Pathfinder General /pfg/

So! Who all's looking forward to the weekend? Any big plans, game-related or otherwise?

We start the 5th book in RotR and I'm going to charge the shit out of any creature we face!

What creatures are we going to face?

Well, not game-related, but someone's going to look at my PC to fix it, so that's good, I guess.

I hope he doesn't find my memes folder.

good luck

That sounds pretty rad honestly. I'd play in it.

That sounds entertaining, though it doesn't seem like it'd be that practical as a "race" without magic vehicles of some sort.

Do you just max out Greater Healing and then as many Life caster level increases as you can find?

After seeing what you said last thread, one question comes to mind: Voice or text?

what the fuck is uno makoto style

What's to stop me from making a wizard, spend all of my cash on a scroll of teleport or sommat, and just winning instantly?

has anybody been in a group that played a party of lost children?

So how would you lot react of RotJR falls through because the players are incompatible and scram after a few sessions because everybody was vying for the spotlight and were very much aggressive and verbal during it, causing the DM to stop the campaign out of frustration?

I wouldn't because 90% that's gonna happen. 10% the group falls through because of drama.

Alternately, if that's cheating by race standards, just building something with a really fast fly speed that no other PC can hope to catch?

Aegis 7 can get a fly speed of 240ft+ off the top of my head

You can't teleport across the desert, it's magically active. Also if you teleport around the people on the other side say "you're disqualified" because while you're in the desert you're being watched by an audience of millions through scry sensors.

Text.

Horse race is the idea. Though magical cars sounds neat as well. I could throw something together.

Well it's good to see some folks are interested.

Does anyone have the First World campaign setting book?

>level 1
>10 mythic ranks
>you are one of the people who accidentally got divine power after a god died

Would you play it?

it got dumped a while back but i don't have the full pdf

Fingers crossed
Realistically, it's a text game. So there really won't be yelling. People tend to be a lot less autistic when you can put a "name to a face", even if there are compatibility issues it can take a while for a group to fall apart even if almost all parties despise each other.

I'd think that, seeing as the GM has so far proven to be fairly smart, such a thing wouldn't end up happening.

Let's break it down here. Simply put, there's no chance that every "highly-memed" or extremely-vocal character will get picked. At least two of the players are almost certainly going to be chosen from those that simply posted their character and then quietly stood to the side or let other people talk about their character; if they were very obvious and constant about their own character, it's honestly pretty likely that there will only be one of those sorts in the party, with the rest falling into place with their own niches.

>Enforced character speech and turn time limits in a text game

Okay I'm totally mystified now.

Horses in a desert don't have anything to eat and will almost certainly overheat and die eventually.

Magic can solve this, but then you're requiring the group to have magic.

You know, it actually does sound pretty fun.
Do we start near everyone else or out of sight? Could be a bit bloody if we're all in one big pool of people.

My buddy and I will pool our money to buy 20 eagles, a belt of ant haul and a belt of enlargening, and ride on the back of a large eagle all the way there.

Anyone else got any fun ideas on how to travel fast with level 7 funds?

Surviving the desert is as much an issue as surviving your fellow participants.

The idea being that the desert was created at some point in the past when a lot of wizards fucked up very severely. The desert itself is hostile and covered in the remnants of the war/explosion/experiments/etc.

You need to go fast, hit hard, and survive.

Also it'll be a 3000 mile journey.

So it's SBR across the Mana Wastes?

Go with my backup plan and start advertising for a mildly lewd Legacy of Fire game.

Pool money to buy stone horses. Two of them to pull a wagon can keep going 24/7, they explicitly never need rest or maintenance if not actively damaged.

Fuck eagles, strap a Decanter of Endless Water to a surfboard and ride the waves to victory.

Bonus effect: fucks vampires in your wake.

I used the character speech as an example. I do that for in person sessions. For text I normally say that "if you don't think you could say that in 3 or less seconds then don't type it".

If you don't want a horse then you need to go fast by other means. Heck if you had a vehicle you'd need fuel from somewhere as well.

Or you could build go fast and run/fly yourself.

Yes, I am requiring you to build character who can survive the desert. To a degree that means either being magic enough to do it or spending money on things to do it.

Hello /pfg/, a game shop near me hosts Pathfinder Society games every week but I've never played in any before. Is it possible to just jump in? They're playing "8-05 Ungrounded but Unbroken", and they require a legal character.

I have Hero Lab so I am able to build a character with their rules, but I'm pretty sure they're above level 1. Do I just have to wait until a new season starts?

I actually would, that sounds amazing! What's the PB?

I dunno, probably 25. I'm still mostly just monkeying around with the idea, though.

