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Fighters are a stone groove.

Ive run a game where 3 Players were all playing Fighters, each with a different "feel". One was a mounted combat specialist, one was an archer, and one was a front-line fighter who could both hold the line and dish it out.

We all had a fantastic time!

Im currently playing a Half Elven Fighter 4/Rogue 1 who acts as a "commando", sneaking around in Field Plate! Its fantastic :D

Ive always loved Fighters, Rangers, and Paladins. Pathfinder has made them all even better!

My game group is using a 35 point buy-in.

Back in the day, I was gaming with a guy new to D&D. He had borrowed some dice from his older brother, and had me roll a character using straight 3d6, put 'em where they fall.

Two things happened:

First, I rolled five 18's and one 17 (in Wisdom). Derek (the GM) was watching me the whole time, and both of us were gobsmacked!

Second, because I was starting at 1st level, and because Derek was new to DM'ing, I went into a dungeon alone. First encounter; a giant tick, which dropped onto my character's back, and basically sucked him dry, because he couldnt reach it.

So those awesome, god-like stats really availed me nothing.

Later, Derek found out that the dice he had borrowed from his brother were HEAVILY loaded! ;D

Ive been wondering about that, myself. Mendev is NOT situated ideally to be the nation guarding the rest of the civilized world from the hordes of demons issuing from the World Wound. In fact, its in a really -bad- position to try to do that. So I suppose most of the heavy lifting is being done by the Wardstones.

Do we have any mention of how far apart the Wardstones are?

A lot of what you get in Pathfinder depends on what you want.

Im also running a Fighter/Rogue, who is about 5th Level. But my character started out as a Half Elf front-line Fighter, and acquired a Rogue level as a result of having had to sneak around a lot during a particular adventure.

Now I have the highest Stealth check in the party; its a +14 unarmored, or a +9 even when wearing my masterwork Field Plate. I have an armored Climb check of +4, and a +12 Perception check. The climb check isnt stellar, but its sufficient for going up and down embankments and other outdoor terrain, which is mostly what I wind up doing.

Basically, my character is now a kind of "Commando". I take point, I sneak quietly into unknown territory, listening for other people or Humanoids, while being -very- difficult to detect, myself. If I run into trouble, Ive got the attack and defense capability to get myself back to where my friends can back me up. I only have a 16 Strength, but I also have a 16 Dexterity. This makes me not as hard a hitter as I could be had I maximized my Str, but my Armor Class is outrageous, and I am extremely versatile. (My stats are Str 16, Dex 16, Con 18, Int 15, Wis 16, Cha 15)

Im guessing that this is -totally- unlike what you were shooting for. But I mention it simply as a demonstration that, in Pathfinder, many things are possible, even within the context of a particular Class combination. It all depends on what you want to do! :)

"The new deadly sins include polluting, genetic engineering, being obscenely rich, drug dealing, abortion, pedophilia and causing social injustice."

I agree that something the Pope says in a conversation is NOT the same as Church Cannon.

I begin to believe that -anything- a FOX News anchor says is NOT the same as the truth.

But even if it were...

Polluting: Ok, I can understand that this is a bad thing, in our current situation. But at what scale? Is throwing an apple core out the window "polluting"? Id say no, because its bio-degradable. What about throwing a plastic bottle out the window? Id say yes. But what about throwing a plastic bottle away in a trash can? While it isnt the same as dumping toxic chemicals into the water or burning huge mountains of coal or releasing flourocarbon emissions....that plastic bottle still ends up somewhere. Most likely in a landfill. So, is that "pollution"? If so, then what are we do do? Stop using anything plastic, ever?

Genetic Engineering: Ok here I have HUGE problems. About a quarter of the world's population goes to bed hungry EVERY DAY. People starve to death. And so far the BEST way to combat this is through genetic engineering. Despite what the whackadoos will have you believe, there is nothing "wrong" about genetically engineered grains. Humans have been enaging in genetic manipulation of animals and plants for millennia. Weve just had to do it the slow, inefficient way of using selective breeding, until recently. Now we can directly manipulate the genetic codes of plants to make them hardier, able to grow in areas where they wouldnt grow before. And what do we get? Ignorant people screaming about "Frankenfoods" and scaring the governments of third world nations through lies and misinformation, so much so that tons and tons of genetically engineered grains, which would feed the hungry and the poor, are quarantined and left to rot on the docks. And people die from hunger with their salvation in sight.

