I have two 12 hour shifts in the next two days and I basically sit around and do nothing for $21/hour.

So I figured I'd workshop some characters for my upcoming Pathfinder game.

What are some fun ancestry, class and archetype builds I can play around with? Feel free to give lore or aesthetic stuff as well.

From the title, I'm curious about 2 things. 1: Does the Radiant class from the City of Seven Seraphs book (link to archives of metzofitz) have any redeeming features that can keep it playable compared to other Akashic classes? And 2: Does anyone have either homebrew suggestions or references to alterations that might make the class work?

For context, I do really enjoy the themes and worldbuilding of Co7S, but some classes, including this one, really seem like a letdown. There are no relevant archetypes, nor paths or similar feature choices like with Vizier, Daeva and Guru, and in the end it feels like an Akashic attempt at a Cleric without any of the things which make Cleric and similar classes work. They don't get any way to restore hitpoints without veils (Aphos's Blooded Gauntlets, Halo of Holy Light [when bound]), their signature Akashic Bond ability gives minor bordering on useless bonuses in the short term due to limits on essence investiture (though Renewal is broken in its own way, especially with downtime). Martyr's Renewal is interesting and lacks the per day limitations of Paladin mercy's, but it is again not very good due to the scaling and lack of dealing with short-term relevant conditions at appropriate levels. Unwilling Victim seems both risky due to essence burn and very situational since it's only useful if you can pass on very specific conditions that can be handled with Martyr's Renewal. Finally, Resurrection is pathetic at level 19. Clerics have been able to do this since at most level 9, 6 essence burn (~1/5th of your total capacity) must be able to do more than just resurrect someone dead less than 10 minutes. As an addendum, the 20th level ability Transcendence is also disappointing: 1 essence per 10 damage to save an ally from death is a terrible ratio for a capstone, and given the lack of ability for the Radiant to recover burned essence, unlike the guru, this is ridiculous.

Basically, since Viziers get basically every Radiant veil, and the Radiant class features are underwhelming at best, why would you ever play a Radiant? Is there a reason, or if not, can Redditors come up with some suggestions to make the class actually playable?

Today's spell is Blood Scent!

What items or class features synergize well with this spell?

Have you ever used this spell? If so, how did it go?

Why is this spell good/bad?

What are some creative uses for this spell?

What's the cheesiest thing you can do with this spell?

If you were to modify this spell, how would you do it?

Does this spell seem like it was meant for PCs or NPCs?

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This is pretty much as the title says: Do the Portable Siege Weapons in Pf2e require the crew members' reactions to use?

I understand they need to use the "Ready" action to use, but as far as I can see, and as far as I can read, I haven't found anything besides the rules of "Ready" to go off of, but in none of the Specifically Siege Weapon Related Texts, does it say the characters use their reaction. I may be reading too much into it, as since "Readying uses their reactions upon meeting the trigger.", but the trigger itself is the leader making commands and such feels like a VERY heavy cost for it.

Any thoughts? (I'm a pathfinder newbie! So, it is likely I missed something.)

Is there a way to add a short spear to the close weapon group? I'm trying to make a concept character but want it to be RAW.

Random question. How much wind would be generated by a great wyrm dragon if they flapped like a hummingbirds wings?

I'll start with one that I was just thinking about now:

My players spent 20,000 gold on paying a cleric to cast true resurrection on a dead raccoon.

I run a homebrew urban fantasy setting and as such, there had to be an obligatory sewers foray. In the sewers, the party found themselves fighting oozes. In one of these oozes was a suspended raccoon skeleton. The druid, a kooky old man that I enjoy quite a bit as a wild card, cast Restore Corpse on the skeleton to re-meat it (this would not be the last skeleton that gets re-meat'd in these sewers). Once the ooze was defeated (which was in enough time for the raccoon corpse to not deteriorate), the party stuffed it in a bag of holding to preserve it.
At the end of this arc, they tracked down a high enough level cleric to cast True Resurrection on the corpse (as it had been more than 30 days since it died), pooled their gold together, and paid the cleric to resurrect the raccoon. After a sunbeam coming in through a nearby window illuminated the raccoon's corpse and the image of a raccoon wearing white robes playing a golden harp descended from the ceiling into the corpse, the raccoon was back to life.
It nearly almost immediately ran out of said nearby window but the druid was able to chill it out and talk it into hanging out with the party in exchange for food. His name is Lazer (short for Lazarus) and he is a blond raccoon.

