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The Narrator said:
The crit fails are extremely problematic, especially because some of the DCs are not balanced appropriately for 1st level characters, especially when it's no longer possible to take 20.

If you were making a rogue, I would tell you to buy spare lockpicks, because you're gonna break a lot of them. :p
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And the take a 10 feat doesn't let you pretend to roll a 10, it literally assumes you got a result of 10. It's kindof trash, IMO.

Everyone on the subreddit was all like "then don't have them roll for things that you don't want to possibly crit fails," but I find that bad game design IMO, especially since the stipulation on the crit success is that it makes anything that's not impossible happen, but how is a GM supposed to know what it is possible to convince a 30 Int 25 Cha dragon of.
 
The Imperator said:
And the take a 10 feat doesn't let you pretend to roll a 10, it literally assumes you got a result of 10. It's kindof trash, IMO.
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Yeah, Assurance is a useless feat. We're got a thread going on the Paizo forums about it. There are almost no checks it will let you succeed at, and some that it would automatically crit fail.
 
So I am in the early stages of running an Play by post D&D game. I am constantly coming up with new NPC ideas to sprinkle throughout this new setting.
So my latest one I want to fine tune. I was inspired by a D&D youtube series which had an NPC who was a 'Crazy cat lady', which gave me an idea for an extension of the concept.

So the idea is that there is a section of the central city of my campaign which will have a large Tabaxi population (I have ideas for plenty of Tabaxi NPCs). One of the dwellings there will be home to the Crazy Cat Ladies: one is what you might expect from the name, a female human with many many cats. The other is a Tabaxi woman who is CRAZY (note that's the bit I need to better define, but probably more along the lines of wacky or an adrenaline junky or something rather than actually insane).

Also they're a married couple. Because why not, its my world.

I've had some additional thoughts on this idea since I first conceived it (especially after a buddy of mine suggested this for one of my settings deities, leading to the decision that there would be an entire Tabaxi pantheon based on cat memes).

However its led me to a quandary as I have three general ideas for the Crazy Cat Ladies and I'm not sure which ones to use. I might have to add an extra Crazy Cat Lady into the mix, (Its my world, I can have polyamory if I damn well please.)

So the Crazy Cat Lady that is actually a Tabaxi I was thinking should be a barbarian, because of all the classes that one shouts CRAZY to me.
Now my thought for the human one is either a warlock or cleric with a feline patron/deity, because 'they're adorable'.
Although I recently came up with a third possibility that I really like; A druid who wild-shapes into feline beast forms. Because the thought of one cat out of a mob of them suddenly pulling a Professor McGonagall on someone greatly amuses me.

What do people think is the best way to implement this? And should I condense these three ideas down to two characters or make it a trio?
 
The Narrator said:
I think we were aiming for Friday evening (Saturday morning in Australia). Time kind of depends on what works for you guys. What time zone are you in?
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Oh, I thought we weren't doing it this week. I went and picked up a work shift for Saturday morning.
The Imperator said:
I should be free most of the day after around 1pmish on Friday eastern time.

EDIT: What was @shepsquared playing? I can add a DPS Barbarian/Paladin or a Cleric healer, as my second, depending on what they are playing.
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I've got a dual wielding dwarven fighter and some sort of blaster caster sorcerer.
 
shepsquared said:
Oh, I thought we weren't doing it this week. I went and picked up a work shift for Saturday morning.
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We can push it back a week if that's better. I've got a lot on my plate this weekend anyway, so it'd make things a little easier on me.

shepsquared said:
I've got a dual wielding dwarven fighter and some sort of blaster caster sorcerer.
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You had me at dual-wielding dwarf. :D I've always wanted to make one of those.


Stavaros_Arcane said:
Although I recently came up with a third possibility that I really like; A druid who wild-shapes into feline beast forms.
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Crazy Cat Lady druid actually makes a fair bit of sense, since she's basically more at home with animals than with people.
 
shepsquared said:
Pathfinder 2e: Is it me or is line basically the worst sort of aoe?
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That's kind of always been the case. It's pretty rare for enemies to conveniently all line up for you. Works best in narrow hallways and other such bottlenecks.

EDIT: Lightning bolt does more damage than fireball now, probably for exactly that reason.
 
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The Narrator said:
We can push it back a week if that's better. I've got a lot on my plate this weekend anyway, so it'd make things a little easier on me.


You had me at dual-wielding dwarf. :D I've always wanted to make one of those.



