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Will be interesting to compared the upcoming Paizo Pathfinder product with the supp from SGG.
Because Pathfinder is considered backwards-compatible with 3.x stuff, has anyone out there just used the Core rulebook and strictly 3.x for their games (i.e., using the various Complete books, MM, MM2, & MM3, Spell Compendium, modules galore, etc.)? Impression I get is most folks drop their 3.x stuff as soon as their Pathfinder equivalents are available by Paizo or third-party providers with an occasional dip here and there from 3.x.
After a successful Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box one-shot, gonna start a campaign. Setting's Land of the Linnorm. Suggestions on PC races and classes? Not too sure, for example, how the paladin fits in the setting or many of the classes from the APG, especially the alchemist, cavalier, and summoner. Same with the halflings. On the other hand, the samurai and ninja from Advanced combat actually fit in the setting.
Good question: Should We Fight to Save Indie Bookstores? Reasons to let indie stores go echo the same reasons to shut down FLGS.
Opinion? His wife sadly agreed that the marriage seemed broken. So Mr. Earnhart, a chiropractor, moved out of their home to a furnished apartment on the other side of San Juan Island, in Washington. Three months later husband and wife were back together. They have been married now for 42 years. It seems counterintuitive: How can a separation save a marriage? When a couple splits—even for a trial period—isn't that just a pit stop on the way to divorce?
Inspired by this list (I was actually reading the articles, really!), I'm wondering what everyone thought was, in their personal opinion, the most hyped-up RPG they've ever seen or, better yet, played. Mine is Torg. :D
There are no two ways about it: E-books are here to stay. Unless something as remarkable as Japan’s reversion to the sword occurs, digital books are the 21st century successor to print. And yet the e-book is fundamentally flawed. There are some aspects to print book culture that e-books can’t replicate (at least not easily) — yet. Full article here. Number four reason is my current peeve. I'm sorry, but I still don't associate a pdf, for example, of the Pathfinder Core book with the HC itself (and thus meriting nearly pricing, if Paizo had gone that route).
So, what does everything about about DC restarting all its titles, from Batman to Justice League to Booster Gold(?), with issue #1? Heroes are to appear younger, apparently, Supes and Wonder Woman have new costumes, and the "origins" of many characters will be "revamped" to more modern(?) sensibilities?
Follow up from the post, Why DnD 3.x over PF: What rules have you adapted from the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game into your 3.x campaign? The skills? Channel energy? Certain feats?
More than half the gamers I know were or are designing their own roleplaying game system. I've half-started based on systems from Traveler to Fudge/FATE to, of course, d20 SRD. Right now I'm looking at DnD 4th edition as the latest base to create a system and inflict on my poor groups. What systems have you designed?
Oh, kewl. Dancing and intelligent weapons
Are there any places on the web authorized to sell the pdfs LEGALLY? I'm looking to downsize my print collection (several bookcases IS getting a little ridiculous) and instead keep e-copies of most products. Thanks in advance. Per Paizo: Do not advocate illegal activities or discuss them with intent to commit them;
We were extremely fortunate to get an early copy of the upcoming D&D boxed set called The Shadowfell: Gloomwrought and Beyond to unbox and show you all today. It comes packaged in a thin box the same size as the Red Box starter set and comes with a very sturdy 127 page paperback Campaign Guide, a 31 page Encounter Book, two sheets of cardboard tokens, one poster with a map of gloomwrought on one side and an encounter map on the other, and a Despair deck of 30 cards. Full review here.
Inspired by this thread. I would be more than interested in seeing a third-party publishers' take on the 3.x / Pathfinder base classes. Though not a direct Pathfinder product, Bad Axes Trailblazer has an interesting take on the fighter class. Same with the druid.
The Paizo staff has more than once mentioned Greyhawk as one of their sources of inspiration for Golarion. You can especially see it with the human-centric, multi-nation backdrop. At the same time, Golarion has its own feel. IMO, Golarion is definitely darker, with the monsters more, well, monstrous (hello, Golarion ogres); a ruling class trying to emulate Hell, etc. So if you had the World of Greyhawk setting, how'd you introduce such elements? What would your Theocracy of the Pale be like? Would the Great Kingdom just be some sorta sleeping giant? What dark deals is the Sultanate of Zeif really engaged in?
Last week, I talked about the concept of balance and how it relates to Dungeons & Dragons. Probably nothing better encapsulates the issues of balance in D&D—and the attitudes around those issues—than the comparison between the fighter and wizard. From the earliest days of the game, the disparities between these two classes has served as the basis for much of what people have loved and loathed about D&D’s rules. Full article here.
With all this talk about "balancing" the fighter against the wizard class, has anyone done anything about the more extreme power difference found in many superheros games? How did y'all balance, for example, a player running a Batman - level PC while another runs a Superman or Green Lantern PC? Limit them, powerwise, ala the "power level" found in M&M? |