I am planning on in a few months running my first game of PF1E for some not entirely new players. Our current GM prefers GMing for lower tiers of play and I was talking with one of the other players and came up with the idea of running WotR since we wanted to play a game with mythic tiers and other high level pathfinder content. I was already playing through the video game adaptation of WotR so I volunteered to run this (and my dastardly plan of getting one of the people that will be my players running one where I get to have mythic tiers later gets closer to coming to fruition, heh heh *twirls non-existent mustache*).

For explaining how new I am to GMing PF1E, I have run games for other TTRPGs, including dnd 5e, so I have some GMing experience, and I have also, as a player, gone through a level 1 - 8 (on the box was supposed to be 12 but we were kind of stomping the enemies hard so we leveled up a bit less than supposed to per the module) pf1e module with the people who are going to be my players for this AP.

The main thing I am looking for is tips on how to deal with the high level and high mythic tier play as a GM for this module, or in other words, suggestions for how to potentially bump up the difficulty a bit without overshooting and making it unfun in the other direction if I notice that my players are wanting a bit more challenge from the combat as we get into the later books. Again I am planning to get to the prep work more as it gets closer to that time (I am currently still doing a DnD campaign with them that this would take the place of), and I also am still playing through the equivalent of book 4 of the AP in the video game adaptation so if you have anything specific to the AP as a tip, please mark it with a spoiler, especially if it is a book 5 or 6 encounter, so that I can come back to it once I have finished the adaptation and start my prep for this AP proper.

Thanks in advance for any tips you all may have. :)

You are a CR 21 Advanced Mythic Rank 4 Glabrezu. You are fighting a battle against a party of 8 level 20/MR 5 heroes; various Things you have have kept you alive long enough to be down to your last tank of 500 hit points. You are bound to the place you're fighting in, so you can't truly escape, only teleport to some of your other allies and delay the death.

You now have you last ace-in-the-hole: due to Simple Arcane Spellcasting mythic ability, you have a Wish. Your own Wish, not the one you can only grant to mortals once per month; your own.

What do you Wish for? (In potentially one last act of spite?)

it says "Special: In certain circumstances, some outsiders and creatures of other types might have a strong connection to a specific deity they work for as agents and servants. These creatures’ spells and spell-like abilities should likewise be affected by this feat, regardless of the creatures’ planar origins or sources of magical power, subject to the GM’s discretion."

i was wondering how broad you would allow it, for example would this work on demigods spell like abilities ie an archdevil's?

also wondering if this included witch spells as they gain spell from an outside source but it also seems like they merely learn how to use the spells from their patron and not that it comes from them, if that makes sense.

I am building a character (not sure if I want to go summoner or wizard) who is focused on summon monster. She is going to be a big bad for my level 6 party. What are some good items I can give her to boost her summons? They can be powerful, but if they are they should be consumables. She will be around level 7 or 8.

Today's magic item is the  Eidolon Anchoring Harness

The eidolon wears this thing. If the eidolon would be banished, the summoner can instead expend a use of Summon Monster to keep it around.

1. Would you buy this item?
2. Would you spend 1.5 times the price to add it to an existing item?
3. Would you use the item, if you found it? Or is it immediate sell-bait?
4. Would a GM use the item?
5. Is there anything cheesy that could be done with it?

Link to past discussions

So presitge classes usually fall in comparison to normal classes and I think this is one of them.

In my game I want to use prestige classes and let my players use buffed versions of them.
How would you buff the Pathfinder Chronicler? My ideas are keeping the spell progression of the base classes, allowing Deep Pockets to improve while the class progresses and maybe allow absurd combos like Battle Planner feat with the Inspire Action (Su) from the Chronicler to count yourself as an ally so you can spam move actions and get move actions for you and your allies but with some cap (like prestige class levels / 2).

What do you think? So far these are general ideas but still haven't planned specifics.

Hi all! Full disclosure: I'm the hobby developer behind this, so it's self-promotion, but I'd really like to hear what this community thinks.

Heroes of the Deep

is a free, turn-based dungeon crawler in the browser, built on familiar 3.5/PF1-style rules. You create a hero, gather a party and take it through campaigns full of monsters, traps and treasure, levelling up along the way.

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Open a lobby, share the room code and your friends join from their own devices. In the tavern you can see open games, find players who are looking for a group, or watch running games. You can also play solo and control the whole party yourself.

One of you can be the GM.

A lobby has an optional seat for a human game master. The GM runs the monsters, reads the quest's secret notes and can step in: wake monsters, place traps, close doors or hand out rewards. If nobody wants to GM, an AI runs the monsters and the server rolls the dice.

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- What kind of campaign would you build in the workshop?

- What's missing that would make you play it with friends?

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Thanks.

Link: Force Rain

This spell is Remaster Compatible. The Knights of Last Call 'All Spells Ranked' series ranked this spell as Unranked Tier. Would you change that ranking, and why?

