I have one I hate at our table. I can’t convince the group to get rid of it due to “fun” IF you roll a nat 20 and confirm with a 20, you roll another die. If it’s a 20, the enemy is slain.
Cooper Collins
No dice rolls.
All combat rolls are resolved through Mortal Combat.
All non-combat rolls are resolved with rock band between the involved players and the DM.
Xavier Powell
Could an Antiquarian Armiger use a bunch of staves with sphere talents as customized weapons?
there's this line in the Craft Staff text on the Magical Items page of the SoP wiki
>A typical staff also functions as a walking stick, quarterstaff, or cudgel.
Since it functions as a quarterstaff, it can be made into an Armiger's customized weapon, can it not?
Jace Reed
We have something similar, but crits just explode on 20s instead and continue rolling to confirm. So a 19-20/x2 threatens on a 19, confirms with a 20, gets to roll another confirmation. If they confirm, the crit does x3. If they confirm with a 20, they can roll to confirm again for a x4.
Mason Turner
It's not the greatest, but it's still stronger than a regular paladin.
Brandon Perry
>gutting every single iconic feature of a Paladin >for maneuvers It's garbage. Sacred Servant stomps it.
James Morgan
I require information! Information about DHB's UC classes! Tell me about the archetypes!
However I put them in high tier 4 in the same way Ranger, Paladin, and Vigilante are high tier 4.
Austin King
what is the most you can make using a demiplane with the downtime system? I'm thinking of filling it to the space limit with high output structures and sustaining the workforce with the bountiful trait, but idk what to put in it
John Rivera
Well yeah, you get free planar ally once per week. That can be pretty fucking good, unless your GM hates calling spells and wants to dick you over.
But maneuvers are also pretty fucking good too. If you hate it that much, just sacrifice some feats to take martial training.
Bentley Gutierrez
Should work, yeah.
Caleb Robinson
>unless your GM hates calling spells and wants to dick you over. At that point you're safe to leave, because pretty much anything a Paladin would ask for is likely to convince the ally to stay around for two weeks.
Maneuvers aren't worth losing every single feature that's iconic to the Paladin.
Connor Rogers
Should I give Exp to a player for killing an other?
Xavier Hall
90% of the time I find wizard players get a lot less strong when you just ask them to actually hand you a prepared spell list at the beginning of the day. Too many players go 'oh yeah I would have that prepared' and don't actually write down their prepared spell.
Basically they cheat to play pseudo-spontaneous casters.
Gabriel Adams
Unless you don't care so much iconic paladin shit and just want to be Holy Maneuver Guy.
Julian Roberts
>That can be pretty fucking good, unless your GM hates calling spells and wants to dick you over. I hate calling spells, but to be honest Paladin's wouldn't be allowed/exist in most settings I run anyway but if they did I would work with the player to exchange the feature for something else.
Logan Johnson
>Should I give Exp to a player for killing No, and you shouldn't let players kill each other period.
Jack Davis
Just be an OD/ZS Warder.
Gabriel Russell
>everybody has access to PoW in their games Assume much?
Jaxson Ross
I think we're done here.
Ayden Bell
Because we're discussing how bad or good a Path of War Archetype for Paladin is?
Lucas Cruz
>all this talk about paladins When was the last time you played a Paladin? What were they like? What kind of end did they meet? Did they fall?
Levi Gray
>unless your GM holds you to the letter, cost, and responsibilities that comes with the planar ally spell The moment the GM makes the price asked for by whatever is called nontrivial, it stops being so good. You are paying the price for something's life, at the end. >Holy Maneuver Guy. So my paladin? 6 paladin, 6 warlord?
John Campbell
You're a Paladin asking for help from your deity. Asking for help repelling evil foes, for example, is something pretty much any servant will gladly agree to help you with.
Cooper Reyes
>2012+6 >people still in this thread bitching about what other people like why can't we just all get along?
Parker Evans
Keep the old arguments in the old thread, don't drag them into the new one.
Kevin Lewis
They did fall, but for only 6d6 damage.
Jordan Foster
Nigga how many times has that been an issue really
Joseph Sullivan
I played an Oradin not too long ago, worshiped Ilmater since the setting was closer to Faerun than Golarion. He was kind, a tad naive, and was never upset when people did evil but simply disappointed.
