Actually after writing this I found another small question as well.
Is Pathfinder going to be redoing the rules for Population Demographics like they had in 3rd and 3.5 or if they do have them I can't seem to find the page on it. I am wishing to fully flesh out the friends "Home Village" and I cannot remember where to look or anything of sufficient help in the matter.
thanks once again!
Heh, the only question I can answer is this last one you tacked on. These rules will be in the Gamemastery Guide coming out this summer. If you can't wait that long, you will have to use the rules in the 3.5 DMG.
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Some answers:
1) No. The Healer class is closed content and Paizo cannot legally reproduce or modify it. They're also a fairly limited class. If you don't want a deity following divine caster the Druid, the upcoming Oracle or a reflavoured Cleric all work.
2) Not in the Paizo books themselves. The third party PDF A Fistful of Denerii has a lot of martial art's type feats.
3) I'd just use the values from Unearthed Arcana. Pathfinder has increased the AC of medium and heavy armours so you might want to up the AC bonus by one. But otherwise it should wrok out the same.
4) Not sure I understand the question. Could you clarify exactly what's causing the problem?
Supplementary question: These will rpobably be in the GamesMastery Guide, coming in a month or two. Until then, the old 3.5 stuff you're familiar with should work fine.
That seems like alot of gold for an average orc, note that one Page 399 of the Core Rulebook, it states per encounter, rather than per opponent.
In general, it means the 260gp for a Average Party Level 1st encounter is made up with gear of ALL the orcs in question (given weapons and armor of half-a-dozen Orcs, that wouldnt leave alot of money anyway).
On Page 400 it states that "Table 12-5 lists the amount of treasure each encounter should award based on the average level of the PC's and the speed of the campaigns XP progression (slow, medium or fast).
Easy encounters should award treasure one level lower than the PC's average level. Challenging, Hard and Epic encounters should award treasure one, two or three levels higher than the PC's average level, respectively.
If your running a low fantasy game, cut these values in half. If your running a high-fantasy game, double these values"
In addition, it mentions this (Core Rulebook, Page 400)
"Encounters against NPC's typically award three times the treasure that a monster based encounter awards due to NPC gear. To compensate, make sure the PC's face off against a pair of additional encounters that award little in the way of treasure. Animals, Plants, Constructs, (Mindless) Undead, Oozes and Traps are great "low treasure" encounters".
Alternatively, if the PC's face a number of creatures with little or no treasure, they should have an opportunity to acquire a number of significantly more valuable objects sometime in the near future to make up for the imbalance.
As a general rule, PC's should not own any magic item worth more than half their total character wealth, so make sure before awarding expensive magic items"
In short, be careful with what you award the characters, remember every 'adventure' should not contain too much treasure (for instance, you shouldnt go too far over the values listed in table 12-4 because thats the expected wealth a character should approximately have by that level.)
Also remember, encounters are also likely to award 'goods' as well as coins and items. 'Goods' could be anything from spices, meat, etc. to more utility goods such as rope, anti-toxins, thunderstones, and so forth.
I personally use the rule of thumb that most NPC's have little to no actual 'cash' on them, because with several dozen gold pieces why would an Orc want to raid travellers?, unless he didnt have much money to begin with, then he seeks to pillage or rob anything of value he can get, which could be just about any basic commodity.
Most commoners for instance, even though they are NPC characters, dont carry much if any cash on them, because its tied up in their homes and buisnesses, etc leaving them a meagre wage to get by on. Thats why if you try to use table 14-9 for ALL NPC's it doesnt make alot of sense, sure it works for more skilled/warrior types, but a commoner doesnt have or possess alot.
End of the story - award the characters reasonable awards, and take in mind what you THINK the Orcs should have. Personally, I'd say beyond their weapon, armor and some odd items (rope, waterskin, etc) and possibly the odd potion among them, they should only carry a handful of cash (I tend to look back at the old 3.5 DMG for treasure tables because it breaks it down by category...that being said, in 3.5 all monsters had varying amount of coins/goods/items on them. (For example, an Ooze might have 10% coins/50% Goods (Non-Organic Items Only)/10% Items)).
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2. Is there a more "martial art" feel to Feats that is better than Improved Unarmed Strike? I have been pondering doing a more Asian themed game with Martial Arts and the like in addition to the more usual Classes and abilities found in Pathfinder but as a whole I do not like the Improved Unarmed Strike only doing 1D3 [or 1D2 for smaller if memory serves]. I was curious if anyone has ran into this and was looking for advice. I was actually pondering using some Feats from BESM D20 to offset the way Improved Unarmed Strike World, such as Martial Arts and Brawl.
2 Cheliax empire of devils has some good monk feats in it.