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The sidebar of this page, accessible via the "Help" link at the top right corner of the website, seems to include links to the FAQs for the various PF1E books.

This is honestly the thing that I'm most disappointed by in 2E from what I've seen so far. I like many of the changes, and there's a few (like certain uses of resonance) that don't make sense to me but which I can deal with easily enough. This though? What happened to transforming into a cat (pest form) to do a bit of eavesdropping? What happened to summoning up an unseen servant to wait tables at a fancy dinner? These are commonplace uses of such spells. If power level is the concern, maybe they could require resources of some sort to maintain (maybe something like spending additional spell slots to extend the duration before it runs out), but simply hard-capping these sorts of spells to 1 minute makes them essentially useless outside of combat scenarios, which is the exact sort of issue D&D 4e had with its spellcasting. I mostly play low-combat games. Possession may have had a ridiculously long duration in 1E, but limiting it down to 1 minute (or even to the heightened 10 minutes) makes it useless for any of the interesting sorts of subterfuge it provided - the very sort of thing many people would think of when thinking about what such magic can do.

There seems to be an error in the PRD with the Reach entry for the Girallon:

Quote:

Space 10 ft.; Reach 19 ft.

Reach should be 10 ft. as per the errata document.

So all this time I've been measuring out 4/5ths of a square for nothing? Inconceivable!

When should we be seeing the Advanced Race Guide added to the PRD?

I only read the first book though.

Keep reading! The first book is actually the worst in the series, IMHO... and it is pretty good. That shows how amazing the rest of the series is.

To a previous poster: Roland-type characters can certainly be part of a group of characters... like a ka-tet.

* crosses fingers to hope that this "shadow race" is PC-usable without significant balance issues *

In addition to the two mentioned by the good captain, there's also City of Strangers which details the city of Kaer Maga. Like the other two, this one is a 64-page beauty.

This one is an absolute masterpiece! Highly recommended, it's a good read from cover to cover. Plus, the city itself seems like an excellent setting for an entire campaign!

I'd say that Second Darkness is much more tied to Golarion than Rise of the Runelords and Curse of the Crimson Throne... whereas the later two could probably be put in Faerun or Eberron without any real major changed to the setting, Second Darkness would likely cause a lot more trouble with (as Dennis da Ogre said)...

I think that if you're running a homebrew setting it might not be as hard to convert because, at least in my experience, homebrews aren't nearly as developed and detailed as published settings, but if you want to use an existing setting you'd have to modify a lot of stuff.

I guess it would be possible. You can substitute a regular card game for a tarot deck, and pathfinder 13 has rules to substitute the harrow deck with a regular card deck. Unfortunatly I'm not familiar enough with tarot cards to offer more help, but that would be my take.

Actually, I think that that is in Pathfinder #7 (In the Harrow article).