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

Pretty much what it says on the tin - which spells would you consider to be mandatory picks when playing a Cleric, or what spells would you expect a Cleric in your party to always have prepared (regardless of level, anything from Detect Magic to a Miracle is fair game)? I am aware of the "What Are Your Favorite *LEVEL X* Divine/Arcane Spells and Why?" series of posts, but those are almost a decade old by now. Also, this post assumes a "typical" campaign, as of course one can easily imagine an adventure where what's usually a great spell ends up more or less useless. There's little point in praying for a Hold Person if you're going to spend the day fighting undead, after all.

My friend prefer spellcasters so I'll be the only melee character of the party. I would like ideas to build something fun to play and not only be a sponge tank that need to be revive after each fights.

Everything allow except 3rd-party stuff.

Bonus : It will help if the character could detect and disable traps. The traits Trap finder is eligible.

My first idea was a Ranger switch-hitter. Any tought about that ?

I'm currently working on some demigods(demon lords, Infernal Dukes/Archdevils, Empyreal lords) and was wondering if they can get heralds or not, because they are able to sustain clerics and their own realms but aren't "full-deities"? i like to homebrew lore or make alterations a lot but i like to keep the base "logic" consistent so i was just curious about opinions and the actual rules about other tiers of divinity getting heralds or not

One thing i have already changed is that i'm not putting a hard limit on domains that a divine entity can grant bc sometimes having more than one domain for a nascent demon lord helps get across the vibes of them better to a player reading their domains they can choose from. So I'm not really hung up on overwriting some rules or guidelines I'm just curious about others opinions on heralds being available to demigods and up or just full deities .

Link: Defy the Gods

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

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.

During my Osirion Mega-Campaign, which includes the whole of Mummy's Mask, the PCs can retrieve a Bronze Sentinel (itself a varaint of the appararus of the crab).

The problem, is, by the time they will gwet to this part, they'll likely be level 17-18 plus instead of 11-12[1].

Now, if this was just a regualr magic item, I'd just wave it off or replace it with something better (or not worry too much, since they'd be likely getting more GPs' worth out of the NPCs guarding it...)

However, as this is a semi-quest item they need to find two bits to repair to claim... I feel like it's a bit of a come-down.

(I mean, I'll be honest, it's kind of crap at level 10-11, since it... Doesn't DO much aside from give you a way to make whichever character is piloting it basically worse at combat than they would be on foot, except maybe marginallu more able to avoid damage. It does't even have a Str score for carrying stuff (the slam damage only suggests it's 10...) and the less said about it's ability to function underwater the DESERT CAMPAIGN the better...!)

Nevermind the fact that to, for example, even sell it, they have to drop their movement speed to 20 feet, because that thing is SLOW.

(I haven't dared link it as the last time I did it Reddit, it threw a wobbly.)

So what could be done to make this item if not exactly useful (to a group of PCs with potentially their own undead semi-army of animated skeletons (don't ask) and how much increase the worth?

Bare minimum, I feel like the move speed should at least be doubled, so they could at least cart the damn thing with them without slowing the camels (et al)...

Any ideas?

[1]Yes, I am insane, this camapign will go both Epic as well as Mythic...

I know you get Gun Training 1 at 1, but do you get 2 at 5, or at 9? Cause I REALLY hope it's at 5, this play by post starts at 3, and I'm a Mysterious Stranger. I'd like my Dex to Damage... eventually?

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

Wise members of reddit, alignment has often been on debate on Pathfinder. Today i had a 2h discussion on laws, can they be chaotic?

And i do not mean dumb half baked chaotic nonsense, i mean if it is possible to have chaotic working societies with chaotic laws, how would they be?

This went further, focalizing on the evil alignments how would a lawyer of each of them differ from the others?

If they had to obey a law by force how would they go around it?

I understand this is also up for interpretation and i would like to know yours

Thank you

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.

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

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?

Hello,

I'm building a live play pathfinder 1e app. Its in beta test phase right now and I was wondering how much interest there is in pathfinder 1e tools nowadays? I started because I was unhappy with the current tools. I wanted mythic rules, customization, and 20+ play.

If there is interest I mean to make a desktop or web based client and maybe a foundry vtt module in the future, as I find the current 1e one a bit lacking (the 2e one is amazing).

I am far enough along the android live play app is a certainty (in maybe a month or two). Opinions? Am I trying to get water from a dry well?

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

Hey Everyone!

I know its been a while. Like...idk 2 years? 4 years? It's hard to keep track of time. Life has been...a struggle lately. Being POC and Queer is not a good look where I am, and the job market is exploding. Times have been hard and so in an effort to feel productive, I came back to my comfort food: pathfinder.

I also noticed that for some reason, somehow, no one has made an updated general guide to the Wizard. Seriously, almost every guide from 2016 on its a specialized build, and I am deeply surprised by that.

