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On a sad note... my Inquisitor lost his hand today... if I was more spellcaster than melee combatant, it wouldn't be terrible, but I'm not... my feats are centered around melee, most of my spells are around melee... I just became useless D:

djones520 wrote:Got the fully colored drawing done. What do you guys think?

Very cool

Alfndrate wrote:On a sad note... my Inquisitor lost his hand today... if I was more spellcaster than melee combatant, it wouldn't be terrible, but I'm not... my feats are centered around melee, most of my spells are around melee... I just became useless D:

Do what our swashbuckler did and have an alchemist make a clockwork one to replace it. A pimp slap from a metal hand does lethal damage.

 Ahtman wrote:

djones520 wrote:Got the fully colored drawing done. What do you guys think?

Very cool

Alfndrate wrote:On a sad note... my Inquisitor lost his hand today... if I was more spellcaster than melee combatant, it wouldn't be terrible, but I'm not... my feats are centered around melee, most of my spells are around melee... I just became useless D:

Do what our swashbuckler did and have an alchemist make a clockwork one to replace it. A pimp slap from a metal hand does lethal damage.

That's probably what I'm going to do. Our DM isn't huge on third party rules.

I meant to say Artificer, not alchemist, which don't think is in Pathfinder as a class, but we had an NPC craft it. This is in a 3.5 game though, not PF, but there must be something similar.

There is a Pathfinder Society group starting up nearby soon, and I am thinking of trying it out to see what the organized play is like.

 Ahtman wrote:
I meant to say Artificer, not alchemist, which don't think is in Pathfinder as a class, but we had an NPC craft it. This is in a 3.5 game though, not PF, but there must be something similar.

There is a Pathfinder Society group starting up nearby soon, and I am thinking of trying it out to see what the organized play is like.

The organized play is nice , and yeah no Artificer

That hard to find a priest who can cast regeneration?

We're in the middle of the shackles and we managed to find someone in Port Peril that could cast the spell, I was useless for the rest of the night though.

Also not looking forward to my rise of the runelords game tonight . We're starting the Skinsaw Murders adventure and I'm not a huge fan of the first 4 parts of the adventure. And my favorite part of the adventure isn't going to be that much of a surprise since half the party has been in this adventure before :-\

 Alfndrate wrote:
We're in the middle of the shackles and we managed to find someone in Port Peril that could cast the spell, I was useless for the rest of the night though.

Also not looking forward to my rise of the runelords game tonight . We're starting the Skinsaw Murders adventure and I'm not a huge fan of the first 4 parts of the adventure. And my favorite part of the adventure isn't going to be that much of a surprise since half the party has been in this adventure before :-\

Well don't share much. We just finished up the 1st Module. We're gonna do a session or two of in between things, then start on the Murder's.

Got any insight on what you might be doing? I wouldn't mind stealing an idea or three

 Alfndrate wrote:
Got any insight on what you might be doing? I wouldn't mind stealing an idea or three

Well, I believe we're taking a trip to Magnimar. I need to find a cleric who can take this curse off of my guy. I also need to deliver my Mercenary Charter to the government there for ratification. We're going to meet up with Aldern, since he's crushing on our female party member. Not quite sure what else may be involved. We're going to keep XP out of these sessions so we don't end up outpacing the modules.

After that my character has a little side quest. Going to do a small adventure with Shalelu. Something to help explain his branch off into a couple levels of Ranger, and to help work on a bit of his back story. Not sure what the other characters will end up doing.

Yeah I'm unsure of how to really deal with Aldern... our cleric is the only female in the party (besides the witch but Aldern doesn't know about her yet) and our cleric is played by this timid girl that shies away from advances of that sort, and Idk how she would react to aldern's advances... though I might be losing her simply because she doesn't think playing over the internet will be fun.

 Alfndrate wrote:
Yeah I'm unsure of how to really deal with Aldern... our cleric is the only female in the party (besides the witch but Aldern doesn't know about her yet) and our cleric is played by this timid girl that shies away from advances of that sort, and Idk how she would react to aldern's advances... though I might be losing her simply because she doesn't think playing over the internet will be fun.

I can't help you there. His advances are gonna be rejected in our group, but I'm working on building a relationship with him since I need some help getting my foot in the door with the upper class of magnimar. (Yes, I know what happens at the end of the module).

Our cleric is most likely going to reject his advances as well, especially later on in the adventure, but I think I've found a nice way around the oh so boring first part of the adventure. Last year during Free RPG day, Paizo released a 16 page adventure titled, "Dawn of the Scarlet Sun". It's a free pdf off of their site, and it's for 5th level characters (of which they should be/are), and it was designed as a tie in for both Rise of the Runelords and Shattered Star

Eff me.... spent 360 gold to try to get the strength curse removed from my character... and it failed.

How does remove curse fail? I thought it was an auto-succeed spell? Or have you been cursed by something more powerful that needs "wish" or "miracle" to remove it?

Harsh!

