Another book worth looking at for ideas is Iron Heroes by Fiery Dragon. In particilar the expanded feats and stunts are worth getting ideas for an interesting encounter.

Doug

I'm not 100% sure it's OGL but I liked the:

Traps & Treachery books by Fantasy Flight Games.

Any source book that has well done representations of alternate paladins for chaotic good and neutral good as starting classes, like in AEG's Good. I hate playing lawful good but I like the concept of paladins, so I am always looking for other versions like the Avenger (CG) and the Defender (NG) from that book.

I have not had a chance to read through all the Pathfinder books yet, so if this has already been done for PFRPG I would appreciate being pointed to the material. And if not, and they would fit the flavor of the setting used for PFRPG, then I would love to have official versions.

Any source book that has well done representations of alternate paladins for chaotic good and neutral good as starting classes, like in AEG's Good. I hate playing lawful good but I like the concept of paladins, so I am always looking for other versions like the Avenger (CG) and the Defender (NG) from that book.

I have not had a chance to read through all the Pathfinder books yet, so if this has already been done for PFRPG I would appreciate being pointed to the material. And if not, and they would fit the flavor of the setting used for PFRPG, then I would love to have official versions.

Privateer Press:
Iron Kingdoms Character Guide:
- Firearms
- Pain of Healing
- Gun Mage Base Class

Monstronomicon:
- Adventuring Scholar Prestige Class

A players guide conversion from Pathfinder to Iron Kingdoms and bang zoom.

spoiler

I liked The Book Of The Righteous.
When it comes to Paladins I think they should be extreme when it comes to alignment.
LG should be the rule, but LN or CG are nice alternatives.
I hate the neutral paladin. The Paladin should have a code to follow.
But if you play a CG Paladin she should be played as chaotic just as hard as a lawful Paladin should be played Lawful.

Does anyone have a list of all the stuff that is open Content?

I second Freeport. My DM ran Death in Freeport within an Eberron campaign and it was awesome.

Coridan wrote:

Book of Erotic Fantasy, yeah it had some stupid stuff in it, but it also had a lot of great stuff.

You'll note that that book was published in Europe, if it's the one I think it is, which has a much more relaxed attitude. However, as far as I know, it's not OGC.

Ironicly for a book that came with a "Mature Content" warning, it's handling of the subject matter is often fairly juvenile, going for shocking or titalating just for the sake of being shocking or titalating, but it does have a number of good crunchy bits in there, whether you are running a regular dungeon-crawl campaign (rules for half-demons, half-dragons, half-giants that could all make interesting monsters to fight), or one that is merely suggestive and "naughty" (Bards are always popular with the opposite sex, and now they can put that Perform skill to good use :) ), or a ribald comedy (the cantrip Grope leaps to mind, as well as new uses of Command).

And a number of the spells they introduced with erotic intent have non-erotic uses:
Disrobe, 2nd level spell that will cause the target's non-magic armor to fall off.
Come To Me, 7th level spell that teleports 1 willing ally from anywhere on the same plane to a space adjacent to the caster.

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A comment about 2 books mentioned above: A Magical Medeval Society: Western Europe and Silk Roads contain virtually no rules. They are great books, but they are guides to world-building, and part of what makes them great is not wasting pages on the nearly obligatory 5 new Prestige Classes and 3 pages of Feats. :)

I'll be going through my Big Pile of Books to remind myself from where I took the gems I use, so I expect to be adding to the list.

Just remembered, Green Ronin redid most of their Races of Renown books as Racial Codex's when 3.5 came out.

All of the Racial Codex books are 100% OGC. I never bought the codex's because I had the Renowns, and most of the changes were minor.

Have to day Green Ronin's Plot & Poison to be on the top of my personal list. A lot of stuff from Fantasy Flight Games as well....

The one OGL-published thing I used extensively was The Hypertext d20 SRD. Used it more than the PHB, DMG, and MM put together (because it was all of these things plus more). In fact, the only things I used more than it were dice and pencils. I know there are web PFSRD's out there but I have yet to find one that is as easy to navigate and as thoroughly hyperlinked.

