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Well, this has been interesting.

I bought the current Humble Bundle that includes many Pathfinder Comics as PDFs and ePub (formats I like). This made me happy.

I looked into what was the chronological order of the stories, and saw that there were missing story arcs/issues. This made me sad.

So, I decided to buy what I was missing. This made me happy.

But digital versions of the Pathfinder comics aren't for sale at Paizo.com. This made me sad.

But, digital copies are sold, through Comixology. This made me happy.

But Comixology makes you use their app instead of offering it up in formats I like. This made me sad.

But it turns out that there are "DRM-free" back-ups you can download, including PDF. This made me happy.

But then I read that only participating companies allow these DRM-free downloads, and Paizo is not one of them. This made me sad.

Then after writing all this, and before posting, I realised that while Paizo is not on the list, Dynamite is, and that's the company I should in fact be looking for. This made me happy.

Then I decided to post this anyway. Just because. Thanks for reading.

TL;DR Don't bother reading ;)

Me: Scorching Ray
Target: Mirror Images and SR

Do you roll against SR before determining if it targets an image, or after (in which case, only if it targets the caster, otherwise poofing images).

There's one thing I find unclear about the spell Fungal Infestation...

I'd say don't treat women any different than men treat men, and for men not to treat each other like crap.

Treat everyone equally... and humanely. No need to single out players by sex or sexual preference or religious beliefs or race or anything. Just don't be a dick to the person sitting next to you, period.

"Wizards made their announcement in January, and released the fire playtest materials in May."

I didn't know that so many people threw it in the fire! ;)

1) Get a quick overview
2) Play, trusting it's all on the up and up
3) Audit/dissect later if time allows.

That would be what I would do back in the LG days.

To answer the OP, who I'm sure is still looking for posts seven years later, I love SW d20! I don't know why it has such a bad rap.

I love all the dips for Monks, when apparently Monks suck.

One level of Wizard with Divination, Foresight subschool. Get the awesomeness below. Plus skills and spells. But you do loose a BAB.

Forewarned (Su): You can always act in the surprise round even if you fail to make a Perception roll to notice a foe, but you are still considered flat-footed until you take an action. In addition, you receive a bonus on initiative checks equal to 1/2 your wizard level (minimum +1). At 20th level, anytime you roll initiative, assume the roll resulted in a natural 20.

Prescience (Su): At the beginning of your turn, you may, as a free action, roll a single d20. At any point before your next turn, you may use the result of this roll as the result of any d20 roll you are required to make. If you do not use the d20 result before your next turn, it is lost. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Intelligence modifier.

The guy was serious and wanted a serious answer. Just because some of you think the question is laughable doesn't mean it's okay to ridicule him.

Marvel hero Doctor Druid: Psion
Marvel hero Paladin: Fighter/Gunslinger
Marvel hero Rogue: Monk/Sorcerer
Marvel villain The Wizard: Alchemist/Bard
Marvel villain The Magus: Psychic Warrior
DC hero Oracle: Bard/Rogue

Looks like a fan film. So probably any fans with a bit of money could offer to make a D&D movie, and that would be happily accepted, just to extend the license.

So... Paizo, who owns the rights to Pathfinder, could probably make a deal with the D&D movie license holder to make a D&D movie where the official D&D world gets transformed into Golarion, and fund it no problem on Kickstarter. And it would all be on the up and up.

Huh.

"The dungeons are gone. The dragons are dead. Now, we must find our new paths."

Fade to black. Quick zoom out until Pathfinder logo fills the screen. Roll credits.

Best idea ever, or best idea EVAR?

:)

I play female characters if that's how I in-vision the initial concept. I don't really play them differently than I play a male, because I don't think there really is much difference between males and females. YMMV.

I'd play a Monk any day. I don't care if Wizards and Fighters and everything in between "outshines" me. As long as I'm not a liability for my party, I'm happy making whatever contributions I can.

Bards are despised all over the world for the fact that they sing in battle. This is pretty much the lamest thing ever and I think a lot of people will get behind me on that.

Bard is a lot of people's favorite class. Just because you have an opinion, doesn't mean it's truth.

I love SINGING Bards.

Speed over size!

This news has me looking forward to D&D 6th Edition.

