Pathfinder 2e

TOZ · Post by **TOZ** » Mon Jun 08, 2020 7:46 pm

Fully expecting my wife's sorcerer to prove that right, but I am highly amused at being a fist chemist. (Threw two gauntlets on him as weapons since they are free hand.)

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Tue Jun 09, 2020 1:43 pm

Like self buffing and then punching? Or are the gauntlets there 'cause there's no drawback

TOZ · Post by **TOZ** » Thu Jun 11, 2020 12:57 am

I had no idea what to pick and looking at the Free Hand trait they don't cause you to lose the hand for other things, so he can alternate between holding items and punching as needed.

TOZ · Post by **TOZ** » Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:29 am

Update: Two encounters have been completely negated by Calm Emotions. Seems magic is still king.

Orca · Post by **Orca** » Thu Jun 18, 2020 2:18 pm

Up until you cast it on someone higher level than you, anyway. Then they get a +10 or so to the save. This assumes that you keep the spell heightened to the max level, and at odd-numbered character levels it also works against enemies one level higher than you IIRC.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Thu Jun 18, 2020 7:46 pm

TOZ wrote:Update: Two encounters have been completely negated by Calm Emotions. Seems magic is still king.

I'm assuming that's something the diplomacy or whatnot skill doesn't do

GâtFromKI · Post by **GâtFromKI** » Sun Jun 21, 2020 11:16 am

TOZ wrote: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" trait; if the monsters have 2 or 3 less level than the PCs, they aren't relevant: Calm emotion handle them, but a fighter could wade into melee and kill them all with minimal damages. But if the encounter is composed of 4 Level-1 monsters, Calm emotion can instantly remove two of them from the fight and transform a hard ancounter into a trivial encounter.

TOZ · Post by **TOZ** » Sun Jun 21, 2020 6:42 pm

OgreBattle wrote:
TOZ wrote:Update: Two encounters have been completely negated by Calm Emotions. Seems magic is still king.
I'm assuming that's something the diplomacy or whatnot skill doesn't do

I was going to say 'not against hostile animals' but I actually haven't checked how druids interact with animals now. She could very well have used Diplomacy, I imagine.

We're still only 1st level.

TOZ · Post by **TOZ** » Sun Jun 21, 2020 6:46 pm

Orca wrote:Up until you cast it on someone higher level than you, anyway. Then they get a +10 or so to the save. This assumes that you keep the spell heightened to the max level, and at odd-numbered character levels it also works against enemies one level higher than you IIRC.

"If a spell has the incapacitation trait, any creature of more than twice the spell's level treats the result of their check to prevent being incapacitated by the spell as one degree of success better, or the result of any check the spellcaster made to incapacitate them as one degree of success worse."

They can still fail, but the math of the game makes that pretty unlikely, as I understand it.

Orca · Post by **Orca** » Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:12 am

For those interested, a second company is looking to Pathfinder Pathfinder. The first, Purple Duck Games' Porphyra went nowhere much as far as I can tell; Legendary Games' version, currently named Corefinder, is still at the point where they're throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks, but you can talk to them on their Discord or on threads on various messageboards.

WiserOdin032402 · Post by **WiserOdin032402** » Fri Jun 26, 2020 5:15 am

Neat. If it works out, that'd be great.

Archmage · Post by **Archmage** » Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:01 am

Wow. It's the Waluigi of tabletop RPGs.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:24 am

A worthless thing that nobody except the worst people want?

The Adventurer's Almanac · Fri Jun 26, 2020 5:25 pm

... I feel attacked for picking Waluigi in Mario Kart.

TOZ · Post by **TOZ** » Fri Jun 26, 2020 11:23 pm

As you should be.

K · Post by K » Fri Jun 26, 2020 11:34 pm

Who is Waluigu?

MGuy · Post by **MGuy** » Sat Jun 27, 2020 2:32 am

K wrote:Who is Waluigu?

I thought I knew what Waluigi was and only after watching this do I realize how ignorant I really was.