>Do we start near everyone else or out of sight? Could be a bit bloody if we're all in one big pool of people.
They would start all several thousand participants in the same city. You all have to be somewhere within city limits when the race starts, where you start from within the city is up to you.

Yes, The Mana Wastes plus The Scar from the Bas-Lag trilogy.

That's something you would ask them about, since the usual response you're going to get here is
>PFS
Just remember that a "legal character" is one made with the core rulebook and any Paizo materials you can prove you own. I think you can jump in at any level though.

Okay, I hate to ask, but I gotta: What the fuck does comfy even mean anymore?
Does it mean a noblebright setting where there's never any more conflict than a slice-of-life sitcom?
Does it mean there's lots of anime girls doing cute shit?
Does it mean a primarily rural setting?
Seriously, this has been so overused by so many people around here that I need someone to quantify this.

See I love this. Sounds great.

I build several enemies already. Here are some example one:

Drive 55 is designed to run ~1000ft towards the party, swallow whole a party member, and run ~1000ft away the following round. He's making his way across the desert via running.

Shot Through the Heart is a spiritualist who both he and his spirit makes use of guns.

Level 7 with +50% wealth? Seems like it would be easy to setup up someone for overland travel, massive stealth, and self-sufficiency and just run like the dickens ignoring everything. Nevermind simple flying.

So one of the plans is that, like Steel Ball Run there are way points in the desert you have to hit along the way. These become choke points for participants conflict as well as what ever else is in the desert.

Massive stealth could definitely help you.

Hello /tg, I want to play a brawler courtier using fighting fans in a game without 3pp. How do I best do it? I was thinking using snakebite striker, but I am drawing a blank after that.

Half-elf Alchemist||Sorcerer of Sleep. He trances like his elf parent, which means he doesn't dream. Now he's studying the soporific effects of cocoa to try and get some comfy sleeps.

>3,000 miles

Traveling at 3.5 mph for 24 hours a day (such as with stone horses) gives a minimum of 35 days to cross that.

With normal horses at 3.5 mph for 8 hours a day, that jumps up to 107 days.

Overland flight for 7 hours/day means you cross in 53 days, or 71 days if encumbered.

A flying carpet would let you cross in 15 days if you each take a shift on driving it, but one that will comfortably fit at least three people and supplies (the 10x10 one) is 60,000 gp. I guess they could maybe squeeze onto the 35,000 gp 5x10 one, but they'd have to be awfully friendly and/or Small size. It'd be way faster than any of the other methods, though.

Iron Gods any gud?

I'm wondering this myself. Revitalize is great for out of combat healing, but in combat is trickier. 4 levels of Greater Healing and Ranged Heal and Mass Heal can do a lot, I expect. But there is no equivalent to a cleric's Heal spell

>A flying carpet would let you cross in 15 days if you each take a shift on driving it, but one that will comfortably fit at least three people and supplies (the 10x10 one) is 60,000 gp. I guess they could maybe squeeze onto the 35,000 gp 5x10 one, but they'd have to be awfully friendly and/or Small size. It'd be way faster than any of the other methods, though.
Plus you don't really have any money for combat gear or resurrection stuff in case you get attacked in the air.

Iron Gods is fun.

IT'S TIME TO SLEEP

>crossing desert by running

I hope you're planning on actually using the overland movement rules at least a little instead of just "fatigue doesn't matter, lol", because that sounds like hustling and forced marching to me and a slower but steadier group could catch up to him when he starts tiring out.

Thinking about it more I may upgrade the distance a bit. Steel Ball Run was 3750 miles. This should be a bit longer.

Adding in destination choke points you have to reach along the way, along with a bit more distance, makes this interesting.

A bit over 10,000 participants to start and an audience of millions over scry sensors.

That would definitely help in forcing something to happen instead of just ghosting through the entire thing.

Fly higher.

The character in question is immune to fatigue.

His build involves a bit of oracle, a bit of monk, a bit of bloodrager, and a lot of prayers.

GM Here again.

As for more Steel Ball Run like bits. For the Saint's Parts they would grant mythic powers, it only seems right.

ALL I WANT TO DO IS HIDALGO THIS

I WANT TO RIDE HOERS

BUT EVERYONE IS THINKING UP FUCKING EGGHEAD DORK POCKET PROTECTOR SOLUTIONS

STOP

>1m gp

How the fuck am I going to spend that

You'd be surprised how fast that gets spent!

>only traveling 8 hours a day
Wtf you gonna do for the other 16? Even if you spend 8 hours sleeping (though you should really use a Ring of Sustenance at the very least), that's 8 more hours of time unaccounted for. You might as well Forced March that shit, some minor nonlethal damage + fatigued condition once an hour is easily dealt with.

