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In Core, I still like the Shadowstaff. Don't know why it is counts as a majot not a minor though. +4 AC/reflex that stacks with everything: Neat. Except in Bright light: bad Shadow Bolt: Neat ray attack. Summoning goodness. Would totally use. Shield of the Sun: grants spells as a if a 20th level Pal...

Still should keep the absorb ability when targeted by a spell/spell-like ability of the Complete Adventurer one. Succeed you aren't affected and lets you act as if stole the spell.

Granted it was a level check vs caster check, but still immunity to any of those effects was pretty unique.

Nothing doing. Spellthief is a prestige class you get into after 3 levels of rogue. You go straight from snatching purses to snatching spells. Heck, why not make it an archetype: we can give up trapsense for all those goodies. 1) spellcasting 2) spell stealing 3) Spell absorbing 4) stealing Spell r...

So, looking at the shit disaster that this class was, I was thinking of ways to make something that does that and doesn't suck. Essentially, you end up with a new version of the rogue that can steal spells. What I was thinking is basic rogue progression, but instead of the trap stuff, steal spells,...

Wow, SKR if truthful, says he championed the rights that Vows should be free option (not costing Still Mind), Brass knuckles should jut boost unarmed not be own weapons (he was overruled at the company)... Maybe, just maybe he learned his lesson in WotC and tried to be better, but was told in Pazo, ...

They probably banned him for using 'retarded' instead of a more PC word. The exact mod quote is: So, between uses of "retarded" as a pejorative and your habit of stomping into Exalted threads and making them unpleasant, I think we'll just go ahead and threadban you. I'm... not seeing anyt...

Watch empty body get nerfed like crane wing in errata No, no, that is not the Paizo way. They're just going to slap a level 14 requirement on it (so that by the time you can choose this class ability, the Wizard can just fucking memorize it if he needs it). In two years. In the mean time, though, w...

If I recall right, some class features on a class or two in 4E made you better when bloodied (more damage, etc).
In some ways it was genius. Being damaged meant things like being hurt more or you dishing our more.
PF went down the Saga way with condition track that routes just through damage.

20 Ranks: Whenever you attempt a caster level check, attempt a Spellcraft check at a –20 penalty at the same DC. If the spellcraft check succeeds, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus on your caster level check. Is this as fucking stupid as I think it is? Why make one check, when you could make two and...

Seeing as alchemist can get a third hand for reloading, letting you dual wield pistols, the alchemist is even better at "Smoke-cloud pistol " thing.

In other news, Monk got buffed in unchained and nerfed... How Paizo managed to mess up buffing I'll never know. I mean, apparently, since they upped it BAB they felt "chained" to up its HD, but they then felt they had to nerf its Will save. Slow Fall is now any distance, but cost Ki (and y...

Shady314 wrote:Forget the decanter. Cleric Orison. Cast at-will. Create Water. 2 gallons (per level) every standard action (6 seconds).

They nerfed create water in pathfinder, if no one drinks it, it evaporates.

"This water disappears after 1 day if not consumed"

As has been said the Summoner can't actually do much summoning in combat, considerably less than the Wizard. He probably slows the game down slightly just because he's two characters but I really doubt people are having lots of problems with Summoners flooding the field with mobs because they aren'...

Seerow wrote:

fbmf wrote:

Lokathor wrote:
I read this as "Octoraptor" and imagined a Jurassic Park sized velociraptor with eight octopus tentacles for arms.

Sounds like an elevator pitch for a SyFy Channel Original.

Game On,
fbmf

Octoraptornado

No, Sharknado vs Octoraptornado:
Whomever wins, we lose!

Wait, if a Rogue level 2 Crits (rolls a 20), he gets another turn?! Each round. Granted, 5% chance to be better than everyone. That seems better than what Warrior gets though. Then magic at 8th... I'm not seeing how the warrior can match that. Because Warrior gets boon with weapons, but his allies c...

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wondrous-items/wondrous-items/m-p/ornamental-kobold-spellbook Am I misreading things, or is this actually an economical and super-compact method of dumping a bunch of blast spells on the field, then casting Make Whole and doing it again next adventure? Maybe an e...

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wondrous-items/wondrous-items/m-p/ornamental-kobold-spellbook Am I misreading things, or is this actually an economical and super-compact method of dumping a bunch of blast spells on the field, then casting Make Whole and doing it again next adventure? Maybe an e...

We got this awful thing instead, and it doesn't even work properly for monks. It is a cheaper way at low levels to have enhanced stuff. You get a Vicious Necklace Might Strikes and a Body Wrap +1 for cheaper than a +1 Vicious Necklace. But sadly the trade off, you get the +1 to only one attack. My ...

I will add I'm currently, for the first time in 5 years, playing pathfinder, and the DM made the reasonable call to only allow the Core Rulebook and Advanced Player's Guide, since everything else doesn't just clog up the system but is utterly (and not just occasionally) un-play-tested. I find the a...

I like how the Warpriest is supposed to be a hybrid cleric/Fighter, but is weaker in melee than a buffed Cleric and with 3/4th BAB as worst than Fighter. So you can be a Sacred Fist archetype get feat Crusader's flurry and be full BAB armored Warpriest, but that seems a lot of work to do what it the...

Then the Monk issue, they backpedaled when they realized no one uses flurry like the designers. Man, why the fudge is flurry even a unique rule? The most obvious thing to do would've been giving them the two weapon fighting chain as bonus feats, the other most obvious thing to do is give them full ...

And that is only if some fuckwit forum moderator doesn't arbitrarily declare that your FAQ candidate needs no answer from the FAQ team (without bothering to, you know, actually giving you the presumably official, apparently already clear answer.) They never post a link when they answer: answered in...

40K only has one movie that I am aware of, which is in the category of not very terrible, at least IMO. What they do have (and had) a bevy of quality computer games. Fuck, I got into the hobby because of Dark Omen. DnD used to have good computer games under its belt. The best of which came out slig...

Casting the spell requires the spell sage to spend 1 full round per spell level of the desired spell if the spell's casting time is normally 1 full round or longer, this is added to the spell sage's casting time. For example, if a spell sage wants to use spell study to cast cure light wounds (cleri...

GâtFromKI wrote:spent a part of the morning being stabbed by angry people with knives and figured out how tricky it was to stay alive. It's not impossible... but a character definitely shouldn't have more than 4 HP.

To be fair, D&D characters are supposed to be representing dodging passively.