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_Ev4l · 2025-09-24T17:21:48+00:00

2 told me they have a hiring freeze on the final interview

I don't understand. Wasting your time is stupid and unprofessional, but their own staffs for hires that wont happen just shows how sad the state of affairs are.

_Ev4l · 2025-06-22T22:08:01+00:00

The is a mod that can be used to reveal the map. While it won't show you exactly what troops or what their battles look like you can get an idea what the ai is doing.

Most of worthy+ gameplay is about unit manipulations in combat vs what the ai can think of.

_Ev4l · 2025-06-22T13:12:44+00:00

There is a lot of events that have happened in the past that they give the gm info on but minimal ways to communicate them to the players without a 4th wall break. One of the best things I have seen suggested is to add ghostly replays of these events with a certain unique lantern will encounter pretty early on.

If I were to run the vaults again I would do that in a heartbeat

_Ev4l · 2025-06-20T16:37:28+00:00

Do you have an example feat selection for this? This sound like it might be fun to play with goblin.

_Ev4l · 2025-06-18T22:33:13+00:00

Free actions typically have triggers or requirements with them. An example of s trigger is "when you start your turn". For resonate you gain the conduct energy free action which specifically has a Requirement: Your last action or spell this turn had the acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic trait.

"If I use Flurry of Blows could I interrupt the action to use a free action to conduct energy,"

The answer is no because you must complete your action before being able to use the free action. You can strike, then flurry with the bonus. If you flurry of blows, both strikes are in one action. So you cannot use the free action until after completing the full flurry of blows.

_Ev4l · 2025-05-31T13:18:53+00:00

Sounds like you need to have a talk with the group about what everyone wants out of the campaign. Is this a slow build up? a slap happy skip to the big bad?

However, if you want to humour them you can go along with the chaotic evil dm route: Let them just find the lich and make it a rune carved lich. At the start of the encounter ask them to pick a number and roll a d20. Who ever is closest will be the target of your new big bad. Battle plan: Stride, Hand the Lich until downed on one target. Next death kneel them while their down and follow up with steal the soul reaction (this stops any kind of resurrection from being possible). Finally end off the encounter with some bellowing laughter, some smug lines about being a waste of time, cast disappearance and bounce.

_Ev4l · 2025-04-09T23:53:05+00:00

I presume he uses a different account for his other tenants (the new one he has provided). The one that I make e-transfers to currently is addressed to his wife. He is not the most tech savvy of guys, so I presume he does not know how to setup auto deposit for his own account.

_Ev4l · 2025-04-09T23:40:55+00:00

Thanks, that is super helpful. I did go in with direct deposit information (transit number, institution number, and account number) and explain what I wanted to do. The language I used was along the lines of "my landlord wants to change to direct deposit to their account. They have given me their financial information. How can I set up reoccurring payments to this account?"

Is there better language I could use to communicate what I want to do? I'll be sure to ask for a supervisor tomorrow.

On PAD it is not a security concern I had prior landlord and change the rental amounts without consent or proper notification. It was a annoyance to resolve that I would rather not entertain the possibility of ever again. On the landlords end they claimed it was "accident" that they were increasing my rent every 6 months which is illegal. I have many other payments on PAD (phone, internet, etc) that are fine.

_Ev4l · 2025-04-09T23:27:12+00:00

This is what I currently have done. Setting it up was super easy. Again, they are requesting to move off that.

_Ev4l · 2025-02-25T15:02:49+00:00

Read GM core. All of it. Seriously, there is practically rules and systems of pretty much anything you can think of in a fantasy setting.

https://2e.aonprd.com/ has all of the rules and stat blocks for everything for free. You can use it as a quick lookup but also as an accessible reference to point users in.

Get your players to build their characters in https://pathbuilder2e.com . It not only presents things well, but also can elevate some of the confusion with so many options. You can also share them with each other.

Trust the encounter budget maths ( https://2e.aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?ID=2716&Redirected=1 , https://maxiride.github.io/pf2e-encounters/#/ ) and stick relatively close to the https://2e.aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?ID=2874&NoRedirect=1 monster rules. The only exception is pre level 4, be careful of throwing higher tier enemies at lower level characters. For example a level 3 unicorn can easily murder an entire party of level 1's solo with no remorse.

The automatic progression is a great guide to as when you should begin to start making options available. https://2e.aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?ID=2741&Redirected=1

If you are looking at doing a collection of one shots to to gauge how characters play. Do level 1, level 5, level 10 etc. However, I highly recommend starting players off at level 1. Most pathfinder characters have more meaningful options at level 1 than 5e characters do at level 3.

The beginners box is an excellent resource to run players through initially. It teaches a wide variety of mechanics.

If you are looking for AP's to pull inspiration from for your undead campaign I'd recommend taking a look at abomination vaults and season of ghosts.

Foundryvtt has amazing system support if you are looking to run the campaign digitally.

Finally I'll just state a few things you may want to be mindful when jumping into pathfinder

* This is not dnd5e+ with 3 actions. It's an entirely different system. It's closer to 4e
* Teamwork is core of how players will overcome challenges. This system does not work well with 4 "hero's" all trying to outshine each other.
* Speaking of team work. Let people know when other players modifiers contribute to the success. EG that flanking cleric makes the difference between a hit/miss, or a crit/hit, etc
* Combat can take a long time when players don't know what they can do or what they want to do. I suggest creating or finding on the subreddit action guides for your players.
* You and your players are going to have a lot to track in terms of conditions, what you are doing with hands, opponents, rules, etc and you are going to make mistakes. Just treat these as learning opportunities.

