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With lots of players citing "Rules Bloat" our attendance at our normal PFS games seemed to be declining over the past two years. Our multiple table events often condensing down to a single table or barely scraping by with two. Sure, some days it still worked out no problem, but it seemed the days of 4 table Sundays were gone.

A few weeks ago, we started running a Core table on an off night, and now we've already outgrown one venue and moved to another, so we can have multiple tables. New players who were were not part of the previous group started showing up and brining their friends with the barrier to entry gone. Now these players have also started attending regular games, not just Core ones.

Many of us are optimizers. Many of us can use the books with each other in ways that make the character classes sing with overpowered auras of destruction, but Core provides a unique challenge that we almost universally enjoy. It makes us approach missions with some thought and really can test our chops as players.

Sure we miss a few rules here and there, but Core has done wonders for our player base and revitalized the game for many of us. Way to go with this.

Would love to see more Core oriented stuff!

Having played a fair number of scenarios and recently going through EoT, I have begun to wonder, what does an organization like the Pathfinder Society need with the amount of surveillance, secrecy, and extreme security they have?

For an organization that touts their archaeological exploits and hoards things like pottery shards, they have an awful lot of extra security and ways to keep very very close eyes on members. We know they collect some magic items, and have access to a few artifacts (Hao Jin Tapestry etc), but even those things aren't near justification for the level of security and secrecy the Decemvirate keep.

We all know the Decemvirate are a bunch of cagey, secret folks who wear masks and shouldn't even know who each other are. Why is that even a concern for a group who's primary motto amongst it's members is "Explore, Report, Cooperate?"

Is the society really run by some malevolent external force that wishes to remain anonymous? Are members of the Decemvirate possessed by devils, or devils themselves in humanoid form? I certainly wouldn't be surprised if at least on the Venture-Captain level, there is some of this. It would certainly explain Sheila Heidmarch better if she were some kind of disguised devil.

Bottom line, it seems the leadership of the Pathfinder Society (In Game of course) is lying to its members about who they are and what their purpose is...to what end? It certainly makes the Aspis Consortium look good. At least they are honest in saying they just want these artifacts for personal gain.

Any thoughts on the matter?

This was a rule in 3.5, but for some reason I didn't find it in PF, so if you could direct me I'd be most appreciative.

You are standing directly in front of a dragon, in melee combat. The Dragon goes full attack and is attacking you with its claws, wings and bite.

Can this dragon hit you with its tail without penalty in addition to its other attacks?

Seems a little goofy if it can, as it is a rear facing attack.

Just a quick question.

Would someone under the spell "Statue" be effected by Horrid Wilting? In this sense, I mean someone who is actively in statue form at the time the spell is cast.

The spell states it turns a creature to solid stone. Solid Stone has no water to evaporate from Horrid Wilting.

What it doesn't say is that it changes your creature type or grants any immunities beyond hardness 8.

I just recently got a really cool figure, and I was working on making a character to match it. The figure has 2 warhammers and chain mail armor.

I was thinking he would make a really cool looking cleric of Torag with the prof in warhammers, but am having trouble getting it done. Ultimately, I would like to see a cleric who can sub in as fighter-lite (Crusader archetype came to mind) but I'm having trouble with the feats and ability point array.

I thought about going fighter with it, but with the way that damage reduction works, the character may be gimped in damage delivery. I also toyed with the idea of dipping into Ranger to get the combat style. Both of these options dig into the bursting and spellcasting abilities though heavier than taking an archetype.

Any advice out there to make something like this work?