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Lawinger, and Bill Webb; Based on original content from TSR.

SORD PF v1.0 June 2010 rev. 1.0

SORD PF

What is SORD PF?

Ø SORD is an acronym for S ystem O perational R eference D igest,

originally, a re-tooling of the combat portion of the 3.5 SRD.

Ø SORD PF is speciically tuned to the rules found in the Pathinder

Role Playing Game.

Ø It is comprehensive, but not exhaustive.

Ø It puts nearly every combat rule into a logical place for quick access.

Do you need to ind out how Ready and Delay actions affect

Initiative ? Go to the Initiative page. Have a question about Banded

Mail or Heavy Armor? Go to the Armor Class page.

If you use SORD PF as a helper in combat, you will see

signiicant time savings in running

encounters.

Compatibility with the Pathinder Roleplaying Game

requires the Pathinder Roleplaying Game from Paizo

Publishing, LLC. See http://paizo.com/pathinderRPG

for more information on the Pathinder Roleplaying

Game. Paizo Publishing, LLC does not guarantee com-

patibility, and does not endorse this product.

Dear Reader,

You don’t need this book! unless... you want to play your

Pathinder Role Playing Game faster - with more complexity than

ever before and STILL have fun. If you are a player, you will become

reckless using those strange rules like Overrun and Grapple . You will

gleefully Demoralize your opponents and deliver the Coup de Grace

they so richly deserve. If you are a Game Master, you will casually

take each new idea thrrown your way and run the combat as if you

were playing checkers. Nothing will scare you!

This is a dangerous book. It attempts to take the richness and

complexity of the Pathinder Role Playing Game combat and make it

easier to run in a session. That is a tall order and every gamer is sure

to have unique ideas on how it should be done. SORD’s success in the

marketplace is entirely dependent on how well I can communicate a

new shorthand to the Game Master and Player. That is what makes this

work so dangerous; my reputation is on the line. If I fail to communicate

clearly, this project is sunk.

Using SORD PF in play.

Ø This document is like a Game Master Screen. With a quick glance,

an important rule can be referenced and the resolution of combat is

secured in seconds rather than minutes.

Ø The Rule/Page Topic is shown in a BIG font. This makes it easier to

ind.

Ø Explanatory text is bulleted and usually contains one topic per bullet.

H Complex information may also have sub-bullets.

Ø Instructions and procedures are usually found on the left side of the

page and have a unique color scheme.

One-Page Rules Compendium

Ø Wherever possible, rules are completely contained on the page they

are found. This includes charts and tables that are important to the

rule.

Ø If color can help make a rule simpler to reference, then SORD PF

uses it. Look at the Armor Class page; when an action or situation

denies a Dexterity bonus to AC, the bonus data in the chart is backed

by a different hue. With one glance, you can tell the player he needs

to provide his lat-footed AC. .

Ø The charts that use color have also been tested on Black and White

printing. Special marks help clarify if needed.

Ø Actions are displayed on a page where it makes sense to put them. For

example, all the Spell-casting Actions are grouped together. They are

color-coded based on the action type ( standard, full-round, move )

for quick execution.

Page Numbers - Do I Need Them?

Ø This PDF uses layers. Page numbers are shown initially. Just turn off

the ‘PageNumbers’ layer to hide them.

My goal is simple:

Speed combat by at least 15 minutes per encounter.

If you read my earlier versions of this product, you know its history,

so I won’t go into the grapple issues and all that drove the formation of

the original work. Anyway, the authors of the Pathinder Role Playing

Game have addressed many of those frustrations in their expansion of

the 3.5 SRD. In fact, I personally wondered if SORD was even viable

after the release of the rules set, but quickly put my questions to rest

after seeing the inal product. There still is room for a concise help for

both players and game masters.

Now, after a thorough re-tooling for the Pathinder Role Playing

Game, this work represents a compendium of the rules that pulls in all

the special exceptions to the core combat rules and points them out as

a ‘reminder’ during play. It still resembles the old SORD editions, but I

have made every effort to make sure each page relects the signiicant

changes to the gaming experience from the original 3.5 SRD rules.

It has taken awhile to get to this release, but I hope it is well worth

the wait.

Regards,

Table of Contents (pages are hyperlinked by page title)

Combat Round, Attacks of Opportunity

Movement 13

Ø Measuring Distance, Moving Through a Square, Mount or Dismount

from a Steed

Ø Dificult Terrain, Obstacles, Squeezing, Move 5 Feet in Dificult

Terrain, Special Movement Rules

Attack Modiiers

Ø Starting Combat, Surprise Round, Normal Combat Rounds

Ø Actions within a Combat Round

H Standard Action, Move Action, Full-Round Action, Free Action,

Swift Action, Immediate Action, Not an Action, Rules for Restricted

Act ivit y.