The DM then decided the campaign was going to be all about morally grey decisions, and had us choose between helping out a god of decay, a demon lord of all tieflings, or a selfish council of powerful dick-ass wizards.
After the party defeated the two gods, the Magus betrayed us and Vorpal'd my Oradin and the Rogue (which was real easy when we were playing with "piles" of inspiration, no confirming criticals, and everyone forgetting Vorpal needs a 20). Apparently he was working for the demon lord after some point.
Then my Oradin got brought back after the party's Witch managed to suffocate the Magus and kill him, so he spent the rest of his days making sure the nobody would ever get as powerful as the Magus (who got real nutty thanks to a bunch of homebrewed BS items/abilities from the DM).
Leo Mitchell
>When was the last time you played a Paladin? My last game? >What were they like? Son of a family of heroes that wanted out and got dragged back in. Was aware of his own meek heart and so doubled down on virtue, charity, and compassion towards others. He struggled a bit with his inward craven nature, but he strove to do as much good as he could with his own hands, with some success. >What kind of end did they meet? Game is still going, paladin is still alive, and the DM decreed I had acted in so righteously a way that he gave me the Saint template from 3.5. So I'm basically damn near unkillable, on top of massive group support and social maneuvering. >Did they fall? Nope, I have wings, I glide slowly to the ground. I've noticed, playing paladins in many D&D type systems over the years, it is almost impossible to actually fall as a paladin unless the DM is running you into the ground, the player is just that stupid, or the player chooses to. I've never seen an accidental "fall". Your deity sends you someone, but you must bargain with whoever is there, based on their own temperament. The thing about planar ally is that you don't get to choose who you get, your god does, and the potential impact of that can not be underestimated. I had used planar ally to call in extra muscle for a battle, and I got basically nurse, not a warrior.
Jaxson Stewart
You can use Knowledge (Religion) to call for a specific angel.
Justin Gray
>This allows the sacred servant to cast lesser planar ally once per week as a spell-like ability without having to pay the material component cost or the servant (for reasonable tasks). At 12th level, this improves to planar ally and at 16th level, this improves to greater planar ally. The sacred servant’s caster level for this effect is equal to her paladin level.
>If you know an individual creature’s name, you may request that individual by speaking the name during the spell (though you might get a different creature anyway).
If you're lawful good, your god probably won't dick you over, unless they know something you don't know.
Cameron Sanders
Carrion Crown Spoiler How do I make Adivion actually tough while still being a gish?
Kevin Robinson
When a dude ends the final boss of the emerald spire like that you just end up hating it
Cameron Powell
No, you have to know an individual outsider's name, and that one may not show up anyway. >unless they know something you don't know That was exactly the situation I ended up in. My god didn't especially condone the plan of the party, and sent a nurse to tend to the injuries of the populace, rather than a warrior to aid us in battle. Even then, as it stands, I would personally call access to maneuvers either equal, or a little better, than a 1/week planar ally, if only for personal versatility.
Tyler Clark
>No, you have to know an individual outsider's name Which is possible if you know enough.
>personal versatility Planar Ally IS personal versatility.
Elijah James
Rolling for initiative every round. It's kinda retarded but I'm used to it. It's also fun because it keeps things tense and unpredictable.
We have this as an assumed houserule to the point of my dad being shocked when someone didn't know what it was in another group. He also crit-built a rogue/thief-acrobat in 3.5 with Telling Blow and a keen rapier, so with a 15-20 crit range he can really get things going. Obviously the sneak attack doesn't multiply, but he's done some pretty sweet base damage when he's rolled a 17, 15, 16, 19, etc. and gotten a "quintuple crit" for x5 damage. He doesn't like Pathfinder, even though I've explained that you can sneak attack / crit undead in Pathfinder.
Josiah Nelson
Because: 1.In order to defend their choices and/or feel superior others, for whatever reason, aggressively defending and/or aggressively putting down other people's likes and dislikes is the usual reaction. 2.It's an "Us vs. Them" mentality where the "us" has to be better than "them" otherwise see above. 3. Manchildren. Manchildren everywhere (this includes shitposters)
Thomas Green
I dont really understand some parts of downtime. how much does it cost to get an empty plot of land? how much space does each building/room take? anybody know
Tyler Perry
Your cleric worships a 3rd party god with no obediences. What do you do?
