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So I also took a sneak peak at the space suit part of the equipment section, because this was bugging me. Space suits only operate in vacuum. It thin, toxic, thick, or whatever other hazardous atmosphere, space suits shut down and just leave you to figure it out yourself. I will talk about it more when I get to the equipment section in videos, but it seems they want to make hazardous environments more impact full in sf2e.

​@GoatKingDice Ya, I can definitely see balance problems with a level 1 feet/item invalidating the 3rd rank spell Stinking Cloud.

I never played a caster in 1e. How common were spells like that?

Unfortunately work has been keeping me very busy. But even so I will keep up the good work, a little at a time if need be.

If they are digging a special pit you might want to want to use the information for the Gamemaster Guide or GM Core to make a custom hazard. Either way the following info should be useful! Noticing snares is like noticing hazards. So unless a specific proficiency is required to detect the snare(trained, expert, etc.) you as the gm roll a secret perception check for any pc that would be reasonably able to detect the snare(when they enter line of sight for example.) They would only need to be using the Search exploration activity or take the seek action, if a minimum proficiency is required. For snares that is if the crafter(in this case the Kobold Scout) is expert or greater in crafting. To figure out the proficiency of a monster we reference page 7 of either the bestiary or monster core. Under 'Skills, Perception, and Proficiency' "A creature usually has expert proficiency in its listed skills around 5th level, master proficiency around 9th level, and legendary proficiency around 17th level" So for a Kobold Scout crafting a spike snare, Search should not be necessary. When setting stealth DC of a snare you could either grab a DC from the DC's by level table(pg 53 of GM Core) for a quick dc, or use the kobold's crafting bonus + 10. Either way that should come out to a DC 15 to detect a Spike Snare left by a Kobold Scout. The Stealth DC of a Hazard such as a Hidden Pit, is a set value that doesn't need to match up with the kobold's crafting bonus. You could have a snare set up in the bottom of the pit. In that case you would probably be best using the stealth DC of the Hidden Pit. But when you start combining things it will probably be easier to keep track of if you build a custom Hazard to represent the trap. Hope this helps! If you need any more clarification feel free to ask!

First, epic profile pic. Hastur, Thee King in Yellow? I'm planning to contribute my own video on Howl of the Wild to the youtubiverse but for now I will leave it at this. Considering small and tiny pcs are pretty much shrink wrapped medium pcs I am not surprised. And it doesn't particularly urk me.

The only notable difference I spot quickly comparing the Influence subsystem in the GmG vs the GM Core, is that the GM Core ends with a sentence suggesting that an Influence encounter should be worth experience equal to a moderate combat encounter of the same level. So no big change there.

One of the best parts of Starfinder is how easy it is to build a new playable species!

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That's the secret, they just put me here and told me to be king. I couldn't escape if I wanted to...

Most xenowarden ships and mechs lean toward a tree/machine hybrid, however I know no reason a GM couldn't go a meatier route. I say go wild! If you really wanted to get into it you could have it be the trademark design language of an offshoot of the xenowardens. You might even dabble in these meat machines requiring some form of food.

That comes from a tattoo feat in the Lost Omens Character Guide correct? I believe that feat gives you the spell as an innate spell. Player Core pg 299 has the rules for innate spells. Innate cantrips are automatically heightened but other innate spells are not able to be heightened unless the ability that gave you the spell specifically says so. Unfortunately you can't heighten that spell by that ability.

@@GoatKingDice Thank you.

Right! Power armor would be the easiest way to do that, but if your gm is running a mech game even better!

I will say from experience, the balancing for mechs breaks down if only part of the party is engaging with them. For that scale you will probably get better results with power armor and a vehicle. You could work with your GM to treat them as one transforming suit rather than two separate pieces of equipment. Hope this helps!

Not having to spend several turns building up bless is nice!

I'm planning to run an open world pirate game for my home group. I'm going to use proficiency without level so that I can use a wide variety of cr creatures without having to level lock different parts of the map!

Yeah, until Book of the Dead I would have assumed treat wounds would work on them just fine. To this day I still forget that elixirs of life are prohibited, even tho the item description does specify use on living creatures. Honestly I'm not sure why they made the decision to make "healing" harder for undead pcs. An argument could be made I suppose that undead are something between construct and living. But even that argument seems silly considering the automaton can benefit from positive energy, effects targeting living creatures, and they have no explicit mention of immunity to treat wounds or any other medicine check.

@@GoatKingDice Also constructs as I recall can be repaired. But even so most playable races don't have the construct trait even though they are given their description of being made, synthetics, built, and etc. But yeah even the ones with construct trait still mention they are like normal races and heal with healing energy. But yeah when it comes to treat wounds and medicine checks it makes NO sense to have a separate feat. I mean early medicine learned by practicing on corpses to learn where all the bit fit together, so being undead doesn't change how the pieces fit together. As such we don't use it at our table, treat wounds works on living and undead. As for the Elixir of life we just sorta ruled it would since it was mundane and didn't catch that bit about it being meant of "living creatures" but it never really came up as the undead player was more of a back line support role so he rarely got damaged thus really only used treat wounds after the fight on the rare times he was injured.