Ø Attacks ot Opportunity, Provoking Attacks of Opportunity, Making

Attacks of Opportunity

Initiative, Ready and Delay Actions

Ø Attack Roll Modiiers, Melee Attack Bonus, Ranged Attack Bonus,

Combat Maneuver Bonus

Ø Other Modiiers, Special Materials

Ø Massive Damage, Damage Reduction

Ø Tables: Base Attack Bonus, Size Modiiers, Ability Modiiers

Armor Class

Ø Initiative Procedure

Ø Ready Action

Ø Readying to Counterspell, Distract Spellcaster, Ready Weapon Against

a Charge, Delay Action

Actions

Ø Base Armor Class, Touch Armor Class, Flat-footed Armor Class

Ø Dodge Bonuses, Special Materials

Ø Armor and Modiiers Tables

Damage

Ø Contains a listing of actions available in combat. This is a color-coded

page that helps to locate where speciic rules for actions may be found.

Attack Actions

Ø Damage Basics, Acid Effects, Cold Dangers, Falling, Heat Dangers,

Fire and Lava, Smoke Effects, Water Dangers, Drowning and

Suffocation Movement

Concealment, Flanking

Ø Attack Roll Basics, Resolving threatening Critical Hits

Ø Fighting Defensively, Attack of Opportunity, Unarmed Melee Attack,

Attacking the Helpless and Coup de Grace

Ø Melee Attack, Ranged Attack, Touch Attack (non-spell), Full-Attack,

Throw Splash Weapon

Ø Attacking Concealed and Invisible Defenders

Spells & Spell-like Ability 7

Ø Spell Concentration Check, Spell Components, Provoking AoO/taking

damage from AoO, Casting on the Defensive

Ø Spell Casting, Standard Action, Spell Casting, 1 round, Spell Casting, 1

minute, Spellcasting, metamagic, Spellcasting, quickened

Ø Touch Attack (spell), Holding the Charge

Ø Direct or Redirect a Spell, Maintain or Dismiss a Spell, Use Spell-like

Ability, Use Supernatural Ability, Use Extraordinary Ability

Ø Activate Magic item

More Actions

Ø Flanking, Basic Flanking, Large Creatures and Reach, Flanking a

Large Creature, Concealment

Cover, Hiding 18

Ø Cover, Hide, Improved Evasion, Melee Cover, Ranged Cover, Improved

Cover - Underwater Combat

Saving Throws, Damage Reduction

Ø Saving Throws, Spell Saving Throws, Spell Resistance, Damage

Reduction

Conditions

Ø Contains all the conditions in the game and their effect on combat

actions.

Items

Ø Ready Weapon Against a Charge, Ready Action, Start/Complete Full-

Round Action, Total Defense, Use Net, Shield Bash, Stand Up from

Prone

Ø Move, Draw or Sheathe a Weapon/Shield, Manipulatean Item, Mount

or Dismount from a Steed, Move 5 Feet in Dificult Terrain, Run,

Withdraw, A 5-foot Step

Special Attacks

Ø Contains details on items and how to break them

Weapons 1

Ø Single chart containing all weapons

Weapons 2

Ø Special information for many of the weapons

Carrying Capacity

Ø Aid Another, Charge, Feint

Ø Mounted Combat, Demoralize

Combat Maneuvers 1

Ø Encumbrance, Lifting and dragging, Bigger and Smaller creatures,

Tremendous Strength.

Unusual Terrain 1

Ø Combat Maneuver Bonus,Combat Maneuver Defense, Maneuver

Resolution

Ø Bull Rush

Ø Disarm, Grapple

Ø Pinned and Grappled Conditions

Combat Maneuvers 2

Ø Water, Forest, Marsh, Underwater Combat

Unusual Terrain 2

Ø Hills, Mountains, Deserts, Plains, Darkness

Skills 1 - Acrobatics

Skills 2 - Appraise, Bluff, Sennse Motive

Ø Combat Maneuver Bonus,Combat Maneuver Defense, Maneuver

Resolution

Ø Overrun, Sunder

Ø Trip

Ø Weapon/Armor Hardness, Item Hardness and Hit Points, Broken

Condition

Channel Energy

Skills 3 - Climb

Skills 4 - Diable Device, Disguise

Skills 5 - Escape Artist, Fly

Skills 6 - Heal

Skills 7 - intimidate, Perception

Skills 8 - Ride, Sense Motive, Sleight of Hand

Skills 9 - Spellcraft, Stealth, Swim

Ø Channel Positive Energy

Ø Channel Negative Energy, Selective Channeling, Channel Smite

Skills 10 - Use Magic Device

SORD PF v1.0 June 2010 rev. 1.0

Combat Round, Attacks of Opportunity

Starting Combat:

Ø Roll Initiative for all combatants.