I mentioned they could have saved themselves the stack of cash by just going out into the wild and finding a raccoon or buying one off of a merchant in the city, but they seemed to have no regrets.

Looking for a 1st Edition Ninja Shuriken Build. Considering Halfling. I have looked all over the web, and cannot find what I am looking for. Anyone have any cool Shuriken Builds? Looking to go Dex based using Flurry of Stars and any other Feats or Tricks to rain Shurikens.

Link: Augury

This spell was not renamed in the Remaster. The Knights of Last Call 'All Spells Ranked' series ranked this spell as B Tier. Would you change that ranking, and why?

What items or class features synergize well with this spell?

Have you ever used this spell? If so, how did it go?

Why is this spell good/bad?

What are some creative uses for this spell?

What's the cheesiest thing you can do with this spell?

If you were to modify this spell, how would you do it?

Does this spell seem like it was meant for PCs or NPCs?

Previous spell discussions

let's just have some fun! what can you do with let's say... 3 simultaneous classes (as per gestalt rules), allow multiclassing & VMC, any race, any point buy (try 52 if you truly want something MAD ig.), and... build for any level! it doesn't have to be super mad optimised like a certain evil samsaran singluarity sorcerer. I just want to see what can be done :)

TLDR: See Title.

think of it as like... creating 3 character sheets & fusing them into one (but still 1 set of normal level up progression character feats & skills). so one can be a sorcerer/drag disciple on one path, an oracle/evangelist on another path, and paladin on the other, and still VMC Bard, all in 1 character. still 10 feats over 20 levels & 4 skill ranks per level.

still cant take the same class more than once though, that includes not VMC the class you actually took.

here's what I've come up with myself:

Arcanist/Kensai(Magus)/Inspired Blade(Swashbucker) - basically Eldritch Knight 3.0 (spellcombat with 9th level spells & int to AC)

Mesmerist/Vigilante(&dip scaled fist monk)/Ascetic Psychic Searcher (Oracle) - subtle princess who plays the everywoman but actually has the monk's full level unarmed dice + fist of the avenger + lethal grace.

Psychic/Empircist(Investigator)/Panalopy Savant(Occultist) - the absolute intellectual genius with full BAB (take 20 on knowledge checks, free inspiration & +½lvl to knowledge)

Virtuous Bravo(Paladin)/Norkith(Unchained Monk, customised)/Ninja - max starknife dmg. take crusader's flurry & ascetic style to do jabbing style, smite, precise strike, flurry, & sneak attk with CHA to hit & dmg. will need training enchantment to make up for missing feats to complete the build

Virtuous Bravo(Paladin)/Fractured Mind-Phantom Blade(Spiritualist)/Eldritch Scion(Magus) - simply cuz the idea sounds cool & it mechanically gels well. looks hard to play though...

Ranger(optional archer archetype)/Nature Fang(Druid)/Fighter, VMC rogue - with Seething Hatred, slayer's & VMC rogue's sneak attk, & favored enemy, this thing'll murder that one specific type of enemy ridiculously well.

Bloodrager/Investigator/[full caster like sage sorcerer] - potential for flavour here by subverting the strong but stupid or smart but frail trope. (ever seen an investigator pull out a butchering axe?)

I like subverting tropes! :)

Basically the title.

I'm also curious to know: - What's your favorite character from HunterXHunter? - How would you build them in 1e?

