved her. There isn't really a chance of recovery, she's almost 90. She isn't going to get better, but she's home and that's what matters. She's probably going to pass within the next two weeks since she can't eat.
It just hurts.
Hunter Flores
Damn user. I'm sorry.
Jayden Hughes
My grand uncle died a month ago. He lost conciousness and died about 2 hours before I arrived at the hospital. The reason: one of the trains were cancelled. Shit happens, I feel you.
Alexander Bell
>>When was the last time your DM gave your party a cute mascot? >DM lets me have a baby dragon I carry around >all he does is sleep
I wish...
Jonathan Collins
How would you guys feel about ripping out a few of the old magus features and turning them into arcana, while making arcana every even level or something?
Liam Fisher
I'm seriously considering starting one. There isn't much open right now that appeals to my tastes. But it would be pretty scaled back from your typical /pfg/ sort of deal.. first level, single class, core books only, 10 or 15 point buy, custom adventure not from a published module, sort of a rural 'small fish in a small pond' type of stakes at first, mostly focused on attempting to revive a failing province on the cusp of succumbing to a hundred lesser evils.
Adrian Cruz
The party realized their enemy is a 20th level Shadow Avowed and that he's actively hunting them for leaving some of their past companions to die.
Jackson Johnson
>On the other hand, though, the class is meant to have a combat focus and giving them access to that much non-combat utility and such seems to dilute the class' purpose. See I disagree. I've always thought of them as basically a built-in dual class of Fighter and Wizard. They're the guys who aren't "real" casters but they have the ability to handle themselves when it comes to blows. You could easily, in my opinion, have a magus who thought it'd be nice to be able to fight and do other things with the power of a Wizard he saw when he was a kid walking around with ten Floating Disks behind him carrying tons of gold.
Nathan Edwards
>with AoEs he can drop on himself without needing to be suicidal
>TFW a magus archetype that could exclude themselves from AoEs would make my dream of a Milani worshiping or Cult of the Dawnflower suicide bomber complete
Aaron Reyes
Reminds me of a 3.5 game I was in. The wizard took a pseudodragon familiar because he thought it'd be cool. >GM actively refused to let it ever participate in any meaningful fashion or contribute. >GM took over playing the familiar and declared that it hated him >GM decided the familiar did nothing but eat and got too fat to fly or move >Wizard effectively lost his ability to have a familiar This was the kind of GM who based half his campaign on just fucking with people because he thought it'd be funny. It took me a while to realize that he was the kind of *person* who based his *life* on doing exactly that.
Samuel Gutierrez
Magus of Peace (tm)
Tyler Sanders
What's the proper age to marry a princess/young noble?
Juan Richardson
I'd be up for that, there's not enough comfy games these days. SoP allowed or no?
Parker Rivera
We had fun with our first difficult fight and bamboozled /pfg/ at the same time.
Jackson Murphy
LaTeX
Jose Jenkins
Hmm How about a game wednesday/thursday at afternoon CEST? /pfg/ still have free people?
Angel Jenkins
Aw shit nigga, my grandfather died like, two weeks ago, so I know this pain. Looking at someone who's on their last legs is soulcrushing, but he's probably happier now.
I can still feel his hands, man. Ice cold, but he wouldn't let go. Someone just being willing to sit with him was enough to get him to crack a smile when he could stay awake.
Lucas Kelly
But why would you want to exclude yourself from the blast radius? Why wouldn't you want to feel that sensation?
John Miller
In my case, I think the GM just doesn't know what to do with it. To be honest I'm not sure what to do with it either.
Michael Lopez
Was it cancer? My own grandfather died years ago, but it was sudden as hell. He was fishing and swimming and everything, fuck he vaulted a two-meter high brick wall (used to be a military guy). Then literally a month later he was a husk who couldn't even move and another two weeks it was over.
Brody Roberts
Had a great session full of impact when Casimir went down. Looking forward to some of the IC conversations that will happen once we're in a situation where we can bunch up into a few smaller groups again.