Enjoy getting sniped out of the air as you pull ahead of the pack in the first few miles.

If you horse, you lose. That's a natural result of D&D having magic things faster than horse over long stretches.

Also doing some other builds here I have been looking into how to make things interesting for builds.

Mythic power to start may be interesting, just a few ranks, or raising the start level to 9.

The Saints Parts equivalents give more mythic power plus unique bonuses.

There will be way points along the way you have to hit during the face. The race also leads you through some really fucking dangerous parts of the desert.

Not entirely true. You can make your horse better given enough effort so you can keep up.

Just to add, I am not 100% certain on the brawler, but I want to make a courtier-turned-warrior who uses fighting fans, light or no armor and ideally no magic.

>pillow +5
>mithril nightgown +5
>corset of resistance +5
>garter belt of physical perfection +5
>stockings of protection +5

...

>Huge desert race in a horse-centric culture
>If you horse you lose

This is why I hate memesters and magic.

I plan on watching RotJR GM not pick me.

Desire to know more intensifies.

Well a CL 10 with all instances of Greater Healing is working at a +50 points healed.

And then there's all of the dice you get from the status-cure talents.

And also, if you need a BIG heal, there's the Fount of Life talent, which lets you precast to fill up a tank of healing, which you choose exactly how much of to use at once. So if that guy needs 100 hp and your heals only do like 40 or whatever, then you can DO that. Just gotta refill the tank afterwards.

Ok, new rules:
>level 9
>25pb
>mythic rank 2
>3rd party and homebrew material available upon request
>normal WBL + 50%

>the desert is highly hostile
>think The Scar from Bas-Lag + The Mana Wastes
>there will be waypoints along the way you have to go to, including ruins of cities, outposts, etc.
>people expect entertainment (you're being watched by an audience) there will be those among the racers who are there for fame rather than fortune and act accordingly
>Saints Parts equivalents may be around, they give unique bonuses and mythic ranks, think of them as implantable artifacts
>Awaiting you is fame, fortune, and enough money to make you wealthy beyond your wildest dreams
>Both speed, sustainability, defense, and overall style are important

Has your character ever been cucked? How did they react?

You can win on a horse if you make your horse better via magic.

If he's abroad on a crusade, he writes cute letters to his cute betrothed. If he's at home, he listens to her playing, they spar with one another in the courtyard, or they indulge in romantic lovemaking between consenting adults.

I think it works better if you have a sliding scale of prizes or whatever instead of just "first across takes all". Think what some long-distance rally races do, you know?

>not being Sandman and outrunning the horses on foot.

Makes sense.

Thought one prize to win it all turns the thing into more of a bloodbath. However, with 10k participants and 10 prizes it's still gonna be a bloodbath.

Sweet summer child.

Not going to tease since it might not happen, but basically thus:
>Legacy of Fire as a main framework
>Some other modules hanging off of it
>Katapesh ripped out for the most part, replaced with compressed Al-Qadim

Reinventing the flintlock pepperbox, one explosive disaster at a time.

>Not being a Speedster Monk and running all the way there.

Funny thing is I was trying to rope another PC into seducing the woman my character had been pushed into an arranged marriage with so I could call it off, because I was pretty sure that she was going to try and kill me/have me killed.

But he didn't, it wasn't called off, and it actually all worked out better than expected.

Even I don't know that and I'm the freaking GM. So I don't blame me for that, I just want to send the players on tasks that seem to be hopelessly mundane but turn out to be not mundane in the slightest.

Did she turn out to have a cute soul?

>Oracle 1/UC Monk 8 VMC Cleric
>immune to fatigue
>make up the -10 speed with +10 from revelation
>+20 for monk
>+30 for boots
>+10 for VMC cleric
>Impossible Speed
>Mythic Fleet
>Mythic Run
>140ft speed
>Run for 7x speed
>980ft for a number of rounds equal to con modifier
>after that double move normally
>outpace horse by a fuck ton

No, you want to run a porn game.

That's okay, though, as long as you're honest about it!

You're still limited by hustling/forced marches, even with a higher speed.

Okay, yeah, that too.

A little bit of both, really.

That, and could hack through demons like a hot knife through butter. Strength is a big turn-on.

Kept trying to get her to wear a dress that would show off her arms, but she had a big complex about being ladylike.

not super informative but okay

Yeah, but your higher base speed still increases your overland speed.

Needs to be a Speedster Monk. If I recall their fast movement bonus is 10/level.

How fun? Pretty fun? I like science fantasy

Good jorb. Now all the PCs have to be built the same way just to keep up.

Oh my gosh that's cute as heck.

What was she, racially or appearance-wise?

Can someone sell me on Pact Magic? I kind of want to try it but I'm not sure I want to learn a new system.