In Starfinder, casting a spell involves choosing which spell to cast. The class’s Spells section provides information on the spell list, how to determine the number of spells you know, and at which levels you can learn new spells. There is an optional rule system in one of the recent books, scaling 0-level spells, which does scale the damage for cantrips up. Bolster Spell enhances another creature’s spell as it’s being cast, while Borrow Corruption gains the benefits of a corruption from someone else. Break Enchantment frees creatures.
Magic is a latent form of energy that permeates the universe and is divided into eight schools: abjuration, mystic, technomancer, and others. A spell is a one-time magical effect brought into being by a spellcaster. More than 250 sturdy spell reference cards cover every spell in the Starfinder Core Rulebook and Starfinder Character Operations Manual, giving players instant access to key game details.
Spells or magical effects usually work as their descriptions state, regardless of how many other spells or magical effects are operating in the same area. From the spells tab on the character sheet, players can cast spells by targetting as normal and clicking the spell name. The point of origin of a spell is always a grid intersection, and when determining whether a given creature is within the area of a spell, count out the DC for casting a spell.
An API could be useful for each stage of the spell cast by asking for each stage using the target -> effect button. Without an API, making a spell would be more efficient.
📹 Discovering Starfinder – Magic & Spells
In this episode of Discovering Starfinder, we’re diving into magic and spells. Which felt weird to me at first, considering I view this …
📹 Starfinder: Basics of Alignment
The basics of Character Alignment in the Starfinder RPG from Paizo! In this video we discuss the alignment system, why it exists, …
Some notes: • Just as spells are always obvious to the observer, spells also do not require any Verbal, Somatic or Material components unless it is very explicitly described by the spell’s description; This is spawned by the accumulation of knowledge from species that have different modes of spellcasting being able to perform spells just as well as any other species. Ergo, you could be a mute, limbless pile of dirt, and still be able to cast spells. This also implies that spells can be websiteed through any appropriate means, like emanating Magic Missile from your mouth or throwing a fireball like a baseball pitch, or casting lightning from your eyes. • Yes, a soul cannot be forced to inhabit a material body against its will. This is both due to adaptation undertaken by the deity Pharasma against new forms of necromancy, but also to prevent ‘shortcuts’ like killing a person who wasn’t willing talk to you, reanimating them, and forcing them to talk. This is also to render the GM’s job easier, since they won’t have to concern themselves with having to account for every soul that the party comes across. This also ties in the inherent mechanisms that allow the existence of Androids and SROs, as only a willing soul can inhabit either such body, and only a willing soul can leave an Android’s body (for some reason SROs can’t do that). • For Duplicate spells, damage will always be cumulative. This applies to Damage-per-Round spells as well, except that their duration does not sum, each spell cast must count its own rounds and damage rolls.
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in a 5e game my GM shifted my NE clerics alignment to CN because “well you aren’t acting very evil” my characters only desire the entire campaign was to leave the under dark. he had no skills or traits that would aid him in escaping the underdark. just a couple of fellow prisoners also seeking an escape from the underdark- among them, a drow ranger. he hated everyone but acted like a friend to them just so he could use them to escape. the entire time he was lying and manipulating while occasionally trying to off the gambler in the group secretly. but because he wasn’t actively being a dick to people she shifted my characters alignment >_<. i even had him prioritize assisting people based on their ability to navigate the underdark and be useful in acquiring wealth (while also being easily intimidated or subjugated), not based on combat effectiveness or how much he actually liked them. only reason i didnt charge people for healing (which i was super tempted to do but scrapped last minute) is because i felt it would cause OOC issues.
Hot take here, but I think that Walter White was TN before the meth then became more CE as the show went on. Guss was more LE and Jesse was more CN before working with Walter. And became more Evil because of Walter. And Skyler was more NG but was also ruined by Walter. I see it as a story about a man who just lets out an inner demon that he always had. And there by ruins everybody’s life.
21:30 : “Yeah, Baby!!” ^_^ 22:30 : I would say that Light Yagami from “Death Note” is a good example, but he went from Lawful Neutral (at best, before getting the Note) to Lawful Evil in the span of just 3 episodes (as someone I know puts it, he didn’t slip down the slippery slope, he jumped off the slippery cliff ^_^) Also, if I were to run a campaign, I would dispense with alignment for the Player-Characters, unless alignment is necessary for the class (although I can’t recall any off hand where that is necessary, even with Mystics I think its only suggested that they be within one step of the alignment of the deity they worship).
I usually present an alignment axis as a spectrum. For Good/Evil, the spectrum runs between selfless altruism and selfish egoism. Few people with moral agency are at the extremes, and many have some subjects about which they will act differently than their usual trend. Evil is selfishness because it’s concerned with what can be gained for the self; even the mustache-twirling cartoon villain is doing dastardly deeds for gain, even if it’s just entertainment. Neutral has some selfishness in it, but less extreme. Altruism produces Good effects. Even if it starts with a motive like feeling a sense of duty, compassion, or empathy. They may be fulfilling to one’s self-image, but feeling good about helping others is normal for a member of a social species whose strength comes from prosocial cooperation. Of course, by now many RPGs have ditched alignment, even as a shorthand way of describing a character’s typical behavior and motives. 12:17 – My Hexblade character started with the question “what if The Dude found Stormbringer? I wish PF2e had a witch type more suitable to approximate a hexblade warlock. In my character’s case, the familiar and patron would be the same entity: the demon-powered sword.