Discussion of Scotley's Pathfinder game (closed)

[Rhun]

Thanks Scotley...good suggestions. I'll dwell on them for a bit and then make a choice.

 

[Rhun]

Also, can someone explain why Cleric's don't get CONCENTRATION as a skill in Pathfinder?

 

[Rhun]

Also, can someone explain why Cleric's don't get CONCENTRATION as a skill in Pathfinder?

Okay...digressing from this, I believe my PC is now done. I may want to spend a little more of his cash if I can find something interesting, and I may add a bit to the fluff. But he can now be reviewed.

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

Also, can someone explain why Cleric's don't get CONCENTRATION as a skill in Pathfinder?

Concentration works a little differently in PF than it did in D&D.

Casting a Spell

 

[Rhun]

Concentration works a little differently in PF than it did in D&D.

Casting a Spell

Oh. OHHHHH!

Man I feel dumb, now.

 

[Scotley]

Okay...digressing from this, I believe my PC is now done. I may want to spend a little more of his cash if I can find something interesting, and I may add a bit to the fluff. But he can now be reviewed.

Looks good. I gave him a quick once over and saw nothing amiss.

I believe Mowgli addressed the concentration thing. My feeling is that it is a little tougher in Pathfinder to cast spells safely in combat.

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

It took awhile after I switched to get the change to concentration. It is a little tougher in PF, but still not forbiddingly so. And there are traits and feats that carry some bonuses for it.

 

[Leif]

Oh. OHHHHH!

Man I feel dumb, now.

It took awhile after I switched to get the change to concentration. It is a little tougher in PF, but still not forbiddingly so. And there are traits and feats that carry some bonuses for it.

Well I really feel dumb, because I still don't get it. There was a change to concentration for PFR? I thought that's the way it always worked.

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

In D&D, Concentration was a Constitution based skill, and the check worked just like any other skill check. If you spent no points on it, you just got your CON bonus to the check.

In PF it's not a skill, and your bonus scales automatically with level, which works out the same as a free skill point in D&D. But you don't get the 'Class Skill' bonus of +3, and the ability it's tied to depends on your class.

 

[Rhun]

Its always the simplest changes that are the most confusing. Go figure. And the funny thing is I've played a Pathfinder cleric in a game before and somehow this never came up. Go figure.