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Thanks for the answers (and sorry about the spoiler).

I have been reading over the PFS stuff and I am a bit confused about the rules regarding treasure. I understand that when players defeat an encounter anything not on the always available list shows up on the chronicle sheet for purchase. I also understand the rewards entry after each encounter gives money if the players beat the encounter. What I am a bit confused by are the "treasure" entries in some of the encounters where there is money or gems. What happens to those items if the creature is killed? As an example; in the First Step scenario "To Delve the Dungeon Deep"

I am not the monk's biggest fan. I hated them in 1st Ed D&D because I never could wrap my head around someone karate chopping a dragon. As I have gotten older and have watched the class evolve my opinion has changed a bit. I think they have become more interesting and I no longer hate them but I will probably never play one.

What exactly is the big deal about Cyanogen? Other than being one of various means to get root on your android phone?

I recently put Cyanogen on 2 old devices, my HTC Droid Eris and Samsung Fascinate. The Eris was a grossly underpowered and slow device and performs much better with Cyanogen. My Fascinate also seems to be performing much better.

As a previous poster noted, Cyanogen does not root your phone; you have to be rooted to install Cyanogen. Essentially, you are usually replacing a bloated OS with a more streamlined one, often improving performance.

HTC Thunderbolt for my phone, soon to change to the Galaxy 3. For my tablet I use an Acer Iconia A500.

Given the choice I would rather see apps geared towards tablets rather than phones.

I love Pathfinder and it has long since replaced Dungeons and Dragons as my default RPG. For as much as I love it I occasionally want to play other games and that got me thinking. How many of you would like to see Paizo branch out and make games other than Pathfinder? I would love to see an original sci-fi game, something not based on an existing property (no Star Trek or Star Wars). Also, a well done horror game would be welcome as well.

My favorite stuff came from Malhavoc Press. The Complete Book of Eldritch Might and the Arcana Unearthed/Evolved stuff. I really like they way Arcana Unearthed/Evolved handled psionics (spells with a psionic descriptor) so no new system to learn and magic.

RunebladeX, you hit the nail on the head.

Dwarven arcane casters, as an old school (first edition) AD&D player I have never adjusted to the idea that a dwarf can cast spells.

Grappling. While an improvement over 3.0/3.5 it is still more complicated than the rest of the combat system.

Monks. I have not been a fan of the class since 1st edition AD&D. The idea of someone karate chopping a dragon messes with my suspension of disbelief (irrational, I know).

I was just thinking how much I missed Dragon Magazine. I got some great stuff out of those magazines over the years. I wonder if Paizo has given any thought to publishing a magazine again to replace Dragon.

It makes me sad that my all time favorite monster, the Mind Flayer, was not part of the OGL/SRD so I will never see a Pathfinder version of it (this also holds true for the Beholder and Displacer Beast).

As far as those from Pathinder/Paizo goes: I love the Hound of Tindalos from Rise of the Runelords, the Marilith, Lich, Silver Dragon, and the Kobold.

No one plays Bards anyway.

Really? I do. After Ranger it is my favorite class. Granted I have not played the Pathfinder version yet but I don't see that changing much.

Myself and one of my players got a copy each printed in black and white and bound at Kinkos for about $25 - $30, I think. They won't last forever but they will last until the final rules are released.

I'd like to throw another side question in here...

Say, a Psionics book that presented rules for psionics that ditched the point-based system and did psionics in a method that dovetailed easier and more gracefully into the core rules (The goal here being to ease concerns that adding psionics to an existing campaign tends to break that campaign.)

Basically: would folk still be interested in books like these if we took pains to stay true to the expected flavor of the book but rebuilt the rules drastically? Or would that be a deal-breaker?

This is what I would like in a psionics book.

I am curious which of the four methods for starting hit points everyone is using is their Beta games. Personally, I am using the standard option (max hit points for 1st level plus Con modifier), which is the same way I have done it since 2nd Ed.

Has anyone tried this on the Sony digital reader? It looks like it is designed for non-DRM'd pdf's when I looked at their web site. If so I would buy one since I think this seems like a great idea.

I live in the Akron, OH area and we have two local gaming shops. Kenmore Komics, which has been around for quite some time, and while they have a large variety of different products from many companies as of today I did not see any Pathfinder stuff. Underhill Games is the new store in the area and while they don't have as large a variety (pretty much D&D only) the owner has started carrying Pathfinder and told me it sells very well for him and he plans on supporting the products.

Eventually I plan on going back and reading what others have posted here, it is late and I am too tired to read such a lengthy discussion. However, I did want to toss in my two cents.

What do psionics mean to me? Telepathy, telekinesis, mind control, mental attacks, the ability to affect the environment using the power of the mind. Honestly, if magic can do it then psionics probably can too.

I have tried psionics in 1st andd 2nd edition AD&D and while I thought it was a neat concept I always ended up steering away from them. The reason for that is simple, it was a whole new mechanic thrown into the game that was not needed and made it more complicated. More for me to learn and more for my players to learn.

The first and only time I saw a psionics system I liked was in Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed/Evolved. The system for psionics was the magic system, spells were just given a psionic template. It worked smoothly, was easy to learn and did not require a whole new system different from the rest of the game. I would not want to see concepts similar to laden spells and templates introduced to make it work because those things do not exist in the magic system Pathfinder currently has (they were great for Monte's game because the whole magic system used them). Psions would have their own "spell" list, and it should include spells that currently exist (much like the overlap that we currently have with arcane and divine casters having some spells in common) and some spells unique to their class.

To sum up... Make psionics work like the magic system and I will buy it and probably use it.

I had a player in my game (who hadn't really played before) who requested that he play a non-magical support character other than a rogue, and I got to thinking, the PRPG currently doesn't have an option for this (The marshal class from 3.5 wasn't very good, and I'm trying to run a PRPG playtest). As much as I hate 4e, this player probably would have liked the warlord character, or something similar to it, so I'm wondering if Paizo has any plans to add any new classes, such as this?

What do you think? what classes would you like to see?

I doubt the core Pathfinder rule book will add more classes, but if you are looking for other options the classes from Monte Cook's Acana Evolved are pretty balanced with Pathfinder and would give you more options.