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You will have to do a lot of "on-the-fly" changes and creation. Players have a habit of screwing up your perfectly planned adventures.

I use short "storymodes" as part of my campaign. These I use to temporarily control the players. They are very short and I generally hand-wave or bend some rules for the sake of the story.

PF has way too many rules. You will not remember them all. You will make mistakes. Just keep it going or have the players double check for you. You have an enter multi-verse to look after.

You could add in a DM NPC if 3 or less players. Mine is "Bob", a barbarian with Int 6 & Wis 6. Goes into a rage if kittens are hurt. He is too dumb to upstage the players.

Don't let the players min-max. Annoying as hell. And outright ban broken builds.

And last of all I use a "resurrection point". If the player dies, he comes up with some believable reason (by D&D standards) how he survived the attack and his HPs are set at zero. Along with a nice scar.

If DM is generous, he may allow Wish or Miracle to grant the player See Invisibility.

Forgotten Realms world wide war.
Short version
- Ao has been trapped and all deities are currently planet side (my take on the Time of Troubles)
- Enemy invasion consists of extra planar Pantheon using the realms as a battle field ("civil war"). One side controls undead, the other elementals. ~20% FR population dead in the first few days.
- Players are 15th level
- Baldur's Gate has been wraith bombed
- Very high powered campaign. Going on for 3 or so years.

I prefer to use common sense.
Rust monster turns metal to rust (or for older versions, something similar to disintegrate).
Mend won't work on a pile of dust.

So this is how you give DMs migraines.

About the scout watchers comment.

Remember one thing about teleport, you need to know the location of where you are going. Even for Greater Teleport.
A "good description" will not work in an infinite plane.
So the watchers going to get reinforcements have an issues of how they are going to impart the knowledge of the location.
They can't bring anyone else with them and unless trained, they cannot scry and show.

There is no way any devil will know every location in an infinite plane without scrying magic or similar.

So reinforcements will arrive probably in the form of going to a "nearby" waypoint or base that the local troops know about.
Then fly or teleport hop following the scout.

Another suggestion for teleport at will is to have a cool down, depending on rank.

Normal real world medieval tactics generally do not work in a world of powerful spell casters.
Bunched soldiers will just die.
Walls will be toppled or disintegrated.
Soldiers feared.
Compelled officers gives differing orders.

Smart generals will have their soldiers spread out so as few as possible will be taken out by AoE blast spells. (Unit of 4-6 men with significant spacing in-between).
This of course means the shield wall & infantry line do not exist unless some custom magic is used to block blast spells (say a Firewall spell cast on line of shields : blocks most blast spells & rays).

Which means a mass, disorganised brawl will ensue very quickly.

Also LoS blocking spells will also be very effective vs casters. Can't blast what you can't see.

As for the players, just have them fight a bunch at a time and move up XXX yards after each.
Vary what they fight so they don't get bored.
As they make progress, they will be noticed and casters or archers may start targeting them.
And they finally get to BBEG and his meat shields.

Not related.
Can't remember where written but there is an understanding of sorts between powerful leaders: don't slaughter all an enemy's minions on a whim, they can do it just as easily.

Hello.
I am practicing writing Java apps so I decided to write a Skill Point allocator in java.
It is currently beta release and should work with Windows, MacOS and Linux (not tested) with recent versions of Java installed.
Unzip and open the 'SkillAlloc.jar' file.

http://www.tridiak.co.nz/SkillAlloc.html .

Download is at the bottom.

Ok. Thanks for advice.

I have written some software for Pathfinder RPG (some paid, some free).
Am I allowed to "advertise" in the forums?

Created a similar application for the Mac which uses a monster DB instead of a spell DB.
It is called MonsterList.
Uses the same semi-natural language filter.

This one is not free. It is $US1.
If there is high enough demand, I will create a iPad version.

Not noobish but mildly funny.
Doing a solo player campaign. 3.5 epic level rules. Years ago.
Player had a lvl 3x fighter/cleric (CE), August, and his NPC NG(CN) wife/foe/annoyance Wizard 2X/Archmange 5, Lisa.
They had the job a keeping Gruumush's avatar busy for a minute while the Platinum Dragon (avatar) cast a complicated spell to eject Gruumush (and his fellow gods) out of the plane.
Lisa had a spell the prevent August from being dismembered in 3 seconds.
Gruumush dispelled the spell after his initial carving attempt.
August responded with "I'm going to take you b***s" and proceeded to roll a crit after the fact.
I let him slice off one of Gruumush's b***s.
That bought them some time.

Reinforced adamantite plate armour.
High Con & Str score.
Claymores attached to armour.
Mini-catapult or very strong parry buddy.
Toss!

iPad version also available.

Hello.
Wrote an iOS and Mac app which lists spells and their details (common I know).
It has a semi-natural language filter (instead of lots of buttons and menus).

http://tridiak.co.nz/SpellList.html for info.
Available on App Store.

Hello. I am creating a NPC generator for Pathfinder RPG for the Mac & iOS.
I have made a beta release for testing and feedback if anyone is interested.
This beta is Mac only (less migraines that doing iOS betas).

Link : http://tridiak.co.nz/files/NPCCreate0.8b.dmg
479KiB in size.

The final version will not be free (probably $US2).
Thanks for any input.

Some beasties have a DR XX/epic and magic (I may take one as a typo, not a dozen).
Which makes absolutely no sense to me.
Would someone please explain.

Cohort with leadership feat : his cohort and followers are loyal to the him, not the player.

Opinions on "skill/stat checks are made using 2d10 instead of d20".
Part reason : a baby with a Str 1 has a chance to beat an Ogre with Str 20 in an arm wrestling match.
And.
DC 30 checks (very hard/rare) are not actually that hard to reach.

Curious : what will happen if someone plunked a +6 Int ring on it?

Make the Gelatinous Cube a Paragon (3e Epic rules). That would wind up the party.

The only way to counter True Resurrection is to contain or destroy the target's soul.

I have created a simple application called 'Spells' for Mac OS X 10.6+.
http://tridiak.co.nz/SpellGen.html

I have written a random spell generator for the iPad. It incorporates metamagic feats.

Home page : http://tridiak.co.nz/SpellGen.html

Note : I have asked permission to advertise.

Have a nice day.

I have written a random spell generator for the iPad (not phone). It accommodates feats.
It's called 'SpellGen'.
(Yes, I have asked permission to "advertise").

Hello. I've created a D&D version poll at http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/525417.
I did it out of curiosity sake.
It's not policed so no ballot stuffing please