Nerd Pride Radio

There were some interesting musings on the Shapeshifting Hunter feat online. The big suggestion was about taking a druid up to 19th level, then adding 1 level of ranger and taking this feat. You're not giving up much (1 8th level & 1 9th level spell, and unlimited wildshape/day, although you would still have wildshape 8 times/day for 19 hours each time). In exchange, you would get 20 levels (!!!) worth of favored enemy bonuses from the ranger class. Of course, you wouldn't wait until level 20 to take that ranger level; you'd probably take it pretty early on, so you'd get to leverage the favored enemy bonus as you progress. But still, it's an interesting dual-class type of feat.

I'm a little jealous of everyone else who doesn't have a set career path here. Sure you all have a general direction, but the specifics of even what class levels you might take shift and vary as experience drives us.

I mean, I wouldn't trade Dothan for anything, but she's different. The vision I've had for her future hasn't really wavered since about third level, and her feat and spell selections are secondary to advancing her skills and class abilities.

Just different.

So, continuing in Paladin, sort of plateau, but another smite, spell level,(found a spell I like )
Angelic Aspect not listed as a choice in yapcg

Suggest feat? penciled in disarming strike
feat choices are pretty dissipated so far, not enough focus to really ramp up any particular strength. That's sort of been an issue from the beginning, because I chose paladin to half cover healing and half combat, and that's been a good niche so far.
We're getting into a league, though that calls for some more impact than even the solid damage that Hal has been dishing out. If he survives to upgrade gear, the tanking will get stronger, and then I'll have to try to figure out how he can continue to carry his weight damage wise.

I've been using Hero Lab for my Pathfinder characters. It's not free, but darn, it's good. And there's a way you can import your character from Hero Lab into Roll20, although you have to do a little tweaking on the Roll20 character sheet when you're done (it doesn't seem to add up HP or some other level-based things correctly for multi-class characters). But pretty much all Pathfinder stuff on d20pfsrd is available in Hero Lab, and it's somewhat easy to copy and customize things, if you build a custom feat or spell or somesuch.

I downloaded Hero Lab when I was looking at doing Sia Konar for Andrew's game, but it didn't seem to have Skinwalkers in the free demo, so I didn't want to risk that I was going to pay for something that I couldn't use. (My spreadsheet didn't have them either...) yapcg had them... That's why I started playing with it. It isn't perfect. I haven't found where to put in things like Energy Resistance and Damage Resistance, other than just typing it on the front page of the character sheet, even though it should be something I can update automatically by class level for my bloodline. (And, if I had the Stormborn line that it was based on, it would be part of the 3rd level Bloodline power, so I copied the same text from that into the first level bloodline power to try to get it to work... It didn't...) So I just typed it into the box. It isn't like it actually changes stats like things that impact saves, like the medallion or my snakeskin shirt with DEX... I think I have Kay just about ready... I haven't chosen my final spell though...

(Any word on that one I mentioned earlier, Pat?)

Note on hero lab. Bought it a while ago, never worked properly, maybe operator error, but both tech support and I gave up. Missing pieces that I had wanted, had to add all sorts of tweaks, asked for a refund, relationship over, still friends.

I changed my mind. Maybe. There is too much other good stuff, but I have questions.

Like spell breaker... What is defensive casting? That sounds like a very specific circumstance.

What about Mobility and Combat Patrol? If I threaten anything in a 15 ft range with an aoo, do I potentially have to move 5 ft to hit, and does that in turn open me to aoos? Or do we just assume I can hit that far without moving, or does the feat basically mean you move to do this without causing aoos?

Bodyguard... Would we use it?

Ok, I like your advice. I may not be able to reach to bodyguard this time around, but could start building up that path. Or level 10 might allow a feat reassign. I'd also like something that works on damage resistance, since at these higher levels we may face critters with it more often. Or that could be something to solve on the weaponry side.

So, another possibility is Unsanctioned knowledge

Inquisitor spells?
True Strike, basically guaranteed hit first attack (Which makes smite handy)
Spiritual Weapon
idk what else. So many of them are standard actions instead of swift.
Thoughts?

Reminder to self: I need to figure this out soon! It's going to be a crazy week and Thursday a very poor night for gaming, btw. I won't get home until after we start, I'll be running on fumes by that point and then having to get up at 6:15 the next day ready for the fight. I might lodge a move with Darcs beforehand, so I don't hold you up in that battle with the stony creature who had better be Big M and instead appears not to be Big M, much to my chagrin and disbelief. What is he doing in this magic circle of damaging red fumes if he's not Big M? We are all going to die down here though maybe level 11 will help.

Anyway, point is, I need two feats and am having a TERRIBLE time choosing now that I decided spellbreaker and teleport tactician are kinda dumb. INDECISION is terrible.

I think I'm going with the disarming strike. Hal's bonus is solid already, and it means I won't waste a damage round looking to disarm unless we're really afraid of a specific weapon.
Also it occurs to me if Hal can't seriously hit, one shot isn't going to save us. By the time we discover it, we'll be too deep in, and the move will be to have everyone else flee. If I wait till next feat, the critical disarm will already be there, and maybe on first strike, which is when true strike is most useful, he'll get the +20, the disarm as well as the amped smite damage doubled. At that rate it begins to be dwyn level damage per round, which will come in handy if this is not the last encounter of the adventure. (Things can only get worse)

Here's what I'm thinking: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/combat-fe ... rd-combat/

But how does this work? I take it I give up one of my two total AOOs in a round, and roll to try to add some bonus to AC for my neighbor being attacked? Usually that means Hal, Kay, Illian, etc. This seems like it would come into play constantly for Hal. But what does it actually DO? I'm not quite following.

I would add Combat Patrol too, except that I'm not sure it's a good idea to extend my reach another 5 feet, and then have to move over closer to the critter I want to do the AOO upon, and then be subject to an AOO from them too. What's the point of that?

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/combat-fe ... l-combat-/
I assume this means that Lucille goes from a 20 crit to a 19 OR 20 crit?
And then Critical Focus would mean that if I rolled a 20, a crit-confirming roll would be anything from 17-20?

I just took critical focus, it means that on your roll to confirm (which just has to beat the opponent's AC) you get a +4 to that roll.

Thank you, that is really helpful for weighing the pros and cons.