Hello Paizo staff,
I've made this order more than one month ago and I have no news.
Is there a problem with it ?
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Hello Paizo, I made this order more than 1 month ago and still haven't received anything. Can you tell me what's the situation on it ?
Hello Paizo. I made this order the 06 December and it is still pending. Is there a problem with it ?
Hello, I've received my order today and there are some problems with it : - the Pathfinder Battles—Rusty Dragon Inn: Feiya, Human Witch is missing. - in Pathfinder Battles: Iconic Heroes Set #3, the Padrig mini is damaged (picture). - the Pathfinder Battles: Iconic Heroes Set #2 is damaged, at least one mini (Merisiel) is destroyed (picture).
I have little question about Pitax : In the Guide of the River Kingdoms, the Pitax description tells that the captain of the guard is Irsei Caelysse, captain of the guard (NG male elf ranger 7). In War of the River Kings, the article about the city of Pitax doesn't list Irsei Caelysse as a member of the government. Is there an official source telling us what he became ? Is he dead, imprisoned, in exile ?
Hello, I have a question about the barbarian's rage power Superstition. Superstition (Ex): The barbarian gains a +2 morale bonus on saving throws made to resist spells, supernatural abilities, and spell-like abilities. This bonus increases by +1 for every 4 levels the barbarian has attained. While raging, the barbarian cannot be a willing target of any spell and must make saving throws to resist all spells, even those cast by allies. Cure spells have a Saving Throw line saying : Will half (harmless); see text. Undeads can make a Will Save to reduce the damage from positive energy, but usually the word harmless means that anyone can attempt a save to reduce/avoid the effects of a spell. So when a barbarian is raging with his Superstition power and a cleric tries to heal him with a Cure spell, does he have to make a save (and possibly get less healing) ??
Here is my opinion on the alpha rules : Races : All the races are stronger, I'm not sure that it was necessary. I like the renaming of the different bonus, and the weapon familiarities. The new rule on favored classes is a real improvment. Dwarves : they gained little things, only the +2 wisdom is significant ; they are one of the losing races in these rules.
I don't think it is necessary to give too much to the races : the additionnal +2 bonus are a little bit too much for me (except for the half-elf). The gnome need to be deeply changed, humans, elves, dwarves and halflings are good as they are, half-orcs are fine without the intelligence penalty. Classes : First, I want to tell you that the three XP charts (slow, medium, and fast) are an excellent rule !! More feats, why not ? I will talk about the skills later. The unification of BAB and Hit Dice is good but sould be D6 for medium BAB progression and D4 for slow BAB progression. The options for the starting Hps are good ideas to avoid the ON/OFF aspect of first level. All the classes are stronger but here also, this is not even between them : fighter gain a little, rogue, cleric and wizard gain a lot. Cleric : not a lot of changes except Domain powers and Orisons. Orisons are ok, I'll talk of Domain power later. Fighter : still a lot of feats, and now armor specialization. The weapons group are interesting but the class is still the poorest of all. Rogue : first, sneak attack works against any (almost) foe, why not ? But that's already a big improvement, I'm not sure that the class needed anything else.
Wizard : Cantrips at will, why not. I'll talk of School Powers in the Magic chapter. All the classes gained, but the ones who gained more were already the more powerful (casters) or the more fun (rogue), I think this is one of the major problems of the alpha rules. Skills : The new skills system is right between 3.5 and 4th edition. I don't know what to think about it : I really liked skill points, but it's true that it was too hard for some classes to put points in essential skills, like Spot or Listen. The new system is fine on this aspect : any class can decide to train in Perception, and there is enough differences between a trained class skill and a trained cross class skill to keep class skill significant. Moreover, the gain of new skills is a good thing. One little thing to do could be to go deeper in the fusion of skills. A little concern is that it is really too good to take a first level of rogue and then change to the class you want to play. Appraise to identify a magic item is a wonderful idea (but the Identify spell should be removed). I'm not very fond of Sense Motive merge in Deception, but that's not a major thing. Fly is a good idea but it will be weird to see a 1st level character trained in this skill. Linguistics is nice, I like the way you can learn new languages now !!! The merge of Concentration and Spellcraft is excellent to. Feats & Combat : Well let's talk of combat first : I'm not sure the new rules fo cover were necessary. I know that the 3.5 rules for this are not really good but the good thing is that they are fast and intuitive, that is not really the case with the new rules. The CMB is a very good idea (the greatest of the alpha), in itself ; but I have a little concern about how it is used. All the feats about the combat maneuvers have been standardized, and the way you use Combat Maneuvers too and that's a huge improvement. My concern is about Disarm : a fighter can't use his Weapon Focus feat, or Weapon Training to resist in a better way to a Disarm attempt against him ??? I think that Disarm shouldn't use the CMB, just like the Feint maneuver and stay like in the 3.5 an opposed attack roll. Most of the feat changes are good : I like the new Poser Attack. The obligation to use some feats if you have used one of the prerequisite feat the round before is an interesting rule but it needs clearier explanations for some feat trees, like Dodge/Mobility/Spring Attack : does the new rules mean that you can use Spring Attack only one every 3 rounds ?? The new turning rules are not bad but it shouldn't force undeads to flee the cleric, it should just prevent them from approaching you. Magic : School & Domain Powers are working in the same way or nearly, that's a nice idea but they are really too strong, or wizard & clerics should have less spells per day. The correction on spells are not he one I was waiting for : we need rules to avoid the Scry/Buff/Teleport syndrom, and kill all the spells that overpass skills : Commune, Speak with Dead, all the Detect spells are the most obvious. Moreover, Make Whole shouldn't restore magical abilities : characters must be able to lose some magical items from time to time, and sundering them is the easiest way. The last chapter on Building Encounters and XP is an interesting one. As a conclusion, he is what I think of the alpha rules : the intentions are really good but too often badly done. Too many times, it ends up with some power creep for the characters or a complexification of rules. Moreover, at the exception of the Combat Maneuver Value, it does solve the problmes of 3.5 edition. |