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2015-08-29, 01:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Q: Do Hand Cannons belong to any weapon group?
context: I wanted to pick up some Solar Wind maneuvers, but even Weapon Group Adaptation appears to be of no help: rather than discipline weapons, it states a very stark, very different "Solar Wind maneuvers may only be performed with a weapon in the bow, crossbow or thrown weapon groups".
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2015-08-29, 01:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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When mounted and initiating a maneuver that grants movement to the initiator, such as Red Zephyr's Strike, can the mount take that movement?If a sword had memory, it might be grateful to the forge fire, but never fond of it.
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Adding to this that Solar Wind's weapon groups include Firearms - there was a omission for some reason in one version of the book. Firearms are on the Solar Wind OK list.
If you're a Hussar or Omen Rider for example - yes. This is because of their class features and how they interact with the mount. If you're not - no. You're performing the move, not the mount. Now the mount can move for you, but it doesn't get free movement out of it.
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2015-08-30, 09:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Psionics (Yes. You're reading right, this not another PoW question)
Soulknife-Emulate Melee Weapon
Question, if you use this Blade Skill to emulate a Nodachi, what are the stats of the Mind Blade (Assuming a Medium Character)
2d6 19-20/x2 +Brace
2d6 18-20/x2 +Brace
1d10 18-20/x2 +Brace
Also, on Mind Blade
A soulknife with powerful build or any similar ability forms an appropriately-sized mind blade dealing the size-appropriate amount of damage.
Does this mean a character with Powerful Build gets to apply the trait and get a weapon one size larger than his own size, or a weapon of his size? I find the wording a bit unclear.
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2015-08-31, 01:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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When a warlord uses Brave gambit, does the "Cha to damage" part of the reward applies to the charge attack she makes as part of gambit, to her first attack on next turn, or neither?
And a second question, can a naginata be sheathed for a purpose of Mythral Current's draw ability?Last edited by jamieth; 2015-08-31 at 02:47 AM.
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2015-08-31, 07:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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A: From the Brave Gambit itself:
Originally Posted by Brave Gambit, PFSRD
A: From the Mithral Current document:
Originally Posted by Stuff I Wrote
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2015-08-31, 07:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Not arguing, it's just that by the time you roll damage, you already know the gambit have succeeded :-) But thanks for the reply. So, it's "neither" regarding the original question.
And thanks on the clarification re: sheathing. With that and a feat allowing Finessing polearms, my Mythral Current bushi warlord finally coming together...Tome of Radiance, a Magical Girl sourcebook for 3.5/PF.
"Jamie" is fine. TH is mostly there to make sure the name would be free on any forum I'd want to register :-)
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Path of War: Stalker Arts
I was comparing the Combat Precognition and Murderous Insight stalker arts, and something left me a bit puzzled. Is Combat Precognition intended to work on all attacks made against the stalker for the duration, or the first attack from each foe each round, or the first attack against the stalker each round?
Spoiler: Combat PrecognitionCombat Precognition (Su) The stalker designates his combat senses towards his opponents and gains momentary flashes of insight into how to defend himself against them. SpendIng one point of ki as an immediate action forces opponents who attack the stalker to roll their attack rolls twice and take the worse of the two results due to the stalker's precognitive abilities. This art has a duration of 1 + the stalker's Wisdom modifier in rounds.
Spoiler: Murderous InsightMurderous Insight (Su) The stalker designates his combat senses towards ending the lives of his opponents and gains momentary flashes of insight in how to best accomplish this. By spending one point of ki as a swift action, the stalker makes an attack and rolls twice for that attack and uses the better of the two results due to the stalker's precognitive abilities. This art has a duration of 1 + the stalker's Wisdom modifier in rounds.Last edited by Kudaku; 2015-08-31 at 03:29 PM.
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Does the Powerful Build racial trait have an intended RP (Race Point) cost?Last edited by Tuvarkz; 2015-08-31 at 01:13 PM.
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When using Emulate Melee Weapon it's as if you were using a weapon of that specific kind (specifically a nodachi in this case) that was sized appropriate to you (if you have powerful build, you get the bigger one). So... Nodachi, 1d10 18–20/×2 S or P brace. Mind blade normal stats do not happen at all in anyway if you're using Emulate Melee Weapon.
Combat Precognition is meant to be a pretty good defense ability, and it works for each attack as both deterrent and defense. Emphasis mine for pluralization.
Murderous Insight is the first attack of each round.
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Psionics Question:
Does the torc of power preservation apply to any uses of PP that aren't manifesting, such as the adaptive gunner's charged shot or a zealot's various abilities? A plain reading of the text appears to only apply the benefit to manifesting powers, didn't know if there had been thoughts on expanding it.
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2015-09-01, 11:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Chris Bennett
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The thing about the race point system as presented in the ARG, is that it..... really isn't very accurate, or terribly useful without an experienced mind behind it filling in the holes and recognizing the various issues with it. For example, the gnoll as presented in the ARG has +2 STR, +2 CON, no negative stat modifier, +2 natural armor, and darkvision 60 feet, thunking it in at 6 RP, a solid 4 points behind the gnome. You could add 2 claws, a bite, and an extra point of natural armor to the race and only make it "equal" to the gnome, and still clock in under races like the dwarf. So again, that's a bonus to two physical stats with no negative modifier, +3 natural armor, darkvision 60 feet, and three primary natural attacks for a race that's "balanced" to the core races.
