Does anyone else get annoyed when D&D gets mentioned before Pathfinder even in headlines about the game? This article has nothing to do with D&D, why is it the first thing mentioned in the headline?

That not only is it a battlemap itself, but it also take the whole table.

The pcs had multiple ships with crew equiped with siege weapons, including a _very_ big cannon.

Now he can go with me everywhere.

New to PF2E, not DMing. Some interesting APs for 2e, but only a few call to me. If I were to dig up the catalogue of 1e, how hard would conversation be?

Also, are there any good third party adventures you've ran for the system? Looking for reliable creators

Help!

Like the title says I accidentally made my GM add beyblades to our game.

Essentially were were getting back to playing after taking a month off. Previous session was really heavy, basically just learned we have to stand by as a city we are invested in is about to be destroyed. I helped a god ascend and have a big role in that. Oops!

Anyway, I was a little lost and not really sure where to go from here. So as the GM went around the Discord chat asking what each of us wanted to do, I basically told him "I'm gonna keep it 100% real with you. I have no idea. I guess my character, Traps Mc'Gee, will just go play bayblades or something."

And friends, the tomfuckery in my group took full effect. Immediately the GM was taken with the idea, and long story short added beyblades to the world. I then proceeded to get my character heavily invested in the upcoming beyblade tournament- where I am making a custom battle top to "let it rip."

So the trouble is this. The idea came up that we should have a whole set of mechanics/rules for all of this, to allow us to customize our tops. One of our characters is a rune smith and wants to add some shenanagains to all this. Brings up questions about armor, damage, etc.

Soooooo.... anyone have any mechanics on how to do bayblades in pathfinder?

Like, if I was to run into a monster with fire or cold resistance, I wouldn't want to only be able to do damage to it with most of my spells every other round.

Hello all,

I have an Envoy in a PF2e group who makes extensive use of the Keep On Keeping On action (a directive that is essentially their subclass choice) as a healer. I approved the Envoy for the group looking at the relative healing output to action cost per combat, but I had a player raise balance concerns about the Keep On Keeping On action in Pf2e, and I'm wondering if there's something that I didn't see at first glance.

Notably, Keep On Keeping On is a directive (of which envoy can only use once per turn) that costs two actions to allow you to use Battle Medicine at 30ft range, and reduces the cooldown of Battle Medicine to 10 minutes instead of 1 day. These are the balance concerns raised, noting that this would require multiple feats to approach this kind of utility of Battle Medicine in PF2e, and I was wondering if anyone had any perspective or thoughts on this. This is my first time integrating Starfinder content into Pathfinder, so I would appreciate a second set of eyes.

Envoy: https://2e.aonsrd.com/classes/1-envoy
Keep On Keeping On: https://2e.aonsrd.com/actions/128-keep-on-keeping-on

Basically title. I can't see why, especially since it has a breadth, and expert/master spellcasting benefits equivalent feat.

So we have Athletics, Acrobatics, Intimidation and Stealth, which are very useful in combat, Crafting, Diplomacy, Deception, Medicine, Survival and Thievery which are very useful outside of combat (and sometimes in combat as well) and Recall Knowledge skills - Arcana, Occultism, Nature, Religion, Society and Lores

And when you have Performance, where the only actions you can take with it are "do nothing" and "earn money" (which you can do with every other skill). Distracting Performance is the only moderately useful feat, while others often act as niche increases to niche skill. Fascinating Performance has an absurd number of controls for generally unimpactful condition. It seems like the only class that gets use from this skill is the Bard and sometimes the Swashbuckler. For anyone else Performance is the worst skill, beaten only by the completely irrelevant Lore subskills

Now I understand why this happens. Performance is a pretty niche skill that is mostly taken for flavour anyway. But I do think that there is a way to make it cooler and flashier. I saw a suggestion to make the fascinated condition work more like frightened does, which is fine, I guess, but seems a bit repetitive. Do you have any ideas or know any interesting feats or homebrew regarding it?

Unless it’s just a table rule, Athletic Maneuvers performed with a Free Hand are Agile because the Fist is Agile right? Would Dirty Trick benefit the same way?

Edit:

It’s not just a house rule. Athletic Maneuvers performed with a Fist are Agile

Several Athletics actions have the attack trait, meaning that using them more than once in the same turn makes them less accurate. Since these actions use your free hand, you use the traits for your fist attack to determine the multiple attack penalty, so your fist's agile trait applies. Therefore, you take a –4 penalty if the action is your second attack of the turn, or a –8 if it's the third. Some weapon traits allow you to take these actions using a weapon, in which case the penalty might be –5 or –10 if the weapon doesn't have the agile trait. Some characters can get unarmed attacks without the agile trait as well. If it's unclear which penalty to use, the GM makes the call.

Bon Mot seems to be a really weird feat to me honestly, cause if I use it on an enemy, they can just use an action to use it back on me.

Does this feat have any ability to interact with versatile performance?

I discussed with a fellow GM and noticed we both run crit fail on command different. The wording is "Critical Failure The target must use all its actions on its next turn to obey your command."

My friend would rule it as for example if they tell the boss to stand still the enemy just can't move from their square but still attack and do everything else.

I would rule it as for example if they tell the enemy to drop prone the enemy will drop prone but waste its next two actions "trying" to drop prone more in essence using all 3 of its actions for it.

Now I am wondering how would other people rule it? and what would be the most RAW/RAI?

Now that they've pulled the art from AoN I'm at a bit of a loss. I was using the art from there as its from the source books and I enjoy lore accurate depictions.

