Questions tagged [pathfinder-1e]
Pathfinder is an RPG originally derived from the open licensed rules to Dungeons & Dragons v3.5. It was published by Paizo Publishing in 2009. (For questions about the 2nd edition, use the tag [pathfinder-2e] instead.)
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15th-level gestalt stealth master build help
I am trying to make a character for a combat heavy, largely PvP game, with 15th-level gestalt characters. The concept that I have in mind is some sort of Jack-of-All-Trades-y Wizard/Rogue class, with ...
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A spell or curse to make enemies take damage from healing?
I'm looking to turn my enemies healing against them as harm.
Is there a spell or a curse that causes positive energy to do damage instead of healing as if they were undead without actually making them ...
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Boosting Poet’s Cloak? (Pathfinder 1e)
I’m trying to make my Skald a bit more versatile to assist the party and the Poet’s cloak caught my eye. Not all the party greatly benefits from my inspired rages all the time but being able to shift ...
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Would Prestidigitation remove poison from an object's surface?
I had the passing thought of getting revenge, I mean protecting your items from thieves by using a strong contact poison. Now in the case of coins, would a casting of Prestidigitation be enough to ...
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How does Cut from the Air interact with Reach weapons?
Cut from the Air
When a ranged attack is made against you or a target adjacent to you, you can cut the weapon (or ammunition) out of the air, deflecting the attack so the target takes no damage. As ...
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Can a PC with a reach weapon attack a tiny creature moving into his square?
Tiny creatures can move in an enemy's square but they provoke an AoO.
Very Small Creature
A Fine, Diminutive, or Tiny creature can move into or through an occupied square. The creature provokes ...
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Does a move action used as a failed attempt to escape an effect (through a failed check) provoke an attack of opportunity?
This is a magical effect that I am able to get in our Pathfinder 1e game.
Any hostile creature must succeed on a Reflex save any time it becomes
or starts its turn adjacent to you. A creature that ...
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Can a cleric cast spells from his domain if his allignment does not match the spell?
Can a cleric with say lawful neutral allignment cast a spell from one of his domains that has a good / evil / chaos disignator?
As the anwer below points out.
chaos vs law is a no go.
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Does Trox Grappling Appendages stack damage?
I am in a campaign with a trox brawler and am wondering about clarification for the trox ability grabbing appendages. If the trox can maintain grapple and still make an attack roll, does that mean ...
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Wind Speed to affect larger creatures in Pathfinder 1e
On the page for Weather (wind), it specifies at what point medium creatures get blown away by wind. 51+mph.
An F1 tornado is 73-112mph, which is a large range entirely above that threshold.
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Optimizing fatal/demolition setups during long Time Stop with strict RAW rules against targeting creatures
I'm in a 9th level high-powered gestalt game in a Tippyverse setting with a fairly permissive DM that allows for highly optimized shenanigans. Game rules are PF as a base with 3.5 content to ...
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What happens to things taken out of a demiplane after the demiplane expires?
Me and my friends were debating a certain idea. Namely using demiplanes as a place to get resources from (such as fertile soil, organic matter, stone and so on. There was also the mention of metals ...
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What's the connection between Numeria (in Pathfinder) and Numenera?
I've been playing the Iron Gods adventure path for Pathfinder 1e. I've previously played Numenera (a Cypher system game). The settings are striking, and I'm wondering why they are so similar. Do they ...
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Is there thought and emotion component for psychic spells?
I could have sworn that psychic spells had there specific components listed like regular spells. For example, the fireball spell tells you the material component is bat guano.
I seem to remember ...
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What happened to the natural armor and spell resistance of the Mythic subtype in Mythic Adventures?
What happened to the natural armor and spell resistance of the Mythic Subtype in Mythic Adventures?
Natural armor increase equal to its Mythic Rank.
Spell resistance increase (if it has spell ...
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Effects of Beyond Morality Mythic Universal Path Ability?
If an Erinyes (Devil) Wizard 12 (Banisher) / Archmage 4 (Mythic) with the 3rd Tier Universal Path Ability of "Beyond Morality" uses the spell "Magic Weapon, Greater (Mythic)" (...