Grayson Howard
If you are being a "That guy" in the broadest and most relatable term (outside of asshole) you have to put a coin in the Snack Jar.
For PF in specific: During leveling you may roll your HP and then choose to either forfeit your Hero Point in order to take the average or keep the hero point and the roll result.
Eli Johnson
Not let him cuse I’m the DM
Benjamin Wood
>When was the last time you played a Paladin? Never and I don't intend to start.
Matthew Sullivan
That's really dumb but the chance of it happening is 1 in 8000.
Brandon White
Man, I'm getting sick of PoW. If you allow PoW people scream about how it's overpowered and broken. If you don't allow PoW people scream about how you hate martials and by extension everyone who plays one.
I'm just going to stick with banning all 9-casters and using Mythic rules instead.
Jace Johnson
Don't take Deific Obedience or work with the GM to make an appropriate one.
Charles Hernandez
I haven't because LG isn't a fun alignment. I wish there was some way to play a CG one that didn't suck. Plus there's no way a Paladin would be able to play with the people in my group and not immediately fall just by associating with them.
Cooper Clark
>LG isn't a fun alignment Never particularly understood this. It's not fun to have principles and experience how those principles interact with the rest of the setting?
Colton Phillips
I really think it's just one guy screaming about how it's overpowered and broken.
Christopher Miller
>mythic shit taste senpai
Samuel Roberts
Maybe, but I can't say I feel entirely differently about PoW at this point after running games.
Mythic martials was a suggested patch at one point in the past.
David Brown
Lawful Characters aren't about principles. They're about following codes, rules, laws, hierarchy, and oaths. Literally every character of every alignment has principles.
Jace Taylor
Mythic characters, even the martials are more busted than Path of War is and they still manage to be boring.
And when they aren't boring they're ridiculous, and not in a fun way either.
Leo Mitchell
Fully mythic characters, or just characters using Mythic combat feats and the occasional mythic surge?
Luke Rodriguez
Both. Every aspect of the mythic system is broken. Characters with certain mythic combat feats can legitimately break a 1k damage barrier on a non critical hit.
Nolan Cox
Other question: Is Savant Thaumaturge decent?
Nice.
Blake King
they can break 3k on a non-critical hit.
Wyatt Jones
If you wanted to use Mythic but keep the tiers low, could you do it without the game being a total fustercluck?
Leo Martin
For the last time fucking no. If you don't want Path of War in your game, don't allow it. If people bitch, let them. You wouldn't want to play with them anyway.
Ian King
I'm not the same guy (I actually like PoW), I just saw people talking about Mythic and thought I'd ask because it was something I was thinking about.
Samuel Hill
Okay, how?
Camden Peterson
Mythic Vital Strike >paizo.com/threads/rzs2q6vy?Mythic-Vital-Strike Depending on your interpretation you're still doing 500 damage as a standard action. Not to mention other shit in the rules like sniping people from other planets. You may as well just play exalted.
James Martinez
mythic power attack + mythic vital strike + empty quiver style + mythic deadly aim + strategic dipping and stacking as much strength as possible. If you want higher theoretical damage you ditch empty quiver style memes for crit-fishing with mythic improved critical and cyclops helms
Christian Diaz
>mythic power attack >mythic deadly aim please tell me you aren't serious
Leo Garcia
So you have to be 13 feats deep to hit that much damage. And with a +25 Strength mod and a +5 Butchering Axe (which somehow counts as a bow), at level 20 you deal... exactly 1008 damage. That's pretty good.
Mason Parker
It technically works. Empty Quiver Flexibility lets you add feats/abilities that would boost your ranged attacks (deadly aim) and add them to the melee attack you make with your ranged weapon.
Also made a small mistake, forgot about the 1.5x bonus from 2H, so 1500-ish
Christopher Morgan
I'd honestly not let it work. Deadly Aim wasn't future proofed for Empty Quiver Style and really stacking two Power Attack type dealios shouldn't work much like you can't use Piranha Strike with Power Attack.
