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[highmax28]

I just realized I messed up when I crit last session. I took the burn as if I had used composite blasts, but only dealt damage as though I had attacked with a regular blast.

I should have rolled twice as many dice.

I just never stop using composite blasts. Blue flame is too good to not be used.

I wish there was an item or feat that allowed me to bypass fire immunity though...

[SOLDIER First]

Magic fire?

[ChairmanPoo]

Question: I asked this before in the General discussion thread: is there any pathfinder online gaming group for Bay12?

[TheBiggerFish]

There's GAMES, I'm pretty sure, but not necessarily a unified B12 GROUP.

[highmax28]

I think Mastahcheese was thinking of having a thread where people jump in at any time, do a campaign that's done in an IC chat and works like a sort of hub for people who have D&D or Shadowrun or whatever kind of tabletop game characters where they interact in the forum like a tavern and then in the OP, he would put up quests that he or other people would DM and the person who requested it would provide an IC thread. The goal was to have this thread become the adventurer's guild for D&D players who didn't necessarily want the commitment of a long game (like I would run on here) and just wanted to have fun and experience the game. It was originally aimed to gather people who never played before to have a taste of what it was like. It could be a small campaign or a large one, but it wasn't an entire world, and you didn't have to worry about huge scale worlds or a deep immersive story (it could, but because it was mostly a dungeon crawl at most, it never really expected you to get fully immersed in the world as much as you just needed to flesh out your character). And since it could have players jump into different games, when they finish, they hop back into the "tavern thread" and wait until they saw another dungeon crawl or adventure they wanted to hop in. It also gave you the concept of a new party almost every time, giving the feel of a real "adventurer's guild".

At least, that was the dream...

[BlackFlyme]

I hate when I have a question, pop over to the official Pathfinder messageboards, and find that the devs have posted several statements that all disagree with each other.

Schrodinger's FAQ, as it were.

[highmax28]

Oh god

[BlackFlyme]

It happens a lot more than I'd like it to.

Do spell-like abilities allow you to qualify for certain feats, such as Arcane Strike? I texted my DM a while ago asking it, but haven't gotten a response yet.

For certain, a Rogue who took at least the Minor Magic talent is allowed to take caster-related feats, even though they aren't a spellcaster.

[Aseaheru]

 Hey, I finally got into a physical group for pathfinder.

 Of which two thirds is family and one the remainder is the GM and their significant other.
 And wherein we just have so much odd stuff ongoing already, in the second session.

[Rolan7]

@Contradictions from the devs
There seems to be a ton of that in WoD books honestly.  Mostly direct contradictions in canon, since most of the books are written as by an unreliable narrator.  I think every single clan book claims Rasputin as a factually being a member.

Mechanics too, though.  Like the Mekhet book... just completely contradicts many aspects of the embrace.

Spoiler: Minor Requiem trivia but just in case I guess (click to show/hide)

You can embrace a person who's been literally dead for a few days.
(Because they were based in Egypt and did it to preserved corpses...  Elder Mekhet have spice instead of brains in their skulls.

That goes completely against the core rulebook.

It's kinda neat, though.  The whole system seems to put more focus on the storyteller and "what makes sense" than DND/PF.  Yeah there's rule 0...  But here it's a lot more explicit, because there are more ambiguities ("Use like, whatever skill+stat combo feels appropriate, maaaan") and lore contradictions ("The truth is... [REDACTED]").

On the whole I'm kinda loving it.  I took a break of several months because of a fuckin broken trip-character who dominated every encounter.  This feels perfect for a fresh start.

And I bet most of you already see the Tabletop Gaming topic, but I'm still going to share my account of our first session.  Since this is the "share your experiences" thread...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

We had our first World of Darkness game, as humans who got (spoiler alert) vampired!  I mean embraced.
Sorry, kinda giddy.  I was really worried but it was a lot of fun.  I and one of the other players did a great job rapidly finding the rules in the PDFs, while our GM wove a great little story for each of our characters in sequence.

One character was a bouncer at a bar.  She tried to bounce a gangrel, and actually did some damage.  now she is teh gangrel

The other character was a conwoman.  She "returned" a TV from the Good Will to Best Buy then hung out at a hotel bar.  A Malkavian seemed like an easy mark.  Now she is the Malkavian...
Except OH wow it went screwy.  Her sire wandered off right before dawn, leaving her in the room alone.  His brother told her to "oh shit, uh just hold still for a second I'll be right back".  So she left (because these people were crazy and she was starving).  Absolutely *massacred* someone in the elevator.  Almost died when it opened up to the lobby.  Went to the top floor and waited.  Eventually the sheriff came to clean up the masquerade and-
She *shot* the sheriff right in the chest.  She got staked.  Woke up and finally had everything explained to her.  Tres Malky.

