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I've been playing in the same Pathfinder group since we first discovered the Alpha playtest, I've even still got my hard copy of the Beta. With the exception of PFS we've almost entirely run 25 pt builds with 4 PCs for several of the PF adventure paths and been really happy with the system.
I'm about to join another PF group and have just been told to use a 35 pt build for my lvl 1 character. With 6 players I imagine we're going to be absolutely lethal. I argued the 25 pt buy for a little until one of the other PF 'veterans,' as he calls himself, complained that 25 was way too weak and that there had been plenty of online debate on this subject. None of which I can find...
Does anyone else out there run 35 pt games or is this just a sign of things to come with this group?

Well here I am, it's 0200 and we're gearing up for our first ever PFS game in 7 hours time. And I still can't seem to knock together even a simple character for the bloody thing.
From my favourite old standards of Dwarven Fighters and Cleric-healbots through to aggressive battle clerics, Dwarven wizards and that cute little cleric with negative everything bar CHA and WIS... But not a single one of these seems to click.
I'm placing the blame squarely at the feet of Tunguska, my level 6 Ranger who also happens to be a Hound Archon. We've been having so much fun in this home brew game built around a disgraced Archon trying to reclaim his place in the Heavens, it's a character that I built from the ground and have a real attachment to. Anything else I construct now seems hollow and empty.

Has anyone else ever had a problem like this?

Well...

Our party made it through the upper level of Thistletop without much effort bar a slight scuffle with Ripnugget that slowed us down a tad... And we then ventured downstairs to the lower levels...

Our party consists at this moment of:
Halfling Monk2/Sorcerer1(Fire)
Dwarven Wizard2/Fighter1
Human Cleric3 of Saranrae
Half Elven Ranger2/Sorcerer1(Arcane)
Half Elven Cleric2/Ranger1
Notice that now every character is a caster :p

When we ented the Chapel we encountered 2 Yeth Hounds... A 27 on Knowledge Planes informed my Wizard/Fighter that none of us had Cold Iron or Silver weapons (Again! Think we would have learnt after that quasit) And that we were in trouble. The Hounds howled sending the Human Cleric, Half Elven Ranger/Sorcerer and the Dwarven Wizard/Fighter screaming in different directions.
The Halfling and the remaining half-elf managed to hold off the yeth hounds thanks to the half-elf's Turn Outsider feat... One Yeth Hound ran downstairs to get ripped to shreds by something rolling alot of damage dice... And the other one was slowly destroyed by a combination of Elemental blasts and Turning...

But the interesting point of this story is the tale of the Dwarf... The Cleric ran north and into the safety of the Upper Levels, the Half Elf ran south but stopped before she went too far, while the Dwarf ran East. Right into the clutches of a big shambling pile of tentacle rape... My Dwarf rapidly lost Constitution and before to long he was on 4 Con after just being stung again... Meaning he had to take a d6 of Con damage next round... Thank christ the other players managed to take the thing out before he stung me again...
The DM rolled a 3 on my Con damage.

A long story short... Our DM is a prick :)

And as for that Harem? The writers should be ashamed... That was sooooo bad. We had our Ranger/Sorcerer trying to claw her eyes out after she walked in on them...