I have a lot of players asking about concentration. Let’s build on that.
Constant Concentration
Cost: 25 karma
You constant stress your mind like any muscle with magic. And like any muscle you’re finally starting to see results. When you sustain a spell/complex form, the penalty to your dice pool is only -1 for each spell/complex form. If you give the form to another creature/sprite to maintain, the penalty reverts back to the -2 dice pool modifier.
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Product– Familiar Folio
System– Pathfinder
Producer– Paizo Publishing
Price– $12.99 here http://paizo.com/products/btpy9au2?Pathfinder-Player-Companion-Familiar-Folio
TL; DR– Useful if you already like familiars. 88%
Basics-Every great wizard has a familiar, why can’t you! Familiar Folio is a Pathfinder Player Companion book discussing familiars, how to add them to new characters, and how to improve them. Like every other book in the companion line, it adds new feats, archetypes, items, spells, and other options for players and their familiar’s alike.
Mechanics or Crunch-This book is amazing, if you already like familiars. This book won’t really win you over if you didn’t already have a character concept for familiars. Every option added in this book is great, but familiars tend to work just like alchemy in Pathfinder, great if you love them, bad if you don’t. After seeing what’s here, I can say that if I played a character who wanted a familiar, I’d absolutely want what’s here. However, if I played someone who had the options of not having one vs having one, I don’t think this book would win me over to the familiar side, even with a mascot (familiar). 4.25/5
Theme or Fluff- This book discusses some of the story aspects of familiars, but it doesn’t really go out of its way to add them in deeper. The book covers topics like how to roleplay with them, and it does have a bit of how different locations in Golarion would use familiars and the types in those locations. But, it’s not much beyond that. This is primarily a crunch heavy book. 4/5
Execution-This was put out by Paizo. For anything you can say about Paizo, the unarguable truth is they know how to make a book well. It’s got great art, great layout, and was a pleasure to read. 5/5
Summary-The simple question to this book is, “Will you use or want a familiar?” If you said yes, then you get this book. If not, then don’t. Like I said with alchemy, familiars are extremely divisive. You love your familiar, then you will love this book. If you couldn’t care less about your wizard friend’s odd toad in his pocket, then you don’t want this book. What this book is is well written, a bit light on story, but overall well put together. Just decide if you want a tag along before you begin. 88%
I like what I see from Shadow of the Demon Lord. Let’s build onto what I see.
Iron Skin Technomancy utility 0
Duration 1 hour
For the duration, your skin becomes as hard as iron.
You reduce all damage you take from weapons by 1 + your level per attack.
Your fists also do 1d3 instead of the normal damage.
If your normal unarmed damage is higher, increase the damage
one step.
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I want to scream at undead. I want them be made I’m screaming at them. I can make this happen!
Undead Hate the Living
You hate the undead, and they hate you!
Benefit(s): You may perform intimidate checks on undead enemies. However, you may only cause an undead to become shaken for one turn at most if it is normally immune to such effects.
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I was reading a Pathfinder Tales novel, and one character summoned creatures on another. I’d like to make that happen in my games.
On Target(Metamagic)
When you create life or unlife, you can cast it on a a target.
Benefit: When you cast a conjuration or necromancy spell that creates or animates any number of creatures under the effect of this metamagic, you can make a ranged touch attack an a target in range for each creature created at a target within the range of the spell. If you hit the target with this attack, the creature is created on the target either grappling it or doing melee attack damage on the target as if it hit. The target may also make any attacks it would normally get its on its turn.
Level Increase: +1 (an On the Target spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell’s actual level.)
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Bull mentioned a program in Data Trails, but it didn’t make an appearance. Let’s make it happen here!
Hopper:This program exploits a communication loophole between different grids to give you a superposition in both. You may work on one grid and perform actions on another without any penalties to your dice pool. However, any time your GOD score increases, it increases by 1.5 times as much as several demigods on both grids are working against you.
I’m catching up on my Shadowrun. Let’s get some positive qualities out there!
Slumming It
Cost: 3 karma per rank (1 to 3 ranks)
When you were in the cradle you mommy told you stories about how the little girl in red was tricked by the wolf looking like granny? Well you make your avatar look like crap to be a little more like the big bad wolf and little red….except this wolf gets to eat the little one! You purposefully make your matrix avatar look like a crappy standard avatar to lure matrix security, deckers, and spiders into a false sense of security. For every rank you have in this quality, you gain a +1 bonus to your dice pool for all checks that use the firewall attribute of the device you are using.
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I haven’t seen a ton of the interrupt actions since Run and Gun, but I think there should be more. How about one for the decker?
Your Fu is \/\/34k!
Interrupt Action (-7 Initiative Score)
We’ve all seen a drek head who think he’s nova hot when he gets his first Erika. And sometimes, just sometimes, Mommy needs to step up to the plate and tell this little fart where he ranks in the pecking order. When your deck or an object slaved to your deck is attacked via the matrix, you are aware of the attack, and your willpower + firewall or intuition + firewall beats the attackers dice total, you may immediately respond with your own complex matrix action. You gain a bonus to your dice pool for this matrix action equal to the difference between your defense successes and the attacker’s successes.
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How about a new quality for Shadowrun. My Deckers pull double duty as the legwork person. Let’s build on to this using Cunningham’s Law.
Cunningham’s Law
Cost: 5 karma
You know how to make the g33ks fr33k. Nothing like hitting the spectrum with your faux-knowledge fab bat to really get their blood pumping. When learn about a subject using only the matrix, you don’t spend edge, and don’t glitch, you get a free reroll of all the dice that rolled a 1. You only gain knowledge about the subject of your search and may not spend edge to reroll the total result of your search. This quality can not be used for any other matrix related task.
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I’m reading a book now, and the main character maps several rooms to find secret rooms in them. I think this should happen more often in Pathfinder!
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Knowledge (Engineering) and Knowledge(Dungeoneering) are considered class skills for you. As you explore underground locations or building, you may make a map. If you do, you may use either Knowledge(Engineering) or Knowledge(Dungeoneering) instead of Perception to find secret doors or rooms. |
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