The one OGL-published thing I used extensively was The Hypertext d20 SRD. Used it more than the PHB, DMG, and MM put together (because it was all of these things plus more). In fact, the only things I used more than it were dice and pencils. I know there are web PFSRD's out there but I have yet to find one that is as easy to navigate and as thoroughly hyperlinked.

Great Question Jason. I still wind up pulling out these books every other game during prep:

Complete Book of Eldritch Might by Malhavoc. I allow this book's spell section to be available for my PF players to use to choose spells from. We don't use the prestige classes or feats so much, but the spells, yes. I also add some to my villain's spellbooks.

Eldritch Sorcery by Necromancer Games. Pretty much the same thing, but I keep a little more careful eye on some of the spell's assigned levels. Otherwise this book (and the one above) really fill in a lot of the 'utilitarian' spells my players miss from the earlier edition eras where the goal of the spell wasn't always "cause damage".

Book of Hallowed Might I and II also by Malhavoc, for the same reason listed above but for clerics and their ilk. Again, the spells, but not much else.

Tome of Horrors I, II , III by Necromancer Games. The lot of 'em.

Advanced Bestiary by Green Ronin and Book of Templates by Goodman Games to spruce up and customize monster stats. They presented them in an easy to use way and are a snap to add.

RE Old Favourites:

I really wonder, given the popularity of some of these titles, if some sort of reissue would be a better idea. I don't know how big the market would be or what the cost would be but I can imagine a new PDF with Pathfinder material might be popular. (At least with me :))

Do people think the original publisher would accept a % of the new sales and have all the conversions done by a second source? How expensive does a conversion have to be?

How many sales do people think this might be? Anyone have a basis for a guess?

Sigurd

Paizo might not be looking to rehash something, as much as to get a feel for the OGC that is popular enough to dip into in some of their own products. Why get any company to republish whole products, when the only thing used out of them was (for example) Chpt 3, Chpt 6, and the last 3 paragraphs in Chpt 8. I have heard, and done so myself, of buying a book and basically using 10 pages of material, out of 150.

On another note, there are a TON of articles from Dragon Mag that I WISH were OGC.

Charlie Bell wrote:

The one OGL-published thing I used extensively was The Hypertext d20 SRD. Used it more than the PHB, DMG, and MM put together (because it was all of these things plus more). In fact, the only things I used more than it were dice and pencils. I know there are web PFSRD's out there but I have yet to find one that is as easy to navigate and as thoroughly hyperlinked.

I'm assuming then that you've already seen d20pfsrd.com? Is there anything in particular about it not to your liking? Just so you know also, d20pfsrd.com is open for others to edit or add content to so if something is not linked correctly or you'd like to see a particular feature you just have to tell me you'd like to be added into the system. We'd love to have you on the team!

1. Open Content products only.

I tried to be very explicit, only listing the class/feat/spell/item and never whole books or sections of books.

From the Unearthed Arcana:
http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/UA:Racial_Paragon_Classes
http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/UA:Bard_Variant:_Divine_Bard
http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/UA:Cleric_Variant:_Cloistered_Cleric
http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/UA:Druid_Variant:_Druidic_Avenger

There is a strong need for non-Lawful Good Paladin type class. The UA way (Freedom/Slaughter/Tyranny) seems wrong. There have been other takes such as the Holy Warriors from Green Ronin's Book of the Righteous and the variety of custom Paladin like classes from Paradigm's Arcanis setting.

In the end, I think I'd prefer to see a Paizo creation that fills the role of "some other god's Paladin" without looking like a Paladin. I'd be happy with taking something direct like Holy Warrior/Arcanis Paladin/Unearthed Arcana but here is my personal take on a class that would be interesting and varied without a ton of rules to cover all bases:

