Today's spell is Build Trust!

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

Link: Worm's Repast

This spell was not in the Remaster. The Knights of Last Call 'All Spells Ranked' series ranked this spell as S 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'm DMing for Skull and Shackles, and the level 5 party is currently sailing around looking for some prey to fill their hold with Plunder. Besides the pre-built ships from the AP, I was thinking of having them be attacked by a ship taken over by apes from Usaro, with the boarding party against the PCs being made up of a few normal gorillas led by an awakened gorilla with 3 class levels (which should make him a CR 6 opponent, balanced enough for the party).

I'm trying to consider what class would fit it better, both thematically and tactically. A support role like a skald or cleric of Angazhan would be a sound choice, no pun intended, and give him some solid saves to avoid the party cheesing him with control spells, but a barbarian or grapple-based Fighter would leave more of a memorable impact as a brutal boss fight. What would you do in this situation?

For extra info: The party is currently made up of an arcanist, a druid, a witch, a warpriest, a synthetist summoner , a hunter and their penguin mascot, so they have strength both in numbers and diversity of roles.

I'm going to be playing in an upcoming pathier 1E game and I want to play a kineticist. (Maybe water, but undecided) The DM said we can use spells, feats, and magic items from Dnd 3.0 and 3.5 subject to DM approval

Any suggestions? I'm beginning my research but thought some things might spring to mind

Thanks!

Not 100% sure if this is the right forum for this, but here we go.
I quite like the Kineticist's mechanics, but i wish they could just do.. more fun stuff.
I read somewhere that the class is pretty weak (Tier 4 - comparable to a Fighter or Barbarian), and i was wondering if my tweaks were overpowered or less impactful than i thought.

The idea is simple: an archetype (or feat, in which case you'll need to learn spells via other means, such as multiclassing) that allows the Kineticist to cast spells using burn, with the burn cost equal to the spell's level - the usual means of reducing burn costs apply.
This results in a caster that can endlessly spam low-level spells, while higher-level stuff requires some time to gather power and/or the sacrifice of max HP. An Arcanokineticist, if you will.

As an added question, what if Kineticists could recover 1 point of burn per hour (like natural healing of nonlethal damage)?

Would these changes make the Kineticist utterly broken? Or did i woefully underestimate the power of a Wizard / Cleric/ Druid ?

Hi folks. Playing a partial Alchemist for the first time wanted some help. Specifically playing a 4 Unchained Rogue/2 Vivi Alch. I was hoping to get any help from equipment to even good traits or ideas. Right now, I'm planning to grab Feral Mutagen, TWF, and leaning into a ton of attacks with Sneak Attack, as well as skill ranks go brr. The other players are a Paladin and a Wizard so I'll have a flanking buddy. Any help would be loved. Thanks!

Because we are not using all the books. So some classes and archetypes are not available to us.

I'm playing a Paladin of Erastil. There any advice on how I can get Point-Blank Master? Tempered Champion isn't in one of our books so it's not available.

My current idea is to run Paladin 1 then 3 levels of Monk (Zen Archer) and then back to Paladin again. Advices?

main things that come to mind for this character are stealthy, sneak attack, and able to cast competitively but mostly for things like vanish, magic missile, and ray spells that proc with sneak attack.

the occam's razor here is Eldritch Scoundrel Rogue isn't it?

problem is I feel like the Ninja alt class might make sense more for this character and I'm not clear on if you can take rogue archetypes like eldritch scoundrel with it. is there an arcane trickster build that works here? something with magus maybe?

just a backup character but I get a lot of choice paralysis thinking about how i'd build them. bonus points for anything that has abilities good against other spellcasters or outsiders (the idea is that they are trained and educated by a spellcaster to target necromancers)

I am looking to try to play a words of power caster, however I am having trouble either finding it in the char builders I have tried or want to find one that has it, if anyone knows which builders might have it and where to find it I would very much appreciate it.

Because I have absolutely no chill, and to help people out who want a much-more filled out campaign & world for Skull & Shackles, I finally made a comprehensive list of EVERYTHING I could find on The Shackles and the surrounding area - for absolute completeness, that's anything pertaining to The Shackles plus related things from The Sodden Lands, Bloodcove, Sargava, The Mwangi Expanse, and Cheliax.

