[Pathfinder] Dreamscarred Press FAQ

[Fenryr]

Path of War

a) Elemental Destruction Ring maneuver from Elemental Flux. Is the initator immune to their own damage?

b) Warpath Follower Inquisitor. Should "Slayer" (level 17) be added to the list of what the Inquisitor loses?

c) Warpath Follower Inquisitor. Inquisitor loses Judgment, Second Judgment, Third Judgment and True Judgmen. I know what's the intention but I want to be sure:

Alternate Class Features

If an archetype replaces a class feature that is part of a series of improvements or additions to a base ability (such as a fighter's weapon training or a ranger's favored enemy), the next time the character would gain that ability, it counts as the lower-level ability that was replaced by the archetype. In effect, all abilities in that series are delayed until the next time the class improves that ability.

What about Judgment 2/3/4/5/6/7 per day? Do they still lose all of 'em?

[Extra Anchovies]

Bringing these forward for a second time because they still haven't been answered yet and are very important.

If a Soulknife places the Lucky enhancement on their mind blade, do they only get one reroll per day or do they get a new reroll each time they reform their mind blade (e.g. after it has left their hand without being thrown)?

This question is also relevant to the Soul Archer, because it creates new ammunition (which normally can be enchanted with Lucky for lots of rerolls).

[ErrantX]

Path of War

a) Elemental Destruction Ring maneuver from Elemental Flux. Is the initiator immune to their own damage?

I'll leave it to Elric for Warpaths but no, you don't suffer damage from your own maneuver.

If a Soulknife places the Lucky enhancement on their mind blade, do they only get one reroll per day or do they get a new reroll each time they reform their mind blade (e.g. after it has left their hand without being thrown)?

Per day - it would be grossly overpowered any other way and that subverts the way the enchantment works otherwise.

This question is also relevant to the Soul Archer, because it creates new ammunition (which normally can be enchanted with Lucky for lots of rerolls).

Treat lucky as if the "bow" had it (since soul archer specifically calls out that ammo create is fired as if from a composite bow, so this "bow" would imbue the enhancements to its ammo), not the ammo. Again - absurd amounts of re-rolls subverts the enchantment into imbalanced mechanics.

-X

[IZ42]

I can't seem to find this anywhere, which may just be me being blind, so I'm gonna ask.

Path of War

Does using a Barbarian's Rage class feature prohibit you from initiating maneuvers and stances?

[Elricaltovilla]

I can't seem to find this anywhere, which may just be me being blind, so I'm gonna ask.

Path of War

Does using a Barbarian's Rage class feature prohibit you from initiating maneuvers and stances?

A: No, it does not. It's been asked before, but there will be a section addressing it in PoW:E.

[IZ42]

A: No, it does not. It's been asked before, but there will be a section addressing it in PoW:E.

OK. I'm just bad at finding things pertinent to my situation, so I felt that asking would be easier than screwing around for half an hour trying to find the answer. Thanks for the response.

[stack]

Is there any point in writing tactical acumen down on my hawkguard warder's sheet? Hawkguards will almost always have more Dex than Int (outside of some method to use Int for atttack), and the archetype does not seem to replace it.

[Elricaltovilla]

Is there any point in writing tactical acumen down on my hawkguard warder's sheet? Hawkguards will almost always have more Dex than Int (outside of some method to use Int for atttack), and the archetype does not seem to replace it.

I wrote it down. I'm pumping my INT a bit higher than my dex on my Hawkguard because Tempest Gale stance gives INT to damage with ranged weapons.

[stack]

I wrote it down. I'm pumping my INT a bit higher than my dex on my Hawkguard because Tempest Gale stance gives INT to damage with ranged weapons.

Ah, haven't gotten that high yet, just got permission to retrain into tempest gale. Fair point, though you still need to hit for the damage to matter, I suppose on standard action strikes that isn't as much of a problem since you aren't eating rapid shot and iterative penalties. Not going to be a big difference unless you are using firearms though, I would imagine.

[Elricaltovilla]

Ah, haven't gotten that high yet, just got permission to retrain into tempest gale. Fair point, though you still need to hit for the damage to matter, I suppose on standard action strikes that isn't as much of a problem since you aren't eating rapid shot and iterative penalties. Not going to be a big difference unless you are using firearms though, I would imagine.

The only time I miss is when I'm using Horizon Wind Lancet.

[Taveena]

Does a Zweihander Sentinel's Armament Shield benefit from the weapon's magical enhancements? If not, can it be enhanced separately?

[Tuvarkz]

Does a Zweihander Sentinel's Armament Shield benefit from the weapon's magical enhancements? If not, can it be enhanced separately?

Yes, and it can be TWFed with. I asked this one on the DSP site and they answered it a while ago.

