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I have a few pages in my little black book of gaming positively brimming with character ideas.

Including mechanical ideas (like, details of classes and feat combinations) and also personality ideas, like the grizzled veteran who just wants to save the world so he can get back to his wife and kids (cliche is always the best :P )

Edit: Forgot to mention, i always add to the ideas when i think up new cool stuff i'd like to try.

For the building the character part, i usually jot down the basic details of where i want it to go, and then build the character in hero lab. I then copy it to a pencil and paper character sheet for easy tracking and editing :)

Go for a hardcore fighter, the battle grizzled veteran adventurer who has seen far too many things a human should see. He could easily split a simple mortal in half with just his dagger, but then who would bring him his ale?

In Australia, we only recently (in the last 2-3 years) started rolling out the Visa and Mastercard Debit cards. Most of the cards I see now are visa or mastercard, however there are a few out there that don't have a symbol.

It's not necessarily a credit card, but can be used as one.

No matter how you use it, as a debit or credit card, it still takes funds out of your bank.

The only difference is that with credit, it can take a few days to process.

Wow DGRM44, that is a bit of an uncalled for underhand comment. You basically just called anyone who doesn't hold the same opinion as you, poor and paraded yourself around like a peacock.

First off, selling a bundle containing every pdf for $500 would be roughly a 75% discount, which is a huge slap in the face for subscribers, who subscribe to get that discount they get.

Then, each year that bundle would need to get more expensive for first time buyers, i'd estimate roughly $150 a year, or else that discount just keeps increasing. When should it end?

And I have a feeling it would have an effect on their subscriber base, as it would be dumb to not pick the bundle option over subscribing. As many people have stated in this thread, subscribers don't necessarily get their packages before non-subscribers. So what would be the point?

I'm getting the feeling you're feeling and acting a bit scorned for us shooting down your idea...

For Paizo to adopt the Business Model you are proposing, DGRM44, they would need to restructure their current business model entirely, as pointed out by the posters above me.

Other companies that don't generally have as large a product base as Paizo, i'd imagine.

I can't imagine Paizo selling a bundle of every PDF released for 80% off. They would be losing a ridiculous amount of money by doing that.

Well Cori, it's not too bad.

As a rough estimate, for every single physcial book released, you would have paid;

$3052

This is if you purchased off the Paizo store, and not at a local FLGS that marks up prices.

That's just for the PDFs, too Elamdri.

Imagine the cost for buying each and every physical book :P

Based on your numbers above, Kthulhu, if Paizo were to add a 30% discount for purchasing it all in one bundle, it'd still cost $1827, which is a huge huge spend!

Imagine trying to download each PDF individually too -.-

Damn you guys, I was just counting all that too!! Beat me to it by a long shot :P

Okay, I've just had a look.

There are currently 11 adventure paths currently out, with 6 books a piece.

At 13.99 a pop, that'd be roughly $924.

Lets say Paizo offers a 30% discount for bulk purchasing every PDF they have released.

That would be a discount of roughly $277, meaning you'd be paying $647 for just the APs.

That's about 10 bucks a pdf at the moment.

This is just for the APs unfortunately. Imagine if you added the hundred or so other PDFs they have released.

It just wouldn't be a viable option.

Here's an example of typical Queensland weather (queenslander here)

Over the weekend, specifically, on Sunday.

We had a huge thunder and lightning storm in the morning, finished up around 11.

Then, by 12, everything was hot and bothery and dry.

Then in the afternoon, starting at like 4pm, we had a huge storm, thunder lightning and golfball sized hail.

All in one day!

The GM could always make up an awesome quest line involving the collection of various rare and dangerous herbs for a very eccentric hermit to create a cure out of.

I don't know how viable this would be in other countries, but this is what I do in Australia, when using my debit card (i do have a CC though).

I have a separate sub-account set up under my main bank account, which is linked to a debit visa card, when I want to use this card to purchase something online, I simply need to transfer money between my account.

