Random DM nagging 2: Endless nagging

[Anastasia]

Hmm... alright. What about just like a lined shirt?

Just a plain shirt lined with lead, non magical?

Edit: Also, looking at wands, would you allow an eternal wand? (http://dndtools.eu/items/magic-item-compendium--73/eternal-wand-1st-level-spell--392/) I would be looking at this for a healing wand, specifically.

Yeah, Cor bought one.

[Anastasia]

On our character's...*dramatic noise* AMNESIA, how extensive or complete is it? Is it total, where we know absolutely nothing at all? Or is it where we have a sense of who we are remember our names and such, even our childhoods, but as memories get closer and closer to 'now' they get increasingly hazy until the point we don't remember?

You remember all your class skills and abilities, your name and basic skills like reading, talking and so forth. Anything else is lost. So no ideas on childhood, the past or anything outside of the demiplane.

[Anastasia]

Also could you post the Pathfinder skills list and the ones a duskblade is trained in?

http://paizo.com/PRD/skillDescriptions.html

Use the basic Duskblade skill list with the following changes: Remove Decipher Script, replace with Linguistics. Remove Jump, replace with Acrobatics. All other skills remain the same.

[Corwin]

Yeah, just keep in mind they are arcane wands.

[Iron Dragoon]

Hmm... alright. What about just like a lined shirt?

Just a plain shirt lined with lead, non magical?

Yup!

[Anastasia]

Hmm... alright. What about just like a lined shirt?

Just a plain shirt lined with lead, non magical?

Yup!

I can't find anything like that offhand, so I'll say...30 gold. It's not the most expensive thing ever, but I figure you'd have to have it custom made. It's also heavy, about to the tune of 5 pounds.

[Rukatin]

Question, is heavy armor made out of Mithral still require a heavy armor proficiency feat?

[Anastasia]

Question, is heavy armor made out of Mithral still require a heavy armor proficiency feat?

No. Armor made out of mithral is considered one category lighter for most purposes. So if you have medium armor proficiency, you can wear heavy armor made from mithral without penalty.

[Rukatin]

I am horrible at remembering details. Starting gold is 27000 right?

[Anastasia]

I am horrible at remembering details. Starting gold is 27000 right?

That's correct.

[Rukatin]

Also could you post the Pathfinder skills list and the ones a duskblade is trained in?

http://paizo.com/PRD/skillDescriptions.html

Use the basic Duskblade skill list with the following changes: Remove Decipher Script, replace with Linguistics. Remove Jump, replace with Acrobatics. All other skills remain the same.

Concentration isn't in there. It's a Duskblade trained skill and Pathfinder doesn't have it.
Also, I should be able to Arcane Channel through Cold Iron Right?

[Merc]

This was discussed earlier in this thread so Dune is aware. In pathfinder, concentration was rolled into magic and is essentially your caster level. You don't have to invest skill points in it.

Belatedly, I noticed that you asked what your CL is and nobody answered. Whoops! You caster level is the same as your class level in a spellcasting class. So as a duskblade level 8, you'd have CL 8.

[Merc]

You should be able to channel through cold iron, unless duskblade class says anything (I don't have the book handy atm) on the matter. Cold iron can be enchanted per its SRD enchantment, its just more work (so more expensive), so no reason why arcane channeling would fail.

[Anastasia]

Okay, going to skip Rukatin's sheet for the moment. Eb's next.

- Could you run me through how you calculated your CMB/CMD? I'm not sure they're right and I want to know how you got there.

- Likewise, walk me through how you tallied your ability scores. They seem off as well, though you have enough modifiers that I could be missing something.

- Your feats are off. You should have 5 feats, 3 from levels and two from psion. Is there an ACF in play, or is that two instances of expanded knowledge? Speaking of, note what power expanded knowledge purchased.

- Notes on powers are as follows. 1. Note that hostile empathic transfer has the mind-affecting descriptor. Not a huge deal, but that means it gets walled by certain opponents. 2. No to schism. I don't want to get into the headache of things that break the economy of actions. Too high optimization for what I want here. 3. I'm a little iffy on intellect fortress, but we'll see how it shakes out. (I have the same concerns about wings of cover for Cor, and I told him the same thing.) The rest of your powers look fine.

Everything else looks good. Good luck, kitty. Make Ithea proud.

[Anastasia]

Morrie th-oh wait, Moore. Just a name-alike. Anyway.

Class: Bard 8//Pixie 4/Marshal

Marshal 4, I presume?

- Your init is wrong. You have +4 but your Dex modifier is +5. It should be +5 for init.

- Okay. Your CMD is correct, though it touches on a bit of a rules issue and a small mistake you made. As for the mistake, you added a +1 for your to hit modifier due to being small. That doesn't apply to CMD, as you use the -1 size modifier instead. (I freely admit this is counter intuitive.) As to rules issue, I'm going to go into here since it's relevant. Namely, do you get your full dex to CMD when you have a max dex cap in play due to armor? The way it's written suggests yes, since it says it only applies to your dexterity bonus to armor class. I'd assert that RAI would be that no, the dex is lost due to the armor so you can't use it effectively.

I'm going to roll with RAW for now, since armor's already behind light/no armor enough as it is. This may change if I ever get around to making armor suck less.

So the upshot to all of that is that 20's correct for CMD. Carry on.

- The DCs you copy/pasted for your SLAs are off. I'd recommend removing those and adding this note after the caster level. The save DCs are 18 + spell level.

- Note what your actual, total spell resistance is (23).

- Languages: ditch aklo (it's a pathfinder one we aren't using) and undercommon. The latter just isn't likely to be useful, as I tend to have them use common anyway. You may want to reconsider kobold as well, since I usually have them default to draconic, though not all the time.

- Add total modifiers to skills.

Everything else looks solid. (Spells are all non-issues.)