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Phonzy wrote:

Treantmonk wrote:

I think grappling is a good secondary focus for Monks (since they can qualify for the greater version - and grappling is something that can be initiated with a standard action - for when Flurry isn't an option), but Str based Monks are better at grappling too, and grappling is never going to be your regular tactic in combat...it's too situational.

I'm curious what people think of Improved/Greater Sunder... granted, Improved isn't available as a bonus feat, but it doesn't require Combat Expertise and it's flurryable, so... green choice?

A lot of people don't like sunder because you are destroying your loot! I know in 3.5 selling +1 long-swords was a big part of our income. Also: you can't sunder natural weapons so it becomes situational.

Now I think it is easier to repair objects/weapons in Pathfinder with spells, but I don't know if they are cost-effective or make sunder a better option or not.

Hmmm... given the campaign I'm currently playing in essentially has no loot, I think I'll keep it in mind, though I can definitely see how it would be a problem in most games.

I think grappling is a good secondary focus for Monks (since they can qualify for the greater version - and grappling is something that can be initiated with a standard action - for when Flurry isn't an option), but Str based Monks are better at grappling too, and grappling is never going to be your regular tactic in combat...it's too situational.

I'm curious what people think of Improved/Greater Sunder... granted, Improved isn't available as a bonus feat, but it doesn't require Combat Expertise and it's flurryable, so... green choice?

This thread is, as they say, useless without pics. ;)

Kirth Gersen wrote:

Set wrote:

Moro wrote:

For every person who dislikes AMiB's approach of blunt honesty, there's one who can't stand the blatant b&#%-kissing and unabashed fanboyism that you can find all over the boards.

When you are posting to the boards of a company that produces a product, you should not be surprised to find that some of your fellow posters actually *like* that product.

For the most part I like Paizo's stuff, but let's face it, a number of the Pathfinder rules (and especially some of the ones in the APG) are far from perfect -- and there's no reason to pretend that they are. Pointing out mechanical deficiencies is not automatically a blanket statement of dislike for the company. Indeed, it can be viewed as a very sincere liking and desire to assist in a meaningful way; real fans care enough to take the time and effort to spot problems and point them out, and at the end of the day, constructive criticism can be far more useful than simply saying "everything's great!" when in fact some things are, and other things not so much.

No dispute.

It's different, though, to sit there, smugly sniff one's own farts, and emulate the Simpson's comic book dork "worst rewlebook evurrr" on and on ad absurdeum until everybody involved wants to drink purple koolaid out of a dirty tub in Guyana just so it'll f*%!ing end.
In fact, f*%! it. No. It's the most perfect book ever written. It makes Encyclopedia Brittanica look like a damn bin of stained Hustlers.
It's utturly unassailable, and perfect in every way.
The whole concept of perfect was doing it wrong until this book was written to be perfect.
Denzel Washington carried it across post apocalyptic America and fought cannibal internet trolls to save this f*%!ing book.
You know what was in Marsalis Wallace's briefcase in Pulp Fiction? The APG.
Sam L Jackson quoted the elf varient rules out of it before he shot fools.
It. Is. Now. And. Forever. THE Book.

I'm beginning to wonder if we're all reading the same thread... where you're seeing "worst rulebook EVER" I'm seeing "the alchemist is really cool, but some tables with these giant blocks of text would be nice". @_@

Edit: granted, I'm just the new guy who only started checking out the forums about a week ago when he first heard about the APG, with only two posts to my name, but... yeah.

Owen K. C. Stephens wrote:

In case you come back and read this response, here's how it usually works: a business offers services or products for compensation. The model of how the compensation and work flow back and forth between business and customer varies. Try telling a contractor you'll pay him in full after he's finished remodeling your bathroom and you know if you like it, and see how that goes over.

Even Paizo often takes money before they do the work, it's called a pre-order.

And what we offered was more than a book, it was involvement in a process. Anyone who wished to would be able to buy in, and watch, comment, and participate in the creation of the book. That would, simply not be possible to offer after-the-fact, since you can't participate in a completed process. A thread hundreds of posts...

This is a false comparison, Owen. I've worked construction projects. Most of the money that gets paid up front goes to paying for supplies and the rest is a good faith payment to prove that the buyers can afford to get the work done. You don't need to give a good faith payment for a $50 book. And I know lots of companies do pre-orders, but that's also not the same thing because they aren't ever asking for more than the price of the book. There's no $500 pre-order option where $50 goes to the book and the rest is just a donation to the company that you love so much.

You're not familiar with Palladium, are you? :P