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I'm the only one with books at the meeting. The DM uses PDFs on his laptop.

I'll have to ask at my FLGS to see if there's a local Pathfinder Society.

The other night, one of the players brought in a new character since his had died during the previous meeting. When asked by the DM: "What traits do you have?", he had no idea what he was referring to.

This is a new group, with new people. I don't feel quite comfortable criticizing their characters, but I also don't feel confident that everyone created their character correctly. I wonder if he even knows about the Favored Class bonus? Its almost as if he didn't read the Core book and just made up a character from online resources, thinking that the rules were generally the same as 3.5. When I GM our next game, I'm going to require each player hand over their character sheet for my review.

Father Dale: Excellent suggestion. I offered to DM our Off-Week game for when other players cant make it to our Kingmaker campaign. Hopefully everyone will catch on to rules as they come up.

Those "house rules" sound like a nightmare.

Thanks for everyone's input. Its nice to see some civility on a forum in this day and age...

I talked with the GM and he has no problem with me looking up rules and raising related questions during his game.

Now that I think about it, our paladin never makes any ride checks when attacking from his light war horse.

jlighter: I met the DM for this Pathfinder game through the gaming connection forum here.

I've been through at least five groups since moving to the Orlando area. Most of which have been hack and slash, Monty Hall types (do people still use these terms?).

This current campaign has a lot of promise and I'd like to make it work. I'll talk with the GM and see how he feels about this issue. I certainly don't mind be the rule-looker-upper.

KenderKin:

Move through an enemy’s space = 5 + Opponent’s Combat Maneuver Defense

Dire Bear's CMD should be around 26, plus 5 = DC 31

A result of 18 on his acrobatics check should have failed.

I've tried out several gaming groups since moving to a new area, trying to find a group whose style matches my own but I'm having a great deal of trouble.

I've found that very few people are interested in following the rules as written in the Pathfinder Core book. I'm always the one who interjects something like (a recent example) "You can't drink an infusion and attack in the same turn", despite the DM and other player not being aware of the rule breaking.

Our last meeting, the DM wasnt looking up DCs for various skill checks, he'd just let it succeed if the result was particularly high. An example being one character's attempt at using an Acrobatics check when moving through an enemy occupied square. His result was an 18 and the DM deemed it a success despite neither of them checking what the target DC should be.

I only want a level playing field for everyone by following the rules. I'll look a rule up even if its not to our party's benefit. I'm unsure of how everyone else in the group feels about my actions but I don't think I want to play with a group that doesnt look up and follow the rules.

I understand that DMs make up DCs or rules on the fly (I've done it as a DM) and by doing so, the game doesn't get bogged down with constant rule consulting. Also, we all are new to Pathfinder and are still learning the changes, but it seems like I'm the only one concerned with this.

I'm the only person that has a set of books at the game. The DM relies on his laptop for PDFs of the books, but doesn't consult it very often.

Any advice of how to handle this? This seems to be very common lately.

Of course I could just DM my own game, but I've always preferred to play as a PC.

Bump - Still looking for a Pathfinder group.

I posted in the other thread.

Looks like Largo is a bit of a hike for me, perhaps too far,

Alex pointed me to this thread. Myself and possibly another person in the Orlando area are looking for a Pathfinder group. Is there still interest to the people in this thread?

That'd be great. I'll keep an eye out for other players.

I'm an experienced 3.5 player looking for a Pathfinder group in the Orlando, Florida area.

Please contact me for more details.