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I'm enjoying Obsidian Portal. Here's what I've been doing with it.

The sale has begun! Currently available at the Spes Magna Store are these Pathfinder-compatible PDF products:

Fencing & Firearms
A retooling of the combat rules designed to speed up play, keep players involved even when it's not their turn, and include blackpowder weapons alongside medieval-style arms in a way that puts a priority on playability.

Gazae et Monstri
Six magic items and five monsters drawn from Greek and Roman myth. Now your players can quest for Pandora's box and battle the mighty Antaeus.

Latina Facta & Versatile Performance Redux
Two products in one! Latina Facta presents 15 new feats based on Latin phrases. Versatile Performance Redux includes a new Versatile Performance class feature for bards that draws upon terminology related to acting, dance, and music. Caveat: You can currently this one for free at this Free Product Offer page.

Making Craft Work
Do you wish the rules for the Craft skill made sense? Do you wish it were possible to craft equipment and still have time to adventure? Well, your wishes are our commands! This PDF includes a new system for the Craft skill that uses complexity rather than price to determine how long it takes to complete an item.

Rewarding Roleplaying
This PDF links a robust Action Point system to player-defined character traits and goals. Your players work with you to determine the criteria by which their roleplaying will be rewarded, and you hand out the Action Points when the criteria are met.

"Munchkin" is a just a perjorative that really means, "You play the game in a way inferior to mine; that makes me better than you."

Anyone under, say, 9th level has no idea the planes even exist, nor what happens after death.

1st-level with expert with 1 rank in both Knowledge (planes) and Knowledge (religion). Make him human, give him a 15 Int and Skill Focus in both aforesaid Knowledge skills. That gives him a +9 bonus with both skills, which ought to be more than sufficient to put to bed your wild generalization.

Since it was brought up, in the real world, throughout much of human history, some philosophers have become quite famous and successful. To say that "in this world don't make a strong living at philosophy" is likewise a broad generalization.

The Profession skill clearly states, "You can earn half your Profession check result in gold pieces per week of dedicated work."

If a player wants his PC to spend skill points on Profession (philosopher) and has the time to invest in an appropriate place to make the money, there's no good reason to not let him.

Starting this Wednesday, 16 June, Spes Magna Games kicks off our first ever Father's Day sale! All our products are going on sale for 25% off the regular price.

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WNIAA has made the move to Obsidian Portal. Here're the links for the first two adventure logs:

* Session 1: A Seriously Wrong Turn
* Session 2: In Search of Joncus

It's doubtful this would require a constitutional amendment. Naturalization requirements are, however, set by Congress, not by individual states. The 14th Amendment is widely interpreted to confer citizenship upon anyone born in the U.S., but this isn't necessarily so due to the "jurisdiction" clause. One could argue that an undocumented immigrant and her child are not subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. It would be a hard sell, and, regardless, such legislation is beyond the purview of the individual states.

Of course, the U.S. Congress won't take up this sort of challenge, especially since the Democratic majority-on-its-way-out hopes to continue to capitalize on voter fraud via undocumented immigrants hitting the polls.

:p

Bacon done Chuck Norris style is hard to find. Bacon and chocolate syrup for a dipping sauce is good eating. Also, don't forget the praline bacon.

Chuck Norris is not only an expert martial artist. He's also an accomplished mathematician. Chuck Norris counted to infinity...twice. He can also divide by zero.

What's more, Chuck's good friend Mr. T. invented calculus in order to determine the number of fools he's had to pity.

The roleplaying version doesn't do crosbows justice. But that's another topic.

Given that the crossbow was generally inferior to the longbow, it seems the game got it about right.

Chuck Norris is awesome because he's so tough. For example, when Chuck Norris wants an egg, he cracks open a chicken.

I dont like my games ultra deadly, and I dont like consistent failure when playing to my characters strengths. If either is the case I wont enjoy the game. And both are very much the case with a lack of the big six.

Not really, and I think Trailblazer's analysis of the math demonstrates this rather nicely. Of course, we're talking about big tables with lots of decimals that can't be translated into a forum with ease, so, you know, whatever. I'm easy. :)

I don't get you guys, everyone knows that historically the guy that can shoot fireballs from his hand is going to kill everyone :P

Not necessarily. As the Battle of Felldoom Hammer amply demonstrates, fireball-reliant troops are quickly overwhelmed by fire giant shocktroopers. Lord Havel's insistence of sticking to the Pryonic Conventions during that battle cost the Grunisians dearly.

You could also just take the "crunch" from an existing weapon and rename it. If a longsword (1H, d8, S, 19-20/x2) is balanced, then a warspear (1H, d8, P, 19-20/x2) would, presumably, be balanced as well.

Bing! Bing! We have a winnah!

The good folks at Bad Axe Games did a thorough statistical analysis of the Big 6 as they relate to 3.5 and determined that they aren't really as vital for success/balance as folks tend to think they are. The Big 6 can be removed from play entirely and replaced with Action Points and a few minor tweaks to the combat rules, all of which they laid out quite admirably in Trailblazer.

Unless I'm mistaken "this" as a noun refers to the previous "thing" discussed. This would mean that the previous sentence is being clarified by the second one. In other words, the sentence starting with "this" is the more accurate one in this case.

"This" is a demonstrative pronoun. Thus:

The alchemist can prepare and throw additional bombs as a full-round action if his base attack bonus is high enough to grant him additional attacks. This functions just like a full-attack with ranged weapon.

"This" refers to multiple bomb attacks granted by sufficiently high BAB. One could reasonably argue that, given sufficiently high BAB, certain feats and spells would then apply as per the normal limits for touch attacks.

Here's my response. Use it as you see fit. :)

"Yes, you can play an oracle. Now, regarding your list of demands...."

1) He would have to own a Handy Haversack, which is above the recommended gold amount for his 4th level character's magic item allotment.

"Not gonna happen."

2) He requests that he can pull out large throwing stones from the Haversack as a free action (not a move action as per the rules) so he can move and attack every round and so he can eventually throw multiple stones in a single round (once his base attack bonus grows).

"Take Quick Draw. Store your throwing stones in something other than the haversack, which you ain't gonna have anyways. Perhaps a special throwing stone bag? Otherwise, not gonna happen."

3) Anytime that a rule is not concretely defined, he will attempt to abuse the power to the Nth degree.

"Stop being obnoxious. The game is supposed to be fun, and you're killing the fun."

4) He will just use the free download and will not purchase the book for any additional information about the class that may further explain the rules behind the character.

"I'm not buying a book for you. We'll both work off the free download. Questions that aren't answered by that download will be answered by me, and those answers are the official ones even if you then go out and buy the book. Considering everything I just told you, do you still wanna play an oracle?"

Interesting... I may have to give this a try.

Please do. If there're any questions you have prior to purchase, feel free to fire them off.

Do you wish the rules for the Craft skill made sense? Do you wish it were possible to craft equipment and still have time to adventure? Well, your wishes are our commands!

Making Craft Work presents a new system for the Craft skill that uses complexity rather than price to determine how long it takes to finish an item. This is an 8-page, black-and-white PDF available for $0.99 US.

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I'm finally moving on up. Maybe not to a deluxe apartment in the sky, but still this is a step in the right direction. Thanks to the helpful Paizo people who continue to answer my questions.

And, of course, here's the link!