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lots of sensible things

I can perfectly understand the OP.

I discovered pathfinder at the end of beta test and then bought the CRB straight away.

I loved Pathfinder back then. No more 3.5 zillions splat books, a new start, I loved the way they changed 3.5 for the best. Easy for reference and so on.

Specially as now I'm working, I have kids, my time is extremely precious and I have very little time for out of game PF.

I loved the AP I read (ROTRL) and I thought it corresponded rather well to my style. Nice graphics, good ideas, good forum for new ideas and mature content and a rather simple ruleset.

Again I play once every 2 weeks and my time is precious.

We started playing RotRL and stopped at the end of book 5 a bit fed up.
I realised It was much much too heavy. Combats were not so much fun as it ended up with iterative attacks, too much maths and finally combat lasted one or even 2 hours for some.
That's what made us stop.

Too much roll play, too many rules and some flaws in PF are really core flaws (iterative attacks, too many bonuses of too many types take too long)...

At low level it's quite easy but the power is quite dull, at high level you're god like but it's hardly manageable unless you have plenty of time and rule lawyers.
That's why so many people talk about the sweet spot (say between lvl 5
and 10) where things arn't too complicated but can do real cool things.

Now don't tell me I can house rule the lot. It would require too much time to do so. and again as a profesionnal my time is precious.

I understand that we all have different opinions on that. Some don't want to throw all in the bin again...

Now I'm really in the same mood as the author of the OP (I think ...).

I love Pathfinder as a company, I love the way they do a lot of things (specially their AP), but I'm fed up with all these splat books again. Same as 3.5, probably better but still same flaws ... due to backward compatibility probably.

Is it too hard to keep the same level of complexity with more simple combats?

For the video alone I pledged. ^^

Thanael wrote:

Nice. You can even get 5 boxes for 100€.(Buy 4, get 1 free bonus)

Shipping for overseas sucks though...

Welcome to the painful world of overseas customers :-))

Yeaaah. For once it's the other way around ^^

aaaah ok.

I just received a messge from Paizo that they are shipping all 4 books. OOOOH JOOOY !!!

Hi Gary again.

Sorry if I sound like a teacher but it seems you often mix up between east and west and eastern and western.

I think I saw it at least a couple of times in book 1 and book 2 may be you should double cheack your books and if you errata them.

I remember in book 2 you were talking about FarenHolde on eastern coast. I remember I read a few other glitches in book 1.

here are a few examples.
p39 "It takes a week for the
ship to pass along the settled coast of Talingarde passing
the great city of Daveryn, the largest center of civilization
along the western coast."

p81
and the western port of
Daveryn

Talking about Yutak.
p81
These Yutak umiaks will sail into
one of the western ports

travellers along the western coast tell tales
of Yutak who without invitation join Talireans around
a campfire

shouldn't all these be eastern/east ?

Also, In book 1 in the description of Talingarde at the end of the book you talk about it being part of an archipelago.
On the map there are only 2 islands (English isn't my mother tongue so may be archipelago starts at 2 islands but my idea is that it would mean many islands).
Or may be you mean that there are many, many more islands which are not on the map?

Talingarde is an archipelago consisting of more than
a hundred islands. This archipelago may be divided into
six regions each with their own unique character: The
Cambrian Ports, The Heartland, the Borderlands, the
Caer Bryr, the Savage North and the Land of the Yutak.

I understand the statement but is it Talingarde or the archipelago made of 6 regions.

Again the aim is not to blame you for errors but to help improve the text.
If I misunderstood or made an error I am truly sorry. English isn't my mother tongue.

"Me frrrrench, me eat garlic and frogs, wear beret and all the stereotypes. me stoopid." ^^

Shisumo wrote:

If the Animal Archive is "animal companions for everybody," here's hoping this is something similar with regard to trapfinding...

We can only hope. Keeping the disarming of magical traps to characters with a specific class feature is, in my opinion, one of the few faulty mechanics that Pathfinder decided to keep from 3.5.

ANyone can detect and disarm standard traps.

so please don't WoWerize pathfinder.

For me it's too many books. Definitely.

That means too many rules to know, too much money to spend, too many spells/feats/archetypes/races...

Some are very good, some are ...well not so useful IMO.

See I only have a limited amount of time to read and learn all these (Family, job and other leisures take also their toll).

So I don't want to have books bloat.

Fluff yeah ... more rules, more rulebook to look into during games ? Naaaah

I already have another table beside my gaming table where i put all the books to refer to during games ... Please no more rulebooks...

I agree. Where is seduction an act of chaos ?

Why couldn't paladins be lustful (not breaking any laws of course)?

It's more of a christian heritage.

Now it's all a matter of personal preference anyway. IF DM agrees then it's all fine.
I would agree... Just to change from the usual Paladin cliche.