Having it set up this way means if someone does get access to my debit visa card details, they can't go spending all my money - just what is currently in there.

I tend to align them how I want/need, and then use a bit of sticky tape on the bottom to link each piece together.

helps keep them together and stop them from moving with the mini's too much.

Bit of a slight oriental theme with my party - no idea why though! Two new pathfinder players, must have taken a liking to the alternate oriental classes in UC.

We have:

Neo Wu - Half-elf Samurai
Pyrith Fox - Elf Ninja
Jival - Half-elf Magus
Cristoph - Human Priest (3rd party class, can be found on d20pfsrd)
Marra - Halfing Sorcerer

So far we have had 1 quite short session, introduced each other, did the burial stuff, found the hidden crypt, and when we left off they had just gotten caught.

Okay, next time you play tell your GM you want your character to move three times their movement speed and then make a full-attack. When he/she says you can't do that, just say, "sure I can, none of these rules are binding."

Well in that example, what if the GM says "Sure thing, everyone can now move at 3 times the speed listed on their sheets and make a full attack action in the same round".

I have to side with TriOmega here

Also please note you don't get a +1 to Weapon Damage with Weapon Focus. It only affects attack rolls.

Levels don't necessarily indicate age, you can start as a 80 year old level one character, but you take the physical penalties as well as the mental bonuses.

There's no way around this unfortunately as that would be ridiculously unbalanced.

Edit: Keep in mind that someone with an 18 in a stat is considered quite skilled in that stat.

Your typical NPC will have between a 9 and an 11 in most stats.

Therefore, an 18 or 20 in Wisdom would give your character Wisdom beyond his age, in theory. It depends on how you play him :)

Whats wrong with uploading it to Dropbox/Google Drive or imgur or some other image storing website and linking to it here?

Pledged for two decks :) These look really awesome, can't wait to play with them.

I have a bit of gaming ADD, I'm the GM for my group, and we have yet to finish an adventure path.

We usually get to the end of the first book before I lose interest and start trying to get them to play either a different AP or different RPG system.

So far we have completed book 1 of the following APs:
Rise of the Runelords
Serpents Skull
Skull & Shackles
Kingmaker
Second Darkness

We are just starting Carrion Crown, and I have pledged to the group that we WILL finish this game.

I never really had a problem with the Monk I played recently, It wasn't over powered nor under powered. I may not have output the same level of damage as the rogue or fighter, but I did my own part in combat, keeping enemies corralled and s*&%.

It does make it seem like an adventure set of some description.

"Tales from Wilderland contains 7 adventure scenarios for The One Ring"

Bit confusing!

Odea, you're right, that is a strange feat that does nothing.

The character is lying on the ground. A prone attacker has a –4 penalty on melee attack rolls and cannot use a ranged weapon (except for a crossbow). A prone defender gains a +4 bonus to Armor Class against ranged attacks, but takes a –4 penalty to AC against melee attacks.

Standing up is a move-equivalent action that provokes an attack of opportunity.

I have a drow character playing in my campaign.

I decided that because he was raised by elves who didn't really know any different, and that it was far enough away from the events in Second Darkness, he could play the Drow.

I ruled that the drow wouldn't know the normal drow proficiencies, and would have the elven proficiencies, but keeps his inherent spells.

He still has his inherent evil-ness, but he doesn't realise it yet.

He finds himself trying to "do good", but accidentally "doing evil".

For example, pushing a burning character off the side of the ship and into shark infested waters to put them out.

I got my players to use 2d6+6.

Ended up with tons of fairly epic stats.

They'll definitely need them, after I've finished making everything more difficult :P

I ran our first foray into the Skull and Shackles adventure path this weekend. It went very well!

Characters:
Elven Oracle (Haunted, Waves)
Human Rogue (Pirate Archetype)
Drow Rogue (Thinks he is a wizard)
Human Alchemist
Human Barbarian

Overall, this has to be the best adventure path I've played or ran. Can't wait for more!