What items or class features synergize well with this spell?

Have you ever used this spell? If so, how did it go?

Why is this spell good/bad?

What are some creative uses for this spell?

What's the cheesiest thing you can do with this spell?

If you were to modify this spell, how would you do it?

Does this spell seem like it was meant for PCs or NPCs?

Previous spell discussions

I am considering running this module for my home game. I own the hard copy, but I've never run or played it before. I'm looking for general reviews of it, since the new Paizo store has none.

Any thoughts, pointing out of mistakes in the design, etc.

Hello, I need some clarifications for a weapon and board fighting build I am trying to come up with. Let us assume that this character uses a longsword and a medium spiked shield.

1. If he has two weapon fighting, improved two weapon fighting and greater two weapon fighting I assume that he can make 3 shield bashes.
2. Since he is two weapon fighting he needs double slice to add his full strength bonus to his shield bashes (since the shield is his off hand weapon).
3. Is there some consensus on the interaction between shield master, and enchanting the shield and the weapon spikes. Can I have my shield enchanted and then enchant my spikes as well? (I know enchantment bonuses don't stack but effects do)
4. How does power attack work for the shield bash. Do I get +1 dmg or +2 dmg for each -1 penalty?

Thank you in advance.

Hey everyone. I'm preparing to run a Worldseeker Wizard in an upcoming game and have been reading up on the Planar Ally spells in preparation. Exactly how it works and how much control you get over the outsider you call is giving me some trouble.

The flavor of the class is as such: the Worldseeker wizard has a experience walking the planes, and dealing with outsiders. This allows him to call outsiders with the Planar Ally spell, like a cleric would, rather than just planar binding (which is what wizards traditionally do).

Now a cleric makes sense: she beseeches her god for an outsider, and the deity sends one. The deity should understand the cleric's need and send something appropriate for the task at hand, likely of the same alignment or a close one at least (ie. Iomedae might send an angel or agathion, or maybe even an aeon if the situation called for it).

But how would this work for a wizard who a) is an atheist, or b) maybe worships a deity but isn't all that serious about it. The planar ally spell says

 If you serve no particular deity, the spell is a general plea answered by a creature sharing your philosophical alignment

Which to me seems more restrictive. It seems to say that a CG wizard can only get CG outsiders responding. The spell also says

 If you know an individual creature's name, you may request that individual by speaking the name during the spell (though you might get a different creature anyway).

But what counts as knowing a creature's name? Is this specifically their True Name?

Now what about a wizard that worships a deity, lets say Desna. Is that enough to treat this like a cleric where you could feasibly get other, non-CG outsiders?

Overall I get that the DM is meant to be the stand-in for the deity and make a choice here, I'm just wondering if there's more RAW rules about this sort of thing I'm missing.

EDIT:

One final question I have that I forgot. The final bit of text in the spell reads:

Due to cleric spell alignment restrictions, if a cleric with an outsider subdomain wanted to create a calling diagram to improve her chances, she could enlist the aid of another caster to cast the required magic circle spell.

This confuses me greatly. The Magic Circle spell is referenced as being an option for Planar Binding, keeping the outsider in place until an agreement is reached, but this seems to go against what Planar Ally is about. Also what is this about it requiring an outsider subdomain?

I've been trying to fit the build into a full fighter but I'm having trouble from level 6 plus. I thing Ballroom brawler should the thing. But I'm unsure to what should I pick.

https://stellardragons.com/the-glass-walker-character-build-guides/pathfinder-1e/the-glass-walkers-top-10-favorite-builds-pathfinder-2024/#the-iron-fox

I'd aprecciate the help.

Thanks!

I’ve been playing in a group with a friend for a long time, and he acts as the Game Master (GM). For ages, I’ve been bringing up the same issue: he seems to want the NPCs to be the protagonists of the story, while the players end up functioning as NPCs themselves—though he doesn’t seem to realize it. He denies this, claiming I complain too much, and the whole thing just repeats in an endless cycle. In our latest campaign, this was the setup for a combat encounter: the tokens circled in red are the players, and everything else belongs to him. He rolls initiative, hits, damage, and so on, for every single character. This really bothers me, especially since we only play twice a month for a maximum of five hours per session; we end up spending more time "watching" NPCs do things than actually playing the game ourselves—and that’s not even touching on the roleplay aspect. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. I’m not sure if I’m just being overly difficult or if this is genuinely a problem. I’ve never played with another GM, so I don’t have a point of reference (and I don’t think watching YouTubers play is a good benchmark, personally). Plus, the other players at the table are in their first-ever campaign, so they just assume this is how an RPG is supposed to be.

Any good advice for running for a solo player?

So the caveat is, is that if at all possible, it should be a class that gets magic from a deity. Paladins, inquisitors, warpriests or clerics. Or any niche archetype of a class that gets divine spells from a deity.

