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Wait, think about this...isn't Batman a Chaotic Good Paladin? *mind blown*

Batman is all alignments didn't you know?

A true paladin of freedom!

I don't understand what the fascination is with "creating a new ruleset" for a game we already know how to play, and who's innermost principle is imagination and the freedom to create and run the game as we see fit?

That said, Pathfinder is truly A+ top shelf stuff. It enables me to have the breadth and depth of a ruleset, writting with very smart adherance to the spirit of the game, and delivered in material parcels that drip with quality.

I represent someone who's played through AD&D, 3.5, and Pathfinder. Honestly, after 30 years of gaming and observing the evolution of the game, Pathfinder RPG is it's best incarnation.

As for the playtest, meh, I think it's a bit silly to put out a few pages of reminiscent AD&D stuff flavored with elements of other newer systems, and then ask the gaming populace to play test it. It doesn't seem like more than freshman work to me, nothing I cannot create on my own, at my own table. And, quite honestly, I don't sense that the designers over there at wizzys really understand what made the game great in the first place.

My 2 cp.
Pax

It's probably me because I've just taken a philosophy and sociology course back to back the previous two quarters and I get this whole phallocentricism feminist perspective as if Ayn Rand hooked up with Andrea Dworkin to come up with this to tap in a commentary about the 60's counter culture sexual revolution and how it concludes in a radical reinterpretation of the AIDS scare of the 80's by being able to dismantle the means of perpetuating the disease using the French Revolution as the background in a way that Robespierre never dreamed.

The unsheathed revolution. The Rod of Rebellion. Disease spreading swords. Incubators. The empowered antagonist in Zaszmarkana, Friar Sharpness, the unsheathed weapons becoming powerless at the adventure's end; I could go on.

Then again, my blood sugar may be low right now and I could be imagining things. I'm really hungry for a bratwurst right now, but I'll refrain from using a knife to spread the garnish. Better yet, I need to check if it was washed and sanitized. I'm bad about doing the dishes.

I want to like this. I really do. It's an interesting era and I know a couple of buds that appreciate Galt (especially this Commie Bolshevik Goblin that lurks around OTD), but I feel like I'm channeling Derrida to deconstruct what I'm reading here.

:(

"Hey dead person! I smell you're going to Elysium! You sure you want to be another you forever?

Taste what I have to sing for a moment. Wouldn't you like to be other things? You could be a tree. Or a song. Or a question. You could be all of those instead of just one thing.

Final states are boring-death. Why be only one pattern when you can be lessmoreother?

Go on if you wish. But if you grow weary, do come to the edge. We will be waiting to welcome you to ouryour wonders."