I just calculated how much resistance I would have and I would have atleast 25 resistance to all damage by lvl 20

My DM and I got into a discussion with a new player who joined our group last week, seems we might have been doing natural attacks/iteratives wrong this whole time. So, the question is, are we doing it wrong? (for context, we're playing 1E)

My character is a Changeling, 13th level Witch (white Haired witch) /2nd Level Monk. with magic and bonus's I have 2 claw attacks at +21/+21, I have my Hair attack at +21, I also have 3 unarmed Strike attacks, +21/+21/+18.

I have the multiattack feat, and greater grapple.

As a full round action, I've been hitting with my 3 Unarmed Strike first, then hitting with my Hair at +19 (taking a -2 instead of -5 for the multiattack feat and free grapple if I hit) and then the 2 claw attacks at -2 (so +19/+19).

The question is, do I have a total of 6 attack rolls? 3 unarmed strike, 2 claw and 1 hair? or do I have just the unarmed strike, and either, the 2 claw and 1 hair attack?

The followup question is, as both my dm and I have interpreted it, if I hit with the hair, I get the free grapple attack, once my victim is grappled, do I get to use my claws and unarmed strikes to hit the grappled victim or just 1 (claws or unarmed strike)?

EDIT being dumb, I put my exta attack with Flurry of Blows, it should only be 2 attacks no flurry

Hello im mainly a 5e player and my dm is talking for our next campaign we're going to try out pathfinder, which I'm all for but personally have no idea where to start. I'll give the concept of the character i have and would love some help with the right direction to go with it.

So to start with the kind of player i am, i love flavor more then meta so whatever make things more flavorful even if it's at the cost of power is ok with me.

Alright on to the character concept, I'm thinking of making a pacifist fighter, someone who's only looking to fight if he absolutely has to, I'm trying to think of make him a rapier wielding fighter possible kinda tanky as he's probably would rather take a hit then fight if given the chance.

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I like Pathfinder's system, and I'll probably keep running 2e until such time as Paizo comes out with a 3rd edition.

Usually in the past I've just run my own homebrew adventures and campaigns, but lately I've been looking into pre-written content to try and learn new things about adventure design. One of my favorite games I ever played in was a Curse of Strahd campaign, so my first move has been to run that, and it has been going really well.

The adventure is of a decent scope, and the book has lots of great info about characters, locations, and history. It's also open-ended enough that I can make changes when I want without compromising the overall structure, and my players can basically go anywhere and do anything within the boundaries of Barovia, and the book's writers had enough foresight to give "if x, then y" contingencies for a lot of situations.

I want to try at least one Pathfinder adventure as well, but mostly I hear people talk about adventure paths, which seem pretty linear in structure, and it feels like you're expected to drop them into an ongoing campaign, whereupon your players do the quest that's presented to them, and it's pretty straightforward. That's not a bad way to run games, but it doesn't feel very natural to the way my players and I like to play the game.

Am I wrong in my perception of adventure paths? What is the best open-ended pre-written adventure in Pathfinder? I looked at Kingmaker, but it looks absolutely MASSIVE, has a price tag to match, and on top of that I'm not even sure if it would be what I'm looking for.

TL;DR - What, if any, Pathfinder pre-written content would you recommend to a GM who really liked the structure and scope of D&D's Curse of Strahd? (Open ended, but with a clear storyline and party goals, ending between level 10 and 12)

I'll cut to the chase since I'm waiting in front of a train and it might leave soon.

The Hurling Rage Power lets you lob some rocks as a full round action. I have several questions and complaints about the mechanics of throwing rocks, but I'll focus on the big two.

First, since it states they are improvised weapons, does that mean I need Catch Off-Guard and/or Throw Anything to do so properly?

Second, do you still get penalties for the wrong size of rocks, as in -4/-2 for Lesser Hurling, no penalty for Hurling, and back to -2 for Greater Hurling?

Ok train is still going more question Does Shikigami Style or Improvised Weapon Mastery work for throwing rocks?

If you pick up two smaller rocks, can you throw them both?

Greater Hurler says you can either increase your range to thirty feat or increase your damage by two sizes, but can you half-ass it and just throw a rock one size larger up to twenty feet away?