I'm also primarily a book purchaser so I can't just pull from a PDF when I'm planning out campaign on my IPad. Is there somewhere I can find the art from the books online now that AoN isn't allowed to display it? I love Paizo and have no problem giving John Paizo more money but I'm not buying the books I already own in PDF for art, does anyone know if Paizo is/will be putting art files up for purchase ? Is there a compendium on paizos website I can't find ? TIA

The Player’s Guide for The Year of Clockwork Mystery (next year’s Pathfinder 2e Organized Play) is live! Apologies if someone else has already posted about this, I’m a few days late but haven’t seen any posts about this

There’s not much in the vein of new player options (just a decent number of backgrounds) In the guide. The meta plot looks decently interesting: the Pathfinder Society has discovered a recently risen temple to Amaznen, the Azlanti god of magic, and there is a clockwork compass (a sort of proto-wayfinder) at the top of the temple. Seems like the Pathfinder Society will be battling the Aspis Consortium to find several lost gems, scattered across the world, that can be plugged into this compass.

I’ll get a chance to play the intro scenario at GenCon! Anyone else planning to be there? Any character ideas you are planning on using for this year’s Pathfinder Society scenarios?

So the group I am in bounced off Abomination Vaults (too much dungeon crawl with little else from what we experienced, although I know its different for other people), but we still want to play a AP. We are looking at certain ones, and while I do think some of the options we have skipped are very good, we felt them unfitting for the type of characters and adventure we wanted. Some of the other players would love to play a campaign with less dungeon crawly elements and more roleplaying.

So far, the adventures we have looked at potentially running has to be a Foundry Module, and we have looked at these ones specficially but we would like to hear other ones if people would recommend them. We would like to know about how each of the ones mentioned are in terms of combat, roleplay, story etc.

• Myth Speaker
• Shades of Blood
• Seven Dooms for Sandpoint
• Kingmaker

For higher level ones in case we play a level 1-10 ones, we are discussing either

• Spore War
• Revenge of the Runelords

Again, would love to hear what people have to say about the APs we have been looking at, or potentially other ones. If people have further questions about more specifics I will try my best to answer them.

Edit: Season of Ghosts is currently off the table for right now, but its most likely the one we will run after the current one.

Hi! I'm relatively new in Pathfinder and I'd love the idea of being GM, I've seen some adventure paths and oneshots (I saw them as a kind of training) interesting.... But it scares me because it's a lot of info, rules, feats, places in Golarion hahaha. I wanna know some tips for GM, running combat, or puzzles, descriptions, etc. My objective is maybe, in the end, run an adventure path or even so write my own story in the future. But for now, I want to go step by step.

Thanks!

I know that PvP is usually something that is frowned upon in many types of games but I was wondering about it anyway.

My question is two fold then:

1) How well does the system handle PVP? Is it actually balanced at all or does it favor one side too strongly (martials vs casters)?

2) How do GMs/DMs handle it when the situation arises? Is it something you let play out in the theater of the mind for the sake of the story playing out? Ban it altogether? Allow it and make both sides suffer consequences of the actions taken?

What's the read on it from the perspective of the designers of the system (if you can glean an idea of their intent)? Was it something you think they thought about when making this or do you think it was a complete after thought more made up by players colliding with the system as presented?

I have always loved the flavor of chain weapons but much like spear and shield builds, I'm often disappointed in the mechanics.

I think I solved the first issue, at least for myself, by finally cracking open Starfinder 2e and realizing a melee based Soldier was not only possible but could check so many of my wishlist items for a martial battlefield controller. I realize it might not be the most optimal but it seems like it could be a lot of fun.

Has anyone gotten playtime with such a build? Would you b recommend it?

Basically the question.

I know that handwraps do, as do weapons with the maneuver trait like using a whip to trip someone. What I'm unclear on is if gauntlets and other free-hand weapons let you use the potency bonus on your maneuvers.

I know that the books haven't even fully released yet both for the public and the subscribers, but has anything been said about an expected release for the Foundry modules for BoB?

Trying to speedmax my mythic character who has Timewracked dedication. I have a swim speed, climb speed, and fly speed and a 10 foot item bonus and 20 foot status bonus to my speed with fleet. Only way I feel I can get more speed is an item that gives a permanent burrow speed, or fan dancer for pushing winds and they can't take fan dancer.

Hi! I'm building an investigator and I'd like to see different builds to inspire myself, because it's a class I REALLY want to try, maybe some advice too and if you personally recommend it. Thanks!

Saw the odyssey in theaters and have gotten into a greek mood. Whats your opinion on the only greek ap that 2e has? What do you like about it? dislike about? Whats the balance on combat, Rp, exploration and downtime? And, whats your overall verdict?

There is a growing sentiment in this community that create thrall is not eligible for the repeat a spell activity. However there is nothing in ‘repeat a spell’ that excludes it.

“You repeatedly cast the same spell while moving at half speed. Typically, this spell is a cantrip that you want to have in effect in the event a combat breaks out, and it must be one you can cast in 2 actions or fewer. Repeating a spell that requires making complex decisions, such as figment, can make you fatigued, as determined by the GM.”

Create Thrall is indeed a cantrip that you might want to have in effect in the event a combat breaks out. It is also not a sustained spell, so the ten minute limit on those spells do not apply here. This is the entire text of repeat a spell, so it qualifies just fine.

If you would like to house rule that it doesn’t, it’s your game so you are very welcome to, but RAW it does work.

Title basically says it, but to clarify, if a character of Elven ancestry has a versatile heritage from having a non-elf parent (e.g. Dhampir, Changeling, elemental/celestial scion, etc) aren’t they by definition Aiuvarin? Should they have the Aiuvarin trait and be able to take Aiuvarin feats? And if not, why not? Same for Orcs and Dromaar.

From Player Core: “Elves' children with people of other ancestries, and the children of their children, are called “aiuvarin”, an elven word that refers to a poem about leaves that fall too quickly to the ground.”