Paizo Tells You About the PATHFINDER STRATEGY GUIDE

Wolf72

Explorer

• Feb 20, 2015

• #2

I wonder if it's going to focus on most effective feats, most 'in-character' feats, or both ... I like my PC's to be fun and not totally maxed out (unless both coincide).

I might pick this up, if it can help me recruit new players.

 

Queer Venger

Dungeon Master is my Daddy

• Feb 20, 2015

• #3

Preordered it on amazon!!

 

Icon_Charlie

First Post

• Feb 20, 2015

• #4

Another book in a sea of books for Pathfinder.

 

dwayne

Adventurer

• Feb 20, 2015

• #5

I am with Icon_Charlie here its worse than the 3.5 or 3.0 books with the endless book after book of awesome feats classes and god knows what that you must have now a strategy guide to find the stuff in the mountain. Pathfinder more like path lost, the company has put out so many option books and material that is making wizards at the 3.x days look like a conservative RPG company for putting out books. I will pass on this and any more of there stuff as 5th fits me well and the balance in the system is almost perfect.

 

Grimstaff

Explorer

• Feb 20, 2015

• #6

As a huge fan of both the Core PFRPG and the Golarion setting, it pains me to say this system really seems like it's been chasing its own tail over the last couple years worth of releases. Someone must be buying them though...

 

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Eirikrautha

First Post

• Feb 20, 2015

• #7

Because the problem in pathfinder right now is that not enough people know how to optimize their characters...

Do not be surprised if this was driven by PFS. We already know how much Paizo caters to them (see "Crane Wing Nerf"... an issue totally driven by the low level PFS adventures and monster types). Paizo can't write adventures to challenge the hard core players, because the newbies will be slaughtered until they get the requisite level of system mastery. Now, with this guide, Paizo can ramp up the difficulty and point to this book when a new player gets frustrated.

 

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marroon69

Explorer

• Feb 20, 2015

• #8

The great thing about "options" is they are not required. Not everything is needed...I for one found the Advance Class Guide to sort of so so. Not sure about the this one, it seems that it might be more then just min/max stat guide but time will tell. I personally find the Campaign setting, the mods and AP's awesome everything else is hit or miss.

 

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DaveMage

Slumbering in Tsar

• Feb 20, 2015

• #9

Grimstaff said:

As a huge fan of both the Core PFRPG and the Golarion setting, it pains me to say this system really seems like it's been chasing its own tail over the last couple years worth of releases. Someone must be buying them though...

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It's my fault - I'm buying them.

 

lyle.spade

Adventurer

• Feb 20, 2015

• #10

I like that there are many options in the market place for rules, from FATE to WOD to Savage Worlds, the many permutations of d20...I like that, because it means that we can meet a system where we want to and have the feel that we want at our table. So if Paizo thinks it can profit from such a book - the many, many expansions they've pumped out over the last few years - great.

I will not be buying this, however, as I made the switch to 5e in large part because of Paizo's rules creep/bloat. I still laugh at the fact that they are publishing a book about how to play their game well (meaning: how to play it as a clever gamer, surfing and manipulating the rules for mechanical ends), when they already have a core rulebook. It's a tacit admission that their system - the rules plus all the expansion material - is simply too big and too complicated, and you would benefit from someone walking you through how to use the rules well.