Ice slows you down. When you cold fire damage to a target, the target must make an additional Fortitude save vs your class save DC. Upon a failure, that target becomes slowed 1 or increases its slowed level by 1.
Fire keeps them warm! When you deal fire damage to a target, that target automatically gains 1d6 persistent fire damage and is actively on fire. A regular check to end the persistent fire damage or an action to put out the fire ends the damage.
When a foe Casts harm or heal and you can see its manifestations, you can use your magic to disrupt it. You expend a prepared heal or harm, it does not have to be the exact same spell, to counter the triggering creature’s casting of heal or harm. You lose your spell slot as if you had cast the spell. You then attempt to counteract the triggering spell. The spell you expend can be your divine font spells.
Concentrate Cold Manipulate Traditions arcane, primal Mystery tempest Range 500 feet; Area 20-foot burst Defense Reflex; Duration sustain, up to one minute
You cause a small storm to freeze everyone in an area. At the start of a creatures turn, a target in the area must make a reflex saving throw. Critical Success The creature is unaffected. Success The creature takes half damage and is not slowed. Failure The creature takes 3d6 cold damage and is slowed 1. Critical Failure The creature takes 6d6 cold damage and is slowed 2.
General Skill Prerequisite master in Thievery Trigger You fail but not critically fail a steal attempt
If you mess up, why not buy some time. When you fail but not critically fail a steal attempt, you can replace the item you are attempting to steal with an item of equal weight. The target will not realize that you failed, but will notice in 12 seconds, two turns.
General Skill Prerequisite legendary in Thievery Trigger You successfully complete a steal attempt
Why not stab after you steal? When you successfully complete a steal attempt, you may immediately make a basic melee attack at your currently base attack bonus. If the enemy was considered flat footed to you, it is still considered flat-footed for the attack as well .
General SkillFlourish Prerequisite legendary in Thievery
Don’t stand where you just stole. As a single action you can attempt a thievery check to steal and a stealth check as part of a stride stride action. Regardless of your checks, you still complete your stride but may provoke reactions as normal if the targets are aware of you.
General Skill Prerequisite legendary in Thievery Trigger A hazard is sprung within 30 feet of you; Frequency once per day
WATCH OUT! When a hazard is sprung within 30 feet of you, you can stride 30 feet and attempt a disable device check. If you succeed, the hazard does not trigger and you gain one success toward disabling the hazard. If you fail, the hazard triggers as normal.
TL; DR– More variety at the cost of a bit of story. 95%
Basics– What’s happening in the Forest of Spirits?! A mist has rolled in and people just can’t pass through the forest. Someone has angered the spirits. Who or what has caused this problem?
Mechanics or Crunch– This adventure has some serious crazy changes! This adventure starts with the players or GM rolling several D4s. These COMPLETELY change the adventure. And I don’t mean small things, but the entire last map! The adventure has different final bosses, different maps,and different encountres depending on what the rolls are. This is crazy fun, but it works! If you want variety, this is the adventure you want. My one issue is the differences mean you don’t really know where to put the encounters as this is pretty much left up to the GM to decide where the encounters happen. Good, but if you are used to the adventure deciding where the fights happen, then you might forget to put the encounters in! I’d like a bit more guidance, so I can better run this adventure. 4.75/5
Theme or Fluff– This is a fun adventure, but the big issue is the variety means you can’t build too much direct story around it. There is some, and it works, but I’d like more story of who the bad guys are. The major story beats don’t change, so that is good. I would just like a bit more flow with this adventure as a whole. This is the major issue of American RPGs vs JRPGs-choice and story vs freedom and railroad. 4.5/5
Execution– It’s Paizo. I almost never have anything bad to say with they way they set up their books, and this is no exception. Solid production all around. 5/5
Summary– If this is the future of most of the PFS scenarios, then I’ll be happy. I can’t be as spoon fed as I was before with complete ease to run an adventure out of the box, but at the same time I also get new variety for my players. I love what’s here even if the story is less forward. I would like a bit more story, but the adventure as a whole works well. 95%