Interesting stuff in Pathfinder

[Garryl]

Dunno if it's been mentioned already, as I haven't checked this thread in nearly a year, but PF's got a whole section on background skills and non-adventuring skill uses. In addition to a variant to give PCs more skill points for background (non-adventuring) skill stuff, it includes a lot of expanded uses for Craft, Perform, and Profession. Also, there are a few uses that might be useful while adventuring, too, such as ignoring half the hardness of an object, noticing poison in a food or beverage, and aid another checks to other skills.

[MrWolfe]

Intersting. Been meaning to get around to looking at the unchained stuff. If nothing else I like the part about having two extra skill points to cram a "day job" skill into your build.

[zook1shoe]

Diplomacy skill unlock
With sufficient ranks in Diplomacy, you earn the following.
5 Ranks: The time required to inf luence a creature’s
attitude or gather information is halved.

Gladhanding: A street performer earns double the
normal amount of money from Perform checks. As a
standard action, he may use a Bluff check in place of a
Diplomacy check to improve a creature’s attitude for 1
minute, after which its attitude becomes one step worse
than originally.

Does this mean you get 2 half standard actions instead of 1 full?

[deadkitten]

Diplomacy skill unlock
With sufficient ranks in Diplomacy, you earn the following.
5 Ranks: The time required to influence a creature’s
attitude or gather information is halved.

Gladhanding: A street performer earns double the
normal amount of money from Perform checks. As a
standard action, he may use a Bluff check in place of a
Diplomacy check to improve a creature’s attitude for 1
minute, after which its attitude becomes one step worse
than originally.

Does this mean you get 2 half standard actions instead of 1 full?

I believe that you would actually have to use the diplomacy skill in order to make use of its skill unlock, so substituting bluff would not work.
But that is my gut reaction, and skill unlocks interacting with things like this could definitely be interesting.

[zook1shoe]

*looks again* hmmm... most seem to mention the skill needed in the gained bonus, but this does not. But I don't see any general rule that mentioned that it must be used for a particular skill. So why not gladhanding as a half-standard action?

[Ice9]

One I just came across -
Let's say you've got minions, from Simulacrum or whatever.  They're handy, but they clutter things up - if only there was a way to keep them in your pocket until you needed them.  Like Smoky Confinement, but in Pathfinder.

Well there is - Carry Companion lets you turn any animal or magical beast with a helpful attitude into a tiny statue that lasts permanently until you release it.  However, animals suck as minions.  Magical beasts are more promising - for example, there's the Aranea, if you want minions who can talk and have hands.  But maybe you want more flexibility.

Templates to the rescue!  Worm that Walks turns "any evil spellcaster" into a vermin.  Demonic Vermin turns any vermin into a magical beast.  Minions in a can, now available in many more flavors.

[zook1shoe]

Or use the horribly written Portable Pit... close it before the minute duration and it doesnt spit out anything.

[Mogkiller]

The feat Leadership let you have an outsider as a companion. You can then recruit your Eidolon as a companion.
Since your Eidolon is no longer summoned it won't "wink out" (thanks to Planar Binding) in an AMF.

I wonder if the Leadership part is required though. Calling your Eidolon with Planar Binding insted of the regular ritual should be enough.

[zook1shoe]

The cestus (and others) seems to imply your non-hand unarmed strikes are also legal. Spiked gauntlet doesn't though.

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While wearing
a cestus, you are considered armed and your
unarmed attacks deal lethal damage. If you
are proficient with a cestus, you can have
your unarmed strikes deal bludgeoning or piercing damage.
Monks are proficient with the cestus. When using a cestus, your
fingers are mostly exposed, allowing you to wield or carry items
in that hand, but the constriction of the weapon at your knuckles
gives you a –2 penalty on all precision-based tasks involving that
hand (such as opening locks). A cestus can’t be disarmed.

These weapons fit snugly around the
knuckles and allow you to deal lethal
damage with an unarmed strike. You
may hold, but not wield, a weapon or
other object in a hand wearing brass
knuckles. You may cast a spell with a
somatic component while wearing brass knuckles if you make
a successful concentration check (DC 10 + the level of the spell
you’re casting). Monks are proficient with brass knuckles. Brass
knuckles can’t be disarmed.

The ring prevents the wielder from being disarmed and
turns unarmed strikes into piercing attacks.

An attack with a
spiked gauntlet is considered an armed
attack. Your opponent cannot disarm
you of spiked gauntlets.

[deadkitten]

Ears of the City
Source Heroes of the Streets pg. 30
School divination; Level arcanist 1, bard 1, cleric/oracle 1, inquisitor 1, shaman 1, skald 1, sorcerer/wizard 1, warpriest 1, witch 1
Casting
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S, M/DF (a small piece of a brick)
Effect
Range touch
Target one creature
Duration 1 round/level
Saving Throw Will negates (harmless); Spell Resistance yes (harmless)
Description
The target of this spell sees and hears a stream of past scenes and pieces of conversations related to local people and events. The flashes are so brief that it is impossible to identify individual people or places, but when the target concentrates on a particular topic or individual, she can piece together a coherent narrative told in a multitude of changing voices in her mind.

Each round for the duration of the spell, the target can attempt a Diplomacy check to gather information as though she had spent 1d4 hours talking to local people. Since the information gathering doesn’t involve actual interaction with people, only observation, the target can use her Perception skill instead of her Diplomacy skill. While thus concentrating, the target is effectively blind and deaf.

This is kinda freaking awesome for a 1st level spell. It basically lets you replicate the end of THE DARK KNIGHT by using the Perception option.

Also:
"Are the rebels  in this city attempting a revolution?"
"Let me cast this spell then taste the sidewalk first and I will let you know."

