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Am I the only one who thinks it unlikely that most PCs will be able to make a DC 25 Intimidate, Bluff and Diplomacy check? Any level 10 Pathfinder vanilla Bard will succeed. At that level, they have 3 Versatile Performances, that's 6 skills they roll with Perform. And since there aren't that many s...

Blade wrote:There are dwarves in Shadowrun and tp me they serve the purpose of the "well-integrated race":

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I stand corrected, that is a very valid purpose.

Dwarves represent the working classes : they are strong, dirty, they drink beer, and they work. As a working character, they are defined by their occupation : no one care if his plumber likes pizzas or burritos, what's important is that he's a plumber. Elves represent aristocracy. As such, no one ca...

I have a friend who played it. 1/ They discovered who was the BBEG at the beginning of each module. But they wren'nt high level enough, so they had to grind sidequest they didn't care about. 2/ Regurlarly, they unlocked a new part of the map with higher level-monsters. It's not a ttrpg module, it's ...

Update: Two encounters have been completely negated by Calm Emotions. Seems magic is still king. There are very specific encounters that can be solved by Calm emotion end similar spell. If the monsters have the same level as the PCs, Calm emotion won't work thanks to the "incapacitation" ...

Looking forward to seeing how my Chiurgeon Alchemist works as the party healer. He won't. Well, anyone can be out-of-combat healer thank to the medecine skill, because [insert incoherent rambling about how infinite healing with wand is lame, while infinite healing with skill is awesome]. So you can...

Dogbert wrote:In today's meta, that's a "feature, not a bug."

This is, indeed, how I interpreted the "honestly, I'm glad for it" in the paizil's post I quoted. And this is why I find this quote awesome: to see a fanboy's mind transforming some obvious flaws into features is quite fascinating.

I've read this awesome though on the Paizo's forum : By the rules of PF2, there is basically no benefit to attempting to surprise someone. And honestly, I'm glad for it. A bit of context: no one understand how the transition from exploration mode to encounter mode works, especially when surprise is ...

Pregen characters are often really really bad. They are often created while the rules are in flux, and even when they are penned after the rules have cooled and congealed they are written by people who remember alternate proposals for the rules. Making rules errors under those circumstances is very...

It seems there've corrected the pregen characters - now they follow the bulk rules. It seems there was two layers of errors in the bulk values - the values given in the crb were wrong (there's an errata), and the computation on each pregen was wrong. And people on the official forum are still arguin...

In Pathfinder, any craft takes (at least) 4 days. I guess baking a cake or cooking a meal is some kind of craft (since it doesn't seem there's anything else which could handle baking or cooking). Hence it takes 4 days to bake a cake or to prepare a coffee. In the other hand, any craft takes 4 days i...

Can I handle my pc the same way?

"I play an awesome gunslinger with a gun which can destroy any protection. I don't have a statblock since it would allow you to challenge my character - you can simply assume I succeed any roll, I'm never hit and my weapon bypass any defense."

Talking about the one thats supposed to the all npc's that apparently dosent have a single stat block in it for reasons. Inner sea legends or something it's called ... Seriously ? ... Let me put this straight: a npc without stat block is a npc the pcs can't interact with. Especially in D&D/path...

monster maths is a bit fixed. More precisely: monsters have randomly gained +1 in some stuff and -1 in other stuff - those changes are so random, it's as if the monsters were never playtested (since they don't have the same number as the playtest one at all). In the other hand, PCs get +2 (or more)...

OK, it seems you have the same rule mastery as any paizil. At least, you're not posting on an official paizo forum. The concentrate trait doesn't trigger AoO. But hey, there's a level 10 fighter feat to enter a stance to trigger AoO on concentrate action. Cackle is level 1. So... Here's what I answe...

The witch get the "cackle" special action. This action is the same as the "sustain a spell" action, except: 1/ it does not have the "concentrate" tag. 2/ it has the "sonic" and the "auditory" traits. 3/ it suffer the same penalty as the one given by ...

playtest document, p. 15: The first time after your daily preparations that you complete the Cast a Spell activity for a revelation spell, your minor curse manifests. playtest document, p. 17, minor curse of the battle oracle: Minor Curse: Your body languishes when you aren’t bringing harm to your f...

I looked at the oracle. Instead of focus spells, he has some "special" spells/powers that are quite weak for their level. eg, a level 6 life oracle can pay a feat to get a poor's man's version of Lifelink (the level 2 spell from D&D 3) (with a duration of 1 minutes, and instead of divi...

Monster creation rules are out. I haven't read them yet. It's only two months late - some genius thoughts underwater combat rules were more important than monster and NPC creation rules in the CRB. Hurray, I guess? ... OH wait, it seems it's pure bullshit and the monster in the bestiary don't use t...

In first edition, when it was your turn to act in combat, you had a complicated menu of options, between move actions, standard actions, free actions, swift actions, and on and on. Maybe it's because I started with games where that's already a thing, but is it really hard to keep track of "the...

The final line is very telling - it may be bad phrasing, but it seems that the team can't wait to share with you the stories you want to tell. This is literally how I understand the final line - but I'm not a native English speaker, so I may be wrong. And I agree, this is Pathfinder: railroad editi...

During his turn, a character can make as many action as he wants . Every action past the third one increases the defense of the opponents. So the optimal number of action is 3 , but you're never blocked because "with one more action, I could do this awesome combo and it would be awesome":...

What mechanics do you think are really clever? Be it due to innovating in some way, doing things in elegant fashion or some other reason altogether. Luchadores, action economy. During his turn, a character can make as many action as he wants . Every action past the third one increases the defense o...

Better yet - just assume they are two different NPC. I have not read the adventure, but I would assume that the reason it is written as a single NPC is that he must have knowledge of the first encounter. Identical twin brothers don't have a shared mind. I would assume the reason it is written as a ...

Why even bother. Just give him a bad-guy-only emergency teleport ability and be done with it at that point, if you want to be transparent. That's clunky first-time-ever GMing type bullshit right there. Better yet - the first time they meet the bad guy is mentally occupying a golem-body. It's been d...