Let’s feel a bit better!
Vampiric Force
(direct combat)
RANGE TYPE DURATION DV Damage
LOS M I 4 P
Area Drain
(direct combat, area)
RANGE TYPE DURATION DV Damage
LOS (A) P I 5 P
Drain your targets life force, and heal yourself. This spell deals damage as a normal direct damage spell, but for every two points of damage dealt, restore one box of stun or physical damage, your choice, rounding down.
Vampiric Force targets individuals, while Area Drain is area effect.
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General Skill
Prerequisites master in Medicine
You’ve studied so long, you can literally bring back the dead. For two actions action, once per day per target that died in the last year, you can restore a creature to life from death. The creature must have died via damage and your body is intact or have the dying 4 condition from damage and your body is reasonably intact. Damage where the body is ripped apart completely or has major parts removed like the head render the corpse not restorable via this feat. The creature removes the wounded condition and the dying condition, is restored to 10 hp or its maximum, whichever is lower, and is conscious.
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Product– Starfinder Society Scenario #7-02: Zo! vs. Zo
System- Starfinder
Producer– Paizo
Price– $8.99 here https://paizo.com/products/btq02eza?Starfinder-Society-Scenario-702-Zo-vs-Zo
TL; DR– Fun, logic be damned! 87%
Basics– What’s ya name!? In Zo! Vs. Zo, the Starfinders are asked to help Zo! Defend his semi-good honor as his name is threatened by a city called Zo. How will your group of Starfinders fare as lawyers and in combat?
Mechanics or Crunch– This is a fairly simple adventure with some combat, some social, but no exploration. It’s all set in cities as the Starfinders have to prove they can do the fighting, then attempt to set up a legal defense, and finally a real defense in legal combat. It’s a bit on the rails, but still good. The mechanics are well done and felt fair and fun. 4.5/5
Theme or Fluff– The story is a bit off here. The basics are to prove you can fight, do legal skill checks, do more legal skill checks, and then fight no matter what. The legal stuff felt off. I would like the option to just not do the second fight if the characters succeed enough or for them to just push for combat. That’s how I would run this for a home group, but for Society, the flow makes the adventure feel strained. It works, but the logic is a bit off. 3.5/5
Execution– Yeah, we all know this was gonna be a 5/5. It’s a Paizo book. I keep saying this exact sentence when I write about Paizo. They know layout, text, and art. It’s an easy to read adventure. Maybe the one thing that would help is having separate art from the other legal combatants, but that’s extremely nitpicky. This is well done. 5/5
Summary-This is a fun adventure, but maybe not the most logical adventure. Any group of guys and gals will enjoy the adventure, but it’s a bit linear and a bit nonsensical. That said, it’s an adventure to a world that most Starfinders have not been to and some courtroom drama that almost no players outside of those brave profession (barrister) players do. You will have fun, but maybe don’t think too hard about why things are happening. 87%
Time to help!
General Skill
Prerequisites master in Medicine
Your hands are blessed. As an action, once per day per target, you can instantly end a condition that would be ended with a save, a check, or would be removed in under a minute due to the condition status being reduced to 0.
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num num num! skeleton power!
| Eaters of the Dead | ||||
| Type: action | Range: self | Duration: instantaneous | Save: none | |
| General | You find a body and begin to eat it for health! | |||
| Manifestation | roll 1d4: (1) You literally bite and eat the bodies of the dead. (2)You pull the bones from the dead and merge them into yourself (3)the bones turn to dust and cling to yourself (4) you just absorb the bodies through your skeleton hands | |||
| 1 | failure and a bond goes sideways costing you 1d4 hp! | |||
| 2-11 | failure | |||
| 12-13 | You regain 1d4 HP | |||
| 14-17 | You regain 2d4 HP | |||
| 18-19 | You regain 2d6 HP | |||
| 20-23 | You regain 2d8 HP | |||
| 24-27 | You regain 3d8 HP | |||
| 28-29 | You regain 3d10 HP | |||
| 30-31 | You regain 3d12 HP | |||
| 32+ | You regain 3d12 HP and gain 1 point of luck! | |||
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Time to help!
General Skill
Prerequisites master in Medicine
You’ve gotten better the more you do it. When you perform the treat wounds action, increase the amount of hit points restored by 10. If you attempt DC 40, increase the hit points restored by 15.
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Even you friends can’t catch a break.
Social Stink
Your reputation makes even your friends get in trouble.
• Bonus: 12 Karma
• Game Effect: When any member of your party rolls to influence another person, they take a -1 penalty to the test.
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Service with a smile!
General Skill
Prerequisites master in Medicine, ally is affected by an effect a save can end.
Time to be where you are needed. For two-actions, you can end that effect. You may do this only once per day per ally.
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Product– Pathfinder Monster Core
System- Pathfinder 2nd Ed
Producer– Paizo
Price– $59.99 here https://paizo.com/products/btq02ej4
TL; DR-Another Solid Addition to the Core line. 97%
Basics– We’re all gonna die! Monster Core is the last of the three main books needed to play Pathfinder, providing the foes that the heroes will face in their journeys.
Mechanics or Crunch– Paizo knows their math. These monsters are the ones we know, mostly, and love. The Paizo staff designed good monsters and this just gives them the 2.5 glow up new coat of paint the system needed to get them fully ORC compliant. It’s well done. 5/5
Theme or Fluff– The story of the monsters takes a tiny bit of a dip. As we move from 3.5/SRD base to ORC/Paizo’s own world, we lose a few things. A major example is alignment. We have Demons, Daemon, and Devils. We have three different groups that are basically out to destroy everything but all just end up with the bad guy banner. There is a story, but it’s that part of the story supported by differences in alignment and motivations that really separate these different D-based bad guys (that and centuries of European occult history). The same goes with different dragon types. I want to reiterate that what’s here is good, but the theme of these different monsters does miss alignment. 4.5/5
Execution– Yeah, we all know this was gonna be a 5/5. It’s a Paizo book. It reads fast, well, and is pretty. Monsters get art for me to show players. I get a good layout and hyperlinks. Heck, there are even a few player things like a few rituals to sell your soul or talk to god! 5/5
Summary-This is a good book. My view might be tainted by the changes from 3.5 to ORC. I love the ORC, but we do lose some things along the way due to the legalese. Those are things you will have to bring with your own stories to the table now. This book will easily give you the foes to make those stories full of conflict and victory. 97 %
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