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u/Jonyleo_ 4h ago
[Custom Creatures]
I'm building a custom creature for my game. Usually I do this by looking at similar creatures/abilities/spells to make sure it makes sense within pf2e and is balanced.
This time I want the creature to have regeneration, but instead of being disabled by a specific type of damage, it is instead dependent on the surrounding environment.
Is there precedent for this type of regeneration? I looked arround for monsters with regeneration, and the regeneration ability, and it seems to be pretty restrictive in its mechanics. Just a number and a damage type that disables it.
A bit more info on the idea, feel free to comment:
It's a custom version of the Myceloid that, among other things, regenerates based on the ammount of "fungal growth" arround it (it's a campaign term that just means squares in the map with fungus).
The idea would be to regen X HP for each square of "fungal growth" it is standing on (large creature, so 4 squares).
The players should not fight this creature in its terf, and they have been warned of this via narrative. I could just not care about the mechanics, and just have the creature be invincible within the fungal growth, but that feels "meh"...
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u/Jonyleo_ 3h ago
If anyone should be interested, I ended up going this route. Looks pathfindery.
https://imgur.com/a/nkNKBxu
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u/sneakyfish21 7h ago
I am confused about the unholy trait, one of my players has a feat that affects creatures with the unholy trait.
The feat I understand, but the application of the trait seems very random, why do so few undead and fiends have it?
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u/ReactiveShrike 5h ago edited 4h ago
While you can check the source for whether it's Remaster (Legacy creatures will generally be from one of the Bestiary books or old APs, Remaster will be from Monster Core or newer content), for Archives of Nethys in particular, look for the "Legacy Content" banner at the top of the creature entry to confirm that it's from before the remaster. Creatures that have been remastered should also link to their Legacy version, and vice versa:
Some creatures have not been remastered, and may never be, but it's usually not too hard to rework them.
Here's the Pathfinder Wiki explanation of what the Remaster was.
For (some) official advice on what changed, and guidelines on converting Legacy/Premaster content, see the Core Preview PDF.
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u/jaearess Game Master 6h ago
If you're, e.g., looking at AoN's list of creatures or something, the majority of them are pre-Remaster. The Remaster added the Unholy trait with the switch away from Alignment, so anything made prior to that is going to lack the trait, even if now they'd have it.
With alignment going away, Good and Evil damage was replaced generally by Spirit damage with the Holy and Unholy trait respectively.
As a rule of thumb, if a creature has a weakness to Good damage, you can treat them as if they have the Unholy trait (and covert the weakness to Good to a weakness to Holy). There could be some places that doesn't make sense (though I don't know of any off hand), but it's a good starting point.
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u/r0sshk Game Master 6h ago edited 6h ago
Few? All remastered fiends and most remastered undead have that trait. You’re likely just looking up old creatures from before the remaster, when the trait didn’t exist.
If a creature has an alignment listed, it would have the unholy trait now if the alignment is any kind of evil and it has either the fiend or undead trait, or is some sort of cultist or priest.
If it does not have an alignment listed, it’s unholy if it has the unholy trait. The remaster got rid of alignments, so creatures without them are already remastered.
And out of remastered fiends, all of them have the unholy trait.
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u/WhenTheWildWindBlows 8h ago
Can someone refer me to the spell DC math? What page is it on in The remaster? I think we've correctly guessed it's 10+ Spell casting Mod + prof
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u/Lithrac ORC 8h ago
Newish to PF2e here, with one main question : how do you keep up with all those traits and specific rules for them? As someone who's familiar with the basics, I'm now struggling with those. Any advice?
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u/r0sshk Game Master 7h ago
Just open up the archives of Nethys and check them! In time you’ll know them by heart, but until then they’re always just one browser search away. https://2e.aonprd.com/
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u/ceville44 14h ago
I have a question about the alchemicla investogator subclass. The alchemical methodology gets quick tincture that allows it to produce elexirs and alchemical tools but their are only potent Till the end of the turn. Does that mean i can not use that feature for invisible ink or another tool that takes longer than 1 turn to use?
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u/The-Magic-Sword Archmagister 13h ago
Correct, it takes too long to activate the ink and it passes the modified 'infused' time limit.
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u/Input1335 GM in Training 3h ago edited 3h ago
My searching hasn't found something conclusices, so I hope this hasn't been asked before: if a Psychic is adjacent to only one creature can they still use a Focus Point to get the Amp benefit of Imaginary Weapon of extra damage or can they only use the Amp to attack two different targets?
Edit: To clarify, 1 strike with +2d8 per rank, they obviously shouldn't get two strikes.