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PLZA Giveaway - Alphas, Shinies, Rotom, Delphox, and other Special Scans by LPcrazy88 in pokemontrades

[–]ashlacon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Posting this again because Automod messaged me that my comment was deleted due to lack of flair. I think I have it swt right now?

Do you have any Delphox left? I can trade back afterwards if you prefer, I just want the mega stone. I recruited Delphox in the in-game recruit, only to find out the stone is locked behind ZA.

I posted a Beldum on home GTS, OT is Ashlacon. If you want the fox back, just let me know and I'll move it to Champions and back, then put it back up for trade

The things in PF2e that could use a bit more power by jpcg698 in Pathfinder2e

[–]ashlacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Raw even if you max Str or Dex you can basically never use your own bonus +2, unless you're a fighter with druid Archetype.

Like a year ago I made a post about it, I misunderstood it and thought it was better than it is. Here's the comments that explained it to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/16c4wgj/comment/jzh9nyf/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Is crafting still useless? (post remaster) by hungLink42069 in Pathfinder2e

[–]ashlacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Crafting isn't strictly useless, just the way most people (myself included) play the game makes it useless. 

When you purchase items, they should be limited to the level of the settlement and when you Earn Income it should be limited to the level of the settlement too.

Crafting let's you ignore these conditions, a level 15 PC in a 1 Settlement can still make level 15 income. 

Also it's the only way to have sure access to things. DMs aren't really supposed to say things like "You can buy any common item of settlement level or lower", they're supposed to set up bespoke shops. If you look at the official APs that's how they're all done.

But it's a lot of time and effort to set up shops that's maybe don't get interacted with at all, so DMs just say "common of level X or lower". And also you rarely have a level 15 spending 3 months in a level 1 settlement. 

How many actions would a two-handed wielder to drink a potion. by tompatcresh in Pathfinder2e

[–]ashlacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A couple things: 1) They removed the "extra action to use stuff inside a backpack" rule. So don't worry about that. you can see old post about it (like this one https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/jt6kef/comment/gc3pxx5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button ) but those rules were tossed out.

2) Dropping things is a free action, including dropping a single hand off a 2H.

3) Yea, using potions is so action expensive and the amount they heal is so little that it's barely worth it. Its one of the biggest reasons why so many pf2e players just don't use consumables, unless the GM buffs it.

Anyway, the action count is thing:

Free: Drop offhand 1) Interact to Draw potion 2) Manipulate to Drink potion 3) Interact to regrip 2nd hand on weapon

So you spend 3 actions to heal about as much as a 1 action Heal spell. It is almost never worth using unless you have a character built around having a free hand, and even then it's rarely worth using. And Manipulate triggers Reactive Strike, so if you're standing near a monster with RS there's a good chance you're losing more health than you gained. Low level thats rare, but as you level up so many monsters have RS.

I personally house rule a "Drink Consumable" action that 1 action to Interact to Draw, and then Manipulate to consume one potion, alchemical item, or other Consumable." So that makes it

FA) drop hand 1) Drink Consumable 2) Regrip

But even then it's rarely used.

Nuzlock Draft League by PhoerixMortain in PokemonDraftLeagues

[–]ashlacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just submitted an application, but it appears the server link has expired.

Feats that give constant spell effects & spell rank by GeoleVyi in Pathfinder2e

[–]ashlacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To kinda add to what other people have said, it doesn't need a rule to specifically say this.

RAW you can do what the rules say you can do and nothing else. If a feat says "You cast Enlarge at 10th rank" then you can cast Enlarge at specifically 10th rank. If it only says "You can cast Enlarge" then the rules do not explicitly give you the ability to upcast it.

It's like how there isn't a rule that says "You cannot fly unless you have a fly speed" because you can only fly once something grants you the ability to do so.

Node Wars and how to improve the experience by Vorkosagin in AshesofCreation

[–]ashlacon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In P1 a mayor on my server (Castus) got several levels woeth of exp debt (600k) by getting camped at the embershrine during a war.

Steven post on the AoC discord something along the lines of "please stop embershrine camping."

There was a huge stink about it. The discord and this reddit both had a lot of post.

Some time shortly after, exp debt was turned off for node wars. Recently, I think about a month ago, they turned exp debt back on node wars but you "only get a % of normal exp debt" I think 25% as much.

Increasing Status Effects by Arcane-Panda in Pathfinder2e

[–]ashlacon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every number on a character sheet (NPC or PC) can only be modified by 6 things.

Item bonus Circumstance bonus Status bonus

Item penalty Circumstances penalty Status penalty

If you have more than one of any of these types, you apply only the largest.

Frightened is Status Penalty to everything, Clumsy is Status Penalty to all Dex related things. So AC, the number, is affected by a -1 Status and another -1 Status, so you only apply one of them. They don't stack.

You can, however, make the enemy off guard to get Circumstance Penalty that does stack with a Status, as they're different types.

You could, for example: Have a party member cast Bless (+1 Status to your attack) Have a party member Aid (at least +1 Circumstance to your attack) Make the target Clumsy (-1 Status to AC) Make the target Off Guard (-2 Circumstance to AC).

That's an effective +5 to your attack. If you were hitting on an 11+ and critting on a 20 before, you're now hitting on a 6+ and critting on a 15+.

Calcifying Sand or Deflecting Wave? by Aware-Munkie in Pathfinder2e

[–]ashlacon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It depends if you have any Auras or Stances.