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Is there a way to get Dragon's Breath as a Qinggong Monk at level 8?
Qinggong Monk is notorious for having a "8th level" Ki power category but only have the opportunity to take a ki power at 7 or 11. I would like to know if there is a world where you can be a ...
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Can Sage apply Chi Gong to a thrown ranged weapon?
I’m putting together a Votary Sage, making him kind of like a ninja. I want him able to toss shuriken as a ranged option, and intended to use Chi Gong through them by way of the Ki Weapon esotery.
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How does Dimensional Anchor work on a permanent dimensional gateway?
Does Dimensional Anchor work if cast on a permanent dimensional gateway of conjuration (summoning)? Or can it blocks the passage of summoned creatures?
From the rules the description of dimensional ...
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Is there a way to improve Rage? [closed]
In Dungeons and Dragons 3.X, (and possibly Pathfinder), is there any way to 'improve' your Rage bonuses?
I know that specifically for 3.X there are a number of different forms of Rage, including:
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Do feats that affect spells like Spell Focus apply to Spell Like Abilities?
If you have a spell-Like ability that allows you to cast a spell, are feats and abilities that would modify the spell if it was cast normally apply? For example if you gained Burning Hands as a Spell-...
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Is there a way for a human barbarian to acquire the cold-honed half-elf racial trait?
Question is as the title says, "Is there a way for a human barbarian to acquire the cold-honed half-elf racial trait?"
Maybe through feats or traits? Something adopted?
(The racial trait is ...
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Are single swarms of Large size completely shapeable in Pathfinder?
This D&D 3.5 question touches on this subject. Recently in a Pathfinder 1e game, it came to my attention that Paizo removed the second line clarifying that swarms were shapeable 10' creatures.
I ...
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Is there a way to use Strength for the Perform Skill?
How (if possible) would one utilize their Strength ability score with the Perform Skill? Be that in lieu of Charisma or in addition to it.
There are so many ways to shuffle the ability score that ...
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Optimizing challenge: Oozemorph - Making the most of Fluidic Body and only 1 level of Shifter
I'm playing an unconventional Oozemorph, specifically the rules are:
No house rules.
A maximum of 1 level of Oozemorph Shifter.
1st party Paizo Pathfinder releases, no 3rd party.
The Oozemorph ...
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SoP. If i wear armor without the Somatic Casting Drawback do I still impose arcane spell failure?
Using Spheres of Power, instead of traditional casting. If I'm using a class that isn't proficient in armor, but don't take the Somatic Casting Drawback, do I still take the risk of arcane spell ...
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Does anyone know if there are any rules for Materials refinement in Pathfinder & DnD type settings or similar?
I've been working on a document that collects "special materials" and 'crafting techniques' throughout Dungeons & Dragons 3.X materials, and Pathfinder, but I've found little information ...
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Can Psychometabolism's Shared effect vary parameters between targets?
The Pathfinder psion has discipline abilities as part of its kit. The 8th level Egoist ability allows the psion to share Personal psychometabolism powers with others.
Can the parameters of the powers ...
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PF1 Swashbuckler in pcgen
I'm creating a PF1 Human Swashbuckler. As a class ability, he gets "Swashbuckler Finesse", which allows him to use Finesse on single-handed as well as light melee weapons. I equip him with a ...
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I want to optimize a combat summoner, viable from level 1-20
What I'd like out of the build
The Goal of this Build is to create a Demon/undead focused summoner any and all optimization suggestions should be made with that as the end goal.
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Replacing an ability with another via archtypes
In pathfinder. When I take the archetype of a Hungry Ghost Monk, I get the following:
Punishing Kick (Ex)
At 1st level, a hungry ghost monk gains Punishing Kick as a bonus
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Can the Speed magic-weapon-special-ability add +1 AC modifier as Haste spell?
Can the Speed magic-weapon-special-ability add +1 AC modifier as a Haste spell does? Here the description:
When making a full-attack action, the wielder of a speed weapon may make one extra attack ...
