This has been stated on a few threads and I think the concept deserves one of it's own.
I would like to have everybody keep in mind that the stuff being written in Pathfinder should use itself and the OGL as a comparison more-so than non-OGL material...specifically things that measure abilities against others.
The two that stick out in my mind due to recent debate are natural spell and the Beguiler. You could make an argument for both that these are overpowered abilities. I don't allow natural spell in my game for exactly that reason, but I know many others do, enjoying the additional material.
I think non-OGL stuff is good for examples of flavor or like minded concepts in theory and not actual function.
I don't think it's that good of a backdrop to compare power levels and the core classes always.
In the end, the only thing this has to do with non-OGL stuff is if it's backwards compatible so people can either take whats in pathfinder and put it into 3.5, or take what's in 3.5 and put it into pathfinder (hopefully with minimal conversion effort, which currently seems to be the case).
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This has been stated on a few threads and I think the concept deserves one of it's own.
I would like to have everybody keep in mind that the stuff being written in Pathfinder should use itself and the OGL as a comparison more-so than non-OGL material...specifically things that measure abilities against others.
The two that stick out in my mind due to recent debate are natural spell and the Beguiler. You could make an argument for both that these are overpowered abilities. I don't allow natural spell in my game for exactly that reason, but I know many others do, enjoying the additional material.
I think non-OGL stuff is good for examples of flavor or like minded concepts in theory and not actual function.
I don't think it's that good of a backdrop to compare power levels and the core classes always.
In the end, the only thing this has to do with non-OGL stuff is if it's backwards compatible so people can either take whats in pathfinder and put it into 3.5, or take what's in 3.5 and put it into pathfinder (hopefully with minimal conversion effort, which currently seems to be the case).
But Natural Spell is in the SRD. And now that Wild Shape has been changed it's much less overpowered.
Well I'm not running actual campaigns with Paizo stuff yet (and for playtesting I think it best for the most part to stick with OGL stuff primarily seeing is that is what's being tested).
It may not be as overpowering as before and depending on how it plays out I may let it in my campaigns.