My character was basically a shadowrunner for a hacker group.  Not so great with computers but super sneaky.  He was hired to go in and hack some servers, really just doing it for the challenge.
Here's where it gets weird.  He went to the security room to deactivate the cameras.  Started rolling awful.  Half-sees his future sire (aka "Senpai") mindwiping a guard and looping the cameras.  Tries to hide but is muttering out loud, senpai mindwipes him and moves on.  After which he shoots the guard with what turned out to be a full ounce of LSD, and gets really confused that the cameras are already looping.  Disappointing first impression, Senpai noticed but ignored him ):

Then he goes down to the servers and suddenly I'm rolling aces.  Sees through senpai's invisibility, assumes senpai is a LSD hallucination (my character didn't *remember* doing any, but has a huge memory gap and is seeing weird shit).  Senpai is hacking servers, my character sneaks past and hacks several other servers first.  Manages to stay hidden until Senpai leaves the room.

Then senpai returns, apparently realizing something was up.  Catches me, but is impressed that he didn't notice me (:  Frankly assumes I'm a vampire, or someone's "ghoul".  "Er, I'm a guy" "...Right."  Leaves me in peace, still thinking I'm working for another vampire.  I escape without difficulty, mission complete.

... Later he realizes his mistake, or part of it was just a test.  The next morning something he left on the computers jumped onto my flash drive then onto my computers, rooting them.  I try to ask my friends for help and only get a message from bite2nite "WE KNOW".  Try to kill my drives and buy an airplane ticket, but my card is apparently flagged as "detain and question".

I flee to a hotel and use the public computer to desperately email one of my contacts.  Reply:  "TICK TOCK".  Night's falling.  I decide I'm stuck in an LSD trip this whole time, and hide in a bathroom stall.
I hear him coming, but don't see him.  It only hurt for a moment...

Wake up later in a hotel room.  Cold, sore, so hungry.  He's typing away on a laptop.  Glances up, tosses me a blood pack.  I don't even question it.
Later:  "So... You're dead!"  *session ends*

Frankly I'm now rushing to differentiate my character from myself, because the last thing you want in a Vampire campaign is to be self-inserting too much.  The setting is fucked up, and not in the overexaggerated 40k way.

[BlackFlyme]

Two DMs said you can't use SLAs to meet prerequisites. Not unexpected, given the amount of cheese that would enable.

So, I'm still short three feats from completing my build. And I have just under 40k gold that I don't know what to do with. I nabbed a Conductive enchantment on an Amulet of Mighty Fists so I can channel a Kinetic Blast as I Kinetic Fist things.

They think I can Nova hard now, just they wait and see what I'll be able to do soon.

[highmax28]

Isn't kinetic fist just a crappy version of kinetic blade? Or did they fix it?

I know one thing I got for my kineticist was healing items, like potions, mostly because you want to avoid damage that doesn't involve burn. I learned the hard way on my homebrew of my own version of a kineticist translated into 5e involved me doing one blast which ended up with me actually knocking myself out by turn 3 because 5e lacks the stats and the HP increases to actually cater to the burn effects. I still need to work on it, but preventing that lethal damage is essential in my books.

Sadly, I have a broken as shit healer in my party, so I don't need potions... Or anything else really, because I just got put on two duties now that our rules lawyer has taken the position as the party support: tank cannon and leader

The first one is expected, since I made the character and kineticists are rediculous in terms of damage output and how tanky they can be, even as an artillery, it was expected. The role of a leader though is something my character doesn't want, mostly because he's kind of lazy and, like he does in combat, takes a back seat until he's really needed. He's pretty much the Saitama of the group, because he stopped caring when the party started calling him insane for being possessed sort of

[My Name is Immaterial]

I learned the hard way on my homebrew of my own version of a kineticist translated into 5e involved me doing one blast which ended up with me actually knocking myself out by turn 3 because 5e lacks the stats and the HP increases to actually cater to the burn effects. I still need to work on it, but preventing that lethal damage is essential in my books.

Have you considered using the Exhaustion mechanic?

[BlackFlyme]

Kinetic Fist still scales slow, but it can fit better into two-weapon-fighting, natural attack spamming, or a Monk's Flurry. To TWF with Kinetic Blades or Whips, you need to use a Quickened or Doubled Metakinesis to create two instances of the weapons at once.

Plus getting your Mythic Tier to your effective level with the Elemental Bond ability from the Archmage helps a little.

I've been looking for items that protect against mind-control or possession, after last session. Too bad Protection From Evil isn't on the Permanency list.

[highmax28]

But doesn't kinetic fist ignore the count of attacks you get from flurry, etc?

I think you should consider buffing the will save alone. It can probably save your ass.

If you find anything that allows me to bypass fire immunity, feel free to share