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So I'm wondering why exactly Ambassador Nor decided to publicly release the footage filmed by the bot on the driftrock? Is this covered in later books? I'm about to GM the follow up meeting between Nor and the PCs and I'm expecting this issue to be raised. So far I'm thinking of having him just brushing off their concerns with essentially a response of "my reasons are my own" but I would still like to know.
As per psionics I have never been a fan of them. Not in 1E, not ever. They just seem pointless. They come off like a lame magic system with a monk twist. "It's the internal power of the mind causing this effect" You mean the spell-like effect that seems to have the same source as all the various Ki powers of the Monk/Ninja etc? Wow. Awesome. Not a fan. As for PrCs they have been overdone and I wouldn't weep at all if they were left by the wayside. Same for new core classes for the most part. Some are nice (Knight, Beguiler, Archivist and Swashbuckler spring to mind) but with 3.X we got waaaaayyyy too many. The concept of class variants with Feats etc is pretty neat. Like making the Assassin a class variant of the Rogue or the Beguiler as a variant Sorcerer or the Archivist as a variant Bard. Kind of like how they did the variants in the 3E Unearthed Arcana which was IMO an outstanding product. Speaking of which using the Weapon Group Proficiencies that book had would be acceptable to me. Monster books get a huge thumbs up from me though. Not like the last couple of MMs from WotC were like though. Focus on diversity and quality rather than "look at this awesome collection of sick undead".
I'm telling ya Mazes and Monsters is the way to go. It just screams out "credibility".
Heck, why not call it Mazes and Monsters?
I didn't want this to get buried in another thread so I started a new one for this admittedly minor error. The skill Use Rope has been eliminated entirely in the Pathfinder rules which is fine by me. For the Escape Artist they have taken this into account with a new method used for determining how difficult a knot in a rope is to bypass. However under the rules for grappling hooks in the Equipment section it seems as though the rules were lifted straight from the 3.X PHB with no editing as it still requires a Use Rope check. Oh and also everyone else seems to get two Perception bonuses based on Keen Senses except for Halflings. Let them have a bonus to taste!!! Not really errata I know, I'm just a fan of making Halflings more like earlier editions of D&D's versions which is something that Pathfinder has addressed somewhat.
Yeah I liked that too. It was in keeping with my holdover from 1E view of Halflings as being gourmands/gourmets. I'm gonna houserule that. |
