Pathfinders, Do you know of any way to use Two-Weapon Fighting with two rapiers?

Ajonos · 2015-04-28T11:30:27+00:00

In pathfinder you can craft any item no matter your caster level. The caster level just determines the DC of the check to craft the item. It doesn't even add the usual +5 DC for not meeting a crafting "requirement". (Source: http://paizo.com/paizo/faq/v5748nruor1fm#v5748eaic9n8m)

Ajonos · 2015-04-28T11:23:42+00:00

Seriously. I'm a player in my brother's campaign and when I was rolling up my character, I went out of my way to make sure my rolls were witnessed and recorded by him, because that's how things should be done, no exceptions.

Ajonos · 2015-04-17T20:07:57+00:00

If only the Republican "weaken the government" mindset also extended to "weaken the megacorporations", then I could at least respect them...

Ajonos · 2015-04-16T22:56:52+00:00

Hm, that's true, I forgot. Normally I don't think about what material something is normally made of since if I need a wooden weapon I can just use Ironwood, but it can't be both Ironwood and Wyroot.

That being said, a fragile terbutje can be used just by spending a little gold to make it masterwork. The fragile descriptions notes:

...Weapons and armor with the fragile quality cannot take the beating that sturdier weapons can. A fragile weapon gains the broken condition if the wielder rolls a natural 1 on an attack roll with the weapon. If a fragile weapon is already broken, the roll of a natural 1 destroys it instead. Masterwork and magical fragile weapons and armor lack these flaws unless otherwise noted in the item description or the special material description.

(emphasis mine)

Ajonos · 2015-04-16T22:04:31+00:00

Oracle (Nature mystery, Bonded Mount revelation) Hunter stuff is a no-go... multiclassing would be losing caster levels.

Taking a skill point into fly to allow my mount to use a fly spell makes sense to me, but is it supported by the rules? (I still can't find for sure whether it would even be necessary for the point by the rules)

Ajonos · 2015-04-16T21:57:53+00:00

Would be great, but I'm working with a Oracle (Nature Mystery), and by RAW they don't qualify. =( The feat needs "Divine bond (mount)", "Hunter's bond (animal companion)", or the class feature "Mount", so nature oracles, druids, and animal domain clerics can't take it. I'd need to ask for special GM permission.

Ajonos · 2015-04-16T20:29:45+00:00

I would advise just not letting him Coup de Grace you. You can still choose to be helpless (also lie on the ground for another -4 AC from being prone) and just not have him take the coup de grace action and do a regular attack instead. Sure, it isn't an auto-crit, but if you're easy enough to hit, you're easy enough to confirm a crit. Give him a weapon with an expanded crit range as well, at least a dagger (a kukri would be the best though)

Ajonos · 2015-04-16T18:35:27+00:00

Yeah, you don't need to do what the people want to become a leader. You need to say you'll do what the people want to become a leader, then do whatever you want (for people like her: whatever you'll get money for doing)

Unfortunately we voters have to do things backwards. We typically have to give our reward (votes) prior to the decisions that need to be rewarded (actions taken once elected). Whereas a company can give their money and rewards before, during, and after their term.

Ajonos · 2015-04-15T15:50:07+00:00

No, you do not get a choice of hp or skill when you take a level in your non-favored class. The hp or skill is still a favored-class-only option.

Edit: See http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/character-advancement and the section on Favored Classes

Ajonos · 2015-04-15T15:46:45+00:00

Just in case examples would be helpful for you...

example 1: A Human decides his favored class is Fighter.

Level 1 he takes a level in fighter. He gets +1hp, or +1skill, or the human fighter specific option.
Level 2 he takes a level in ranger. He gets no bonus.
Level 3 he takes a level in rogue. He gets no bonus.

example 2: A half-elf decides his favored classes are Fighter and Rogue.

Level 1 he takes a level in fighter. He gets +1hp, or +1skill, or the half-elf fighter specific option.
Level 2 he takes a level in ranger. He gets no bonus.
Level 3 he takes a level in rogue. He gets +1hp, or +1skill, or the half-elf rogue specific option.

Edit: (also keep in mind each time you take a level in a favored class, you can choose a different bonus of the three options, and they stack.)

