Recent content by Gailbraithe

The Grace ability is supposed to bring the Swashbuckler's Reflex save up to the level of a Good save, but only when the swashbuckler is in light or worse armor. The armor resticted abilities prevents players from dipping into Fighter to get all armor, then switching to Swashbuckler and becoming...

I'm working on converting material from Iron Kingdoms to Pathfinder. It's all in hand-written note form so far, but I've converted most of the races so far. Skorne under Pathfinder are no longer a +1 LA creature, which is cool.

My players hate it when I use shriekers, because usually the first sign there is a shrieker in the area is me activating a rape alarm under the table. It's this very high pitched, piercing, oscillating whistle. It uses a compressed air chamber to create a high-pitched whistle at about 130...

I have always run Charm Person as follows: With a successful save that target knows that they have been the subject of a spell, but do not know what spell it was without a Spellcraft check. Their reaction will depend on many factors. A city guardsman might be terrified and run for his...

When I was 12, my mom remarried and we moved in with my new step-dad right about the time I started middle school. So it wasn't too long after we moved in that I was asking to host a D&D game with new friends from school. And my step-dad kinda freaked out. He was really shocked that my mom...

None of these sound like concepts best achieved by multiclassing, and @ & 4 sound like they would be incredibly broken.

I'm playing a sorcerer with the Celestial bloodline in a Beta playtest game, and it is so much more fun than playing a sorcerer in 3.5, which I've always found frustrating. I still think more improvements could be made though. I think the sorcerer spell table should be shifted up one level, so...

I've seen a few DMs tout their amazingly realistic world with the Shogunate Japan analog squeezed between the Old Kingdom Egypt analog and the Arthurian England analog, and always had a chuckle at that. But that has been the worst of it when it comes to homebrew campaigns.

That was my thought as well. Strip also made me think of the movie Juno, oddly enough.

The feat Practiced Spellcaster adds 4 to the character's caster level up to maximum of the character's character level. Pathfinder could add a similar feat. Arcane Discipline You maintain a rigorous training routine to keep your arcane skills in peak form. Prerequisites: Caster level 3rd...

Because WOTC stopped supporting 3E. And if Paizo is going to keep 3E alive by printing a new core book to support their ongoing adventure line, then why not give the game a tune-up while you're at it? As long as it can still be used with the older material, it's a sound plan for Paizo. It...

So do I. My solution is beautiful in it's simplicity. "Well, now you're all 10-12th level and have titles and lands. You find yourself so busy that you have no more time for adventuring. When you hear about some trouble in a small town nearby, you find it's just easier to send one of your...

It should generally apply to multiclass characters, but to expect any character of X levels to be as effective as any other character of X levels at every level is just unreasonable. Character concept has to factor in there somewhere, and we have to allow for the idea of bad concept. Some...

The only one of these issues I cared about was the 15-minute adventuring day, and the only thing about that I cared about was I think it's dumb that wizards and sorcerers have to use crossbows at low levels. I get why my spellcaster players blow their spells early in the dungeon: throwing magic...

What makes the OGL bad for WOTC is that they were bought by a large corporation, which means a lot more overhead and kickbacks up the chain, which means they need to sustain a higher profit margin, which means they need to dominate rather than simply compete. If Pathfinder ends up hurting WOTC...