As another example of issues in that system, the drider and the centaur are both "charged" the full RP for being Large size, but receive no compensating weakness modifier for their Undersized Weapons traits, despite that being a fairly substantial hit to the value of their size increase.
There's also the problem that the race builder really only teaches you how to play Legos with existing traits, which is kind of poor design in and of itself. Why recycle existing materials when you can introduce new dynamics, like Bloodforge does? The system presented in the ARG is actually really appropriate to the Lego analogy- it's like an 8 year old's Lego bucket where there's a lot of pieces, but the diagrams for how they all originally fit together are somewhere else, or may not even exist anymore. The fact that you can click 10 of them together into something that looks more or less right doesn't mean it's the same quality or has the same balance of form and functionality as what those pieces were originally intended for.
Race design is one of those things that's really more like creative writing or adventure design- it takes a combination of experience, inspiration, and on-the-spot judgement, and it's not something you can really write an instruction manual for (well, you can, but that doesn't mean the end result is consistent and/or worthwhile).Last edited by Ssalarn; 2015-09-01 at 12:11 PM.
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Some questions;
1) Akashic Augmentation feat:
It states that you reduce the cost to augment a power equal to essence invested. Is this the total cost of the augmentation or the cost per augmentation? Ie; the Body Adjustment power's augmentation costs 2pp, is the base cost decreased to 1 per augment or is it 2pp multiplied by the number of augments minus the essence invested?
2) Martial traditions Discipline swapping;
How does this apply to the Psychic Warrior Pathwalker archtype? With the addition of Sleeping Goddess as standard discipline you could just swap that, but can you swap a chosen path discipline? What happens to the trance?
3) Adding to the recent request regarding a release schedule. Is there any information regarding such a thing available? I recall seeing something akin on the old forums though.
4) Where can i find the offical errata for dsp products and, if any is available, when are these applied to the release version?Last edited by Flesh_Engine; 2015-09-01 at 12:21 PM.
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I can answer two of these.
2) Pathwalker doesn't benefit as much from discipline swaps because not every discipline has trance/maneuver stuff written. This is a thing that may happen in future releases for universal Pathwalkers but not as of yet. Same goes for specific blade skills for War Soul soulknives to a lesser extent. You can trade but buyer beware on that market.
4) Right now you're posting on it - it's not ideal at the moment but it's the best we got atm.
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For reference, the most recent version of Akashic Augmentation-
Spoiler: Akashic Augmentation
Akashic Augmentation [Akashic] [Psionic]
You can augment a psionic power with your chakra energy rather than mental energy.
Prerequisites: Con 13 or veilweaver level 1, ability to manifest 2nd-level psionic powers.
Benefit: You can invest essence into this feat and choose a particular psionic power that you know. The total power point cost when augmenting that power is reduced by a value equal to the invested essence. This can’t reduce the augmentation cost to less than 1. You can’t invest more essence in this feat than the chosen power’s level, even if the maximum essence capacity of this feat would normally be higher than that value.
You gain 1 point of essence.
Akashic Augmentation applies to the total cost after all augments have been applied, not to each augment as it is applied. So if I wanted to manifest an energy current that dealt 2d6 additional damage and targeted one additional foe, the PP cost would normally be 15 PP. If you have 4 essence invested in Akashic Augmentation, that total cost is reduced to 11 PP.
DSP usually updates errata whenever we do a compilation or release. I typically post errata over to the Guide page for Akashic Mysteries on this forum. The Vizier errata can be found here. All of the akashic errata will be updated in the .pdfs shortly as we get ready to do the compiled .pdf. Once that process is complete, you should get an e-mail for any .pdf you've purchased from the site you purchased it at informing you that the updated version is available.Last edited by Ssalarn; 2015-09-01 at 12:57 PM.
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Wow, that was fast!
Thanks for the answers!
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I've tried this in the past, but the problem is our psionic races from Psionics Unleashed were designed before Race Points were a thing, and lots of the traits came from 3.5 updates to Pathfinder. It's trying to shoehorn things into a model they weren't designed to be in... and a model that is hard to really be objective about what values should be.
Ballpark estimates would be the best option, because, as mentioned upthread, the traits and their point values in the ARG aren't consistent - some things that are quite cheap are REALLY good, while some expensive traits aren't worth the cost... so it becomes very subjective decisions on "how much is this worth when a bonus feat is 2 RP, a +2 bonus to Dexterity is 4 RP, but a +4 bonus to Ride and Stealth skill checks is 6 RP?"Last edited by Bacris; 2015-09-01 at 01:26 PM.
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So, I can give you a list of upcoming products, but timelines... we don't really keep - both formally and track-record wise. Since nobody working on any of these projects does this full-time, our timelines are subject to the mercy of our jobs and families.
Path of War:
Mystic (in layout)
Zealot (playtest wrapping up)
Combined Path of War Expanded book + print option
Akashic Mysteries:
Supplemental (in layout)
Combined Akashich Mysteries book + print option
Psionics
Augmented - Soulknives (in playtesting)
Augmented - Occult (in design)
Augmented - Focused Disciplines (in playtesting)
Steelforge (in playtesting)
We also have some other projects in the works internally, but those are the ones that are in the wild, so to speak. Andreas might want to supplement anything I may have missed. Internal projects often have a tendency to undergo drastic shifts in scope or timelines, which is why we don't really talk about them until we've announced them.
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