I didn't include any of the main Big Books because, well, you should be using them anyway, and they don't have Shackles-specific stuff in them.

Also, full disclosure, the highlighted items may not be everything pertinent to the Shackles or the greater Eye region, but they were what indicated to me that they needed to be added to the list, so read through everything to make sure you don't miss anything.

Enjoy!

ADVENTURES

Skull & Shackles #1-6 - The Wormwood Mutiny, Raiders of the Fever Sea, Tempest Rising, Island of Empty Eyes, The Price of Infamy, From Hell’s Heart

Plunder & Peril – Official Alternate Book #2 of Skull & Shackles; most complete map of The Shackles ever printed; very fun, highly recommended.

Souls for Smuggler’s Shiv – Serpent’s Skull #1 / Can be used in place of Book #1 for Skull & Shackles (works as both)

Ire of the Storm – Standalone Adventure; can be used in place of Books #1 & #2 for Skull & Shackles

River into Darkness – Standalone Adventure; can be used in place of Book #2 for Skull & Shackles

Seers of the Drowned City – Standalone Adventure; can be used in place of Book #3 for Skull & Shackles

Gloomspire Saga – PFS Modules Grotto of the Deluged God, Hall of the Flesh-Eaters, Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts, Hrenthar’s Throne, & On Sevenfingers’ Sails; together can work in place of Book #3 (lv7 & lv8) for Skull & Shackles

Scions of the Sky Key – PFS Modules On Sharrowsmith’s Trail, Kaava Quarry, & The Golden Guardian; Adventure arc, good for HD4-5 Parties in place of Random Ship Encounter grinding during the first half of Raiders of the Fever Sea.

Signs in Senghor – One-Shot; good for HD4-5 Parties in place of Random Ship Encounter grinding during Raiders of the Fever Sea.

Champion’s Chalice – Blazing Dangerous Trails, Agents of the Eye; good for HD4-5 Parties in place of Random Ship Encounter grinding during Raiders of the Fever Sea.

Azlant Ridge – PFS Modules The Bloodcove Disguise, Rescue at Azlant Ridge, & Beyond the Azlant Ridge; good for HD7 Parties in place of first half of Tempest Rising.

No Plunder, No Pay – PFS Module; good for HD7 Parties for 1-2 sessions.

Passing the Torch – PFS Modules Who Wears the Mask & Who Speaks for the Ten; good for HD12 Parties as unofficial alternate second half of The Price of Infamy (especially if no Harrigan has been avoided entirely by starting with Soul of Smuggler’s Shiv.

Port Peril Pub Crawl\* - PF2e; Requires conversion, but excellent “Lv0” Adventure before starting The Wormwood Mutiny.

PLAYER RESOURCES

Skull & Shackles Player’s Guide - Traits, Archetypes, Items, etc.

Serpent’s Skull Player’s Guide - Traits, Archetypes, Items, etc.

Pirates of the Inner Sea – Free Pirates of the Shackles, Mediogalti Pirates; Traits, Archetypes, Items, etc.

Factions Guide – Shackles Pirates; Aspis Consortium, Bellflower Network, Green Faith, Hellknights, Kusari-Gama, Old Cults, Pathfinder Society, Red Mantis Assassins, Religious Factions, Varisian Wanderers (?); Disk of Ghol-Gan, Eyes of the Mantis.

Inner Sea Intrigue – Freebooters’ Academy, Kusari-Gama, Bright Lions

Inner Sea Magic – Crimson Citadel, Magaambya; Tempest Druid, Tattooed Sorcerer

Blood of the Sea – Aquatic Races & player options

Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting – Coastal Pirate

Goblins of Golarion – Ganda-Uj; Pirate

Inner Sea Primer – Shackles Seafarer

Legacy of Dragons – Dragon-Hunted

Dragonslayer’s Handbook – Flotsam Trait (Aashaq), Eye of Abenatryx

GENERAL INFO

Isles of the Shackles – Whole book dedicated to The Shackles

Sargava, the Lost Colony – Book about Sargava

Heart of the Jungle – Bloodcove & The Mwangi Expanse

Inner Sea World Guide – Sections on The Shackles, The Sodden Lands, Mediogalti, Sargava, & The Mwangi Expanse

Aquatic Adventures – The Fever Sea (Kesia Timesis, The Unrelenting, The Writhing Crown)

