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Well I've been using FG for a few years now and still find it an absolutely amazing tool for online games. My gaming group irl is small and infrequent and this has been my primary method for playing games.

In relation to the Pathfinder stuff, this is what I've discovered:

There is a big community devoted to playing Pathfinder, it has a section on the FG forums for scheduling games. And even a seperate Yahoo group devoted to Pathfinder Society sanctioned games using FG2 (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/fg2pfs/) where I have found a load of drop in drop out games alogside the longer running modules and games. There's a addition to the 3.5 ruleset that does all the Pathfinder coversion and lets DMs create Pathfinder games, and with the latest release's action system it's utterly amazing. I play a lot of spellcasters, and for even custom homebrewed spells there's the structure to target a creature, the system auto rolls the correct save and can go on to apply damage, ability drains and effects such as sleep, shaken etc. My words can't really describe the setup but if you havn't used the system in the last 9 months the changes to the 3.5/pathfinder ruleset is staggering. We use the Action system under spells for other stuff, trait abilities, fighting defensively etc; moved way beyond working it outside of the application and adding a standard modifier to a roll.

I am also hoping that Paizo would team up and issue some scenarios in Fantasy Grounds module form but the community hasn't waited. When a DM purchases a scenario they have all the material waiting to be inputted. We now have a Pathfinder Creature Parser to put all the monster info into the right format and with a few copy/pastes it's in the module. .pdf image extractors and text selection does the same job with images and story text then it's just adding the shortcuts. Been toying with the DM tools while putting First Steps together and speaking to the other DM's they can convert a scenario ready for play in less than an hour starting from .pdf purchase.

So i urge people to check it out if they havn't or abandoned it some time ago, currently several of our DMs in the group hold Ultimate Licenses, meaning when they run games they can take players who havn't paid anything yet and hold demos for those wanting to try it out. And also want the community to know that we are still hoping for greater collaboration in the publishing of modules and scenarios already FG-compatible, though that's just really laziness on our part :)

Hey, I looked around but there wasn't really any official place to put this. I've been itching to put on my writing hat for a while and since making a few Pathfinder characters for play (check out http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/fg2pfs/ for where I play and some great society games) just thought I'd dive in and start writing the backstories for some of my favourites. All so far are remakes of original characters that I first made years ago in the scarred Lands online Fangsfall Chat but fit very well in Pathfinder and thankfully the rules mean that twists and fleshing out can also be represented mechanically which I would have killed for years ago! Posting so that they have a place for any potential players and DMs have somehwere to look up my character's stories as well as someplace to store my scribblings.

Quick update the Fantasy Grounds Pathfinder Group is still very active current count of 124 members, this week alone we have three games scheduled at various timezones. Several of our DMs have the Ultimate License for those looking to try out the program.

We are however always on the lookout for more players and DMs as right now we have players in the US Europe and Oceania so the more people the more we can have games that gives everyone a chance to play no matter their real life commitments.