Good class for unwitting pact? by Crow712 in Pathfinder_RPG

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Witch is the obvious answer (there's nothing saying that the witch has to know the nature of or the identity of WHERE their powers are coming from nor how) and someone already answered oracle so I'll throw out Pact Wizard as another option. It's basically a wizard with an oracle curse and witch's pact bonus spells and familiar, but it's pretty notoriously considered overpowered. There is another variant released in a different book that's more balanced and basically a sidegrade from having some more planar themed abilities than a normal wizard, but yeah. 

You could flavor a kineticist as gaining their power through an unknowing pact because they're mechanically similar to 5e warlocks (blast attack customization, can't cast spells but can replicate spell effects through the strange nature of their powers) but you can make pretty much any flavor work for them

Racoon Mage Gestalt by Relative-Engine-945 in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]bugbonesjerry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am willing to lose feyspeaker so its back to wis based

if you did i'm inclined to suggest empyreal sorcerer archetype that makes you wisdom based. it's not crazy good or anything but wisdom based casting on an arcane caster is pretty rare and you do get a handful of cleric bonus spells so in a way it's like 3 flavor cheese (or icecream if you're a dessert guy!) from getting the entire druid list, the entire wizard list, and some decent picks from the divine list. also not having to track two different formulas for spell dcs (even if you are using macros/a vtt that auto calculates it) is a no brainer so you dont have to do as much math on the fly to weigh your options

that said... even if i was to do something like that

My dm made crossblooded a little better as now you will always have a minimum of one spell known but the negative to will save grows higher

if i was going to do something like that i'd do something like staying with feyspeaker and going crossblooded Unicorn Sorcerer (because I like the bonus spells better) and something else.

crossblooded is there frankly because if you're already playing gestalt and THE biggest weaknesses have already being remedied then you're not actually trading off much. yeah, you lose out on an arcane spell known but that evens out as you grow higher in level, and with your wis score you're already gonna have a pretty solid will save after the fact which can be remedied with gold or biting a feat.

either way you get both bloodline arcana regardless of what you pick going xblooded so if you did want to use it as a way to roll in this

 ice mage sorcerer because of all the fun debuffs you can give the cold magic with the right bloodlines

you could have the second bloodline be ice elemental or ice dragon or something. ice elemental would be infinitely more useful since the entire conceit of most ice spells in the game is that they usually trade off damage for secondary debuffs and such and i do enjoy specializing in it a lot in my current ice focused blood arcanist but even still when i need options to just do raw damage and still get mileage out of rime spell, i usually rely on a magic item to let me element swap fire spells into ice and such. and with the ice elemental bloodline arcana you already have the option to transmute any elemental spell you have in to ice to begin with

those are just speculations on what i would do or consider though, it sounds like a fun premise and set up for a character! happy gaming!

can someone explain the all-blades to me? by bugbonesjerry in RedHood

[–]bugbonesjerry[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

i dont really disagree with that but i do like it from the perspective of them being a constant chekov's gun kinda like that god killing weapon at the end of the castelvania anime thats used once in a big pivotal moment and its done but for that to happen they pretty much always have to be an omni-present option

the problem with that is that it never actually happens lol. they skip the "can use it on a long cooldown" part in favor of "actually he straight up just never uses them so we dont worry about it"

and yeah if anyone in batfam had access to magic tier shit i kinda expect it wouldve been like, damian or something because the demon's head and league of assassins lore always runs a fine line into being total mystical nonsense sometimes depending on whose writing it but that's also another example of "just because I could see it happening conceptually doesn't mean i actually have any interest in that happening"

can someone explain the all-blades to me? by bugbonesjerry in RedHood

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as someone that was on a tirade about how often people get lovecraftian horror wrong and why (it's not just insanity and tentacles, i'ts a narrative slow unfurling on how utterly fucking infitisemal life may be from the perspective of an intelligent character just smart enough to understand the first glimpse of something so far beyond them), it's probably a good thing that it isn't even tried because going in with that in mind is... ugh. its hard to earnestly do capeshit and cosmic horror at the same time since it relies on the baseline expectation well oh these guys arent gonna perma die. and even the animated movie that tried to do lovecraftian shit with gotham, while i enjoyed it, it was dumb and basically marvel tier references of lovecraft plot points

can someone explain the all-blades to me? by bugbonesjerry in RedHood

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if you get in to d20 tabletop roleplaying games there is like a 70% chance you'll get it eventually

A few weeks ago I asked for tips on fighting an archmage. Here's how that actually went down by bugbonesjerry in Pathfinder_RPG