Luke Scott
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Ryder Lewis
Go away Dorkness. You're unwanted here. No one likes you. Now go to my room and pray for forgiveness on your hands and knees.
Luis James
Repostan, since I got no responses
Tell me, how shit would I be if I wanted to play a Mystic Theurge? What is their Tier range?
Luke Cruz
>well-written characters try to leg it before they have to be in a Paizo AP >briefly pause to marvel at the merits of hobgoblin fitness program >continue running when they glance down and realize who's writing the book
Isaac Smith
>core books only Ehhhhhhh, 1pp only I could deal with, but "core books only" has too much baggage associated with it >10-15 PB instead of the comfy, middling 20 Rest in pieces any attempts to play a martial
Hudson Allen
A-at least the synopsis seems to not be involving Molthune too much?
Jayden Parker
Time period mate I'm a GMT+8 nigger
Jaxon Davis
It could work, but some of the class features are too critical to the class to not just have backed in. Spell Combat and Spellstrike, obviously. The armor proficiency, Spell Recall, and Knowledge Pool could be made into arcana, BUT I see two problems.
1) Everybody will probably want to pick them up anyway. If we're trying to encourage STR-based Magi, making armor something you have to get an arcana to use will discourage it. Aside from that, everybody wants Spell Recall.
2) Take those features away, and the Magus has nothing to trade out for archetypes.
Christopher Morris
It involves both of the warrior nations Why wouldn't it
Adam King
Because I still have more spell slots to spend, user.
Ian Rivera
If I want to use a Prester John kingdom deep in the expanse, does one exist already?
Jaxson Brooks
>Same GM insisted everyone had to have a full set of themed magic gear >Singled out one guy at random and made all his gear covered in sequins and glitter because HA HA YOU A FAG NOW >Same GM decided that the ranger's animal companion hated her >Had it transform into a balor late in the campaign >Except you know how most balors have fire? >This one had feces >Because fuck you Really, half that campaign was "NPC hates you because I think it'll be funny, fuck you."
Nathaniel Parker
I'm gonna pass. Smaller scale is fine, but I don't think 15 pb or fucking 10 is good for that at all if you want to do anything other than cast. Level 1 ain't my thing since every class feels a lot more defined by BAB and less on actual features. Core only is actual trash mate.
Justin Parker
See, the solution to the archetypes problem is to just... Convert them all to Arcana. The only thing that really needs to stay an archetype is Cha-Magus, because it becomes a spontaneous caster.
Julian Torres
You're still taking levels in full casting classes. Keep in mind that the Adept, which has shit casting from a tiny casting list is still Tier 4. So yeah, at least Tier 4. The important thing is to make it one prepared, one spontaneous caster using the same stat. Empyreal Sorcerer/Cleric is one way to do that.
Christopher Bell
Where do you guys find these awful GMs? I've never had it as bad as the stories I've read.
Liam Cooper
I should be putting up a modified Kingmaker game today or tomorrow for apps. I spent the last three days reading all the books in the AP and doing all the conversations I need for books 1 and 2. Considering recruitment would be open for a few weeks, it should leave me with enough time to finish modifying the other four books before the game actually begins.
Since people asked last time I mentioned it, the modifications I'm making to Kingmaker are all geared towards completely removing Mass Combat, replacing the campaign's lackluster BBEG/plot, and putting more focus on Brevoy's political turmoil and impending civil war.
Jordan Myers
Advice: 15-20 point buy and add SoP to nerf casters a little. As it is it's just Caster King the campaign.
Kevin Cooper
Isn't Kingmaker 100% garbage though?
Adam Parker
Oh, I know! The character's not going to primary into Strength, so it's mostly there for show.
Basically this Stat swaps, and SoP and PoW maybe would be the only things actually needing archetypes, except maybe kensai and eld. archer.
Spellstrike/combat would still be features. Spell Recall is a hard cookie though. It's really good, so leaving it in would make everyone want it, but leaving it out would feel bad. Maybe having the pool strike consume arcane pool would de-incentivize that?