Ø All combatants are lat-footed until their irst action..

H Lose Dexterity bonus to AC (if any)

Z ignored if character has uncanny dodge

extraordinary ability.

H Cannot make Attacks of Opportunity (AoO) .

Z ignored if character has Combat Relexes feat

Surprise Round

Ø Run this if some combatants could be surprised.

H Roll Perception or other checks to determine

Awareness .

H Do not run if everyone or no one is surprised.

H In Initiative order, each Aware combatant may take one

standard or move action.

H Only Aware characters get Free actions.

Normal Combat Rounds

Ø Starting with the highest Initiative count, each character

performs his actions on his Initiative.

Ø Each round of a combat uses the same Initiative order. A

round in this sense is a full cycle of all Initiative counts. The

beginning of the next round starts at the highest count.

Ø A character’s actions are executed on his Initiative count,

unless he uses a Delay or Ready action See Initiative for

details on Delay and Ready actions.

Ø A Full-Round is a span of time from the Initiative count of

one round to the same count in the next round.

Attacks of Opportunity (AoO)

Ø You can’t make an AoO when you are lat-footed .

Ø Yo u THREATEN all squares (including diagonals) into which you can

make a melee attack , even when it is not your action.

Ø Enemies taking certain actions in a threatened square provoke AoO .

Ø If you’re unarmed, you can’t make attacks of opportunity.

Ø Most creatures Medium or smaller make melee attacks up to 5 feet away.

Ø Small and Medium creatures with reach weapons threaten 10 feet..

Ø Large or bigger creatures may have a natural reach of 10 feet or more.

Provoking Attacks of Opportunity ( n or o )

Ø Moving out of a threatened square usually provokes an AoO.

H 5-foot-steps and the withdraw action avoids drawing an AoO .

Ø Distracting actions performed in a threatened square, usually provoke

AoO . Consult the Actions page for actions that provoke AoO .

Ø Moving out of more than one square threatened by a single opponent in

the same round is counted as a single AoO .

Making an Attack of Opportunity

Ø Make an optional single melee attack at your normal attack bonus.

Ø It ‘interrupts’ the normal low of actions in the round. You immediately

resolve it, then continue just after the interruption.

Ø You can only make one AoO per round unless you have the Combat

Relexes feat, granting additional AoO s equal to your Dexterity modiier.

Ø You can only react once to a given opportunity. You may react freely to

any new opportunity, even if it provoked by a character that provoked one

before.

Actions within a Combat Round

Ø An action’s type tells you how long the action takes to perform (in a

6-second combat round) and how movement is treated.

Normal Round Activities

Ø In a normal round, you can perform:

H a Standard Action AND a Move Action OR

H two Move Actions OR

H a Full-Round action.

Ø You can also perform one or more Free Actions .

Ø Some situations (such as in a surprise round), may limit actions to

taking only a single Move Action or Standard Action .

Ø Actions are described on the Actions Sheet in SORD.

Standard Action

Ø Allows you to do something, most commonly make an attack or cast

a spell.

Move Action

Ø Move up to your speed or perform actions taking a similar amount

of time.

Ø You can take a Move Action in place of a Standard Action .

Ø If you have swapped your move for one or more equivalent actions,

you can take one 5-foot step either before, during, or after the action.

Full-Round Action

Ø Consumes all your effort in a round.

Ø A 5-foot step can be made before, during, or after the action. You

can perform Free Actions and Swift Actions .

Ø Some Full-Round actions do not allow a 5-foot step.

Ø Some Full-Round actions can be taken as Standard Actions ,

but only in situations when you are limited to performing only a

Standard Action during your round.

Free Action

Ø Free actions consume a very small amount of time and effort.

Ø You can perform one or more Free Actions while taking another

action normally, within reasonable limits (GM decision).

Swift Action

Ø Similar to a Free Action , but slightly more time-consuming.

Ø You can ON LY perform one in round.

Immediate Action

Ø Similar to a Swift Action , but can be performed ANY time.

Not an Action

Ø Very minor activities are not even considered Free Actions . They

are an inherent part of doing something else.

Restricted Activity

Ø Some situations, may restrict a full round’s worth of actions.

H You are restricted to taking only a single Standard Action or a

single Move Action (plus Free Actions as normal).

H You can’t take a Full-Round action (though you can start or

complete a Full-Round action by using a Standard Action).

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