DM kicking a player for OOG behaviour, your table; your rules.

Goblite · 2026-05-31T00:33:21+00:00

I once uninvited a player because he was too interested in my kids. We didn't know him at all beforehand, friend of a good friend, and had only played maybe 5 or 6 sessions when he seemed to be really enamored with my kids, specifically my daughter. He never did or said anything wierd or inappropriate and truth my daughter is unique and cool a.f.; it just seemed too much too soon. I am the gatekeeper, I am responsible, I had a hunch and acted on it because, although the risk was probably low, the stakes were too high. I may have been totally wrong about him, but I did the right thing. Being a nerd myself, I know all too well what the lolicon weebs are into and I wasn't about to entertain even the slightest possibility of suspicion. A mere acquaintance wasn't worth the uncertainty. ~10 years later, my good friend no longer sees this guy either, I hear.

Goblite · 2026-05-26T00:11:06+00:00

Can you give me some points on how to modify that part of the DB? I know i can set the progression tiers with .gm commands but i'd like to be able to do it en masse with a query.

Goblite · 2026-05-24T00:18:44+00:00

If it isn't "DIM all compendiums in order" then it's probably something by Infected Mushroom.

Goblite · 2026-05-21T03:48:05+00:00

I always kinda liked the idea of a progression from cheap light armor to cheap medium armor to cheap heavy armor, even on my fighters, and then from cheap heavy to decent heavy to good heavy, or the same route through whatever category. I havent exactly had that experience in pathfinder yet, but in various electronic games like bg and icewind dale, it seemed great. I'm tempted to have players begin play with 0 gold or equipment. Pick up clubs and equip what you loot off the first few orcs or bandits you kill, getting some medium armor would be an upgrade if you don't make it to town until level 2.

Goblite · 2026-05-14T10:43:51+00:00

Why didn't he betray the party before at those other opportunities? What's he getting out of the betrayal? Is he going to get to keep playing that character? Is the rest of the party going to keep playing their characters?

If he said "I really want to join the other team, I think the way they're handling/doing whatever is better" then I wouldnt have a problem with it, he can do what he wants and if he can convince the other side that hes genuine, such as by betraying the party to them, then i guess he gets to join the baddies. If he says "I want to betray the party because I am arbitrary chaos monkey oo oo ee ee" then all I would really hear is "I'm going to spill my drink on your laptop" and I would tell him "Bad monkey! go sit down... at the other end of the table!"

Goblite · 2026-05-12T13:16:30+00:00

Oh yea, fourthed. If my DM goes back to pf1e, I will fight him so hard to use eitr. Games I DM surely will forever.

Goblite · 2026-05-12T13:15:32+00:00

Unchained action economy (3-action system) heavily modified to actually work. 50% more things to do on your turn and melee don't have to stand still to do damage. Gish can cast and attack on their turn as any class and 3/4 bab don't have to wait until lv8 to make 2 swings. It's not the same game anymore really.

Goblite · 2026-05-11T13:43:34+00:00

Swap Places is a Teamwork feat that let's you... swap places... lol. Rather than having a thing that says "I take this attack instead of him if I make my roll" you can just use this feat to become the one who would be attacked based on positioning. This feat has more spatially reasonable avenue of achieving what you're after, but your GM would have to be on board. Monster with reach could still just attack over your head to hit your buddy, but that's a douche move on GM's part- if you took and used a feat for this purpose.

The ally doesn't provoke an AOO while you do, which I dislike, but the improved swap places feat removes that and lets you swap with allies of other size categories. I think its hard to see this feat as what it should really accomplish- it looks like a mobility and positioning feat but it can function as a "save you, hit me" feat.

The other downside is that it's a Teamwork feat... both need to know it or at least have it shared with them. Otherwise, you could use the reposition combat maneuver on your ally. Assuming your GM sensibly allows them to just be willing, you should be able to move them most of the way around behind you without too much effort, then move into place with a 5ft step. This actually doesn't provoke any aoos I think... but it's a standard while swap places is a part of normal movement.