Path of War
Question, when a maneuver replaces attack rolls/saving throws with a skill check, do they threaten crit on the usual range?
In addition, do they fail on a natural one?((Or auto succeed on a nat 20?))

[Elricaltovilla]

Yes, and it can be TWFed with. I asked this one on the DSP site and they answered it a while ago.

Path of War
Question, when a maneuver replaces attack rolls/saving throws with a skill check, do they threaten crit on the usual range?
In addition, do they fail on a natural one?((Or auto succeed on a nat 20?))

A: They threaten the weapon's normal range, as that's a quality of the weapon itself. They do not auto-succeed or auto-fail however, as that's a property of attack rolls, not skill rolls. At least that's the RAW anyway.

[arccos]

A: They threaten the weapon's normal range, as that's a quality of the weapon itself. They do not auto-succeed or auto-fail however, as that's a property of attack rolls, not skill rolls. At least that's the RAW anyway.

That's not actually true. I think it's a good ruling, but the reasoning is wrong - critical hits are specific to attack rolls:

When you make an attack roll and get a natural 20 (the d20 shows 20), you hit regardless of your target's Armor Class, and you have scored a "threat," meaning the hit might be a critical hit (or "crit"). To find out if it's a critical hit, you immediately make an attempt to "confirm" the critical hit—another attack roll with all the same modifiers as the attack roll you just made. If the confirmation roll also results in a hit against the target's AC, your original hit is a critical hit. (The critical roll just needs to hit to give you a crit, it doesn't need to come up 20 again.) If the confirmation roll is a miss, then your hit is just a regular hit.

A critical hit means that you roll your damage more than once, with all your usual bonuses, and add the rolls together. Unless otherwise specified, the threat range for a critical hit on an attack roll is 20, and the multiplier is ×2.

Exception: Precision damage (such as from a rogue's sneak attack class feature) and additional damage dice from special weapon qualities (such as flaming) are not multiplied when you score a critical hit.

Increased Threat Range

Sometimes your threat range is greater than 20. That is, you can score a threat on a lower number. In such cases, a roll of lower than 20 is not an automatic hit. Any attack roll that doesn't result in a hit is not a threat.

[IZ42]

Another question!

Path of War

With the Dragon Fury abilities 'Sharp Fang' and 'Vicious Fang', weapons are treated as if they are held in one hand (Sharp Fang) or two hands (Vicious Fang) for the purposes of Damage Bonuses from Power Attack. Does this also apply to regular damage, such as from gaining 1.5x STR to damage while wielding a weapon two-handed?

[Kudaku]

Several maneuvers involve charges - for example Panthera on the Hunt grants a +2 bonus on attack rolls and damage when you charge and Momentum Crash grants a +10 damage bonus. How do these maneuvers interact with Pounce? Are the bonuses applied to all attacks, or just the first one?

[Elricaltovilla]

Another question!

Path of War

With the Dragon Fury abilities 'Sharp Fang' and 'Vicious Fang', weapons are treated as if they are held in one hand (Sharp Fang) or two hands (Vicious Fang) for the purposes of Damage Bonuses from Power Attack. Does this also apply to regular damage, such as from gaining 1.5x STR to damage while wielding a weapon two-handed?

A: No, the ability does exactly what it states it does. It gives you better returns on your Power Attacks with the weapons you're wielding. That's it.

[Ilorin Lorati]

Path of War

Does Abyssal Lance (and similar maneuvers) count as a thrown weapon?

I'm assuming no, because it's effectively a spell effect, but I promised one of my players I'd ask. Specifically, this is for the effect of Belt of Mighty Hurling.

[CGNefarious]

Path of War: Expanded

Referring to the Crimson Countess archetype of the Harbinger. Is the damage from Crimson Claim or the Drain ability of Sanguine Empowerment suppose to bypass damage reduction?

[ErrantX]

Several maneuvers involve charges - for example Panthera on the Hunt grants a +2 bonus on attack rolls and damage when you charge and Momentum Crash grants a +10 damage bonus. How do these maneuvers interact with Pounce? Are the bonuses applied to all attacks, or just the first one?

Well lessee here...

Momentum Crash
Discipline: Primal Fury (Boost); Level: 2
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: One attack
Duration: Instant

By putting his fury into a charging attack, the disciple is capable of using the momentum of his charge to increase his killing power with a twist of his body upon connecting. Upon a successful charge attack, the initiator's charge attack inflicts an additional 10 points of damage in addition to the normal +2 to hit.

So it does not interact with pounce after the first attack.

Where as...

Panthera on the Hunt
Discipline: Primal Fury (Strike); Level: 1
Initiation Action: 1 full-round action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: Instant

With a deep breath and the tightening of honed muscles, the Primal Fury disciple may launch off into a lightning-fast charge. The initiator initiating this maneuver gains +2 circumstance bonus to attack and damage rolls on his charge attack, and ignores attacks of opportunity from moving through threatened squares.