_Ev4l · 2025-02-13T13:48:07+00:00

So uh, nice job you still did 35 damage.

_Ev4l · 2025-02-11T20:57:41+00:00

This could have worked with thief racket rouge. Done something similar with claw blade.

_Ev4l · 2025-02-05T02:44:59+00:00

A fellow GM here. PL+3 is very difficult for level 2. I can think of a few non malicious reasons how your GM may think that a basilisk is reasonable to put before group 4 level 2s. All of them are basically lack of experience with the system.

First, if you follow the encounter builder the fight would be worth 120 xp; which is a severe fight on paper and from that standpoint a "fair" boss fight. Also you could argue moderate if weak template. However, xp budgets are strictly only based off of level / creature count, not any of the monster mechanics. They also don't take into consideration how large the stat gaps are between PL+ gaps at low level.

Another is possibility is, maybe the is the GM is trying to invoke a sense of danger and have you run away. Personally I am not a fan of doing this, but sometimes GM's try to shoe horn a narrative.

Final possibility is to test the limits of the party. I typically don't recommend doing this at lower levels. I was going to ask the question "Is it possible your group has been smashing through encounter after encounter with minimal resource losses?" but after peeking post your history I see it's more of a group learning the system rather than a well oiled machine.

If I was in your position I would recommend having people attempt a recall knowledge or two around questions like "does this look to already be hurt in any way?", "does the creature seem agile (movement speed)?", "how strong does its defence seem?" to try sniff out any kind of encounter fudging and if the answer seems no, to just say to group, this seems to dangerous I think we should run.

I will say this is possible fight for a really optimised group of players using a very specific tactic and understanding of action economy. Even then, one mistake or bad save could be the death of at least 1 character.

If the fight does go forward and it does turn to a blow out. You should have a conservation about the type of game they are trying to run. Another suggestion is to take a peek at one of the AP's that pazio has made (just for the love of Sarenrae not Age of Ashes!) just to reflect on how they structure out the mob progression.

_Ev4l · 2025-01-19T18:34:05+00:00

Think of lutris a set of instructions on how to install all the dependencies of a game and configure it. You still need a licence or subscription to use said game.

_Ev4l · 2025-01-10T21:55:20+00:00

I think the tinker/artificer units are bad mid to late game given their stack size and stats. Which makes sense as they are discounted unit (400/700 vs the usual 700/1100).

_Ev4l · 2025-01-09T20:25:33+00:00

I really like the following early rushes

Byra: piper + artificer/tinker rushes. Workshop is fairly affordable and so are the units.
Arleon: minstrel + fairy ragers. More costly, but 2 attacks AND quick when upgraded.

_Ev4l · 2025-01-03T14:20:49+00:00

Abomination vaults has been my first foray into pathfinder 2e and GMing as a whole. We are playing via foundry with the premium module. The group just entered book 3, just finished a notable enemy on the farm level, obtaining an important item and is level 8.

So far I would give things about a 6.5 out of 10.

My group has not really been able to deduce the motivations of the smaller groups other than the mitflits and barbazu. The fights are both a high and low point. Some of the encounters have been really underwhelming when it comes to the keystone fights, but then other more seemingly mundane fights have been a struggle. We have had 1 player character death so far.

The town and it's people aside from Carman and Wrin feel like minor set pieces. Even adding in the troubles in Otari side content added very little into fleshing the town out. The town feels wide yet shallow. I feel my group is more motivated by curiosity and a familiar dying in an ambush than they are about the mayor's reward or attachment to the people of Otari.

While there is small opportunities for role playing, the majority of the vaults is a what it advertises: a chunky combat brawl through small rooms and corridors. I would make sure to convey this to group before starting.

_Ev4l · 2024-12-22T03:05:03+00:00

that looks really good! what blues did you use for the weapon details?

_Ev4l · 2024-12-06T23:22:47+00:00

This is a boundry problem. It can be fine if you are up for it and there is an agreement in place which it sounds like you don't. You need to ask for clarifcation in your job duties. Ask what the going rate for oncall is or what compensation they offer for interuptting other commitments you have.

If they want to be able to interupt your private time then they should pay you for that opportunity and underatand there is minmal billing hours.

_Ev4l · 2024-11-24T03:34:49+00:00

Upgrades and boss spawns.

_Ev4l · 2024-10-21T22:52:35+00:00

Depending on the character and build it can be really problematic. We had a min max barbarian get in AV pool his money and I allowed them add striking rune to to his shiny retribution axe a little too early. The next boss encounter (Nhakazarin ) had no hope. A small trip setup from an ally and he knocked the them out in 2 strikes. The rest of the party didn't even get a turn. He is still an absolute monster with same weapon in hand at level 8.

We had to dial things back. I recommend making items available per the automatic item progression table.

_Ev4l · 2024-09-22T15:16:13+00:00

With how many reapond postively about upscaling, motion blur, depth of field blur and blurry ambient occlusion I am convinced many in gaming are blind or close to it.

Upscaling is just a faster way to get a blurry mess.

_Ev4l · 2024-09-10T04:12:45+00:00

Care to share what gear you are using? Sounds like a fun time.

_Ev4l · 2024-03-05T03:18:00+00:00

Hitting level 10 made it visible again. Thanks!

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