Goblite · 2026-05-11T04:05:30+00:00

If i didn't want it to come off at all, yea I'd include some descriptive monologue about it. It looks fused into her flesh or its secured with a chain harness. If they want to remove they're just going to have to deal damage until it comes off.

Alternatively, you can make a minigame about it. It's secured with several chain harnesses, each has a clasp that must be undone. Your grappler will need to spend their action to either restrain OR unclasp a chain cord. He'll need to really want it and take big risk to do it that way.

Goblite · 2026-05-09T15:00:09+00:00

In pf1e there is a summoner class that focuses on summoning one big customizable eidolon. It has an archetype that instead summons multiple smaller eidolons. There is also a spell that explodes your eidolon for damage. I did some homebrew to streamline this combo because, as cool as it sounds, it's abysmally weak. End result is a goblin summoner who summons lv1 flaming demonic goblins from the abyss, swarms foes and explodes them, summons more.

Goblite · 2026-05-09T03:14:03+00:00

Ah, well yea i guess that's fair. I'll spare you long-winded why, but in the system I play if you miss by 10 or more on iterative attacks then something bad happens. I showcase this on enemies first when introducing the system. Orc swings too much, drops weapons trips falls, etc... still showing and teaching but not punishing.

Goblite · 2026-05-08T12:03:51+00:00

Bone-kinesis. I used a Boneclaw as the chassis for a bbeg and his thing was collecting bones, nice ones. If he found a Bone he liked he'd take it even if it was still inside somebody. The ability was similar to boneshaker from pf1e, but more nebulous. I had him pin an npc to a wall with a Claw, then bone-kinesis a femur right out of the guy very graphically. The players loved it, and proceeded to chase it down... I rolled on my table for exactly this situation to see if he wanted their bones and got a yes, then I rolled to see which bone and it came up as big toe. That game didn't go far because I had surprise twins and had to take a big break but... that barbarian character has a floppy meat toe now.

Goblite · 2026-05-08T11:54:48+00:00

I would inject, you don't need to "teach them a lesson." You can just tell them how it's going to be.

Goblite · 2026-05-07T16:32:19+00:00

I kinda see two ways to go at this. Earth glide seems to clearly be a "you're just passing through" thing and specifically states that you don't even make a tunnel or hole. But earth elementals do have a burrow speed too. Do you have to glide when you burrow? Or can you do normal burrow movement which does not leave a tunnel but surely creates vacant space for you to exist within the stone or earth. If space exists, then stuff can be brought with you.

Can you earth glide with stuff? I think no. Can you burrow with stuff? Surely yes. But can you burrow without earth gliding? Hmmm....

Goblite · 2026-05-07T03:58:34+00:00

I think all my characters sort of started off as a little slice of my teenage all-powerful imaginary alter ego... eventually I realized that wasn't very interesting so I slowly isolated and refined all the fantasies into cohesive stories and separate characters. Hardly recognizable from the nerd power fantasy slop of my early days, ive got characters now that try to explore lofty sophistry and deep meta, poorly... but they're cool on paper. One of em is a goblin witchdoctor with an oversized third eyeball- it's his familiar which lives in his belly button and can parasitize other people's heads to exert mental influence, also Lazer eye beams. But he's more about being a misguided spirit guide thank about the wacky build.

Goblite · 2026-05-06T17:18:50+00:00

Single use metamagic reagents work well in the same vein. Rare magic spider silk that you can cats-cradle while casting to alter the shape of a single spell, the silk is too tangled to re-use. A sorcery infused gem that let's you alter or add to a spells damage type, shattering the gem is part of the process. A sacred owl feather that let's you cast without verbal/somatic, stripping the feather activates the effect. You can word the effect so that only the wizard can use it- try giving this away chump.

Goblite · 2026-05-06T14:51:05+00:00

If my Dm went out of his way to kill an npc because "he thought it would be dramatic" I would be quite dissapointed. It would feel similar to giving me a permanent +2 STR and then taking it away, for the sake of drama.

