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So, it looks like RPG Superstar 2016 is "on pause" this year and will most likely not be run. Focus looks to be on Starfinder. *Sigh* I honestly love that contest and was looking forward to it. Ah well, guess I will just cut back on the Paizo boards. Been reading them hoping for a RPG Supe...

I fell dirty but I coul not resist the mlp/d&d shirt.

This section includes a large number of evil spells. Casting an evil spell is an evil act, but for most characters simply casting such a spell once isn’t enough to change her alignment; this only occurs if the spell is used for a truly abhorrent act, or if the caster established a pattern of castin...

Ok, please explain slowly to me how secret page helps wizards in pathfinder? Pathfinder Secret Page School transmutation; Level bard 3, sorcerer/wizard 3 Casting Time 10 minutes Components V, S, M (powdered herring scales and a vial of will-o'-wisp essence) Range touch Target page touched, up to 3 s...

If you were to pick out 8-12 pathfinder classes that are good enough for a 'core players handbook' selection, what would they be? They only have to be good up to level 6-10. Arcanist, Alchemist, Cleric, Druid, Magus, Inquisitor, Shaman, Wizard, Witch, Bard. Maybe Sorcerer and Oracle with some work ...

Petrify (Ex): A petrifern can petrify itself as a standard action in order to defend itself from predators. When it does so, the petrifern's natural armor bonus to AC increases by 5, it gains resistance 10 to cold and fire, and it can take 20 on Stealth checks to appear as a sprout or fallen tree b...

Thanks I will take a look at that!

I am worried that Honed is too much a disassociated mechanic. Anyone have a better way to address it?

Thanks everyone again for your help upthread. I now have another pathfinder question. I was raging a few minutes ago about another nerf Martials FAQrrata that ignores and contradicts text that just came out and of course was always clearly this way with a whole band of the PDF out to celebrate, but ...

My first thoughts were for style feats or item mastery feats. However I admit to not having done a comprehensive review.

Sorry my bad I collapsed the save bonus from bravery, armor training and Thews of steel into bravery and Steel. Removed the scaling down of weapon training. Removed the rerolls and added a Reroll pool ability called perfection, added a recovery ability called honed, added a armor training ability ca...

Made some changes to the Fighter still not my best work, but feel free to comment.

I currently am afraid of Trump not because of his ability to sway voters to his side, but because of the fact of the whole Hillary email thing + Bernie staying in to the convention. To be clear I am not of the opinion or espousing the idea that Hillary is or has done anything illegal, I just think T...

Thank you guys for your suggestions. Just to be clear he very much likes to play, he just wants to play something that has one set of numbers and does not change unless buffed externally. He also likes big two handed sword wielders. In his first game he played a fighter but quickly became irritated ...

Mask thank you for restoring my faith in human asshole'ery! For you I have a barrel full of cocks lovingly gift wrapped. Please enjoy. On a different note I am bad at game design. I have a player that wants to play something that does not have any moving parts, such that even barbarian is too much m...

Someone on the Paizo forums just said "We shouldn't have mechanical optimization threads, because that can lead to seeing the caster martial disparity at a table." Makes me want to scream. Let's not talk about something and maybe it will just go away is so fucking stupid I do not even know...

Yep pretty much where I am at with this one, but funnily enough it is getting a response of much too powerful from the Paizo forums.

Well I posted this over on the Paizo forums and got some responses. I was wondering what people over here thought of it. Please feel free to laugh and or make fun, but I would love some constructive along with the criticism so I can be less terrible. Also be aware this is for a Pathfinder game so pl...

It all goes back to a wonderful Paizo decision via FAQrrata. Do ability modifiers from the same ability stack? For instance, can you add the same ability bonus on the same roll twice using two different effects that each add that same ability modifier? No. An ability bonus, such as "Strength b...

/ranton I was just about to lose it while reading a thread about sources of damage stacking/not stacking due to them both being "equal to X fraction of your level" and some people claiming "your level" is the source so they don't stack. It all goes back to a wonderful Paizo decis...

Courageous weapon

Wow...

Do you have links for those?

I would love to show the originals to a friend of mine and grin.

I completely agree that opposing something simply due to it having been proposed by a certain group or individual is both illogical and stupid. That however is not what Frank said or I applauded. He said: for the express purpose of cutting social services, doing bad things to ethnic minorities, and ...

PL, if you don't consider "This proposal was written and promoted by racists and fascists for the express purpose of cutting social services, doing bad things to ethnic minorities, and deregulating corporations." to be a compelling reason to oppose the proposal, you and I have nothing to ...

So Paizo just announced a new game/continuation of Pathfinder called Starfinder. Basically Pathfinder in the future in space. But, don't worry guys this is totally going to be completely backwards compatible! Normally I would get excited about getting sci-fi chocolate in my fantasy peanut butter, bu...