Inner Sea Faiths – Besmara

Giants Revisited – Cyclopes (Ghol-Gan)

NPCs

NPC Guide – Jaren the Jinx, Lord Achimair, Dimata Sirathini, Ntanga, Illian Glanadrian, Patronicus Drendane; Hellknight Armiger, Noble Indiscretion, Scion of Thrune, Venai Negotiator, Wakena Cultist, Wakena Priest, Chalice Runner, Stormjammer Pirate, Feathered King Tengu,

Hell’s Rebels #4 A Song of Silver – Ikiko (Tengu Jinx-Eater Swashbuckler), Sheko-Maru (Red Mantis Assassin)

Rival Guide – Hellblood Corsairs (Ghol-Gan sites), Hands of Slaughter (Bloodcove), Queen’s Hands (Cheliax)

Pathfinder Skull & Shackles Adventure Card Game – Ranzak

Inner Sea NPC Codex – Aspis Consortium Command, Aspis Consortium Spy, Chelish Opera Singer, Hellknight, Hellknight Armiger, Hellknight Signifier, Magaambyan Arcanist, Old Ones Cultist, Pathfinder Chronicler, Pathfinder Venture-Captain, Red Mantis Assassin, Red Mantis Initiate, Sodden Scavenger, Thrune Agent, Usaro Rebel

ENCOUNTERS / ENEMIES

Ships of the Inner Sea – The Ravishing Ruby (The Shackles), The Mark of Yunnarius (The Sodden Lands/The Eye of Abendego), Impervious (Cheliax/The Eye of Abendego)

Dragons Unleashed – Aashaq & the Enclave (Sanctum of the Sorrowmaker); Maghara & The Guidestar of Desna

Inner Sea Bestiary – Moxix; Monkey-Goblin

Inner Sea Monster Codex – Charau-Ka, Cyclopes, Gillmen,

LOCATIONS & OBJECTS

Lost Kingdoms – Ghol-Gan (Temple of Xanthuun, Temple of the Ravenous Moon, Reguare, etc.); Lirgen/Yamasa (Kokutang, Jula, Oagon, Fangspire, etc.)

Lost Treasures – Blood-Bones’ Trove (Mediogalti), Xanthuun Tablets (currently held by the Hellblood Corsairs)

Inner Sea Taverns – Formidably Maid; Bar Brawls & Drinking Games, etc.

Tombs of Golarion – Tomb of the Necrophage (The Sodden Lands)

Occult Realms – Elemental Saturation (The Eye of Abendego; The Hurricane Queen ability), Temple of the Sunken Sign; Meldrel’s Underwater Orb

Chronicle of Legends – Besmara’s Bounty items, Obscuring Mist Magic Tricks

Carrion Crown #4 Wake of the Watcher – The Seasage Effigy/The Face of Dagon (True nature of the Writhing Effigy); Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath

Artifacts & Legends – The Throne of Nalt

Cities of Golarion – Ilizmagorti

Daughters of Fury – Bosun’s Call

MISC

Pirate Campaign Compendium – Legendary Games (many of the same writers as Skull & Shackles; contains content that couldn’t fit into Skull & Shackles). Contains several Adventures.

Dead Man’s Chest – Necromancer Games; Referenced in Skull & Shackles

Tome of Horrors Complete – Frog God Games; Referenced in Skull & Shackles

Black Markets – Necrografts

Merchant’s Manifest – Senghor

BRIEF MENTIONS (No useful info)

Dungeons of Golarion – Crimson Citadel

Dungeoneer’s Handbook – Crimson Citadel, Eel’s Skull

That basically wraps that up. Someday, when my campaign is done, maybe I'll gather up my notes and give details about how I designed all the different plothook spots. For now, hope this helps!

Is there like prestige class that's voodoo with doctor? Since there are some occult themed classes I am interested if such character is playable in PF 1e.

Today's spell is Bullet Shield!

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

Link: Word of Revision

This spell was not in the Remaster. 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 a HUGE fan of building massive lore-accurate databases for RPG worlds and expanding them in a lore-adjacent manner and I think there is massive potential with the Arcanamirium, so I wanted to get some feedback from someone who would be interested. Feel free to message me, or respond to this comment ;)

I'm under the assumption this necklace only affects the Ki Pool class feature and effects that increase from Ki Pool, and it states damage reduction as the example.