Noah Roberts
Golly, I wish I could play a Paladin! Sometimes I think I should have for the campaign I'm in, but looking at the past isn't healthy for anybody.
Joseph Jackson
Can Undead Lords make variant zombies along with variant skeletons? I guess by RAW that's the case but it seems kinda weird.
Justin Ramirez
Isn't there another pair that stacks? I think it's Piranha Strike and Risky Striker?
Julian Wright
You can, but as with the skeleton any variant will only have 1/2 HD. Speaking from personal experience if you suck your GM's metaphorical dick they may even allow you to make Skeletal Champions so they can be intelligent but still loyal to you.
Dylan Thompson
If I houseruled that Paladins can be any Good alignment and made their code a little more flexible (not having to tell the Gestapo there are Jews in the attic), would I need to change anything mechanically?
Colton Powell
14 feats. versatile design + weapon adept. This was intended for a fighter build.
Tyler Wilson
I had an idea for a Paladin NPC at one time. Or rather ex-Paladin, who was a mercenary knight for hire. The idea was he would be cursed with evil-aligned armor that whispered to him, which is what caused is fall, but he resisted enough to maintain a Lawful alignment (which keeps his level lowered because of the armor's alignment conflict). And then, at some point, he finally snaps and makes the leap to Antipaladin, getting all his levels back at once in the process.
Be honest with me, is it too edgy?
Ayden Perez
They do stack, Risky Striker however is a situational and works against only large or larger enemies. And before you somebody notes, Reckless Rager too but it specifically says that it stacks since it extends Power Attack's damage effectively.
William Martinez
That's fucking retarded user. Exploding on critical threats instead of nat 20 just leads to 15-20 crit ranges and stupidity.
Lucas Anderson
>seriously contemplating reusing character art Can I? Should I?
Eli Jenkins
Probably some auras and smite chaos and shit, but other than that. Not really.
That being said, unless you're under the most Gygaxian interpretation of alignment the Paladin is perfectly fine lying about the Jews in the cellar.
Alexander Cook
What context? Same GM? Same class and build in mind? Tell more so we can assess the situation from beyond time and space because we are neither psychics or divination wizards.
Juan Ross
Pretty much just the same character art, because I like it. No, for a different game.
Nolan Foster
Played a Vindictive Bastard last game, which I guess isn't technically a Paladin since it applies to ex-Paladins. I just really wanted to play a 'muh power of friendship' type and have the character value his friends above all else.
Wyatt Edwards
Then go ahead. I've technically used the same character with a paint job in three different games and nothing bad has come out of it as far as I can tell.
Ethan Butler
I haven't played a paladin in PF yet. Been saving it for Return of the Runelords to finalize a running joke I have with most of my characters.
Xavier Campbell
What are the best ways to make an arcane gish? A way that isn't a Magus who casts shocking grasp forever. Summoner has 3/4 bab so I guess it can do it. Can PoW do anything? What about Spheres? How's the Mageknight?
Alexander Butler
Iron caster or Child of whatever Fighter? Bloodrager? Scrollmaster Wizard?
Daniel James
bloodrager, warpath follower inquisitor or warpriest, pathwalker psychic warrior, any full initiator PrCing into blade-caster or battle templar
Hunter Cooper
Make fighter an NPC class Give martials bonus combat feats every even level Give gishes bonus combat feats every three levels Give fullcasters bonus combat feats every five levels Everybody profits
Daniel Thomas
Isn't that just spheres of might with the arbitrary changes and restrictions filed off?
Joseph Evans
How do you make a martial Elf when they get a -2 to Constitution?
Luis Clark
Use an Elven Curved Blade with a dex-to-damage feat.
Julian Adams
Carefully. Alternatively, just be a half elf with Elven Weapon Familiarity and insist you're totally a full elf.
Adam Ramirez
-2 to Con isn't a big deal. You're looking at 1 HP less than normal per level.
Isaac Wright
also dying 2 hp earlier and a -1 to fort saves
Zachary Reyes
>pathwalker psychic warrior, >warpath follower inquisitor or warpriest These aren't Arcane.
Isaac Rogers
I have never been in a campaign where 1 HP made a difference.