Nathan James
The trick is to do the sorcerer/cleric thing as a half-elf, because they have an ART that lets them increase the effective levels. See: >Multidisciplined: Born to two races, half-elves have a knack for combining different magical traditions. If a half-elf with this racial trait has spellcasting abilities from at least two different classes, the effects of spells she casts from all her classes are calculated as though her caster level were 1 level higher, to a maximum of her character level. This racial trait replaces multitalented. Source PRG:HA
Isaac Long
So if I show up at this Pathfinder Society thing with the 7gb torrent PDFs on my tablet am I going to catch any shit from the ref about it?
Brody Rogers
I kind of want political intrigue and shit. That or the comfy that has. even if his design is kind of flawed imho. 15 PB isn't enough for anyone who isn't a caster, and core rulebooks won't work well with it.
Joshua Ramirez
fair nuff
Jackson Rivera
What caused this massive spree to make games for /pfg/?
Connor Parker
Do you have the Player's Guide?
Aiden Collins
College and high school clubs. In a setting like that, it's usually the control freaks or the assholes who want to GM, everybody else just wants to play.
It's awfully telling that he was mostly a WoD nut.
Brandon Stewart
I know how that feels, user. I had a grandma who whithered away before our eyes as she succumbed to cancer in our home. I will never forget the times it was "special" to just get her out of her chair so she can take a long walk through the house to -
God dammit, I can't type the rest or I'm going to start crying in the office.
Blake Bailey
>going on Veeky Forums in office P RO M O T I O N S
HAHA
Bentley Ross
Who wants to play actual political intrigue? I'm not talking about mustache twirling advisors, an overabundance of assassins, and 'lonely' noble women. I mean actual political maneuvering you need to plan out in advance and think through for more than 30 seconds.
Thomas Gutierrez
RotJR was the first
But in all probability, it was caused by a lack of things to talk about. Paizo and 1pp is dogshit with the occasional "okay" thing, DSP's PoW errata is like Horizon S3, and every other 3pp dev is 95% shit, or forrest/jolly.
Christian Sullivan
Sounds pretty good.
It's hit or miss like most APs, but only if you cut out the mass combat, the lackluster BBEG/plot, and focus back in on something like Brevoy's own culture.
Which GM seems to be doing.
Leo Reyes
That's Amanandar or Sargava.
Ryder Wood
Well not one that does not have my name on it.
Eli Collins
So, I want to make a megadungeon campaign with multiple complex floors. Can anyone recommend some good dungeon making software for big projects?
Kayden Gonzalez
We sacrificed the souls of hundred innocents to the gods, though unfortunately this left us with nothing but shitposters.
Joshua Russell
Have you settled on 25 or 32 PB? I'm able to wait for the actual listing, but you know how it is when you've got a concept in your head!
Jose Ward
Actual political intrigue or playing in a world where everyone is so stupid that we get to feel like Tyrion or Littlefinger?
Andrew Jones
Why was the Berserking sphere's Furious Charge made specifically incompatible with lances and Spirited Charge? This solves absolutely nothing, because Spheres of Might Spirited Chargers can still use Brutal Strike on a charge, tripling the titanic amount of damage.
Lances and Spirited Charge should be ruled out of compatibility with Spheres of Might talents altogether.
Justin Ortiz
I want to play as someone who tries to work their way into being King/Queen, alongside the normal combat adventures. I'm not interested in GATE style '''politics'''.
Aiden Robinson
I'd be for it. What'd you have in mind.
Easton Barnes
Pool Strike should have two modes: No cost (as long as you have pool points) and "spend a pool point to power it up". Also, Kensai should be THE "weapon training, but only with this one kind of weapon" archetype, on top of its "unarmored fighter" schtick, instead of the clusterfuck it is now. Giving it access to unnerfed Arcane Deed would be nice, but that (and a panache pool) might be something for another more general archetype/arcana entirely.