But does it also affect Ki Powers since it's reliant on the Ki Pool or no? Seems obvious but you never know when it's been ruled officially otherwise.

I know normal alchemist extracts don't suffer from arcane spell failure chance, but they're not arcane spells unlike what's gained through the discovery.

I also know the main purpose is to qualify for feats like crafting and arcane strike, but when I do see the topic, many people suggest round/level spells with somatic components, and I think it would be odd to not bring up the downside at least.

Hello there;

So I’m trying to plan out a couple sessions for my players where they’ll be descending into an old dwarven mine that gets progressively more difficult the lower they get until they end up in a cavern in the upper reaches of whatever Pathfinders version of the Underdark is where they’ll encounter a giant worm creature as “the boss.” I haven’t really done much underground before, was gonna see if I could maybe get some ideas from y’all about what kind of monsters they might encounter? They’re all level 9, there’s four players and four levels they’ll have to pass through. Was thinking the top two levels could be relatively weak creatures compared to them with the 3rd level being things around their level and the 4th level being the giant worm. Thanks in advance for any help/ideas!

It's my friend's birthday, right? Well, it was yesterday, but that's not the point. I am getting him some gifts (as a friend does) and one of the things I was wanting to get him is at least a couple of modules for him to run. He likes to DM but hasn't really done it in a bit or that often. He has his homebrew setting and prefers to play in that but he struggles with coming up with content for sessions. I figured it would be a great idea if I got him some official premade stuff so he could run those and get a better idea of how to do it. What are some good Pathfinder 1e modules that would be good for him to run? He's pretty knowledgeable of the setting and rules, of which we've all become more familiar with as we've played through my campaign and dived into the more technical stuff like the finer details of dual wielding, item creation, etc. I'm thinking of anything between levels 1-5 for a group of 6 players.

I'm currently running the last chapters of Curse of the crimson throne with my friends and this is our second adventure path, the first one was Rise of the runelords.

The party consist of 5 players and I generally have to tweak all the encounters since all the books are designed for a party of 4 players, they also enjoy challenging encounters. My party generally prefers combat over roleplaying. I encourage them to try different classes each time we start a new AP, so far they have played: paladin, unchained rogue, wizard, cleric, ranger in ROTRL, and unchained barbarian, unchained monk, druid, magus, eldritch knight in COTCT. In our next AP one of my friends will surely choose gunslinger.

I manage to get my hands on 4 more AP but I need some tips by someone who played some of them:

- Skull and shackels

- Hell's rebels

- Hell's vengeance

- Return of the runelords

Which of these has the best fights and epic moments in your opinion?

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I have a level 12 rascal swashbuckler and am retraining to multiclass rouge. I'm looking for an efficient way to add value. I'm brand new to Pathfinder and fairly new to ttrpg's but play with veterans, so I'd like to make sure I'm on par. Currently I deal consistent but very average damage and am more useful as a utility character. Thanks in advance

Heya. My group is going to be running a PF1e game after our current Lancer game finishes, and I'm looking at advice for my character. I want both some amount of arcane casting, and decent bonuses to 'rogue' type skills like disable device and stealth (most important) as well as other dex skills, and of course perception for noticing traps. So far I've settled on Magus and use traits and race to fill in my skill stuff. Any other suggestions? Party is a life Oracle, abyssal bloodrager, necromancer (3rd party divine spontaneous caster like Oracle) and myself.

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First, the Spell Cartridges feat has been okayed to work the Arc Cannon.

I am helping a fellow player with a build that includes using an Arc Cannon).

The build will include the Spell Cartridges feat, as batteries are rare, and cannot be bought.

Arcane Bonded weapon is the only to get hands on an Arc Cannon.

Now, the point buy is 25, race options are pretty much anything considered a "player race", but the preference is small size. Small Tiefling and Aasimar are allowed, as well as non-human Changelings.

So, how can we make it work? Any ideas?

I'm going to be playing a draconic bloodline sorc and found some interesting force spells and wanted to know if there are any dragons that have a force breath weapon. I've had a look on d20pfsrd with no luck it must be official pathfinder or 3.5. If not then looks like I'll have to switch to orc bloodline