Which is the bigger sin? The creation of genetically manipulated food? Or the refusal to distribute that food, which results in hundreds of thousands of deaths?

Being obscenely rich: Pope Pot? Its Cardinal Kettle for you on line 2. The Catholic Church is one of the wealthiest institutions in the world, and it has gotten there by taking money from its "flock". Many of whom are poor and can ill afford it. Generousity is a virtue, I agree. But Pope Benedict has a lot of nerve on this one.

Drug dealing: In the context of illegal, harmful drugs, I have no problem with this one.

Abortion: I guess this one depends on where you fall on the issue. If you truly believe that life begins the minute the egg is fertilized, then I can see how aborting that egg would be a sin. But thats because its -already- a sin to take a life. So this is an unneccessary addition. However, that means that you also have to decide how you feel about the medical fact that one third of all pregnancies spontaneously self-abort.

If you believe that "life" begins with the first heart-beat, then to you, aborting before the heart is formed would not be a "sin". Likewise if your metric is the first brainwave. The idea that a child is "alive" the moment the egg is fertilized is a fairly recent one, especially for the Catholic Church, which used to hold that a child was not "alive" until it took its first breath. So this one seems mostly motivated by politics, to me.

Pedophilia: The definition of the "appropriate" age has changed over the years. But Ill agree with the basic idea that if youre forcing yourself on someone else, -especially- someone who is too young to understand what youre doing, then you should probably take a pitchfork in the backside and roast for a few millennia.

Causing social injustice: Like stockpiling billions of dollars of treasure in your vaults, purchased with the money that the faithful gave to help the poor? Like supporting the practice of slavery? Like telling people that condoms are sinful, and thus contributing to the spread of AIDS? Like denying the Holocaust? Like hunting down and executing people for the "crime" of disagreeing with you over what kind of invisible man lives in the sky, and calling these things "Crusades" and "Inquisitions"? Like promoting a culture of shame and self-loathing and claiming that only through YOU can people be saved from an eternity of suffering after they die?

Yeah, soemone needs to stop that kind of thing from happening. Right now.

As far as I know, the "First Peoples" didnt displace anyone when they arrived in the Americas. Humans hadnt ranged that far yet. They were the first.

Hence the name ;)

Unless we are going to advocate that the Americas be returned to the three-toed giant ground sloths......

Yup.

That looks like a great Trait!

In the game Im playing in, the GM gave Half Orcs a "Fast Charge" ability, allowing them to add 10 feet of movement on a Charge. They also have a recovery ability that allows them, when they are Fatigued, to make a Fort Save DC 20 to recover from the Fatigued condition.

Im going to ask the GM if he'd be willing to consider either adding this to Half Orcs, or allowing it to be bought as a Racial Feat or something.

Theres a debate going on in my game group regarding Magic Armor.

The rulebook states "When an article of magic clothing or jewelry is discovered, most of the time size shouldnt be an issue. Many magic garments are made to be easily adjustible, or they adjsut themselves magically to the wearer. Size should not keep characters of various sizes from usign magic items".

Then it gives the percent chances of armor being various Sizes (as in Small, Medium, large, etc). This indicates that magic armor does not cross the Size boundaries (a Small suit of magic studdel leather is always going to be Small).

The problem is this; the one person in the group who has decided that armor is not a "garment", and does not magically re-size itself to a new wearer, also happens to be the guy who is GM'ing the current game. He has said that he thinks the wording is unclear, and is willing to go with an official ruling one way or the other on this.

So, can someone please give us an official ruling on this: Is armor a "garment" for the purposes of magical re-sizing, and does it re-size to fit a wearer comfortably who is of a significantly different build than the original wearer, within the same game-mechanical Size category.

In other words, if a Medium sized male Human Fighter character who is built like The Rock ( six foot four, 250 pounds or so)has some magic armor built for himself, if it is later handed to his friend the Medium-sized Elf Paladin who looks like Jennifer Love Hewitt(five foot two, 115 pounds or so), does it resize to fit her properly? Or does it stay far too large for her to even get buckled into, and would it then have to be resized by taking it to a blacksmith (which seems to me would run the risk of ruining the enchantments on it).