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So in a age where even fucking black holes of game design such as MMO's are starting to realize that having dedicated passive heal bitch classes are a horrible design concept., and even 4E *tried* make the role more interesting than just a "Cure X Wounds' dispenser... Mearls thinks maybe we rea...

Niles wrote: releases/adcopy brags that the Pathfinder MMO will have all the "features" of Ultima Online that made people drop it in favor of Everquest.

But Everquest was a horrible game compared the Ultima Online.




Sorry... I used to read Lum the Mad a lot...

It might be nice if for some godforsaken reason you wanted to have the sorcerer do the magic item crafting for the party and couldn't just have a wizard instead. But really you just give up way too many class features (always assuming you picked one of the decent bloodlines in the first place) for i...

Is there a reason for the lack of a blows people up with element based direct damage magic and flashy explosions phlebtonium class?

crap Oh goddammit, I 'm breaking the don't reply to shadzar rule again. Will you please shut up about that damn Buck Rogers game! Of all the the stupid shit that woman did to wreck TSR, you keep harping on one of the few reasonable things she ever did. Making a sci-fi rpg to attract to *other* half...

Aww, Pathfinder... now you're stealing races from 4E? I though you were better than that.

wasn't there a feat that lets you learn a spell from another class's spell list as long as it was the same type of magic as you use, and it was two or so spell levels lower than what you could cast? Or was that a psionics only feat.

I wonder when they'll get tired of pumping out caster splat books and finally release their own Book of Weeaboo Fightan Magic knock-off... and how badly they'll make those classes suck. 'Course that would require that they actually admit that the PF fighter and Monk are still worthless... which is u...

Being a 3.5 Conjuration Specialist with banned access to Abjuration and Evocation is pretty awesome. As a Pathfinder Conjuration Specialist, you: Can still set up Contingencies even though you banned Evocation. It's not like it made that much of a difference in the long run, a 3.5 Conjuration Speci...

the Wyrm is just misunderstood, and the Weaver is the real villain. It wasn't that out of left field. There had been several books early on that said the Wyrm used to be a mostly neutral force of entropy that broke things down so they could be remade into something new. But then the Weaver got piss...

Sorry, I should have been more specific. It's not the art, which is just merely bad and radiates 'Now that the Hobbit is a big deal again, we're gone back to making Halflings look as much like them as possible without getting sued' It's the stuff about making 'child-like innocence' an important part...

Oh how nice, they felt the need to remind us that they're horrible at coming up with fluff too...

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx ... e/20121107

the core Halflings are more or less fucking Kender now.

Damn. So much for the hopes of any sort of movable camera type thing.

So, for a very short answered question: What are the PrCs in Pathfinder that are actually worth taking? Basically any prc that was already worth taking in 3.5 that was transferred over almost whole cloth to Pathfinder and had a few fiddly bits added to make it look like an improvement. Any PrC sinc...

Also, fuck you and suck a barrel of cocks. I am now envisioning a mind flayer with boobs. CANNOT UNSEE! The sad thing is, I'm pretty sure mind flayers with boobs were canon back when Flayers were still created by decapitating a humanoid body and grafting a Mind Flayer squid baby onto the neck, whic...

The entire first paragraph of Project Eternity's Kickstarter's "Who is Obsidian Entertainment?" section consists of all the projects that people in Obsidian worked on before they were at Obsidian. The paragraph after that has a handful of mentions of Fallout: New Vegas, but is mostly desc...

It does a good job of psychologically preparing people for a no-to-low jedi game that the book tells you it is trying to create. But it's fucking Star Wars ! It's a setting that has exactly two things going for it. 1) Awesome space combat that ignores all laws of physics for the sake of having The ...

So when they say "style of the Infinity Engine games" do they mean that in a vague style sense, or in the Mega Man 9 sense where they''ll deliberately ignore every bloody improvement made to the genre over the last 20 odd years for the sake of wanking off to nostalgia? I'm sorry, but as it...

Okay, I'll try to push for Fate instead, some of the comments about it suggests it fixes a lot of the problems I've having with the Fudge book.

Unless your loud, bossy friend has some specific Fudge-based system in mind, he's essentially demanding that you homebrew up a system designed to his specifications. That is effectively exactly what they're after as they've been working on a rpg book of their own (mostly just setting and fluff at t...

So my group is changing systems and unfortunately the loudest and most bossy of the group is really pushing for Fudge, so I'm pretty much stuck learning and running the game at least once to shut them up. What am I in for? From my quick glance at the giant, repetitious rulebook it seems to combine b...

Despite what all else pathfail might have done, I thought their SRD site was pretty comprehensive and usable.

Ugh... right, I forgot that oWoD went through that weird "We must keep the Vampire line the hell away from any Umbra, Wyrm/Weaver, or Technocracy shit for fear of pissing off the goth kiddies that get off on all the vague satanic judeo christian background fluff even though it's suppose to be a...

But the werewolf and mage metaplots already had several alien parasites that crawl into people and take them over and then give them powers that look like vicissitude.

My god... this reads like if you locked Grant Morrison and Michael Kirkbride in a room that contained nothing but plies of heroin, acid, and a single word processor