I see what you mean. I will say that if for some reason you need a lot of different types of energy resistance, and you are already wearing a lot of magic items, resistance runes on your armor can get you multiple types without costing more than one investment. Probably a rare case but worth thinking about.

@@GoatKingDice Only at higher levels. As you can only have Property runes equal to the + of armor. Thus at you get 1/2/3 at levels 5/11/18. But it's also more cost effective as first Energy-Resist armor rune is a level 8 for 420 gp while the Ring is only level 6 and cost 245 gp. The rings also have 3 Tiers with level 14 rings resisting 15 damage. They also add for versatility as 10 magic items is a LOT available to invest and can easily increase to 12 with a feat. But even if you are pushing up against that limit you don't have to wear them all the time. If you know your going up against something that uses fire a lot put on fire one. Same with any of the other elements. In general though there are a lot of fire abilities/spells so it's a good one to always have on. Others like cold/acid/electric can be rarer and used as needed. But there are runes that can't be so easily replicated else where. Like Dread is a great one if you use actions to put fear on the target as it makes them do a save to loss fear. Our fighter used it to great effect to help keep targets feared. Quenching is good if you encounter a lot of persistent damage effects. Gliding is good to help get around as you can simply glide across areas. Gotta cross a 50 foot river/ravine just find someplace to climb up 10 feet, or make one, and glide across. Need a quick get away? Jump out a window and glide to safety. As you get higher level there are better runes I'd rather have on armor than some basic energy resist. It's also really funny when the alchemist can throw alchemist fire with 10 ft burst and no one in the group takes damage because we all have resist fire damage rings on. Part of the reason we grabbed the rings was because we didn't have a lot of invest items and wanted to see what we could afford. I am curious as to what some priority investable magic items would be. Have you done a video on that? There were a few items that like everyone in the group ended up taking. Boot with +5 speed, I forget name. Healer's gloves so that everyone could do emergency heal once per day if someone went down. The +1 bulk carrying though only really low STR ones used that. Various Energy Rings, some people had amulets that gave them fire resist and once per day fireball so they used that instead of fire resist ring. Looking for multi-function investment items was also important. It's been a while since I got a game in I can't recall what other items were must haves in group. I know things like bag of holding but they aren't investment so don't count towards your 10 item limit. And only like 2 of the party had the 12 item limit feat but most of the party had like 3-4 resist types from rings and other items without any coming from armor runes by the time we hit level 9-10. Sure it's only 5 resist but it adds up quick. By level 12 many had upgraded most of those resist to 10 as the Greater Energy ring is a level 10 item and at level 12 having a couple extra level 10 items is pretty cheap for the benefit.

I manage to locate the old character sheet files and recall why I couldn't remember what the other must have items were because they were different for everyone. ;) That said they still fall into one category, which is skill items. Our Intimidation fighter had +2 for intimidation checks, the crafter had +2 crafting checks, Ranger had + Nature check item, everyone had + Medicine check from healers gloves, and so on. Also Spellheart items help with the resist role. I had forgot the name of the item that they were using for Fire Resist. It's Flaming Star and spellhearts use up Talisman slot on weapon/armor so you can use it in addition to runes. They also have lower level ones that give Resist 2 if you want to get them earlier. Piazo keeps adding new and interesting things to the game it's hard to keep track of it all. ;)

Quite nearly. Out of combat a good medic can do a lot of healing, and keep doing it. Clerics do steal the show in combat however! A combat medic can do a lot but they just can't drop as much burst healing as a cleric. Not to mention healing at range.

@@GoatKingDice you strap Medic on a martial and that's all she wrote

True, there are ways to have some shapeshifting in pf2e from first level, however it is limited. A Kitsune has 2 froms they can take depending on their heritage. Starfinder's Astrazoan can take a form of any medium creature they have seen, including impersonating individuals.

I'm still working my way through the many playable species, but if you have any you want to see sooner feel free to leave a request!

One of my thought about how they could do it was a collection of 'base line feats' with modable functions that can be taken and adapted to relevant ancestries.

But yea a book full of ancestries and ancestry feats would be great. Uuh maybe fewer generic feats that are instead collected in a bunch of categories and then each ancestry having only the specific feats that make them unique

It is fair to suggest that those are both numeric bonuses. Me and nonat were both referring to direct bonuses however. Your first example is the reduction of a penalty and the second example(did you meant Tumble Behind? If so that applies the condition only against the rogues next attack.) applies a condition that is usually trivial to apply. Neither bulk up your base bonus, which I believe was the point nonat was making.

@@GoatKingDice Yes. Tumble Behind. Technically he’s correct, but an advantage is an advantage regardless of how it arrives. Causing your opponent to be flat footed is a +2 “functionally” even if not actually. And to be clear, I agree with the overall assessment that fighters are made to………fight….and are not OP overall. Champions, Barbarians, et al. enjoy other advantages. For the record I have a Well Spring Gnome Fighter who, naturally 😏, fights with a Flickmace and specializes in dueling dedication and mobility. He’s not worthless outside of combat but he’s not exactly stellar either. But nearly every battle he’s taking care of business. Our Barbarian is taking “Share Rage” next level (8th) and that will actually represent a serious combat upgrade for a meager -1 AC.