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How much legendary power is needed to attack touch AC of a full attack?
In the description for the abilities of Legendary items we can read:
Unstoppable Strike: This weapon bypasses all armor. The wielder can expend one use of legendary power when attacking to make the ...
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How much Legendary Power is needed to double the damage of a full-attack?
In the description for the abilities of Legendary items we can read:
Foe-Biting: When this item deals damage, its user can use mythic power to double the total amount of damage it deals. If the ...
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What prevents enemies from speaking command words to turn off your magic items?
The Magic Items section of the PFSRD says this about command words (emphasis mine):
Command Word: If the activation is on command or if no activation method is suggested either in the magic item ...
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Surge ability die for legendary items
Legendary Surge ability for legendary items ends as:
The legendary surge ability allows the bearer to add the result of a d6 to the appropriate type of roll or check. A mythic bearer can use her ...
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Can I choose not to multiply my damage on a critical hit?
I am a Rogue with a -4 Strength modifier. For those attacks that add strength on damage, this is highly inconvenient. Currently, one of my natural attacks deals 1d2-4 damage. Since Sneak attack is ...
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Dispelling one shot magic items
When a magic item that can only be used once, such as a Potion of Cure Light Wounds, or Scroll of Teleport, or a Burning Hands Trap, gets directly hit by a successful Dispel Magic, what happens to ...
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How do Swarms interact with Damage Reduction?
As far as I understand Swarms are basically a hundred (or thousand) of the same creature and instead of having each of them roll to hit for one damage it is abstracted with swarms dealing damage based ...
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How to calculate attack and damage modifiers for level 1 barbarian with bite attack and great axe?
I'm making a level 1 Half-Orc Unchained Barbarian, with an 18 STR and power attack. I took the tusked racial trait, giving him a 1d4 bite attack to go along with a 1d12 great axe.
How would I ...
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What kind of attack is a Tailblade?
Slightly related: Do you cause Sneak Attack damage on all Natural Attacks?, which assumes it as a secondary natural attack; explaining why would be off-topic for that question, but it's basically what ...
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What are the limitations for targets of Sylvan Necromancy?
Sylvan Necromancy (Dual Sphere) states:
You can use your (plant) geomancing abilities on corpses instead of plants. In addition, you can reanimate dead plant life as zombies (or skeletons, if they ...
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Legendary items pool of power
When a magical item became a Legendary Item and then became a major Artifact, gains
it gains the suite of base legendary abilities and can have up to three additional legendary abilities. By ...
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If my spellcaster finds someone else's replica, can he recall a different spellcaster's Secret Chest?
Some other wizard casts Secret Chest and hides all manner of important treasure on the Ethereal Plane in her well crafted expensive chest. One day later the tiny replica required to retrieve her chest ...
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Can a character use 'Paragon Surge' to gain a feat they temporarily qualify for?
The current example I am thinking is a Sorcerer casting a spell similar to Form Of The Dragon causing them to gain natural attacks. Could the Sorcerer in question follow up that spell with Paragon ...
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Can you use Plant Growths Enrichment effect multiple times?
Plant Growth has this effect as an option:
Enrichment: This effect targets plants within a range of a half-mile, raising their potential productivity over the course of the next year to one-third ...
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Can you better explain the feat Fast Learner (Human)?
One of the players in a game I am part of wants to take the feat Fast Learner (Human) at level 1. The problem is that both the GM and I can't quite follow the wording of the second part.
When you ...
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How does Training work with Warrior Spirit?
The Training (weapon enchantment) ability says:
Popular among those who seek to impersonate skilled warriors, a training weapon grants one combat feat to the wielder as long as the weapon is drawn ...
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Does a spellcaster with a shield provide flanking?
I have one hand free for casting spells with somatic components and I wield a shield in my other hand.
Do I threaten squares in my melee range for the purposes of providing the flanking bonus to my ...
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What are some powerful anti-construct spells that target Fortitude?
What Fortitude-targeting spells are big threats to Constructs?
I'm curious about spells that are strong versus constructs. I'm particularly curious about ones that target Fortitude (since they count ...
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