Holy Disciple (Paizo may use this on the spot creation of mine without credit etc etc)
A Prepared Divine Caster with Full Base Attack Bonus
Alignment must match Deity Alignment
Cha as primary class score for class abilities.
Class Spell list is equal to all spells on all domains on Deity's list of domains (if Deity only has Fire, Sun then only 18 spells on the class spell list)
No Domain Abilities (like Cleric gets) just gain the spells from the Domains.
Full Caster Level Progression (so 1st level caster at 1st level, 9th level caster at 9th level with 4th level spells, etc.)
Half Channel Progression (so 20th Holy Disciple = 10th Cleric Channel Positive)
Channel Positive or Negative based on Alignment.
Fighter Bonus feats every 4 levels or so (count for Fighter of 4 levels less than Holy Disciple level, so Weapon Spec work)
Some class feature that allows you to cast personal or single target buffs that last 1 minute per level or less as a swift (if they need be limited limit by your ability Modifier.)

From Relics and Rituals Olympus (Sword Sorcery):
Feats: Stalwart Defender
Spells: Liquid Form
Items: Sun Goblet

From Relics and Rituals (Sword Sorcery):
Prestige Class: Penumbral Lord
Spells: Spells on Penumbral Lord Spell List, Sunspear, Tattoo Item,

From Book of the Righteous (Green Ronin):
Spells: Moonbeam, North Star, Transference, Greater Transference

From Beyond Monks The Art of the Fight (Chainmail Bikini Games):
Feats: Drunken Stance

From Advanced Players Manual (Green Ronin):
Spells: Moonbright, Obscure Text, Pearl of Brilliance, Starblade, Sunglobe, Sunray

From Good (Alderac):
Spells: Perfect Shield Other, Shield of Good

From War (Alderac):
Items: Trebuchet, Ammo (Animal Carcass, Metal, Red Hot, Stones, Thunder Crash)

From Ssethregore In the Coils of the Serpent Empire (Paradigm):
PrC Classes: Pit Fighter
Feats: Deadly Strike
Spells: Improved Shield Other, Greater Shield Other
Items: Portal Key

From Legacy of Damnation (Paradigm):
PrC Classes: Scourge

From Magic of Arcanis (Paradigm):
Spells: Teleport Redirect, Teleport Block

From Revised Players Guide to Arcanis (Paradigm):
Base Classes: Bearer of Woe, Patrician (yes really)
Feats: Advanced Pole-Arm Fighting, Gentry (may need modification for Patrician), Martial Weapon Technique, Opportune Strike, Riposte
PrC Classes: Emerald Society Archaeologist (AKA Indiana Jones), Hurrianic Aegis
Spells: Perfect Human Form, Greater/Improved Shield Other (not sure of the diff from the Ssethregore versions), Sticks to Snakes

Rokugan Oriental Adventures Campaign Setting (Alderac):
Feat: Way of the Crab
Spells: False Tongue, Tsunami

I verified all these items were listed (as per my reading) as Open Content before posting them. Most require name changes and flavor extraction (so presumably Paizo will need to add that back into them.) There may also be balancing that needs to be performed to bring them UP or DOWN to 3.p rules (in the case they are under/over powered.)

There is a strong need for non-Lawful Good Paladin type class.

Enevhar Aldarion wrote:

Any source book that has well done representations of alternate paladins for chaotic good and neutral good as starting classes, like in AEG's Good. I hate playing lawful good but I like the concept of paladins, so I am always looking for other versions like the Avenger (CG) and the Defender (NG) from that book.

I have not had a chance to read through all the Pathfinder books yet, so if this has already been done for PFRPG I would appreciate being pointed to the material. And if not, and they would fit the flavor of the setting used for PFRPG, then I would love to have official versions.

Lucky you! The Advanced Players Handbook (middle of next year) will have alternate paladin information for alternate alignments, and a full 20 level class for Blackguard (Anti-Paladin) in it, per Paizo Staff.

- Ptolus (with Night of Dissolution)
- The Skeleton Keys maps
- Book of Experimental Might
- Advanced Bestiary
and most of all...

- CHAOSITECH (from Malhavoc Press)

I have seen it, and I do like it, but it just isn't to the level of ease-of-use as d20srd.org, mainly due to the latter's extensive hyperlinking: looking at Improved Grapple, the word "grapple" is hyperlinked to the grapple rules in the combat section.