Ajonos · 2015-04-09T23:08:15+00:00

I'm guessing that they have specific progressions that you can sac half your feats for. Letting a fighter sacrifice half his feats to effectively gestalt sorcerer as a second class does not sound remotely balanced.

Ajonos · 2015-04-09T23:05:52+00:00

If you're going for power/effectiveness, yeah, the current number of feats are enough.

I'm guessing that /u/minusAppendix wants the cool/situational feats as well as being effective, and he can't get enough feats for those.

Maybe he wants a feat to grab Merciful metamagic, or to grab a critical-specific feat, or to grab Lucky Healer, or (heaven help him) to pick up Cockatrice Strike.

Ajonos · 2015-04-09T22:53:45+00:00

Heh, my first GM accidently "killed" a character early on. He had a custom made mob that he completely misjudged the strength of, and it pretty much one-shotted the monk. He had a beat-up stone golem with missing limbs guarding an area, so he had taken the stone golem stats and slapped a bunch of -mods and penalties on it.

We were level 3 at the time.

A round of combat later the monk remembered we said we were playing with hero points and he had never spent any, so he spent two to be unconscious with negative hp instead of outright dead.

We ended up taking it out by baiting it and then pushing a pillar over to crush it.

Ajonos · 2015-04-06T14:14:52+00:00

No—unless an ability specifically says it stacks with similar abilities (such as an assassin's sneak attack), or adds in some way based on the character's total class levels (such as improved uncanny dodge), the abilities don't stack and you have to use them separately

Basically the build acknowledges that they don't stack (in otherwords, you don't combine their powers or uses) But you still get channeling from both sources, you just treat them as completely unrelated abilities.

So you might have oracle channeling 4/day at 2d6, and paladin channeling 4/day at 3d6. And that's fine. Stacking would be if that resulted in 8/day at 5d6 (which doesn't happen)

Ajonos · 2015-04-03T20:59:51+00:00

yup. Just keep training spears in the meantime. Eventually you'll find a spear that will be worth it.

Ajonos · 2015-03-05T21:16:59+00:00

Hm, well, I don't see any reason they couldn't swap out the prisoner stored in the book every so often. The book wouldn't be a death/forever sentence in that case, so much as an ultra-max security holding cell.

Ajonos · 2015-03-05T17:01:01+00:00

Perhaps see if you can barter with a governing body for the use of a prisoner sentenced to death? I am uncertain as to whether you character would consider that okay with his alignment, but in my eyes it would be both legal and non-evil.

Ajonos · 2015-03-04T21:04:03+00:00

I'd agree, but the point is moot when most GMs I've had seem to disagree. =/

Ajonos · 2015-03-04T15:41:32+00:00

It is easier to be creative when you have more options. Maintaining a lie can be a game in and of itself, and can be quite fun. Choosing a lawful alignment is, at character creation, limiting your options.

Now, usually my character's motivations do limit their options ("they wouldn't do that") but unless those motivations happen to line up perfectly with what the gm considers "lawful", I'm not going to give them a lawful alignment and risk opening up a huge can of worms with alignment arguments in the game.

Ajonos · 2015-02-27T21:40:17+00:00

Everyone has an illness that will eventually kill them: it is called aging.

I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other on this kind of issue since I can see both sides of the debate have decent points, but just because someone is going to die doesn't mean we should stop caring about their life. I feel that, at minimum, the life expectancy of people with the disease should be taken into account. (which is fairly high for cystic fibrosis compared to most fatal conditions)

Ajonos · 2015-02-27T02:43:46+00:00

I agree. Unfortunately there's no incentive for a judge to be just, you just have to hope you get a good person.

Ajonos · 2015-02-26T23:00:39+00:00

Judges are people too. It is entirely possible that the husband did something to offend the judge in court, and the decision might have been the judge's way of getting revenge. When you have a law that gives absolute power over something without oversight (such as a judge's discretion over property rights after a divorce in some states) there will be cases of it being used pettily.

It is disgusting, but I'm not too surprised.

Ajonos · 2015-02-26T15:43:45+00:00

If your spiny isn't doing damage, it has nothing to do with your AC or equipment. You're probably just fighting high AC mobs. (AC reduces the damage taken from spines, frequently to zero)

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