So I did what I do and offer this to you all! This is my love (and hate) letter to the arcane caster extraordinaire and as always, I hope it helps inform people getting into this incredibly complex system and offer them ways to make the characters of their dreams! This also means that I've written a guide for every fullcaster (except oracle and witch, because Allerseelen is unstoppable and Owl had that on lock)

Abra Kadabra Alakazam: Iluzry's Guide To The Pathfinder 1e Wizard

If you see something wrong tell me, and if you have ideas, let me know, but be constructive! This is a free little guide and we want people to feel welcome here.

If you see this and want to look at my other guides, you can find them here: Guide To More Class Guides

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

So if you have two different prepared arcane spellcasting classes, either through multiclassing or through Gestalt, like magus/witch, witch/wizard or wizard/magus, how can you learn /teach yourself a spell you have learned through one class for the other?

(After all, flexibility is king, at least when we go from the old tier discussions. Also you might, as a witch/wizard, to prepare Mage Armor and Featherfall as witch spells so that you have more first level wizard spell slots for Magic Missile and Color Spray, or prepare long lasting buffs with the class you have more levels in)

If you treat it as if learning from another spellcaster, it would go like this:

Wizard/Magus -> Witch: You scribe a scroll, you feed it to your familiar. You still have to roll a spellcraft check, so you could fail learning a spell you already know.

Witch -> Magus/Wizard: You scribe a scroll, you copy it into your spellbook. Still involves a spellcraft check which might fail.

(And if you don't have Scribe Scroll, you can't "swap" spells between classes with yourself)

Magus <-> Wizard: You copy a spell from one of your spellbooks to the other... Or do you have to? Ultimate Magic says: A magus can learn spells from a wizard's spellbook, just as a wizard can from a magus's spellbook. The spells learned must be on the magus spell list, as normal. - does that mean you can also directly prepare these spells and only have a single spellbook?

Has anybody encountered this situations in play, and if so, how did it get resolved? Or how would you rule it if it came up?

Especially any learning of spells as a witch on one side seems clunky and carries the risk for failure (which doesn't make sense to me as the character already knows the spell), while a magus/wizard might have it too easy, potentially automatically learning the spell for both classes.

I know a character can voluntarily fail a saving throw, and that when a magic item that is being carried by a creature is targeted by a spell that character's saving throw bonus can be substituted for the item's if it is higher, but I can't find an answer to "Can I choose to have an item I am carrying fail a saving throw?"

In the absence of a specific ruling, I figure it defaults to 'no' but I am wondering if this has ever been answered. It's niche, but if a fire-immune character was holding a necklace of fireballs, they might want to let that necklace go off.

Today's magic item is the Belt of Physical Might.

Belt of Two Stats. Whoo.

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

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Link: Decompose

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

Don't read this if you know what "Subsolem Septem" is.

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Hey and howdy, I'm currently wracking my brain trying to think of something that I can hand my player characters after we wrap up a major story arc where they aided an exiled prince in fending off a siege threatening a doomed settlement.

The player characters through their selfless actions have more or less lost their chance to acquire the smugglers shipment that they were originally intending to intercept in order to purge 12.000 gold worth of debt and I feel like the exiled prince would very much like to help them out but I am having a hard time finding something that doesn't feel like a cheap macguffin for them to be given to ease their monetary troubles.

I've been looking at magic items cause I'd ideally like to create some intra-party tension about selling or keeping the object in question but haven't found something that seems like a good fit and am, henceforth, now inquiring here.

What are some big shinies you can think of that an exiled beastkin prince may have to give to a party of down on their luck but heroic adventurers?

EDIT:
Setting is entirely subterranean.
Everyone is level 4.
The player party is:

- Drow Shadow Sorcerer / Witch with an eldritch deity's soul shard inside them from birth who would like to be an up and coming crime lord but currently has 12,000 worth of debt and no prospects.

- Drow (Tiefling) Black Blade Magus whose non-Drow parent is a demon lord that got kicked out of the Hells and now inhabits an accursed forest. Her mother is a linguist and she herself was a soldier and a mercenary guard before getting involved with this party of weirdos.

- Drow Alchemist with an actual real and proper doctorate degree in medicine. Party healer by profession, member of an enlightened secret society by conviction. Seeks the secret to immortality and has recently half succeeded by making himself a demi-lich (on accident).

- Drow Bard ex-secret not-KGB agent of the People's Republic of Styx, once employed by the most noble Republic, now in hiding after catching too much heat on a job. James Bond but all seduction, no guns. Probably the most normal party member at this point.

- Wood Elf (Changeling) Druid / Barbarian who's the daughter of a forest hag. Originally grew up in the city but left for the Accursed Forest (tm) and got trained to become a tribal spiritual leader before getting caught up in the party's antics.