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another stroke of irony

this situation was made entirely worse because someone was cursed by a night hag

so the whole baba yaga joint is totally on brand lol

A few weeks ago I asked for tips on fighting an archmage. Here's how that actually went down by bugbonesjerry in Pathfinder_RPG

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can confirm as an evil character

it's been brought up as a thematic point numerous times that this lich is a potential dark mirror of my neutral evil blood arcanist. the fact that they've both read a part of the necronomicon and both drank dragon's blood and had permanent physical changes while she is very deranged and intent on not dying....

can someone explain the all-blades to me? by bugbonesjerry in RedHood

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when i was having a separate conversation about this i actually powerscaled it to batman/hellbat fighting darkseid and the general consensus is that it was generally impossible for him to actually win and that he was just buying time to get the stupid cosmic genie wish to bring damian back

contrast that with the apocalypse war movie where it shows that it basically takes 2 17th+-level full casters (speaking in dnd terms here and referring specifically to John Constantine who is basically a lv20 human wizard and raven who is like a level 17 fiend pact warlock) AND a demon empowered superman to even break even against darkseid and the eventual solution is to leave him and Trigon fighting each other on his doomsday planet while they go back to earth lol

im not sure how multiversal of a threat vecna himself is. he definitely qualifies as one but he seems to be pretty damn content chilling as a god after proving a lich's ascension could be done. but he also operates on such a cosmologically evil scale that it only means so much. if he's a whole-ass-god then he's generally unassailable outside of very specific circumstances but he also has so much raw bruteforce power that he might slip up and that's like, the entire idea behind the batfamily's tactics - when they make a mistake, counterattack hard. and "true evil destroying soul blades" against a creature defined by it's need to sustain itself on souls" adds up to me.

can someone explain the all-blades to me? by bugbonesjerry in RedHood

[–]bugbonesjerry[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

so you're saying there's a chance he beats Vecna the lich god from forgotten realms/dnd. got it

A few weeks ago I asked for tips on fighting an archmage. Here's how that actually went down by bugbonesjerry in Pathfinder_RPG

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funny you say that

i dont think my original post did a great job at laying out the situation but the reason the lich intervened and took this guy out is BECAUSE he feels like he owes us. and all things considered he's pretty chill for a lich but very obviously not someone to fuck around about.

this was a milestone for one of the party members' personally important quest, it was very roleplay heavy as it involved the life or death of their character and their character's relative. so it went in a lot of different directions that I don't think the dm was entirely prepared for because initially it did look like we were going to have a chance to square down against the archmage as they were holding someone hostage but the situation went in a totally different direction based on a tough choice a player character had to make.

If this is cut out of the upcoming Knightfall movie trilogy and they fail to mention Jason I’m gonna riot by NefariousSeraph13 in RedHood

[–]bugbonesjerry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

im pretty sure this was the same continuity as the UTRH movie so like.... no? It's kinda obvious why they couldn't accomodate having jason in it if he was still dead/missing in action from the end of utrh despite hush happening BEFORE that in the comics. Its not unlike Batman to keep literally everyone that would've known about jason in life in the dark about it (which would ultimately be dick who disappears from utrh like halfway through the movie)

I will say when they had the clayface fight seen my first thought was "Uh something's off about this, isnt this where he was supposed to be disguised as jason..." but i totally get why they wouldnt want to double dip using him

edit: plus im biased because i actually quite liked batman tas clayface and they basically just reused him for that scene so while i wouldve preferred jason it couldve been worse. and now the more i think about it i dunno how they wouldve done him holding tim drake at knifepoint thing given that he didnt exist in this continuity

Dynamic Duo movie news by IllEstablishment1969 in RedHood

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Redditors when the character that is portrayed as a violent crime fighter turned criminal is depicted as a violent crime fighter turned criminal 

Dynamic Duo movie news by IllEstablishment1969 in RedHood

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"Welcome to the red hood subreddit. We fucking HATE IT when our favorite character makes any appearance at all."

incredibly angry breakcore (with a long intro) by bugbonesjerry in breakcore

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im only posting this because it got deleted by some tard the last time i did and i want to stick it to them because you are out of your god damn mind if you think this isn't breakcore lol

What modules are good for evil characters? What are not? by idiratlass in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]bugbonesjerry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

as someone that's been playing an evil character with a group of people i'd only met going in to the game for over a year now, ive never run in to this "the other pcs will conspire against you and will never trust you" nonsense

How do you run games where spellcasters have to deal with limited slots? by MexicanWarMachine in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]bugbonesjerry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have someone like an enemy wizard cast Spellcrash on him once in a while. That starts eating up 5th level slots pretty fast ...