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google :  "edible dice"
results include chocolate

Complete Arcane has a small section near the back, about alternative spellbooks.  Tattoos as a for instance.

What'd I miss?

A mildly _not entertaining spammer, alas no catgirls.



2 driving stories.


I'm driving.
I may as well have been thinking of bhu's catgirls.
2 trucks are doing a rolling roadblock.
Truck B has his cruise control set +0.1 mph on Truck A
but Truck A is newer and has aero-skirts, so he holds his speed
up hills better.  This goes on for 10 miles.
Honestly I don't care, but traffic piles up behind me.
Some of that traffic is stupid, intentionally and dangerously.
I pull my left side of the lane sight blocking maneuver, with
slight speed variations, to get idiot off of texting on my bumper.
Truck B finally clears Truck A, but doesn't signal or pull in.
I clear Truck A a little tight for normal highway speeds.
I signal, punch it to get the cvt hybrid hampster wheel up
and finish the lane change, turning off the signal ...
While Truck B proceeds to signal and come over right on top of me.
< mirrors? I didn't know this truck had mirrors? >
I go in to Race mode.  I stab the brake hard with a slight hold
to scrub enough speed off to lose about 10' relative.
Truck A pulls his Jake Brake.  Idiot on my bumper nails his anti-locks.

I'm alive.  I check mirrors.
I signal back into the other lane, notice Truck A is off the jake,
and idiot is no longer texting.  Gather.
I move right within the lane, to right on the dashed white line.
With the new windshield wipers it's the hole just to the left of center.
Truck A notices the precision and decides to watch.
I buzz Truck B it's entire length with my right hand mirror within his operating space.
Eyes pinned to his left front wheel in case of attempted retaliation.
When I v e r y s l  o w l y clear Truck B, I signal into the lane and get off the highway.
The trucks continued to behave like they should have been, and the traffic jam cleared.


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I'm driving.
Widow has a convertible that she fowls the plugs in, from lack of high temp driving.
Her mechanic told her someone needs to heat the car up.  She picks me.
Good pick.
I drive out to the boonies with the top down, and return. 
No drama.

In the corner of my eye where my glasses don't cover, I see movement.
I nail the anti-locks, smoking and multi chirps of the tires.
An enormous male black bear is loping at full speed, angled to the road.
It has a pick of 3 spaces in a hedge on the other side.
First pick he nails the front of the car, the car getting the worst of it.
Second pick he nails the windshield.
Third pick he goes right through the middle of the open convertible with me right there.
Luckily I had supernailed the brakes, and Luckily he sails by right in front of me.
I may have snagged some fur.
I didn't come to a complete stop to keep some speed just in case.

I start laughing.
I almost died by a bear.
That would have been awesome (except for the dead part).
I'm glad the bear is OK.

The widow is none the wiser.

early bird gets the worm guide

Wading Through Chaff: Edna's Quick Guide to Pathfinder 2e Ancestries, General Feats, and Skill Feats
https://paizo.com/threads/rzs42oug?Wading-Through-Chaff-Ednas-Quick-Guide-to

decent explaining from the get-go

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paizo already had a 300+ post thread locked over the rarity rules.
Seems like a "damage on a miss" fluff conceptual problem, really.

Here's the Archery Handbook :
http://bg-archive.minmaxforum.com/index.php?topic=642.0
... I do believe there's a Ranger 2 / Fighter 4 start to a build on the 3rd page of it.
Carnivore has a couple of builds in there, and in the wayback.

Here's the KSB Snow Owl's Archer Build handbook :
http://bg-archive.minmaxforum.com/index.php?topic=194
... while you don't have those PrCs, they could give you ideas, and certainly the feats are good.

Any of the feats in the feat stacks on those guides, work just fine for archery.
Stay away from Mounted Archery, mounts suck, and then suck and die, without going Leadership, which you've said is banned.

I decided to do a clueless walk-through of the Fighter.
Fighters aren't my thing but it's a straightforward starting point.
I say Strength and key on damage (ho hum).
I start reading.

I don't see total damage climbing much past 25hp per round (right away).
Lots of small status effects.  Lots of defenses boosting.
Anybody who's played a 1e UA Fighter through 5e Fighter
will probably see a Fighter and think :  Fighter.

Revealng Stab [Two-Actions] Feat 6 ... caught my eye.
Easy rider on an attack, ~"Mass See Invisibility" and even Action Denial.
I like it.

This one has some of the lists up (like equipment).

http://pf2.d20pfsrd.com/

It's like we need a new smiley face, of the 3 Greek Fates but with a brick falling on them all.

Sounds like O Fortuna.
Hopefully it'll feel like Kay Starr's Wheel Of Fortune someday ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeIce5NsWKk

 

Dominate an Average Elf and/or Spectral Hand.
Charm works with line of sight.

Ready + Reaction + damage# = kills the conc side of the spell, I don't think it stops the spell altogether.
... a build that focuses on triggering exactly this, isn't necessarily bad at all the rest of combat = might be interesting.

Moving within 5' range (+probably Reaction +maybe a ready too) = forces disadvantage on most spell attack rolls, smaller subset than conc spells, but lots of cantrips. 
... weird build, to just chase the spellcaster, while archer-ing the rest of the encounter dead, then  finish the spellcaster.  No one's done this, but it would work.  Could be a grappler that doesn't bother with the grappled.

giantitp had an extended thread quite recently, but I haven't read the whole thing yet. (and who has the time really?)
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?583570-What-ways-are-there-to-disrupt-spellcasting-in-5e

I'd love to see a mini-guide or summary on this exact topic.

 

edit --- Misterwhisper starts a list of spells that get by Mage Slayer (not vetted).
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showsinglepost.php?p=23789395&postcount=245