I'll be starting this AP pretty soon.

One of my players is going to be playing a "Grenadier" Alchemist. Throwing bombs and such.

From the description in book 1 of the AP, it seems like it's fairly difficult for a ship to catch on fire. The ship would be constantly covered in sea spray / water splashing up from the sides. So the wood would constantly be wet.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how it works out.

I imagine the alchemist using his bomb making skills to modify siege weapons later on in the game.

I'll pop back in after our first game to let you all know how it went.

Is this now available? I'd like to purchase a physical copy of this.

Cool, no worries.

My last sorc was a firey blaster type, i might look into it and see if anything else catches my eye.

Any idea when you're thinking of starting this?

I'd love to register my interest if it's still going?

I'm heavily leaning towards a spell caster of some description.

Sorcerer, Druid or something else depending...

I'd give Paizo my entire wallet if they brought out a special edition of the core rulebook that was bound in black leather with real metal hinges.

I have the old special edition 3.5 DM guide that was bound in a faux leathery type substance - very awesome book.

Geez! $780US for the Hayato artwork! This is awesome guys.

This is one of the reasons why I consider Paizo to be the best company in the world!

You chose to focus on mental type abilities which was an interesting idea. I don't know what "Read the Ripples" does. In combat, isn't my surface thought going to be "try not to die?" In a social situation, won't my surface thoughts be too complex to distill into anything useful? If you meant this to be "detect lying", you should have just used that instead. Also, how long does it last? Forever?

Just wanted to point out that there is a spell that does exactly this; Detect Thoughts, which allows you to detect surface thoughts, yet the spell doesn't elaborate as to what "Surface Thoughts" entails - I'd assume that the contestant was thinking of this spell when creating this ability.

I like this entry, it's nice to see a Monk with some non-combat abilities.

I usually assemble before painting.

Although i do leave the heads off (if already seperate) to paint seperately, as i find it easier to paint.

I'd say that as it's a wall of -force-, trying to put your hand on the side, run into it, etc would simply push you to either side, as it uses force.

Depends, are you making the Bow for yourself? Is it a magic item for a campaign?

Is it something you want to purchase?

Wow that seems a bit dodgy - they don't let you delete the content you posted, cause they want to make money off it..

Doesn't this go against the OGL or something? You can use it so long as it isn't used for profit. Sounds to me as if this Wikia website is using it for profit..

Although i'm not a law student, so i don't know exactly!

Brisbane gamer here - i know of at least one other person on these forums who's in brisbane too - i run pathfinder and 3.5 for about 7 people off and on

I don't think you would be able to.

Two Weapon Fighting takes a full round action, and the Spell Combat description specifies it as a standard action i believe.

Thus, you can't take a Full Round Action and a Standard Action in the same round.

Oh okay then, i found that writing in the light pencil i like to use made it impossible to read the text unless i was looking straight onto the sheet.

So i've used a pdf editing program to erase the text in areas where i write numbers down.

I really like the look of these sheets, can't wait to use it in my next game.

Just wanted to elaborate on my previous question

On the character sheets, where ever there is a box to input an ability modifier, instead of being a blank box, the ability's shortened name is there (str, dex, etc). Having that there makes this very hard to use, asi can't write over the top of the text without it looking confusing.

Just wondering if this is a design feature, or if i have done something wrong?

It's on ther CMB and CMD boxes as well, stopping you from writing down the sum of your CMB and CMD bonuses.

I'm not sure if i'm doing something wrong here, but under the skills and the abilities, where it says "ability" modifier", the abbreviation of the ability name is there, instead of a blank box?

This makes it hard to write in the ability modifier, is it supposed to be like this?

I'd like to see some variant Summoner, Alchemist, Oracle, Inquisitor, Cavalier and Witches ;)

Specificially, a summoner whos eidoleon comes from the abyss, not an alien...
A cavalier who specialises in helping his team mates even more.
Some new curses for the Oracle, some new alchemist trait things too! :D