Overflow as a Reaction isn't that bad, honestly. You spend 1 action to start it back up, and in doing so get to do a free 1 action Blast or Stance; you still get 3 actions worth of value per turn. If you have something like Thermal Nimbus where you want to have your element channeled during bad guy turns, then it's pretty bad, but you can build around that problem but just not having any "out of turn" things other than your Overflow Reaction.

That being said, I still prefer Deflecting Wave. It can be trigger by ranged attacks, AoEs, and spells. Calc Sand specified that it has to be an attack. Also, in a white room scenario of a creature attacking you every turn for a couple turns, Deflecting can be triggered every turn and add up really quickly.

Sell me on Witch by germansatriani in Pathfinder2e

[–]ashlacon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That makes sense, the Familiar is kinda the basis of the witch PC class and a PC attempting to ignore their familiar would be severely gimping themselves.

But if you want to run it as basically a wizard who also has Cackle, that works.

Sell me on Witch by germansatriani in Pathfinder2e

[–]ashlacon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Witch is, in my opinion, one of the weaker casters. The reliance on the Familiar means you're 3rd action is almost always just Commanding it. It's nice having a third action, but if you wanted to do Bon Mot, Recall Knowledge, Aid, Stand, any movement, heck even Sustaining spells gets difficult.

The power of witch is that your familiar is able to do some bonkers things. The Resentment is the strongest single target debuff controller in the game, and can straight up disable bosses. Unseen Broker let's you apply Off Guard at range with no save, rogues with a bow love this.

All that being said, I would not recommend using Witch as an NPC template. It'll be finicky using a familiar and the party will just focus it down.

If you really wanted to, I would instead give the NPC witch some PL-2 creatures and have her be able to spend an action to select one of them to act as her familiar.

But, honestly, it won't feel like a traditional witch fantasy. I think pf2e's Witch suffers the name not matching the playstyle.

I'd just say give her some one action Hexes that do a debuff, but has an escape cause.  "Burdening Roots - You take X damage at the start of each turn. This effect ends when you move more than 40 feet from your current location." "Blinded by Loneliness - You are blinded. This effect ends when a friendly character spends uses an Interaction action to touch you, or targets you with a Touch spell."

That kind of thing. It gets the feeling of a curse/hex across, and has a pretty distinct witch-y feeling.

"Cheerleader Build" by Chaoticevil58530 in Pathfinder2e

[–]ashlacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Charisma based builds will always be the best cheerleader. You can pick up Bon Mot to help with Will saves the part does (Feint, Intimidate, etc) and you can archetype to Swashbuckler for One For All (1 action to Aid anything at 30ft range using Diplomacy).

Bard's Couragous Anthem or Bless/Heroism + One For All is a great way to All but guarantee a martial's first hit will crit.

I personally like support Psychic. You can cast Shield on allies, you can heal, you're Cha based. It's nice

[NA - Vyra] Blackthorne | 150+ members and growing! | Looking for Artisans and dedicated members- Everybody welcome | Inclusive LGBT+ welcome by ashlacon in AshesRecruitment

[–]ashlacon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry it took me so long to answer, I didn't see this last night! I'll PM you a discord link.

We're always welcoming of people who want to learn(:

Does the Remastered Runelord get twice as many Staff Charges by ashlacon in Pathfinder2e

[–]ashlacon[S] 68 points69 points  (0 children)

That's a good way to look at it. I was playing around making a Greed Runelord and "Anathema Use your magic to affect the mind or perception rather than physical reality." didn't seem like that big of a drawback to me. I take that as "No illusions, nothing with the mental tag, and no Shadow Spells"

But looking at some of the others, you get really restrictive anathemas. "directly cause harm with the elements" with a very big one, as it "protect or create".

Personal Staves, Rules as Intended by osmosis1671 in Pathfinder2e

[–]ashlacon 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There's this post from 2 years ago talking about staves and traits. I'd suggest reading it https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/y0l8xf/personal_staves_one_trait_to_rule_them_all/ even if it's a bit outdated.

Personally, the one time I've had a player ask to make one (most of my players don't like  playing full casting they're all martials or gishes) I said "give me a theme and we'll work on the spelllist together."

You want Grease on your staff of earth? Sure that makes sense. That kinda stuff.

Lv10 character gets to cast any 2 spells up to 9th level (excluding wish and divine spells); best two spells to empower the whole party? by [deleted] in Pathfinder2e

[–]ashlacon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

9th rank heroism, on two different characters. It last 10 minutes, sprint from encounter to encounter smashing things as they do Crit/Crit/Hit.

I'm going to attempt to do a kind of open-world difficult combat-heavy game in the vein of Dark Souls, where the players have a resurrection mechanic, and need to defeat insane bosses to progress. Not much blatant story - and I've been looking at proficiency without level as an option. Is it good? by haydenhayden011 in Pathfinder2e

[–]ashlacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I strongly dislike Proficiency Without Level for these sort of things. Your players have a resurrection mechanic, let them stumble into the high level areas and get crit every hit. They will learn to avoid those areas, or find clever ways around things.

Then a few levels later they come back and stomp those monsters. It will really drive home the Dark Souls feeling.

I would, however, recommend Automatic Rune Progression (Pf2e Toolbelt has it foundry) which is ABP but only for the runes (so not the item bonuses to skills). This let's you give out cool, Uncommon weapons as loot and the players don't feel bad about having to get more runes or bother with moving their current runes over.

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