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Hey there pals,

I'm trying to build a Buffyverse Slayer for a homebrewed campaign, and I thought, there's a class literally called Slayer, this is perfect!

However...It may not be. The paizo slayer uses weapons, and although there is the Grave Warden archetype (which would help add flavor), the TV series slayers only used wooden stakes sometimes, but mainly used their fists. Why? Their fists were stronger than any weapons, because of the special power of being a slayer.

I looked at the other thread on here from 2012 suggesting that a Buffyverse slayer be a Monk, and I kind of agree with it, but now that we have the Slayer and Brawler classes out, or maybe even another option I hadn't thought of, there's so much more diversity! CHOICES!

Any advice? :)

Okay hi!

So we had our very first player death today. It was our GM's first too, we're all friends IRL and he hasn't got a lot of experience GM'ing. (We're all 19 and this is our second adventure.) He says I'm an anmoying rules lawyer but he has nearly TPK'd us before with faulty rules...

Well anyway, today a character died. We were in the haunted house from RotR in the 2nd book, (5th level characters at this point,) and she cut her own throat open with a sharp length of wood that she thought was a dagger. My paladin tried to stop her but she counter-attacked and surpassed my AC, then proceeded to kill herself. He said Resurrection cost 15,000GP, and that he was making it inexpensive because he felt bad. My paladin had made 4,000 off of selling scrolls of CLW, but everyone else had 6-700GP. We sold a bunch of stuff, plus the dead PC's ring of force shield, and finally we had enough. We had the newly erected church of Desna preform it for us.

So, being curious about the cost since he mentioned how kind he was being about price, I looked it up. Resurrection costs 10,000gp...What?

When I asked him about it after the game, he said the 5,000 was for the service. I reminded him that he had told us specifically before that the church don't try to make profit off of their services but ask for a donation...which is optional. his response was basically "Because I'm the DM, this is MY GAME, and I can run it however the hell I want. You're being annoying, you can't tell me I'm wrong because it's MY GAME. I'm not running the Core Rulebook, I'm running MY GAME! SOME GM's have the cost of a resurrection at 100,000 gold! You guys are LUCKY!"

Um....

He also happens to be my boyfriend of 4 years, and if he reads this I know he'll probably be mad at me. More mad than he is now.
But I just want to know the proper way to respond to this? My much more experienced friend who also plays PF said that it wasn't something he should have done, and had never played a game where resurrections costed more than 10,000. In PFS the gp cost is usually around 11,000 right? I just feel like it was unfair... We now have literally no money, which will eventually cripple us when we need better weapons and armor. Like, my AC is only 19 and I'm a now 6th level Paladin!

So am I being a terribly naggy girlfriend/player, who needs to shut up, or is he in the wrong? Like...honestly I don't know how he could ever say he's not running the CRB. Then WHY did I spend $50 on it? His response and blatant lying to my face about making the resurrection cheaper than it should have been just has me feeling really not good about the game right now... :/