Would be pro-NAFTA on the whole pounce thing, granting its effect on each attack of the pounce.

Path of War

Does Abyssal Lance (and similar maneuvers) count as a thrown weapon?

I'm assuming no, because it's effectively a spell effect, but I promised one of my players I'd ask. Specifically, this is for the effect of Belt of Mighty Hurling.

That'd be a no, but good question!

Path of War: Expanded

Referring to the Crimson Countess archetype of the Harbinger. Is the damage from Crimson Claim or the Drain ability of Sanguine Empowerment suppose to bypass damage reduction?

It is intended to, yes.

-X

[Kudaku]

*clarification*

Thanks! Can't believe I missed the limiter on Momentum Crash.

[Mezzaluna]

Two separate questions.

Path of War: Expanded
I expect this might be an oversight, but while the Aegis customization Initiator's Soul says you can't learn maneuvers higher than 6th level with it, it doesn't make a reference to the 6-level maneuver progression table like the rest of the expanded archetypes do.
Does this mean that at say, Aegis 5, you can use customizations to learn some 3rd level maneuvers at the same level a full initiator class would, since Aegis levels are full initiator levels?

Path of War
This one's probably been answered already but I can't find it: Is there official word on how pathfinder's retraining rules work with maneuvers?

[ErrantX]

Two separate questions.

Path of War: Expanded
I expect this might be an oversight, but while the Aegis customization Initiator's Soul says you can't learn maneuvers higher than 6th level with it, it doesn't make a reference to the 6-level maneuver progression table like the rest of the expanded archetypes do.
Does this mean that at say, Aegis 5, you can use customizations to learn some 3rd level maneuvers at the same level a full initiator class would, since Aegis levels are full initiator levels?

If it's not listed there, we'll need to clarify that it uses the standard table for level limits per normal initiator archetypes for base classes - it's not intended as a fast advancement archetype. Please check your level limits there.

Path of War
This one's probably been answered already but I can't find it: Is there official word on how pathfinder's retraining rules work with maneuvers?

There isn't, but I'd say retraining maneuvers (stances included) would be similar to retraining a spell and to use that math there. So I guess now there is an official word on it.

-X

[MilleniaAntares]

Path of War:

At 10th level, her defensive focus improves further, causing the ground within her melee reach to be treated as if it were difficult terrain, hampering her foes' movement around him. If a foe tries to move through a space within her reach, the movement through those squares costs double (x2). Additionally, while using her defensive focus to make an attack of opportunity, her movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

Does the difficult terrain within melee reach apply only when using Defensive Focus as a full-round action, or is it an always-on addition like Combat Reflexes?

[Nyaa]

Ultimate Psionics - War Mind

How does Sweeping Strike interact with maneuvers?

[ElderLucian]

Path of War: Expanded

This might be because I am kind of new to this but does the Seize the Opportunity feat allow you to use a strike on an AoO?

[Elricaltovilla]

Path of War:



Does the difficult terrain within melee reach apply only when using Defensive Focus as a full-round action, or is it an always-on addition like Combat Reflexes?

A: Only while defensive focus is active.

Ultimate Psionics - War Mind

How does Sweeping Strike interact with maneuvers?

A: Short answer? It doesn't. Strikes are their own standard action, not an attack action.

Path of War: Expanded

This might be because I am kind of new to this but does the Seize the Opportunity feat allow you to use a strike on an AoO?

A: Strikes are a standard action to initiate, not an attack action so Seize the Opportunity does not allow you to use a strike on an attack of opportunity.

[squiggit]

A: Short answer? It doesn't. Strikes are their own standard action, not an attack action.

Sweeping Strikes doesn't specify the attack action though, just "each melee attack".

It even says afterwards that it works on any melee attack.

[Mehangel]

Q: [Dreamscarred Press General] As of 2015 August 29th, what are the upcoming DSP products and what timeline are we looking at for their full release?

((I ask because it seems there are a whole lot of content being made and I am sure some of it I have not heard of))

[ErrantX]

Sweeping Strikes doesn't specify the attack action though, just "each melee attack".

It even says afterwards that it works on any melee attack.

The strike is delivered through the medium of the attack, but for example, touch spells are melee attacks too. By that merit, if you had sweeping strikes and wanted to cast a shocking grasp you'd hit both targets? No, the spell specifies it affects one target. Same goes for maneuvers. They're mutually exclusive. At loosest interpretation I'd say that your normal melee attack could hit both but the maneuver only effects the intended target, not both. Boosts would work though *scratches chin* Yeah boosts would work.

-X