Conditions in spells hyperlink to the appropriate entry in the condition summary (you have hyperlinks to the conditions in the paizo.com PFSRD glossary, which doesn't help if I'm using the downloaded version of your site). That sort of thing.

As a side note, fixing links in spells will probably be last as there are just so freaking many of them. We do have a couple of guys studying up on the Google Sites API to work out a better import/export process. I also happen to have a Google Sites engineer on my Google Wave friends list whom also happens to be a former D&D'er and is now Pathfinder-curious :)

That said, you're making an extremely valuable contribution to the community and I'd love to help in any way.

:)

Privateer Press:
Iron Kingdoms Character Guide:
- Firearms
- Gun Mage Base Class

Monstronomicon:
- Adventuring Scholar Prestige Class

Not sure if Ghostwalk is open or not but I like that book alot.

Ignatz

Sorry - I thought Jason didn't want Monster book references? Maybe I misread....?

At my table I've been using:
>Insidiae (Gygax/Cross)
>Toolbox (AEG)
>ToH I, II, III
>Creature Collection I
>Encyclopedia Magika
>Free internet spell summary sheets (the kind that have 30 summaries on a page, fan created); I assemble these into little booklets (Cleric, Druid, Sorc, etc.) Much easier to spell sling this way.
>Ptolus is a thing of beauty! (I keep wanting to use it, but can't seem to). Just wanted to mention it because there is so many great things there and its in my crosshairs to use.
>PAIZO's Dragon Compendium I has gotten a lot of use this year: Ettercap, Advanced Elite Rust Monster, etc.

SIDE NOTE: >*Spell Compendium NOT the best - I realize this is not OGL generally, but since Jason is reading this thread in its entirety, I wanted to mention that I had to remove the Spell Compendium from play last night. When the Pathfinder Sorc mixed its power with those spells there was a visible wonky factor at the table. Once the players crossed over into another world I explained magic works differently here, and the SC is no longer available at the table. (A nerf, I realize, but sensible.) Jason - I just wanted to mention that any effort to massively expand the spell lists at this time is not desired. I personally enjoyed the SC and the fact that it collected so many great ideas from the past 20 years, but it caused much pain.)

And, I don't think a lot of Greyhawk is OGL, but I use Erik/Moore's Gazeteer for Greyhawk and other items. (not in the gameroom right now, so I don't know if there was anything OGL in there? doubtful though:()

My biggest surprise was how useful TOOLBOX is. Reminds me of using Gygaxian librams. LOL. And finally, there is a book by Bastion Press "Arms and Equipment Guide" I think its called that is definately OGL and sees a lot of use.

Recently, however, since we're enjoying the release of Pathfinder RPG, I've begun recinding offers to use material outside of Pathfinder. Not because it isn't good, and not to be a dick, but just because Pathfinder RPG has all the good stuff I need to help with things like playtest of Oracle, Cavalier and so forth.

hope that helps,
-Pax

EDIT: One more - - - The SWORD for Pathfinder Beta saw 100% use as a GM guide/screen/summary for almost a year during open playtest.

Been lurking for a while, sucked me in to register just to add my two cents here :)

I have stacks and stacks of 3rd party 3.x books. Out of all of those, two of the books I have practically worn out.

Secret College of Necromancy by Green Ronin publishing - This is an absolute must have for everything undead and necromantic. The D&D rules for necromancy have always been laughably pathetic that I always just deferred to this book for everything Necro.
Best part - True Necromancer class
Used most - Necro feats, Necromantic spell lists

Iron Kingdoms by Privateer Press - I love steampunk settings, and Iron Kingdoms painted a steampunk medieval setting very well. Sadly, they stopped support when 4.0 came out. They also rushed production of their books, which left thier rules incomplete and broken... I had to house rule and even rewrite everything to do with mekanika, Arcane mekanics, and everything with steamwork/crafting. If Paizo picked up the torch, I think i'd explode with happy-happy-joy-joy.
Best part - crafting of steamwork automatons, steamwork items
Used most - Gobber race, General setting, guidelines for crafting automatons and steamwork items, since actual rules were severely broken.

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