Crazy Cat Lady druid actually makes a fair bit of sense, since she's basically more at home with animals than with people.
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Yeah, it's my friend's go to for testing a new system and after 5e he convinced me its a good thing to go with. Do you have a preference for character sheet format?
 
So I've heard before that one of the most powerful abilities in dnd combat is short range teleportation. Is there a good breakdown somewhere of just what makes it so strong?
 
rogthnor said:
So I've heard before that one of the most powerful abilities in dnd combat is short range teleportation. Is there a good breakdown somewhere of just what makes it so strong?
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So, I haven't really heard that said before, and I don't know about "most powerful" (when compared to time stop, blink, greater invisibility, fly and the various other things a wizard can do), but it's certainly useful. A short range teleport can bypass obstacles, hazards and difficult terrain, can let you get to an advantageous position on the battlefield without risking attacks of opportunity, and can let you escape from danger with ease.
 
The Narrator said:
So, I haven't really heard that said before, and I don't know about "most powerful" (when compared to time stop, blink, greater invisibility, fly and the various other things a wizard can do), but it's certainly useful. A short range teleport can bypass obstacles, hazards and difficult terrain, can let you get to an advantageous position on the battlefield without risking attacks of opportunity, and can let you escape from danger with ease.
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I can see the argument that it's versatile enough to be useful to anyone, but also not so overpowering that it's high-level-only.
 
Well, let's see. As mentioned, it gets you out of any kind of snares. It bypasses terrain, lets you ignore AoOs by teleporting into and out of range.

Being able to just skip the tactical movement layer entirely is really neat. However, all else being equal, I think that flight and a ranged attack is even more powerful unless you have important fights in 10' hallways.
 
So, in the session today of the high level PF game I'm a player in, my Azata buddy (gotten through the True Name Wizard Discovery) got turned into an aberration by a side effect of us trying to destroy an artifact, as she sadly failed her save.

In character, this sucks, because my character will feel bad. Out of character, this sucks, as she is no longer mechanically bound to stick with the group nor mechanically summonable. Luckily IC I've been super nice and chill to her, and made sure to compensate her for service and highly limit when I sought her aid, so GM rules she's still super friendly to the group, if not upset at circumstances atm. So really, gotta find a way to fix her back to normal, or else retrain the feat and basically lose the usage of having her to summon for combat in a pinch.
 
I would dearly like to download the Pathfinder playtest and at least give it a look, in the interest of broadening my horizons from just 5e and Exalted. The problem, however, is that Paizo won't let me set up a bloody account.
 
Strunkriidiisk said:
I would dearly like to download the Pathfinder playtest and at least give it a look, in the interest of broadening my horizons from just 5e and Exalted. The problem, however, is that Paizo won't let me set up a bloody account.
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I think their website might be glitched. It seems like nobody's been able to post anything on their forums for the last couple days.

If you're interested, PM me and I might be able to help.
 
Strunkriidiisk said:
I would dearly like to download the Pathfinder playtest and at least give it a look, in the interest of broadening my horizons from just 5e and Exalted. The problem, however, is that Paizo won't let me set up a bloody account.
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Well, Paizo has finally posted a message admitting that some aspects of their site are down for maintenance, but in the meantime they've posted a link where you can download a bundle of all the playtest PDFs here.
 
PF: Alchemist.

So, when you need to kill a lot of low level mooks, and you don't have access to cloudkill (...yet. I intend to pick up cloudkill bombs at level 12), is there any way to chuck an assload of gas into an enemy camp through the creative and judicial application of bottles of, say, something along the lines of Chlorine. Just without it actually ebing that because electrolysis is an issue. I mean, the bloodrager and monk were discussing the issue of killing an army of orcs, with the mage determining the basolute limit of orcs covered by one fireball and they were all like "not enough". I (IC) remarked that there should be a "more efficient way".

Monk raised his eyebrows at that, because hell if my character isn't on the slippery slope to Bad Things®.

Now, if I were 12th level instead of 8th level, I could create a cloudkill-wall, but alas, I am not, so I must find another wae.
GM wasn't too aware of what I was pondering aloud on, Monk player told me that if he were GM, and I pulled it off, that would be down the slippery slope.

Fireballs are apparently fine, as is chopping off arms and legs, but having an army of rampaging, murderous orcs choking in their sleep would be "unethical"? Some people just don't have the stomach to see things through and prefer to focus on their own honor and glory at the expense of the lives of all those poor sods sent to die in a pointless war :V

Is that still CN?
 
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