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My boyfriend has shown interest in playing and I've been preparing to GM a single-player campaign for him. I'm worried about it being boring for him. He's not a typical D20 player (not interested in rules, game design, world-creation, etc.) but I feel like I could pull it off and wow him, I'm just not sure how.

I've done most of the technical work for him and pared down the feat and spell options to make it less overwhelming, kind of what Paizo did with the beginner box. Any tips on how to up the coolness and ease the entry? Making it something he'll be psyched to do again?

So one of my players plays a samurai and I let him tweak the class because the available one didn't fit the flavor he wanted. I'm thinking he might be too powerful now. He and the other PC I'll mention are only level 3 and I'd like to nip it in the bud if possible.

In the last encounter, the samurai was forced to get on a boat filled with enemies with the other PC, a bard, among them. I figured he'd go in, making an honorable display of courage and then be quickly captured. It wasn't that smooth. Despite there being 2 rangers, a rogue, a barbarian/bard, most of them levels 3 or 4, AND the other PC (who was admittedly being very cautious not to kill him) it took 10 rounds to subdue him. This didn't seem right to me. I even fudged the numbers a bit because people were getting bored with it. He mostly fought defensively, trying for non-lethal damage, and everyone was fatigued but him because he used resolve.

Maybe it just seemed longer because there were so many people on the battlefield, but he's pretty cocky and confident he could have killed at least half of them if he had tried.

Hi, this question is probably answered somewhere but I'm not sure where. If a druid, for example, starts with a hawk companion, and then levels to 7, then releases that companion and meditates to gain a new bear companion, is that bear at level 7 or does it start at level one? In other words, is a druid's animal companion always at an equal level to him or does a companion level separately (though at the same time)?

Hi, everybody.
I'm the GM for my group and we're all completely new. When making their characters some of my friends thought that the "Weapon Finesse" feat allowed you to apply your DEX to attack rolls AND damage rolls. Now I realize that it's wrong. I'm thinking about just going with it and tweaking the feat to be like that. Will this cause balance problems down the road or make it unfair for some of the other guys? They based some of their other character choices on this assumption but we haven't started the campaign yet so there's still time to change. What should I do?