 Da Boss wrote:
How does remove curse fail? I thought it was an auto-succeed spell? Or have you been cursed by something more powerful that needs "wish" or "miracle" to remove it?

Harsh!

You have to beat the DC of the curse. 2 attempts, 2 failures. With a remove curse spell.

Woah, that's harsh! Bad luck man.

 Da Boss wrote:
Woah, that's harsh! Bad luck man.

Thankfully, we had just turned in a prisoner for a 400g bounty, and we'd contributed that to the "party fund" so we technically aren't out any gold, but I'm am still a bit irked about it.

I'm working with the GM to RP out a fix. My guy follows Erastil, the church of Erastil in Magnimar was were I tried to have this done. They have a "cadre" of Archers who acts as a guard force in the district, and since I happen to be an archer, I'm going to offer my services in payment for having the curse removed, since I already paid them a hefty amount of gold and they failed to get it done. It should work out pretty well I think.

I'm prepping my game which starts in about an hour and 15 minutes and I'm looking at the map I've just drawn noticing that there are trees and broken stone walls... so I'm like... let's try and make this awesome... so I grab my terrain box and place some trees and broken stone walls. Half tempted to throw down some terrain for a city right we have using terraclips.

Never play Pathfinder with a known flake and you only ride.
two times in a row we had to cancel a game cause this guy bails because he forgot homework or his car isnt working.

The Pathfinder Society stat generation makes me sad. It is good for following standard builds, but if you go outside archetypes it can be pretty brutal. Thought about making a Dwarf Paladin, but the best that you can get his Charisma is 14, and considering that it fuels a lot of his abilities that is fairly harsh. To get it to 16 you would have to spend 17 of 20 points to make CHA an 18, then lose the 2 from Dwarf, leaving you only 3 points to spend on the rest of your stats, which I think is either one 13, or an 11 and a 12.

Even with the 14 you end up like this:

STR 15
DEX 10
CON 15 (13+2)
INT 10
WIS 12 (10+2)
CHA 14 (16 - 2)

It isn't horrible, but I hate not having a 16 in a primary stat like that. I also may be overreacting. Maybe.

Yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of the point buy system that Pathfinder uses. It leads to pretty similar stat lines among players. Almost all humans are going to see one stat at 17, a couple at 14, a couple 12, and one 10. It's the safest build.

That -2 to Dwarves Cha really hurts as well. I've got a Dwarf Cleric, who enjoys the Wis bonus, but I had to really pump a lot of points into Cha to make him useful, in regards to Channeling.

I usually end up with at least 1 8 at a 20 point buy, which I sort of like, because it means I have weaknesses as well as strengths. Sometimes the weaknesses can be fun.

I don't really mind what way the stats are generated, though some of the people I play with are adamant the game is only fun on a 25 point buy, which I think is a little too much.

Remember though youbare allowed to drop a stat down to 7 to gain a few more points to spend.

So I am guessing that no-one else is involved with the DnDNext Open Playtest.
They are, in part, going back to basics, but adding new content and mechanics.

A lot of modules are starting to come out not just for 4th ed, but also with 'Next modifications.

 Ahtman wrote:
The Pathfinder Society stat generation makes me sad.

No gak. Our new Gm is insisting on using low point point-buy.

However, the Pathfinder Society tables had a TON of people this weekend at ComicPalooza. I was very happy for them. Everyone had a great time, from what I saw. Must be some reasonably good GMs.

Only Magic: the Gathering had a higher turnout in the gaming (non-video) area.

 helgrenze wrote:
So I am guessing that no-one else is involved with the DnDNext Open Playtest.
They are, in part, going back to basics, but adding new content and mechanics.

A lot of modules are starting to come out not just for 4th ed, but also with 'Next modifications.

We had a thread about it awhile ago, and I even posted some news in News and Rumors recently. I don't think there will be much discussion until the actual, fished edition is released. For playtest discussion the actual WotC forums are the best place to go for discussing the ongoing rules. The only problem there is the other posters, of course*.

I will probably post some impressions of the book they are selling at GenCon, but probably not until after we have played a some of the adventurers included in it. Got a group of 6, five playing with one alternating as GM, lined up to play it. I know I am DM'ing one of the four adventures, and another is doing two if them.


* I kid, but there seems to be a lot of "To much like 2nd", "not enough like 2nd", "To much like 3.5", "Not enough like 3.5", "To much like 4e", "Not enough like 4e" going on.

My pathfinder game is DOA.
One guy lives to far and doesnt have a ride, My other friend, who we depend on for a ride car is on its last legs, so his family ont let him borrow it unless it is important. so that friend cant get home
:(

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
My pathfinder game is DOA.
One guy lives to far and doesnt have a ride, My other friend, who we depend on for a ride car is on its last legs, so his family ont let him borrow it unless it is important. so that friend cant get home
:(

Google Hangouts, I've been running a game on there for a few weeks now without issue. Have the GM draw up his map or w/e like he normally would, and point his webcam at it.

There was an idea, We where also thinking Skype.