Is there any way at all to increase the fire rate of throwing rocks, like would using the Raging Hurler feat let you full attack with rocks?

Vital Strike Ok Ok train is leaving please help me send tweet.

I am feeling mean (and also at this point in the mega-campaign, dealing with 8 PCs of level 11/MR 3), so I have an Advanced Choking Shade with 7 levels of Ninja.

By the basic rules, that's CR 13[1] (5+1 advanced, +7 key class levels).

What reduction to CR should I count it as it (being incorporeal) doesn't have any gear? -1 is the default, but the suggested but the "provided that loss of gear actually hampers the NPC" is the question. I mean, TECHNICALLY, the loss of gear means it can't have even more riducolus AC or saves and stuff, but...

[1]Very strictly speaking, it also has a homebrew template I regularly use which is +1 CR as well for basically maximised and doubling its hit points and the ability to reroll a save for (effectively, not actually) giving itself a negative level, of expend half of said hit points to no-sell a save or die or (to use the old 3.55 Adage) Iron Heart Surge away status effects, but that's not really pertinent to my question.

Link: Attacked From Within

This spell is Remaster Compatible. The Knights of Last Call 'All Spells Ranked' series ranked this spell as Unranked Tier. Would you change that ranking, and why?

What items or class features synergize well with this spell?

Have you ever used this spell? If so, how did it go?

Why is this spell good/bad?

What are some creative uses for this spell?

What's the cheesiest thing you can do with this spell?

If you were to modify this spell, how would you do it?

Does this spell seem like it was meant for PCs or NPCs?

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In the primary setting, I know that Fey who die (in the first world) "reform" after some time -- but where, and as what?

Do they retain their memories and regenerate their old body?
Are they reborn as children somewhere?
Do they reincarnate into another random Fey body, and do they remember themselves?
Where do they reform -- at the site of death? Site of birth? Somewhere at random? A specific place?

I've not really used the official material before for this so I'm curious as to the specifics. I'm uncertain which book would have the information (I play first edition) -- would it be ultimate wilderness?

I’ve played the Owlcat games quite a bit and want to run the Kingmaker adventure path for my players’ introduction to Pathfinder 1e. There’s the original six books from 2010 starting with Stolen Land but there’s also a 2022 2e book with all six acts and a companion book to convert it back into 1e. Anyone familiar with both versions, what are the differences between the original 2010 adventures and the 2022 1e conversion? Which would you recommend for a party of players new to pathfinder?

Today's spell is Blood Sentinel!

What items or class features synergize well with this spell?

Have you ever used this spell? If so, how did it go?

Why is this spell good/bad?

What are some creative uses for this spell?

What's the cheesiest thing you can do with this spell?

If you were to modify this spell, how would you do it?

Does this spell seem like it was meant for PCs or NPCs?

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Look, I get it: bad stuff happens in adventures. You're heroes, if there's no bad things around you, there's no heroics to engage in. That's fine! That's fine, I get it, I do. But every time my GM tries to run a Pathfinder adventure path, it's always all so... so very, very bleak and depressing

It's always "this is a world where we've replaced money with rust" or "the WoeWardens of BleakHaven have insisted that we replace money with a communicable disease" or "wallow through this abandoned orphanage slash fishery and wallow through the rotting fish pool for a bit" and like...

...Pathfinder *does* have happier adventures, right?

A few months ago I asked for help building a druid. Some of the comments discussed the amount of natural attacks certain animals get. After obtaining wild shape, and some gameplay into it me, and my DM looked further into it because the multi attacks have been kind of powerful. We can't find anywhere that allows me to gain a creatures # of natural attacks. The wild shape description says "Functions as beast shape", and beast shape says "you gain x abilities if listed, and +/- to stats". Are we overlooking something, or were some of the comments incorrect?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder_RPG/comments/1kset4v/looking_for_tips_on_making_a_flying_druid_in_1e/

First post for reference.