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Keep It Simple Stupid. To hit roll opposed by Dex save.

Has a mime ever actually been stuck in an invisible box?

102 In addition to the ebony fly, can we add to the figurines of wondrous power the Spanish Fly, and the velcro fly?

103 Please name the new addition Pathfinder 2: Path Found.

104 Can we have organic and free range options for characters?

105 I'd like to see a French ancestry - they are rude to foreigners and surrender immediately upon being attacked.

106 Is Lay On Hands now considered sexual harassment?

...it really is pointless at this stage to expend a bunch of both energy and good will in the community to rail against any announced changes, because such railing at this stage absolutely will not affect the rules' outcome one bit. After August 2nd, making well-reasoned pleas are the most likely way to effect change, once the rules are available for all to see...

...accusing designers of incompetence, declaring that other forum posters can't possibly be real RPG players if they like these crappy rules, decrying how they'll never play Pathfinder again and that Paizo has sunk the game, etc.) None of that is actually useful, and in truth destroys a person's credibility in the community the more they do it, even if Paizo staff didn't ban them for breaking any forum rules.

...Paizo for sure won't take someone's words as seriously unless they're backed by actual experience at the table, good or ill.

Well said.

MerlinCross wrote:

Not my real dad, can't tell me what to do.

You stop that negativity right now young man!

If you created a new account just for this comment you should be appauded, sir. Nicely done.

Surely you didn't expect this to work did you?

Nope. But it made me feel better. And don't call me Shirley.

With a name like The Great Troll King, I'm not sure about how serious this is.

The Great Troll King moniker came about long before there was them newfangled internets. It wasn't bequethed upon me due to trolling message boards. The Tale of The Great Troll King is long and inappropriate and requires the quaffing of many a fine lager in its telling. Or not so fine lagers so long as someone else is buying.

Folks, this board is full of negative comments AND YOU HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN THE PLAYTEST YET!

I'm sure the folks at Paizo have been working their tails off to make something great, and will be working even harder in the next year to make the best possible product they can. And then they come on this board and get crapped on by people WHO ARE SPECULATING ABOUT HOW HORRIBLE IT ALL IS.

Withhold judgement until you've at least seen the thing! And keep it constructive!

Play on.

gnoams wrote:

It's already hard for me to find a group that still plays Pathfinder and not 5E D&D.

And that's why Paizo's coming out with a new edition.

I played AD&D back in the day. Got back into RPGs a few years ago, and played Pathfinder for the last few years. Just tried 5e in the last month and now, thinking about creating a Pathfinder character gives me tired head. Looking forward to a cleaner, leaner Pathfinder using best practices from the best games out there.

I don't really like the "this race is evil" trope. While it existed to some extent in folklore, Tolkien really codified the Evil race thing. It's now cliche and lazy. TV Tropes says it well: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlwaysChaoticEvil

The Great Troll King wrote:

Loving goblins as a playable race. Lots of opportunities for fun roleplay.

We befriended a huge tribe of goblins in the Reign of Winter AP. A blast working with those little maniacs. They were just trying to survive; we helped them survive by providing them with better tools and weapons. They enthusiastically and suicidally fought with us against winter wolves and ice trolls, both of whom viewed them as food. We went from the enemy of my enemy is my friend to us actually being friends once they realized trade with the Ulfen settlements was in their best interests.

You went off script in an interesting way! I imagine this happened around level 5-6?

Yes, I believe that's right. It all started when we caught a goblin rummaging through our stuff at night. We questioned him, and since we weren't going to murder him in cold blood, we fed him and sent him on his way. We had a shapechanger follow him to make sure he wasn't going to set up an ambush. Later we ran across his tribe migrating and we weren't going to kill a bunch of baby gobbies, so we decided not to kill one another. My barbarian had a ton of cold iron arrowheads and a pretty good weapons crafting score, and traded them new goblin sized cold iron tipped Spears in exchange for covering our backtrail. Word got around and from then on, most of the goblins were friendly. Didn't take much to help them happy. After a big battle, my barbarian got drunk with them and played toss the goblin. They thought that was AWESOME.

Loving goblins as a playable race. Lots of opportunities for fun roleplay.

We befriended a huge tribe of goblins in the Reign of Winter AP. A blast working with those little maniacs. They were just trying to survive; we helped them survive by providing them with better tools and weapons. They enthusiastically and suicidally fought with us against winter wolves and ice trolls, both of whom viewed them as food. We went from the enemy of my enemy is my friend to us actually being friends once they realized trade with the Ulfen settlements was in their best interests.