What's the general etiquette here for dead threads? First page? X days? I'm not one to start a new topic when someone talked about it somewhere on my first couple of mousewheels, although the activity seems to have stopped a few days or almost a week prior...
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There really isn't one. People will crack a few jokes if you revive a topic that is years old, but some will actually complain. Some however will complain that you did not do a search first.
Do what you want and ignore the complaints.
I recently necroed a 5 year old thread, and got gently reprimanded and told to create a fresh subject... I did, and that was it.
Creating a new thread seems to be the policy here, even if it's better to do your homework first, so as not to ask a question that already got answered five times over.
Well, if the discussion was inconclusive or new material changes things, it's best to make a new thread and maybe link to the old one.
Fair enough. I'm just new here, probably picking crb apg tonight, maybe another depending on stock
If the thread is a few months it's okay but maybe not the best idea. If it's a year old it's better to make a new thread.
The reasoning is that new material and FAQs change the setting of the question. Also, most of the time the previous discussion isn't exactly relevant and it's a lot to ignore just to find out who is asking what.
Search old threads for your answer. and make a new thread if you can't find it.
A while ago, someone necroed a 12 year old thread. Respect.
It is not dead what can eternally lay, or something like that.
Threads are not truly dead until they are locked. Posting in a thread that wasn't used for years usually involve comments about necromancy, and might lead to misleading situation when someone seeing an apparently new thread in their feed accidentally responds to one of the older posts. It might be warranted in certain cases, though, especially when it is relevant to certain posts involved in the existing thread.
What is dead may never never die!
So, what book would y'all recommend after Core edit:Rulebook and Advanced Player Guide? 3.5 is old hat for me, so I think the Game Masters Guide will probably be more rehashing, and I don't plan on running PFS games
On PRD you can check what is in each of major books.
A crucial factor is, are you interested in Golarion - Paizo's default Pathfinder setting, or not, because a lot of material outside of that listed on PRD is more or less focused on that setting.
The setting is second only to the mechanics for me. I liked Krynn and Faerûn more than most. I doubt PF would have such a following if the setting were crap. Character options are nice, but I hope to have a lot of PFS play
I'm not sure if you're looking for character class material like in Core & the APG, or setting material.
If the former, I have to recommend the Advanced Class Guide. I tend to restrict myself to a few classes, but the ACG is getting me to salivate over a lot of new ones! I think they did a bang-up job.
It sometimes gets pretty ridiculous for a thread revival to occur because someone (obviously) did a basic search on whatever topic they were interested in, didn't notice the date of the last posting, sees a discussion/debate/argument that went on years ago because there wasn't a FAQ for it yet, then revives the thread simply with news of a not so new FAQ that resolved the issue years ago but still after the original thread ended with an AH-HAH! attitude; or just to join in the with the debate, quoting someone or the OP (who also don't go on forums anymore) and addressing them with a question/rebuttal as if expecting a response.
I've added a reminder on my calendar to resurrect this thread 1 year from today. Because of reasons.
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Me, I like Occult Adventures. The classes are interesting, and the new archtypes are for the most part interesting as well. But it is kind of niche thing.
In regards to threadrmancy, I try not to do it. If the most recent post is a couple months old, I don't usually post there. That said, I don't always check the post dates on a thread that pops up on the front page. Which has resulted in me replying to posts that might be a year old.
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In regards to thread necro "etiquette", I quite like the 'start a new thread, link the old thread' model. But often, I think just an acknowledgement that you are necroing a thread for a reason is good enough to keep you from any ribbing over it.
Generally, I think you are perfectly safe if you play by the raise dead rules rather than the resurrection rules.
IE- 1 day per caster level. Assume you are a level 20 cleric.
After that, it becomes increasingly dicey. Assume that caster level 60 is the highest you can take it.
Never play resurrection rules (10 years per caster level)
...I think just an acknowledgement that you are necroing a thread for a reason is good enough to keep you from any ribbing over it.
Pretty much this.
For me, the main thing is acknowledging that you're committing thread necromancy, and providing a reason why you think the subject is still relevant.
I think all of us have seen cases where a poster comments on a years-dead thread with no indication that the new poster even noticed that the previous comment was from 2009.
Sometimes, seeing the animated corpses of old threads can make long-time forum members falsely excited and then sad and wistful seeing old posts from long-vanished forum-friends. (e.g. "Woohoo!! Dark_Mistress is back??!! Oh, wait, that post is from 2012....")
Or ignore you post. I know if you necro something with 100+ posts, or especially like 300+ posts, that people will be like, whoa, too big. I don't want to try and read through that to figure out what's going on.