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Just because you don't want players to use incantatrix or divine metamagic does not mean that they are banned in pathfinder games by default. The game claims backwards compatible. Who said I don't want players using incanatrix etc? Saying that Pathfinder is backwards compatible with 3.5 is not the ...

Pathfinder is explicitly backwards compatible. None of that stuff actually stopped being exactly as printed. The only thing that changed was they fucked with how polymorph worked. So your argument is null and void. Firstly, if you look at the actual source for backwards compatability on wikipedia, ...

So my group, or the most vocal member of it, likes the idea of the Tome skill point rule (cross class skills cost one point, but have half max ranks) but thinks the polarity should go the other way (double cost but full max). His reasoning being that cross class should represent skills outside of d...

The fact that most planes are infinite means that the wilderness isn't even more likely, open ocean is exactly as likely as a water elemental orgy on the plane of water because there are infinite numbers of both. Infinites do not work that way. The chance of any outcome depends on the selection met...

Unarmed Combat: Strength + Brawl; Defense applies Melee Combat: Strength + Weaponry; Defense applies Ranged Combat: Dexterity + Firearms Thrown Weapons: Dexterity + Athletics; Defense applies For example, if a PC is shot and stabbed by two different opponents simultaneously, Defense will apply to o...

Lines are determined as follows: »» Step 1. If the line originates from a square, the source of the effect chooses that square. If the line originates from a creature, the source of the effect chooses a square that creature occupies. »» Step 2. The source of the effect chooses one non-diagonal dire...

Infinite Deflection + Exceptional Deflection

This stood out to me: Every time you see a value of 10+ other factors, the designers have explained that the base value could be replaced by a die roll. Your save DCs, for instance, could be variable - sometimes 1+mods, sometimes 20+mods, but in order to ensure the game goes faster, they've taken th...

rasmuswagner wrote:But here's the latest stroke of genius: You can only take the same free action three times per turn. Such as, drawing an arrow.

No, drawing an arrow is "not an action" which is totally different. However, drawing a thrown weapon with QD is a free action.

K wrote:Yeh, actually capitulating to people's desire for 3e terms has proven to be exactly as confusing and misleading as I thought it would be.

Trap is also a 3e term...

Worse really, as a creature longer than it is tall that pretty much qualifies it as a quadruped under 3rd edition size rules. Which penalizes it further for jumping (for some insane reason). So actually the medium shark is jumping HALF the height for it's DC and even with a +12 speed bonus a natura...

Pathfinder does this to an extent. A +5 weapon ignores DR/silver, DR/cold iron, DR/adamantine, and DR/alignment. My group generally forgets about that in play, but it could trivialize most DR at higher levels since GMW basically counters everything but physical damage type DR. Pathfinder also added...

If the magic success rate is changing over time, that is also something you can observe and measure. You'd eventually figure out that A] magic exists, and B] the more often you do magic, the less effective it is. If the success rate approaches the no magic success rate quickly enough, you will neve...

If the magical success rate approaches the non-magical sucess rate at an appropriately tuned rate as the number of tests increases, then you can have a situation where you never have sufficent certanty to conclude that magic has or has not effected the success rate since the start of the test. Howev...

Sorry Frank, but even that system doesn't work. It's a simple mathematical fact that every setup where no finite number of tests will prove beyond a reasonable doubt which spells are effective is also a system where no finite number of tests will give you good reason to think that magic exists at a...

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CapnTthePirateG wrote:There a way to get the bloodline arcana on a non-sorc? Some of those are really, really good...

Ampoule of False Blood + UMD?

ToM, p233 wrote:If you fail a Truespeak check, however, the DC does not increase on your next attempt of that utterance.

If you went to the effort to check what page it was on, why didn't you read what it said?

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Wait did you just explicitly advocate lying to your players? What the actuall fuck. I know I've been not so subtely implying that team basketweave is full of lying assholes but don't just come out and admit it. There is nothing wrong with lying to the other players - as long as it's a accepted part...

If you're playing a Synthesist, is there a reason to not take "limbs" as many times as you can and become some sort of Hecatonchires? If it works like that then fucking....totally. Tons of limbs, pounce, and enough strength to know you can hit. Done. Eidolons have have a maximum number of...

Pathfinder wish lost the "Create a non-magical item" and the "Create a magic item" functions.

What genres are clashing to your distaste? [...] It's somewhere between Kevin Sorbo Hercules and God of War, just set in the modern world. Just that -- in my mind's eye, I just cannot wrap my head around the idea of Hercules running around modern-day Chicago. It kinda reminds me of the complete abo...

Does M&M present different power schedules to choose from? Like a guy that shoots fire like a wizard vs a guy that shoots fire at-will, basically those things discussed here: Those power styles could also be implemented using M&M, but some will work better then others Assassin : Easy to imp...

Prak_Anima, we don't appear to be arguing the same test. I was responding Frank's request/challenge which was: Seriously: name a bar it is possible to have in which some random NPC villager would not be able to punch the ghost and yet simultaneously a mundane PC can punch that ghost without having, ...

Let's do ten. 1. The ghost can only be touched by a hero that knows no fear. The villagers are cowardly peasants and cannot touch it, as their quivering yellow hearts betray them when it appears. Have them all stand around a paladin. Alternatively, and more hilariously, enchant the ghost such that ...