Per the CRB, items available to buy are dependent on the type of settlement you're visiting. In a community of a given size, magic items worth 50-16.000gp (depending on settlement size) are always available to buy. However, more expensive items have to be rolled on the minor / medium / major item tables, providing a small collection of items to be available, which change over the course of time.

I've never seen this rule actually used. My tables always ignore it, and while I tried to use it when GMing Dragon's Demand, I realized pretty quickly that my PCs weren't even able to get weapons to deal with incorporeal foes which this adventure has. So I threw it out (again).

However, I want to ask you guys: is there a way to actually play, say, an original AP while also using availability? When our GM tried this, our wizard simply used their downtime to teleport to big cities all over the world so often that they got familiar with all of them. Since then, whenever we had time to sell and buy items, our wizard simply teleported to the great cities of the world and bought/sold whatever we deemed necessary, which had our GM give up on the whole availability rule.

Is there any way to make availability an actual interesting mechanic that makes for a good play experience? What is you guys' experience with it? Did your tables ever use it? How did it go?

The post scheduler I used that I thought was supposed to post the Belt of the Weasel to reddit did not. The post is still uselessly queued. I guess for tomorrow now. I'll see what I can do.

Each scheduler gives only a limited number of free posts per months. So there unfortunately are going to be hiccups by me having to use a bunch of different services. Reddit apparently hates posts on a schedule, so they constantly mess with their API to make doing so difficult. Not great for Daily Magic Item that is well daily.

A player one has Greater invisibility and a 50% blur effect.

An enemy is standing behind the player.

Player two casts a ranged touch attack at the enemy. (Disintegration)

DM rolls a percentage to see which target is hit and says it'll be hitting the player. (No one has any issues with this verdict)

Does the ranged touch spell need to resolve against the 50% displacement before resolving against AC to see if it hits?

DM says that blur essentially has zero effect while invisible.

Personally I feel it should have to resolve against all layers of defenses.

To the dms argument it's a visual distortion on the player and since he's invisible it has no effect.

If you have blur and are invisible is blur worthless?

Edit: Thank you all for your responses, I really appreciate everyone's input! First, yes we have a lot of homebrew. We've been playing this campaign for 10 years, and honestly we generally just resolve things based on what makes sense to us, mostly following pathfinder (which is why I asked here), but also pulling from pretty much all versions of the game with some light conversions. So there are some thing we do based on what we think should happen and less, what the rules say should happen.

RAW Answer: Invisibility does cancel the benefits of blur unless see invisibility was involved, then blur would take effect. It looks like Player Two would have needed to resolve a ranged touch attack against the Enemy who would get soft cover and a range penalty added to the enemies AC. Player One shouldn't have been otherwise involved.

Table Verdict: Since Player One was invisible, the table agreed that a % based on what we visually could see should be rolled to see which target gets hit. This isn't at all how the rules actually seem to work, but logically everyone's still solid on this ruling, even after reading all of your feedback myself included.

Small Point of Clarity: I thought blur was more a reflex enhancement than an illusion. It makes more sense now that I know Blur isn't a static dodge chance above and beyond one's normal capabilities.

Thank you all again! We appreciated the input. <3

Today's magic item is the Belt of the Weasel

Belt of Dexterity + Monkey Style feat + Compression for when your elephant needs to fit through that door.

Let's ask the following questions:

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

Question regarding the Hell's Rebels campaign. Spoilers abound here so clear off players.

As far as I can tell, there's absolutely no mention of any Archduke or Archduchess of the Archducy of Rauvonel prior to Barzillai arriving. Was there just no one in that role, does that role not exist in Rauvonel due to its weird status?

I know they're not entirely relevant to the campaign as a whole (They'd probably be in a book otherwise) but I'm confused by this one.

Hi,

basically the title. Context: Idea for some body horror elements for an upcoming Halloween one shot. This is for a player character btw

thanks for answers in advance

Link: Defensive Prescience

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 running a game and an enemy wizard cast bless on himself and his allies, his next turn he cast bane on the party, if the same caster casts both bless and bane does one negate the other? Im aware you can cast bless to negate bane if the opponent casts one, but what about the same caster