Min/Max Boards

... next time you don't see me for a year or 2, it means that the boards are due for another reboot. 

Imma gonna try to be around now.

Right there on the tin. 
The question is: is there anything I'm missing that would cause this to be a game-breaker (or, at least, more so than the written version)?

thanks.

***My players - STAY THE F#%K OUT!***

*I happen to have posted this over on Talespinning; but now figured that it belonged over here, since I am indeed looking for advice:

TL;DR -- checking viability of campaign idea; seeing what the game-playing world thinks about this before I try to drop this on the table.  I'd like to hear about potential pitfalls/shortcomings; as well as any other ideas anyone wants to throw out.

After taking about a year off of actually gaming, I've decided that I need to get back to it.  I've only got 1 player remaining from my old group, so I've got some rebuilding to do (I've got myself a "maybe" and a possible part-timer so far; so I'm on my way).
I figured that a 20-30-session E6 campaign might make for nice joiner for a bunch of people new to each other.
I've been toying with the world off-and-on for quite some time (it's been in various states of back-burner development for a couple of years); but I've had a bad streak of writer's block, not able to find any REAL inspiration.

But then I stumbled upon an idea: a circus/carnival.  Phineas T.S. Bartholomew's Carnival Caravan and Magnificent Menagerie

To the players:
pick a job/role of someone who would work at a circus or carnival, whose skill set would also translate well to being a PC Adventurer (the only job you are not allowed to have is Ringmaster -- that's Phineas' job ).  You've been a carny/circus performer/roadie for at least 2 years.  This clause serves to enforce being familiar, integral members of the same town ... it's just that your town happens to be constantly moving.  It also makes it self open to both the "attached" characters (via the tight-nit culture typically associated with traveling performers) as well as those hopelessly-cliche "unattached" characters ('cause they make natural candidates for the carny lifestyle) without necessarily being contrived or disruptive to the premise.
(of course, my normal prohibition to evil/evil-friendly characters still applies)
I plan on going all-out on the circus, encompassing as many stereotypes and traditions as I can think of and fit in.

Phineas has 3 rules for joining his caravan:
1) do something useful for the show (earn your pay)
2) be useful to the Family (contribute to the common good)
3) don't do anything to discredit Phineas or the show, or yourself to the Family (this one turns out to be really malleable to rationalization)

I figure I can work-up Phineas as a major plot catalyst.  Work up a dark, complex, and heavily-guarded past that has lead him to be strongly-yet-discreetly networked throughout the lands, and secretly has his fingers in a lot of pots.  But as far as anyone else knows, he's just a charismatic ringmaster, and nothing more.
I can see the party staying with the circus for a couple of levels, with the adventures happening in/around the circus.  Obviously, at some point they'll have to cut loose on their own for <insert plot reasons here>.

So, that's what I've got so far. 
Thanks.

(also, if you like it, feel free to steal the shit out of it)

I'm talking about the [weapon style] feat from  from CW.
By my reading, it's a feat that lets you do what you should be able to do anyway, without the feat -- right?

Surely I must be missing something.



Thanks.

If I wanted to apply the Orglash/Thomil template to a Paraelemental (MotP), how does the duel-elemental nature of the Paraelemental interact with those templates?

discussion thread HERE.






Druids are renowned for their affinity for plants, animals, and the elemental forces of nature.  So, it is quite fitting that we have 2 phenomenal options for showcasing this in the creatures that they can summon -- namely, the feats Greenbound Summoning and Rashemi Elemental Summoning.

There is one problematic issue with these feats: they both involve having to apply a template to the creature(s); and that can be a bit of a pain to do on the fly, and many of us just don't have the time or patience to spend on doing pages of rewrites. 
Enter this handbook.  This handbook is simply a rewrite of all the applicable creatures with the respective templates applied.  So now all you have to do is either print off the desired write-ups, or (if you keep your laptop handy at the game table) just have a tab opened to this page.  Voila!

I need to extend a hearty thanks to ksbsnowowl -- Rashemi Elemental Summoning is all him (it just seemed convenient and appropriate to put both templates on the same thread).
And for your convenience, I've even decided to give you internal links to the greenbound and rashemi elemental sections.  Because I'm a giver.
So anyway, here it goes ....

You ever run across something that was really cool, only to figure out that it was completely broken and has no business seeing an actual game table?
Problem being, while many people are all too happy to straight-up ban it, I really hate to see a perfectly good piece of conceptual design space go to waste.

I'm gonna use this thread to put up some of my proposed spell fixes, and I would like you guys to tell me what y'all think.  K?  Cool.
*note: I've given up on some of the Core brokenness.  I use PF's fix for the polymorph chain; and I'm content with using Oberroni to MTP past shit like Planar Binding, COP, etc.

So anyway ....

I'm brainstorming ideas for the next game I plan to run, and I thought that maybe I could have something strange about the setting's geography ... just something to jar the normal expectations.
Now, I full realize that "strange for the sake of strange" is stupid.  There has to be some purpose for it.

So, I guess my question is: if the setting is "non-standard", how much of that is expected to influence the game?

For example, I went surfing around the 'net, found a picture that I liked, and started fucking around with it in MS Paint .... HERE's what I ended up with. (yeah, I know, it's not that strange; but it is a break from conventional expectations)
It's just a "flat earth"-style planet that sits at the center of its own cosmic system.
I've got this whole history worked up on why and how it came in to being .... but is that enough?  I'm feverishly trying to flesh out all the ramifications of this type of planet design; and building the rest of the world from within this context. 
There are now a couple of (prospectively) late-game elements that this particular planet design makes easier for me.

But should there be any expectation that this strangeness should actually be a plot point?  And IF so, to what degree?

Thanks.

Discussion here.
I haven't seen this done elsewhere, so here goes nothing.
This is still somewhat a work in progress .... I'll be more than happy to copy-paste from anyone who wants to fill in the gaps.


Pardon the interruption – a Guide to Immediate Actions

IMMEDIATE ACTION
Much like a swift action, an immediate action consumes a very small amount of time, but represents a larger expenditure of effort and energy than a free action. However, unlike a swift action, an immediate action can be performed at any time — even if it's not your turn. Casting feather fall is an immediate action, since the spell can be cast at any time.

Using an immediate action on your turn is the same as using a swift action, and counts as your swift action for that turn. You cannot use another immediate action or a swift action until after your next turn if you have used an immediate action when it is not currently your turn (effectively, using an immediate action before your turn is equivalent to using your swift action for the coming turn). You also cannot use an immediate action if you are flat-footed.

Immediate actions are awesome.  For that matter, anything that lets you tell the action economy and/or initiative order to go sit in the corner is awesome.
This guide in meant as a reference for helping to maximize your immediate actions.

*Layout/formatting note:
While this guide is about immediate actions, there are some hurdles that must first be overcome before you can go about the business of implementing those immediate actions.  As such, the information here is presented in the algorithmic order-of-operations as they would be encountered in-game.

Okay, that was a little deceiving of me -- I actually have 2 completely unrelated questions (I just didn't want to clutter things up with multiple threads)

Q1
Can War Weavers actually target their weave while in a Timestop?  Obviously they can't actually cast at the weave, but can they actually load the weave while Time has stopped? 
I understand that the effect doesn't happen until you release the weave; but as I understand it, you are casting the spell (mostly) when you weave it in for later use.


Q2
This has to do with Type-subtype interaction and Racial Paragon Classes in UA:
Would a human half-dragon be able to take levels in Human Paragon?
Here's my thinking: said human half-dragon still gets his human bonus feat and +1 skill point/level; so .....  Am I stretching that too far?

Thanks a bunches