Recent content by Pluto

I don't see how you're going to satisfactorily strip all the fiddly mechanical bits from pathfinder without stripping the fiddly mechanical bits that differentiate PF from something like castles and crusades. (I mention C&C because after a similar lukewarm burnout on d20/3e, I went to C&C...

The big one is Sword of the Arcane Order from Champions of Valor, which allows a Paladin to cast wizard spells from his Paladin spell slots. The tricky part is that its interaction with Battle Blessing isn't totally clear. For folks who run with the belief that D&D rules are written with...

To be fair, a high-level incarnate investing in the spittle gets the damage to repeat in a round, and a low-level incarnate can use it for a 3d6/round ranged touch attack from level 1, so I don't know if it compares entirely unfavorably to a ranged Warlock (granted, that's still not great). And...

You aren't wrong that the abilities are very defensively oriented, but the system can manage an offense - just not in the direct way you might expect. Totemists are the easy class - they can get tons of attacks per round (a level 9 totemist with multiattack and double chakra for girallon arms...