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I've played it. First off, the setting and rules are made for a certain kind of dungeon-crawling (PF standard) and don't try for verisimilitude or internal consistency. Monsters are simple to make but don't use the same rules or the same guidelines as PCs, the items you can get hold of are usually g...

I sort of think it should be easier to convince someone to hold a briefcase for a minute than to hold Wile E. Coyote's bundled sticks of dynamite with fizzing fuses for the same time. Because one is an obvious threat and one isn't. Consequences aren't the only metric, ease of getting there is anothe...

Failure by 11+ is going to be death (at least for anyone without feather fall) in a number of situations described, so the ACs need to be low enough that people can have that not happen by taking a safe route. It shouldn't be a problem, just don't do D&D 4e-style ACs which scale with the player'...

I've no particular knowledge of TCGs but - cool art, where's it from?

If someone was paying 60% of everything then they were an unusually oppressed slave. The sort of person who almost everyone would look down on and say "Thank God I'm not them" about. ??? If half of your work is done on your Lord's lands (where you see none of the harvests) and half is don...

On the 60% tax thing; in Europe for a long period of time (classical Rome - Black Death, roughly) a certain part of the population owed half their production to their liege lord or owner, for that part of the time which they spent working on the lord/owners' land. Usually they would own some land as...

The crane courtier with only combat skills being possible (never mind bad) sounds like a bunch of this advice was written for another RPG, presumably Lot5R. It goes with the clans being thought to be important in game mechanics as well as roleplaying. Basically this is a shitty conversion. Waving ar...

Maybe it's just me, but 'feel free to call down the heavens' sounds less like letting the PCs fight the gods and more like 'rocks fall, eveyone dies'.

A badly played ranger or one who just doesn't know about spells beyond the PHB doesn't get a lot of mileage out of spellcasting. For a lot of players extra feats would be a better bargain, it's not a total nerf tho' it depends a bit on how many they'd get. No, I haven't read this book myself. Edit: ...

Pathfinder has its own off-brand tarot, a 54-card deck called the harrow. There's at least one module based on that.

If it's too unimportant or its use isn't obvious then some people of my acquaintance would ignore it entirely. I saw this in a campaign using Kingmaker.

Crystallised magic from various sources, which may be aspected to one sort of magic or another - see Dominions or Ars Magica for examples of sources. Those natives are wasting most of their astral gems by sacrificing them to their gods, and outright eating whole rooks of animal vis! We enlightened n...

What does being in the Magic Creator Program actually mean? I'm not a MtG player, I haven't ever heard of it.

For those interested, a second company is looking to Pathfinder Pathfinder. The first, Purple Duck Games' Porphyra went nowhere much as far as I can tell; Legendary Games' version, currently named Corefinder, is still at the point where they're throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks, but you ...

Dunno what conditions exactly you've already considered AA, you haven't mentioned such a list here. Anyway, acid pools and geysers are possible. Lava combines heat and possible poisonous gas and is an old standby. Getting lost is a possible issue in many odd environments. High winds can make cold or...

Up until you cast it on someone higher level than you, anyway. Then they get a +10 or so to the save. This assumes that you keep the spell heightened to the max level, and at odd-numbered character levels it also works against enemies one level higher than you IIRC.

If you're now dividing about 4 dice between 2 attack and 2 defence phases then I'll double down on my claim that a lot of attacks will miss. Yes it adds a strategy component, but it also means that whiffing will be happening an awful lot. This could take a long time to resolve. If you don't believe ...

My first thought is that with small dicepools and presumably with the attacker needing a net success you're going to see a lot of attacks fail. 2d vs. 2d, 2/3 success gives a 21/81 or ~ 26% chance of hitting, then you possibly have armor. If you need say 3 such hits to end this duel then that's abou...

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How tough are/have been the coronavirus restrictions in your country relative to others? Click on the map and add a few countries to compare them. I thought it was interesting.

The skill point change is Pathfinders' with an unnecessary layer of complexity added. Just make having a class skill ever give a +3 bonus if you get a rank in that skill, don't make it go away if you multiclass and you have a simpler solution that's just as good. Summon Anything is dependent on your...

For a reboot of PF to work you'd need a bigger change than 3.0 to 3.5 I think. Also you'd need someone with a vision and a better way of handling conflicts than Paizo - you can see failing to remove/change something which doesn't work in various places in their work, I've mentioned the kineticist as...

Paizo's going to remake Kingmaker and apparently they'll be dual statting it for PF2 and D&D 5e. Trying to convert a few 5e players probably, but it says something about 5e's dominance.

The only tabletop RPG which has a serious, listed chance of breaking lockpicks that I've seen is PF2. I expect that Rolemaster has a fumble chart with a result like that somewhere, but I don't remember seeing such.

There was a second edition of 7th Sea released as a Kickstarter in 2016, but as far as I can tell nothing since. The first edition made enough of a splash to get noticed despite its many flaws; the second going nowhere is a bad sign. Though I'd never heard of this d20 edition.

I bless...the atmosphere. That's one thing isn't it? And a fair bit of it is water.