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Gestalt caster balance: what price should allow multiple casting classes to share a spellbook?
I'm planning on running a P6 (tl,dr: stop leveling at 6, keep getting feats every 5k XP) campaign wherein the PCs are all gestalt characters, one "side" of which needs to be a full caster. ...
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Rod of Wonder: Useful or Useless? [closed]
My players recently acquired a rod of wonder. One or two are interested in using it, while others think the risk of a bad random effect is too high. Since the game encourages the DM to change the ...
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Can the Decoy Ring be used multiple times per day?
A while ago we crafted a Decoy ring for someone in our party. The description for it is as follows:
Whenever the wearer of this ring takes the withdraw action or becomes helpless (including falling ...
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Would it be balanced to use the Starfinder system for races with more than 2 arms in Pathfinder 1e?
In Starfinder creatures with more than 2 arms have a feature where they can hold more items but not take extra actions with those arms. Would it be balanced if a race in Pathfinder 1e had this feature?...
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Is a rod of Cherry Blossom Spell metamagic a bad idea?
I am GMing the Hollow's Last Hope Adventure Path and I plan on going into Crown of the Kobold King after it. The book already has an aspect of poisons and diseases but I've leaned into them a little ...
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Is allowing to Polymorph Any Object into a specific person balanced?
I'm pretty sure that, by RAW, the Polymorph Any Object spell would function like the Alter Self spell when talking about specific physical aspect. But would it be balanced to allow Human A to ...
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Are purchasable animals overpowered?
I have recently discovered that you can buy a large variety of rather strong creatures for very cheap amounts. A character that is moderately specialized in handle animal can easily get a +15 by level ...
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Balancing Encounters around a very proficient Necromancer
In a game I am a part of there is a player who considers themself a necromancer. They are fully specced and invested around the spell "Animate Dead". They are very effective and efficient at ...
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Ephemeral Tread's balance implications
The feat Ephemeral Tread, paired with the spell dream travel, seems to let you travel to the Dimension of Dreams and perform impossible actions. This seems to let you (at a low level) cast wish upon ...
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Command Undead (spell) vs Control Undead
So, I have started playing a necromancer for the first time and have come across the following two spells.
Command undead and Control Undead.
Now, command undead is a second level spell, has day/level ...
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With a Blinkback Belt, a Quickdraw Shield with the Throwing Shield property can be donned and thrown as a free action. How many throws is reasonable?
A player in my group is interested in making a offensive shield build. They found that if you get a quickdraw shield and modify it with the throwing shield property, that you can don it, and throw it ...
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What tier are Path of War classes?
I know what class tiers are, and I know what tier most Pathfinder classes are. However, I have recently discovered Path of War, an alternative rule system published by Dreamscarred Press. It ...
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How can my DM deal with my very high attack mod?
I recently joined an ongoing campaign with a level 8 fighter character and due to the amount of feats, weapon training, equipment, and especially buffs coming from the party bard... my character tends ...
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Is letting a player use a Large or larger race a bad idea from the game balance point of view?
Pathfinder ruleset assumes PCs to be Medium or Small humanoids. Not so many rules exist for non-standard characters.
The only "official" way to play as a bigger dude that I know of is using ...
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How many two-skill +2/+4 bonus feats are there and is it balanced to homebrew more?
Each skill except for Appraise, Linguistics, Craft, Perform, and Profession corresponds to a core feat that has no prerequisites and grants +2 to two skills or +4 if you have 10 or more ranks. Those ...
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What are the balance implications of letting the Order of the Dragon cavalier's Aid Allies feature's +3 bonus stack with Aid Another's +2 bonus?
The Order of the Dragon cavalier order gives an Aid Allies ability, which states:
At 2nd level, whenever an order of the dragon cavalier uses the aid another action to assist one of his allies, the ...
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Is the overwhelming soul archetype balanced with regard to a normal kineticist and other kineticist archetypes?
I was looking at archetypes for the kineticists and found Overwhelming Soul it doesn't seem like it gives much of a benefit. You gain a couple of good skills, get the ability to lower burn by one ...
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Are those changes enough to save the Kineticist?
I've been toying with the idea of making a kineticist for a bit, now. The class is quite flavorful, with some interesting options and a nice set of utility.
...That said, its core sucks.
Like, really ...
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Is a full melee combatant party for Rise of the Runelords viable?
So I'm a DM with a bit of previous experience who discovered the wonderful world of Pathfinder Adventure Guides, and decided to try my first campaign of those with the classic Rise of the Runelords to ...
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Would multiclassing in the same class (different non-stacking archetypes) break the game too much?
I know that as per RAW you can stack multiple archetype as long they dont conflict when changing the same class feature.
But would it be too game breaking to treat 2 non-stacking archetypes as ...
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Is 20d6 sonic damage every turn overpowered compared to other 5th- to 7th-level character abilities?
The question is born from:
Does taking the form of a Muse using Fey Form gain you the Sound Strike attack?.
Is 20d6 sonic damage every turn overpowered compared to other 5th- to 7th character-level ...
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How to balance encounters after the loss of the frontline fighters?
I've been running a pathfinder game for some time. Up until now I think I have done a fairly good job of balancing encounters, the party is about to reach level 7 and there have only been 2 deaths but ...
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If I mandated that full casters take 1 non-spellcasting class level for every 2 spellcaster levels, would they be balanced with 2/3 casters?
I've been asking about how to balance player characters, and others have suggested using tier 3 classes only, or using only spellcasters who cast 6th-level spells.
This is not the place to contest ...
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What balance issues would arise from a Chaotic Good Paladin?
I have long been annoyed by the inability of Chaotic Good warriors to become empowered by their unwavering faith in freedom and human decency, and so am considering a custom archetype that would allow ...
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What to do when the GM gives the party an overpowered item?
Recently our GM has given the party an item that could easily break the game for the rest of the campaign. We were given a Sap of Healing that deals 1d6 damage and after successfully hitting a target ...
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How, as a Pathfinder DM, can I help my players create characters at the correct optimization level for a given adventure?
My D&D 4e party is a few levels away from the end of their epic campaign, and they want to keep playing D&D with me.
I have recently discovered that I really like some of the Adventure Paths ...
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Will a spellthief break Pathfinder?
My Pathfinder PC died recently, and the GM is allowing me to pick also from D&D 3.5 classes for my next PC. I'm considering the class spellthief, and my DM has approved this pick, but I'm worried ...
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How can I shape long-term plot challenges around character power/capabilities? [closed]
When planning a session or adventure, obviously one should take into account the approximate power level and capabilities of the players. For creatures and similar formal challenges, CR helps scale ...
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How to balance combat with a couple of min/maxed characters in the party?
I have a party of 4 freshly minted level 7s for an upcoming game. 3 of the players have been playing for a while and one person is a relative newcomer to the group.
The problem I'm having is that 2 ...
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How can I convince a fellow player to stop playing super-powerful PCs?
One player in one of my groups always builds PCs that puts the rest of the party to shame. Even when the player tones down their PCs, their PCs are still considerably better than the rest of us. Their ...
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