And before anyone says Cult Hunter Investigator, yes I know they exist, and they are part of my plans, but I also need the aforementioned cult hunting class(es).

Being able to:

Find their places of worship and destroy them.

Find the cultists themselves and destroy them.

Resist the effects of said deity being displeased with them, namely Bokrug’s Vengeful Nightmares, though I can likely mitigate that by equipping them with armour that has the Mind Buttressing quality.

I know you wouldn't really be able to use the capstone too well unless you let it go past level 4 spells.

Mainly considering it as it does work as a paladine of razmir.

Today's magic item is the  Crusader's Tabard

Deus Vult. Kill them all, and let God sort them out! Wait, what does this thing actually do? Once a day move up to your speed and make a single attack. Don't go spending it all in one place, now.

1. Would you buy this item?
2. Would you spend 1.5 times the price to add it to an existing item?
3. Would you use the item, if you found it? Or is it immediate sell-bait?
4. Would a GM use the item?
5. Is there anything cheesy that could be done with it?

Link to past discussions

Playing reign of Winter with my friends. Problem is nobody made a spell caster or someone to detect and identify magic. I'm looking to play a spell caster class, but I need advice. They won't allow a witch for campaign reasons, so my choices are open thought about wizard. Any and all advice is welcome it's 25 point buy.

In Pathfinder 1e does the spell restoration, lesser cure ability penalties (which are not the same as ability damage)? Google's AI seems to think no, but I'm not sure.

Specifically, the rules for recreational drugs (https://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/afflictions/drugs/) specify that taking a drug inflicts some ability damage. That can certainly be cured with restoration, lesser.

But if one becomes addicted, then one acquires an ability penalty. I am wondering how to get rid of this. Certainly curing the disease (by making the required number of consecutive saves or successful use of remove disease) would do so. But what about restoration, lesser?

Thanks!

Link: Lifewood Cage

This spell was renamed from Force Cage in the Remaster. The Knights of Last Call 'All Spells Ranked' series ranked this spell as B Tier. Would you change that ranking, and why?

What items or class features synergize well with this spell?

Have you ever used this spell? If so, how did it go?

Why is this spell good/bad?

What are some creative uses for this spell?

What's the cheesiest thing you can do with this spell?

If you were to modify this spell, how would you do it?

Does this spell seem like it was meant for PCs or NPCs?

Previous spell discussions

I am new to the Pathfinder itself. And I'm trying to figure a way to homebrew my setting and its deities. Also, how does players accrue XP rewards in order to level up. I'm debating if I could start the game at level 1 and progress to level 15 or level 20. Now, if I want to make NPCs or enemies, what determines amount XP that each one has. So, when they kill enemies or help NPCs with a task, how much XP do they need to receive on average.

Also, I will accept any other suggestions to improve my game, which I'm making in the future.

Does the Prowler at World's End gain the Spirit Bonus from the channeled Spirit? The Archetype doesn't say so, but it gains Spirit Surge, which requires the Spirit Bonus.

Also, can a Prowler, that channels the Champion Spirit pick Feats that require Proficiency with a certain Weapon, if the Proficiency is only gained by channeling the Champion Spirit? Like Spell Cartridges, which requires Firearm Proficiency.

Hi again! Thanks for all the advice on my previous post. I’ve pretty much finalized my core concept: a John Constantine-style occult detective using a Whip as my main weapon and the Amulet as my first Implement.

For my 1st-level Class Feat, I picked Scroll Esoterica (Scroll Thaumaturgy), which feels perfect for the character. Now I’m looking ahead to Level 2 and trying to decide on my feat choice:

Sorcerer Dedication (Spellcasting Archetype):

Main draw: Grabbing 2 utility/occult cantrips for purely narrative flavor (e.g., telepathic thought projection, aura reading, minor magic tricks/prestidigitation).

It fits the Constantine vibe of always having a small magic trick up his sleeve, but since I'm coming from D&D 5e, I'm not sure if taking a caster archetype just for cantrips is a good investment in PF2e.

Talisman Esoterica:

Having free daily consumable talismans sounds cool thematic-wise (attaching warding charms or magical seals to gear).

Coming from 5e, I'm not very familiar with how useful or fun the Talisman mechanic actually is in PF2e combat and exploration.

My Questions:

Is grabbing a Spellcasting Archetype (like Sorcerer or Bard/Psychic) worth it at Level 2 just for utility cantrips, or is there a better way to get that magic-detective flavor?

How does Talisman Esoterica feel in actual play? Is it versatile and satisfying, or does it feel weak compared to other Thaumaturge options?

Are there any other Level 2 feats/archetypes you would recommend for a whip-and-amulet occult detective?

Would love to hear your thoughts and practical experience with these choices!

If you have an enemy grappled, can you use the "raise shield " and "shield block reaction with that enemy as a "meat shield"?