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Talented third party developers and a regular stream of new content from paizo keep me playing.
I genuinely only like maybe one in every twenty pieces of content, but there is so much of it im able to pick and choose something fun anyway. To me Pathfinder is the core of quantity over quality.

To take this in a slightly different direction, I have some questions for you guys from purely a site structure/community team standpoint:

- Does having more accessible and visible introductions to our new design/development staff sound like something you want? (Either through our blog via tags or maybe our contact page?) Is there something we can do to the forums themselves to make employees more visible?

- How would you prefer to see new FAQs communicated to the community? Is that in the form of a blog series, or is it a series of threads?

- Knowing how we've handled errata up until now, what would you change? If it's a blog, what general information would you like to see us include?

- Let's assume the PRD is a blank slate and we can have any unicorn we want, how would you invision errata being notated here?

- Are versioned PDFs a thing you'd use and want?

- Polls have been mentioned here, and in the past we've done a *couple* playtest surveys. If we did have polls, what do you invision them being used for? What kind of content justifies a poll versus a feedback thread in your mind?

I don't think Paizo employees fail to make themselves visible at all, they fail to see everyone else. It often feels like Paizo staff don't listen when there are frequent threads on rules questions that go unanswered for years or when classes and abilities are pointed out as too weak then recieve errata that makes them even worse. The Occult Adventures book feels like a great example of playtesters being ignored with the Kineticist still falling behind the infamous expert with a bow.

Paizo staff obviously shouldn't ruin their creative visions and just bow to everyone on these forums but it feels like they don't listen or maybe actively spite people who point out major design flaws in certain aspects of pathfinder material. If you want to make yourselves look better you should address this kind of thing and focus on listening, not talking.

I hope the monk doesn't lose his saves.

Of my players only one took the player's guide seriously and took a campaign trait or listened to the guide's advice on technology.
Bumbling through and pressing glowing buttons has gotten them through the first stage of the adventure quite effectively.

Aranna wrote:

Sexism is as much about the pose as it is about the outfit.

Quick disagreement here... I don't think images of sexualized characters are necessarily sexist. Sometimes it's just the author giving what his target audience wants to see.

Red Sonja and her chain mail bikini is no more sexist than, say, the dude from Twilight who can't keep his shirt on for more than half a second. It seems pretty natural that media targeted primarily to male audiences will include stuff that men like to see (including but not limited to... sexy women in skimpy outfits), while media media targeted primarily to female audiences will include stuff that women like to see (including but not limited to... sexy men in skimpy outfits).

There is nothing wrong with creating, drawing and/or enjoying sexy characters, even if they reach over-the-top levels of sexiness.

I've never understood why people complain when we objectify objects. Fictional characters are not people, art doesn't have a mind or a personality or a life story. Treating real people like slabs of meat may be wrong but there is hardly anything wrong with treating a drawing or a character played by an actor that way. I like to think i respect people and treat them well but i certainly don't extend the same privileges to drawings.