OOC Discussion

Chose Power Attack for his feat, and gave him the Charger archetype

I still have 1 skill point to assign. It says "Chargers treat Intimidate as a class skill." Arktos has a CHA of 6, which makes him not very intimidating at all! Or can he use STR for intimidation? Is that a thing in Pathfinder, or is that for D&D 3e only?

I'll allow it to be strength-based for the bear

There's a feat in Pathfinder that lets you add your Strength to your Intimidate checks, along with your Charisma, but you can't just substitute it. I don't know why, it never made any sense to me, but there it is. I'm pretty sure that rule is for 3e only.

EDIT: Well, Naat beat me to it, as usual. I try to house-rule it myself when barbarians use CHA as their dump stat :D

Great! Thanks! I guess if Urthask wants to try it too he'll have to take the feat.

How do skill points work again? If you put 1 point in a class-skill you get an additional 3 ranks. So +4 and then the relevant ability bonus. So Arktos would have +7 on his Intimidate. Is this correct?

Yes, that is correct my friend :)

EDIT: Well, actually, not quite. I read what you posted wrong. You get a +3 "Trained" bonus for any class skill that you put ranks in. So, yes and no on the being correct part. :)

Irvan, did you get a chance to read over the variant action economy rules? Still not sure how I feel about them and am open to feedback.

I've looked it over. There's a lot there, and while it may streamline the process a bit, it seems to me like it overcomplicates combat a bit.

Plus, the way it's written, it almost sounds like you have to take three actions to make an attack with a spell that has a casting time of 1 standard action, like Scorching Ray...and if you have to roll multiple attacks separately for a spell, then it almost seems like it's an action spent for each attack.
That's a little ridiculous to me. I may be looking at it wrong, but at first glance, that's what it looks like, and that can really hurt a caster.

I'll give it a try, and let you know what I think after running through a combat with them...but looking over them again, I'm not sure I like them too much.

I wanted to try it out, since it looked kinda nifty. I feel like if Pathfinder was built around this system it would work better, but it's confusing because they tried to build it around a complex action system.

Yeah, it says that because ranged attack actions provoke an attack of opportunity, and they wanted to clarify that this action would not provoke two attacks of opportunity.

Unchained is kinda hit or miss with me. Like, it simplifies some things, but overly complicates others. I think I'll like the standard combat system better, but I really won't know until I give it a try.

I think they did a really good job with the unchained classes, and variant rules certainly aren't a bad thing to have, since they can be totally ignored if we don't like them

Sorry I haven't posted my introduction. Ive been super busy with work and family. Hoping to get it done tonight.

No problem, I'm fine with you and Malik posting yours whenever you get a chance :)

Yah, sorry for my lack of activity here (at least I've made occasional posts in your other game Naat). RL has really come to a point for me, and the stress is making time management very difficult :/

It's all good, fellas. Real life stinks, I understand completely. Take care of yourselves first :)

No problem at all, real life comes first! We'll keep the game slow for a couple days so you don't miss anything.

LOL! Sorry, my internet connection cut out and I couldn't reconnect. Updating that post now. :-)

Rolled a 1 on the crit confirmation for a nat 20. You don't see that every day! :-P

So I don't know if this is something I can do and if I need to roll anything to get Arktos to come charging in. Looking at the map it looks like he can fit in here. It's gonna be mayhem for sure though! :-D

You could roll a Perception check for Arktos, with a -4 penalty for the noise of the furnace to see if he can even hear the whistle