I wish a touch charge would be treated like a weapon, as rays are. I think that would simplify things a whole bunch.

I think it was for balance reasons, but I wish Clerics just did positive or negative bursts, period. Positive energy heals living and hurts undead, and vice versa. No targeting crap.

Not understanding what the hell any unit of measure is WOULD break my immersion.

"The Past"
A Lesson in Taxonomy [between 4643-4662 AR, approximately 60 years before Hell's Pawns]
The Walkers From The Crypt [approximately 20 or more years before Plague of Shadows]
Noble Sacrifice [between 4697-4701 AR, approximately 10-15 years before "The Present"]

"The Present" (stories more or less happen concurrently, except "sequels")
Hell's Pawns > The Lost Pathfinder > Prince of Wolves > A Passage to Absalom > Husks > Master of Devils
Plague of Shadows
The Illusionist > The Winter Witch
Worldwound Gambit > The Ironroot Deception
The Secret of the Rose and Glove > The Perfumer's Apprentice
Faithful Servants > Death's Heretic

"Unclassified"
Everything else, likely falls in "The Present"

Changes:
-Added dates, changed order for A Lesson in Taxonomy, The Walkers From The Crypt, Noble Sacrifice

"The Past"
Noble Sacrifice [approximately ??? many years before "The Present"]
The Walkers From The Crypt [approximately 20 or more years before "The Present"]
A Lesson in Taxonomy [approximately ?? many years before "The Present"]

"The Present"
Plague of Shadows
Hell's Pawns > The Lost Pathfinder > Prince of Wolves > ?Master of Devils?
The Illusionist > The Winter Witch
The Ironroot Deception > Worldwound Gambit
The Secret of the Rose and Glove > The Perfumer's Apprentice
Faithful Servants > Death's Heretic

"Unclassified"
Everything else

It's a start. :)

Mr Sutter, what kind of chronological details do you track?

I find Diet Coke gross.

That aside, this *is* a great cover

I know you're not supposed to judge a book by it's cover, but that's what I was talking about it being a likely impulse buy. Definitely eye catching!

The community should designate an unofficial ERP server at the get go.

Scott Betts wrote:

Uninvited Ghost wrote:

If it's Golarion but not very Pathfinder, I will be very disappointed.

Golarion is Pathfinder. Pathfinder was the name of the campaign setting and adventure product line before it was the name of a game system.

I think you are splitting hairs here Scott. Pathfinder in this instance is obviously referring to the rule-set developed out of the 3.5e d20 system by WotC NOT the setting developed by Paizo. I think even Paizo make this difference in this day and age, PF is a generic fantasy d20 rule-set and Golarion is their proprietary setting for use with said rule-set.

Thank you. :)

I love the fluff of Golarion, but if the crunch behind it was totally different, I and many others wouldn't be here.

Harry Potter called, he wants his font back. ;)

A bunch of members of my guild get together every year from all over the country (and Canada and Britain) and reminisce about 'the old days,' and, inevitably, someone drunkenly waxes nostalgic about how awesome it was in the days of EverQuest, when you could lose everything your character owned if you couldn't recover your corpse, and lose four or five levels in a single night attempting to 'break Fear' or whatever and how *awesome* that was, because it was all 'real' and 'had risk.'

And then someone else points out that pretty much every game since then has abandoned that, and that WoW, which is *vastly* less 'real' and 'risky' and much more 'fun' and 'casual' has a hundred times more subscribers and it's developers are rolling around in gold-plated bathtubs filled with money because they *didn't* decide to make their game unfun and tedious and 'realistic.' The free market hath spoken. Lot's of people will pay for entertainment. A much smaller subset will pay to be repeatedly bored, discouraged and frustrated.

I get all the unfun, tedious and 'realistic' I need at work (and, yes, given the people I work with and the circumstances that crop up, 'realistic' very much deserves to be in air-quotes). I pays my subscription fees to various MMO designers, etc. to get away from that crap.

I don't mind games having tedious options (such as crafting, which I haven't done since Dark Ages of Camelot, with my Hunter crafting his own bows and arrows), but tedious requirements, not so much.

I played EQ for years. I RP'd. I think I made level 21. Sure you could probably powerlevel to whatever in a few hours...

