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AUGH TODAY IS JUST CONSTANT TEASING.

This thread in a nutshell.

I've got to go be productive all night at Work! This was my time to be unproductive with Paizo :P

Augh! Those jerks! They updated the Paizo Blog with Pathfinder Comic. What teases!

If they release it when I have to go to work, I'm going to be a very angry GM.

Now if only they'd post it already!

Personally, I ban very few things. Even then the things I 'ban' the players have decent chance of talking me into it.

I have been very leery about letting in summoners. Not because I think there is anything inherently wrong with the class. But we have 5-6 players in the group already and few of them are what I would call all that organized. If a guy has trouble handling his PC - I don't want to wait on him figuring out what to do with his PC, eidolon, and/or umpteen summoned infernal shadow whatsits.

I don't allow evil PC's or PrC's. Some groups it is ok to have that. I don't think my group is mature enough in its role playing to handle evil PC's without disruptive fights, arguments, and hurt feelings.

I completely get what you mean about the Summoner. I often remedy that in larger groups by having them play the Synthesist Archetype if they're dead set on playing a Summoner.

It's a shame your group isn't mature enough, may I suggest a game idea that could put them into the mood?

Make them all the members of an evil knighthood or similar organization that instills the idea of brotherhood. Take the Knights of Takhisis from Dragonlance, they were created after a villain observed how the forces of Good defeated evil by uniting while evil tore itself apart, so he kidnapped children and trained them as his Knights and raised them all as brothers. Few of the Knights of Takhisis would lay a blade against their brother unless given cause to. That way you take away any real reason for them to be snotty villains by having a power structure that can ruthlessly punish violations of code.

Swashbuckler = Normally just fine, but there is an archetype by that name. To avoid confusion consider buccaneer.

There's a Buccaneer Archetype as well in the Advanced Race Guide, so you're going to have to try again if you're trying to avoid confusion, though frankly I just think it's a sign that the whole Swashbuckler concepts been done to death by Paizo already.

One of my players asked if he could buy a Whetstone, I looked into my Pathfinder Corerulebook and saw it listed, but when looking for a description of what the hell it did, I saw there was none!

So what's the point of them? I do know the real world use for a whetstone, but is the whetstone just there for fluff or was there a mistake and it's mechanical use was forgotten in the book?

Thanks beforehand for any input.

By the sounds of it, I'll have to keep an eye out for Black Waters in my game shop.

Jackal's Eye wrote:

In fact the 4E section has shrunk significantly, with Pathfinder taking up more space than any other game system there. If you ever so much as look at a pathfinder or 4E book, one of the workers will come over and start talking about how much better pathfinder is than 4E.

And you say that the number of people purchasing 4e products at the store has decreased. How strange.

I had meant that the area they take up, not the books. The Pathfinder Section is usually depleted in products, but they stock a lot more of it because it sells out too fast. Whereas they've taken most of the 4E Stock they had out in the front and put it into storage to make room for more pathfinder stuff, we recently got most of the Pathfinder Chronicles, and flipmaps in.

Caineach, he couldn't possibly have been the greatest assassin if he got captured by a bunch of stinking kobolds.

4hp! A house cat could likely kill them. House cats can kill a level 1 commoner y'know.

Good luck Matt, perhaps when you're done college you'll be back at Paizo with a new title.

Josh, I'll have to get my local Gaming store to send you an email about volunteering, they're all hardcore Pathfinder fans there. In fact the 4E section has shrunk significantly, with Pathfinder taking up more space than any other game system there. If you ever so much as look at a pathfinder or 4E book, one of the workers will come over and start talking about how much better pathfinder is than 4E. So I'm sure they'd love to jump on board with this, and I imagine I know a good ten or fifteen people in my groups that would love to see it happen too.