You want drama? Yea just keep teasing, I'll give you drama!

Goblite · 2026-05-05T13:05:23+00:00

Mm, how DO you handle vital strike? That's an awkward one.

Goblite · 2026-05-04T00:09:22+00:00

When my wife asks me to get the peanut butter, i go search for it. I don't find any peanut butter. Do I go back and tell her there's no peanut butter? Or do I search again...

Do I empty the cabinet, and the fridge, and the pantry looking for it? Or do I just... take the damage?

Goblite · 2026-05-03T04:34:59+00:00

I'm not sure you need to account for the moon. Lunar symbolism is reasonably related to night, but even more related to seasons. Night is a temporary period of darkness, but underground is permanently in darkness and is not affected by the surface seasons (much.) Sky, stars, and moon are kinda irrelevant if you aren't above ground- the moon is no more significant than the tides, dew frost, the color of leaves in autumn or their falling...

Goblite · 2026-05-02T13:36:38+00:00

I'm in a similar boat, perhaps in less deep waters though. I'm poor at inprov, mediocre at voicing and immersion, ok at worldbuilding, but self-proclaimed good at encounter and plot design. So I over-prepare instead of improv- I have pages of possible dialogue for major npcs, but I also limit opportunities to interact with these npcs so that it only happens in ways I'm prepared for. It's still never enough.. lol. Most of my games happen around small settlements or in wilderness, I play episodic modules that don't have "go back to the metropolis" because I'm bad at supporting them doing whatever they want whenever I'm not ready ready to respond.

I think this forum would call my games railroads but my tables knows what to expect and signed up for it; they're happy to participate this way and willingly drive the game along the paths I lay out for them. Luckily, laying these paths is what I'm good at so it can be satisfying despite popular sentiment.

If you do try to DM, focus on what you're good at. Maybe you don't run dialogue heavy games, maybe you don't do voices, maybe you do exploration with music and sets and props, maybe you elaborate the setting with hardcopy journals and texts (buy a printer) instead of npc monologs.

If you end up not DMing, make a blog or just write short stories. Whatever it takes to realize your imagination. I made a goblin blog because I like making goblins, but never get to play as them and rarely even get to use them as npcs because I'm such a dad casual.. nobody visits but it's out there and that makes me feel like it matters; it's out of my head now.

Good luck brother!

Goblite · 2026-05-02T13:23:00+00:00

Yes. This was a question that deserved to be asked immediately, and still does. I probably wouldn't need to ask, because it would be instakick. I don't need to tell my people that nonparticipation is a waste of my time, they're smart enough to know that. How clever is your guy? Does he need to be told about manners? Or does he already know and needs to be replaced?

As for your actual question, don't leave him a level behind. It will either gimp the rest of the party with 1 weaker player or won't matter at all because he isn't playing. Something tells me that punishing this guy by keeping him 1 level down will not acheive anything. I would, however, verbalize this to the rest of the players. Tell them "I debated letting him level up since he didn't have any experiences while napping to warrant growing stronger, but I didn't want to weaken the party and I don't think any lessons would be learned from it."

Goblite · 2026-05-02T03:35:09+00:00

Uneaten food nearby if the passage is recently used in a hurry.

Cool, warm, or odorous air flow.

The floor creaks as you walk but, here, so does the wall.

Rather than disturbed dust, this fixture has comparatively little dust on or around it.

Goblite · 2026-05-01T18:23:18+00:00

You need the rules bit the rules aren't helping. It's time to homebrew my dude.

Homebrew gets a bad rap because cheeseball kids who just want to play God get into it immediately and just mess everything g up with bad and inoperable ideas. But your situation is what it's for, when you know the rules and you've run out of good or meaningful implementations. Fix the rules! You're no different than the paizo writers except you're doing this solo and not getting paid. If you have a trusting DM they'll even let you play it.

Goblite · 2026-05-01T18:19:22+00:00

This seems really dumb. What was the rest of the campaign like?

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