Anyways, I tried WoW last year. I don't play WoW anymore. It was fun, it was pretty... it was too easy. There were no consequences. I lost interest.

As much as I hated doing the "corpse runs" at the time, the difficulty and penalty of EQ did make it feel like you accomplished things.

WoW, you could walk away from your keyboard, come back, found out that you died, and your reaction is. "Oh well."

"Standard postal delivery'' should, in general, end up being the "cheapest method available."

You'd think so, but you'd be wrong. Right now, I'm looking at buying Key Largo, and adding it to my monthly shipping. Estimate for Standard Postal Delivery: 52.48. Estimate for USPS Priority Mail: 41.55.

I find the cheapest shipping option varies quite a bit.

I like more non-caster stuff than caster stuff in Ultimate Magic, and more caster stuff than non-caster stuff in Ultimate Combat. Not a big fan of either book. How do things like Antagonize make it to print? I'd still like to know.

Good people have bad days, so I've just accepted that great companies can have less-than-perfect products.

I think one of the most enjoyable parts for some players is building their characters (mechanically). For those players, building a 4th level character to start a campaign would be much more fun than building a 1st level character.

Crystal: You can play a cyberpunk schoolgirl octopus.

Awesome, Polyhedron is coming back!

GMs are rare and beautiful creatures, and are to be encouraged.

Antagonize feat. Nuff said.

I'd like to see a "voting" system setup where the community can identify issues they'd most like to see addressed. Paizo should present a weekly/monthly poll with contentious issues. For each issue, a thread should exist where people can discuss exactly what about the issue that interests/confuses them.

I vote for the Antagonize feat! The silence on this one is driving me crazy.

I believe the OP meant most hyped-up that DID NOT DESERVE the hype, so clearly, in my eyes, NOT Pathfinder.

This is a really rude response. There are plenty of people that will like this book, and that generally like the products that Jason/Paizo makes. Your money's not worth more than mine or anybody else's, and I respect Jason's right to respond to some of the abuse he's taken in this thread however he wants to - including your instruction (!) that he search down and re-read a post you made earlier in the thread. As far as I'm concerned, he's acquitted himself very (very very very) courteously. Normally, I'd avoid being quite this smarmy with another member of the board that I haven't had any interaction with yet. But you don't seem to mind smarmy.

Jason admitted that they shot for the low end of the power scale. People in this thread are acting like brand-new Pathfinder greenhorns are going to stumble upon this one option in probably the third book they'd have needed to purchase (after the CRB and the APG), and settle on it as the option that they have to play. As though people who are brand-new to the game wouldn't themselves arrive at Cirno's idea of "Hey, I'll just play a monk, but not accept any treasure." If people want to be trapped by their own imagination, they're going to do it. They don't need rules to be trapped. These rules actually give them something for playing in a horribly derped way, thus un-trapping them. A little bit. It's a little tiny paragraph, people needs ta chillax.

Reading it back, it was a rude response. My appologies to Jason and everyone who read it. It was likely not his intention, but his response to me rubbed me the wrong way.

I generally like the products that Paizo makes. Why would I be a subscriber if I didn't?

My money's not worth more, but others can choose to buy a product or not... I'm a subscriber (like you). I couldn't choose to not buy Ultimate Magic. Being a subscriber is partially a show of faith... that I know whatever they produce in that subscription will be of the highest quality. I feel my faith was... a little taken advantage of with Ultimate Magic.

I did not intend to demand he read my earlier post, that was poor wording on my part.

I feel this product does not meet Paizo's high standards. I feel that in an effort to not break the game by making the new content of the book too powerful, that they made them too not powerful. Too much so (very very very). It's a delicate balance to produce new content, but it seems to me that hitting near that line wasn't their goal, it was to make sure to not pass it, even if it means you don't get close to it. These are my uninformed feelings.

I'm passionate about Pathfinder, passion that I assume showed in my previous post, if my normally courteous manner did not.

Is there errata on the DC/effect for this Feat on its way?

I know characters and builds vary, but what gear do you find very useful? Or very good for the cost? Please list by character class.

Wizard - Pearl of Power Lvl 1 (1000 GP), Headband of Intellect +2 (4000 GP)