[zook1shoe]

No ears for PFS :-(

[MrWolfe]

Nice find though.

[TiaC]

Blood Sentinel is somewhat interesting when you take into account all the familiar archetypes. A Figment can pull out some evolution points, a Sage can make knowledge checks, a Protector can boost your AC and health, an Infiltrator makes a good scout, an Emissary has a number of buffs , and a Decoy gives you an alibi. While these effects are individually weak, there is an insane amount of flexibility in that one spell.

[deadkitten]

Speaking of Familiars....

An Alchemist with the Tumor Familiar discovery or an Abyssal Bloodrager with the Aberrant Tumor feat can have a tiny or diminutive "Familiar" that can be a part of their body.
You can give the familiar the protector archetype and at fifth level you have a constant shield other affect between your familiar and you while the familiar benefits from Fast Healing 5 when its attached.

This gives a character  what is effectively +50%HP that slowly regenerates over time.

[zook1shoe]

I dont see anything forcing you to only go w a Diminutive or Tiny familiar, only that the blob starts that size. It even mentiond a bat... but also, only animals can be chosen. No improved familiars like imps and dragons..... damn!

Like my little tumor is in the shape of a penguin, turning into a "Small penguin" when it toboggans out of my left butt cheek.

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Benefit: The alchemist creates a Diminutive or Tiny tumor on his body, usually on his back or stomach. As a standard action, the alchemist can have the tumor detach itself from his body as a separate creature vaguely resembling a kind of animal suitable for a familiar (bat, cat, and so on) and move about as if it were an independent creature. The tumor can reattach itself to the alchemist as a standard action. The tumor has all the abilities of the animal it resembles (for example, a batlike tumor can fly) and familiar abilities based on the alchemist’s caster level (though some familiar abilities may be useless to an alchemist). The tumor acts as the alchemist’s familiar whether attached or separated (providing a skill bonus, the Alertness feat, and so on). When attached to the alchemist, the tumor has fast healing 5. An alchemist’s extracts and mutagens are considered spells for the purposes of familiar abilities like share spells and deliver touch spells. If a tumor familiar is lost or dies, it can be replaced 1 week later through a specialized procedure that costs 200 gp per alchemist level. The ritual takes 8 hours to complete.

[Jackinthegreen]

Pull a Bruce Almighty and have a monkey pop out of your ass.

[Keldar]

In D&D there is no such thing as an expression.  Monkeys can fly out of your butt.

[deadkitten]

Yea when I told my DM about that combo and wanted to refluff it as a powerful dragonmark in an eberron game he just looked at me and said:

"If anyone wants to use that combo in my games, they don't get to refluff, THEY GET UGLY TUMOR!"

It actually made me laugh out loud.

Suffice it to say this particular combo won't actually come up in our games simply because the majority of characters that my group likes to play would not have an ugly tumor ever.

[TiaC]

So the Arcane Anthology has a few interesting spells.

Jatembe's Ire is a 6th level version of Black Tentacles, but with a 120ft radius, CMB of CL+17, deals 4d6+13 damage, and only affects evil targets. There's some battlefield control for you.

Tears to Wine is a 1st level spell that makes wine that gives drinkers +2/+5/+10 (at CL 1/9/15) to all Int or Wis based skills for 10min/level. It's a pretty nice long-term buff.

[zook1shoe]

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Confusion Bomb* (Su): The alchemist’s bombs twist
the target’s perception of friend and foe. A creature that
takes a direct hit from a confusion bomb takes damage
from the bomb and is under the effect of a confusion spell
for 1 round per caster level of the alchemist. Reduce the
amount of normal damage dealt by the bomb by 2d6 (so a
bomb that would normally deal 6d6+4 points of damage
deals 4d6+4 points of damage instead). An alchemist must
be at least 8th level before selecting this discovery.

Bomb: A psychonaut’s bombs deal damage one die step
lower than normal (regular bombs deal d4s, concussive
bombs deal 1d3s, and so on). This ability otherwise
functions as and replaces the standard alchemist bomb
class feature.

Immolation Bomb*: When the alchemist creates a bomb, he
can choose to have its substance coat the direct target’s body,
causing the bomb to deal its damage over time instead of all
at once. The bomb’s effect lasts for a number of rounds equal
to the number of damage dice the bomb would normally deal
(for instance, a 5d6 bomb lasts for 5 rounds). When the bomb
hits the direct target, the bomb deals 1d6 + the alchemist’s
Intelligence modifier in damage, and those within the splash
zone take damage equal to 1 + the alchemist’s Intelligence
modifier. It repeats this damage against the direct target of
the bomb each round the immolation bomb lasts, dealing the
damage at the start of the alchemist’s turn. Splash damage
is dealt again to any creature that is adjacent to the direct
target when it takes damage from the immolation bomb.
A creature taking damage from an immolation bomb’s
direct hit can attempt to extinguish the flames as a full-
round action that requires a Reflex save (DC = 10 + 1/2 the
alchemist’s level + the alchemist’s Intelligent modifier).
Because of the alchemical nature of this bomb, rolling on
the ground does not grant a bonus on the saving throw, and
dousing a creature with water does not stop it from burning.
These bombs can be used underwater. An alchemist must be
at least 3rd level before selecting this discovery.

So....
a normal 6d6 bomb, while a confusion 6d6+4 bomb deals 4d6+4
but a psychonaut's version would be 6d4+4 add confusion for 6d4+4-2d6, not 4d4 since the confusion says 2d6 not 2 dice

Does that mean a 6d4+4-2d6 bomb when added to immolation bomb last for 8 rounds?