>showing up to PFS with pirated material I am 90% certain you are going to get your ass kicked out, because PFS's primary purpose besides being a PUG is to require you to buy shit
Tyler Jackson
>Core book only >10-15 pb So, cleric/wizard/sorc/druid teamup? Boring.
Josiah Sullivan
You should be fine, PFS isn't really that stringent about these things.
Connor Anderson
What'd be a good progression for pool strike powered and unpowered? level/2 for unpowered and full level for powered?
Camden Foster
I want to play in a setting where all PCs are minor nobles or courtiers. Except I know that I should play L5R when I want that.
Lincoln Reed
I've never had these problems with casters that pfg goes on about, and I've GMed a lot. Still, I'll think about how to present a set of rules that are both simple and fair. Maybe just banning ninth level casters and fluffing it as a lower magic world. My goal is mostly just to get it into comfy game mode instead of something huge and sprawling. Simple plot, small rules, but still dangerous.
I'm in central time and it would be either evening or weekend game. Not committing to anything yet though. I'll follow up in a couple days.
Cool. I'll probably apply if it works with my times and isn't too bananas with custom stuff, though my tolerance as a player is much higher than as a GM.
Joshua Phillips
Depends on the society. I've never been, but communities range from groups that don't give a shit to DMs that'll refuse to play with you even after you've gotten proper material.
Josiah Bennett
>central time AHHHHHHHHHH
Jackson Stewart
Low pb characters don't fight monsters, they fight their own mechanics.
Kayden Morales
I still don't know shit about PoW or Spheres and I still have 1pp concepts I want to try.
Is the difference between 1pp martials and the average /pfg/ 3pp martial really that bad?
Henry Thomas
Depends on the 3pp, if PoW yeah it's pretty big, if jolly/sop, nah it's pretty fine. I like the PoW level more though. 1pp feels mechanically samey while being flavored differently.
Charles Morgan
Yes. It'd be like comparing a Civil War Reenactor to a Spetnaz Commando.
Jaxson Garcia
The average? No. If you're styling with maneuvers there's not much difference between a Warlord and a Barbarian in terms of damage, the Warlord just has some defensive stuff as well.
It's the extremes where things break down. Steel Flurry Strike/Reflected Blade Style on a Brutal Slayer/OD-ZS. Zenith Strikes.
Jacob Roberts
Actual political intrigue. Last time I ran it my players got outmaneuvered by a petty baron who publicly embarrassed and discredited them.
Likely would either make the players all part of the same family of nobles. Either a newly established landed family or a noble family in their twilight due to a large number of deaths or simple age.
It would be set in a empire that had exited a roughly 25 year long rebellion 5 years previous, the last battle of which lead to over one hundred thousand men dying on the field. The manpower of a continent died in the war and now only the elderly and young men are around. You'd all be one of the following: >female >male and elderly enough to not have participated (likely you would have participated when you were younger) >a veteran >a kid who grew up during the long rebellion but wasn't old enough to participate >someone who weaseled their way into non-participation
A lot of new noble families are popping up as the established government is refilling the lands with people who didn't die in the rebellion and taking away the lands/titles of rebels. As well as a lot of families are in dire straights due to a good portion of their membership having died.
Caleb Cook
Is PoW + SoP a good mix or nah?
Carson Anderson
>Yes >No >Maybe so
I guess I'll just bring the $50 core rulebook I just bought and act like the rest of the rules I'm asking about came from the SRD
Jace Jackson
I love it What timezone my man?
Blake Wood
PoW was ruined by these copycats Instead of trying yourself to find something that fits you, they just ape OD/ZS and other shit Hell, even Broken Blade is not so game breaking IF PEOPLE DID NOT FUCKING INTENTIONALLY GO FOR THAT SPECIFIC THING THAT RUINS IT
Carter Evans
PoW tweaks martials up a bit and SoP tweaks casters down a bit. There's obviously going to be ways to blend them and break shit, but overall it brings people closer to that low T2-high T4 place that most players enjoy.