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Hama wrote:

A special snowflake is also a player who knowingly designs a character so exotic and 'different' that it pretty much warrants extra special treatment by everyone he sees. And then has the gall to get insulted when guards hassle him more then the band of humans he comes in with, or when criminals wanna capture him and sell him to someone wealthy like an exotic animal..etc...

Gal? That's pretty hateful. Are you sure that's a safe way to think? I've always liked to try and help people fit their ideas in, so I might be a little biased, but I've never tried to sell someone off like an exotic animal, though I might consider it if that was their point. I certainly wouldn't say 'Gal' though. Gotta watch out for thought like those, they can bring some bad karma down and preconceived notions. Worse you might forget to talk to the players about the consequences of your actions and spring it on them to their shock and horror.

Err, Hama said 'gall' as in insolence, not 'gal' as in a derogatory term.

I think there's another angle to this issue. In other roleplaying games there tends to be a very narrow focus in terms of the types of characters people can play. For example I am running an L5R game, and in that no one would suggest playing anything other than a Samurai - because it's a game about playing Samurai.

However in D&D/PF that boundry doesn't exist. Perhaps in the past it was a game about playing 'Tolkien' races, but nowadays (especially if you throw the ARG into the mix) it is far broader than that. The issue is that some people still want a game that is about playing 'Tolkien' races in a pseudo Medieval fantasy setting while others want to explore the new options. When these two mindsets are sitting on opposite sides of the screen you can obviously get conflict.

I think it's an issue of communication. If the only description of the game beforehand was "Pathfinder Game" then of course there'll be disagreements when you show up with your Dwarf Fighter only to learn that the DM is running a Kitsune dominated us-vs-the-sharktopus setting. On the one hand the GM should be clear about the game he wants to run (it's kitsune vs the sharktopus) and on the other hand the players should say beforehand if they aren't interested in that idea. Then when the time comes to sit down and game everyone there is on the same page (or is absent if Kitsune vs the Sharktopus just wasn't for them).

What hey don't have listed here; hybrid Barbarian/Monk the Pro Wrestler Class!

In all seriousness though this looks to be a great book, I'm particularly excited about the Bloodrager!

Are you running them on the Fast Leveling track?

Sometimes you just suffer bad die rolls. You might want to give them the Optional Hero Points to improve survivability.

Me, I started everyone off at 2nd level and increased the CR of everything by one to compensate with XPs. I know some people start them at level 1... but give them maximum starting XPs, Con Bonus, and the Constitution itself for starting hit points (thus a 1st level Wizard with a Con of 12 would have 19 hit points).

If it's just hit points at fault... perhaps do the latter. It would increase the hit points of everyone by probably 10 to 16, and that improves survivability a bit.

Yeah, they're on the Fast Leveling track. We've started a system of awarding a hero point to the best roleplayer at the end of each game session.

Dice rolls definitely have something to do with it. I roll my dice in the open so they know I'm not making it up when I consistently roll 19s and 20s

I started them off at first level using the standard rules and let them either roll for hit points or take the average at subsequent levels. I could see bonus hit points helping a bit, would giving max hp at every level make them too durable?

56: The Handy Guide to Teleportation

This book purports to be a guide to learning to teleport at will "No prior magical expertise needed". Unfortunately, opening the last page of the book causes it to teleport to a new random location.

57: Courtier - My Life in High Society

A librarian's note inside the cover of this book explains that the author is unknown, however the book claims to be the account of a Dragon. The author claims to have used polymorph to assume the guide of various mortal races and infiltrate their courts - each time becoming a major power player, cementing his dynasty with wealth and marriage alliances before faking his death to travel elsewhere and start the process over again. Many of the families the author claims to have begun are extremely powerful today and this book would destroy their legitimacy if it were to be believed.

Tom Hanks
Ewan McGreggor
Samuel L. Jackson
Robert Downey Jr

***But I'd swap all of them for the chance to have Quentin Tarantino GM :D