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Sense Motive for me always made more sense as an NPC skill, or for PC's to use in defending against feints, or when they have no other opportunity to figure out if someone is lying (it simulates 'intuition' and reading of body language, neither of which are necessarily reproducible in a gaming...

I was thinking earlier today about rules for vehicles- cars, planes, ships,etc. in RPGs (ignoring horses and carts here for the time being). I've always found the rules for vehicle combat kind of clunky and unpleasant- it's really discouraged me from including those elements in games or...

I imagine Paizo's reasoning was something like: this is a prestige class primarily used for a small number of NPC's and a very small number of evil-only campaigns. The book space would be better spent adding a prestige class with broader use in a game that more players would be likely to take...

I want to second two that have been mentioned: -First, 4e Dark Sun definitely has some of the elements you are looking for. The setting is thematically quite different from standard dungeon crawling, but the survival/grittiness is definitely there. The concept of buying 'survival days' as...

Double post. Yar.

Elves tending towards Chaotic in the standard take, it would probably create the most conflict for the paladin to follow something that was particularly rigid in its beliefs- a LN or LG deity dedicated to justice and laws, or something like that (not super familiar with all the FR deities...

Faiths of Purity has some good sample codes for paladins of different faiths. The codes for Sarenrae, Torag, and Iomedae specifically deal with handling evil enemies- trying to redeem them, giving the option (but not requirement) of accepting their surrender, etc. The code for Torag...

I've been heading this way myself both as DM/GM and player- not only do I not want to keep up with dozens and dozens of options as a DM, any one of which might be game breaking, I'm tired of looking through so many books to pick things as a player. If you're worried about player choice, or if...

Yow, some expensive buys on here. I think ~$70 for one of the WFRP1/Warhammar Fantasy Battle Realm of Chaos books off eBay was my biggest purchase.

A medieval fantasy world is probably going to be more like Europe than the US, however. For instance, isolated farms are common in the US, but historically were much less frequent. More typical was a cluster of peasant houses located near shared fields and pasture land- the large shared fields...

(grr... Double post)

I'm curious why you would want to bend D&D/Pathfinder in this direction- it seems like if what you want is a purely skill-based system, you could just grab one. There are definitely lots of systems that have a more skill-dominated rather than attribute dominant structure. Though I will say...

I use PDF Expert with standard form-based PDF character sheets you can get for Pathfinder or 4e. If you use something like Dropbox or Sugarsync, you can keep changes from a laptop/desktop and a iPad in sync. PDF Expert is also a nice app to have because it is one of the only iPad PDF apps...

Agreed. I think even if you're really into the deep-immersion style of RP'ing, it's far better to have a character who is conflicted over his moral code because of his own conscience than because of fear of losing his magical powers. As a DM, I would be fine saying that for clerics and...

The alignment system has a lot of wrinkles around the edges. I wouldn't be too hard on a player for making either choice. A lot depends on the players justification for making the choice; if he is killing the goblin to protect other innocents, great. If he kills it because he is annoyed with...

Ok, I think I see- I think the talk of coins and doors had me confused. Let me try a different example to see if I understand you: Mexican standoff between A and B. They are negotiating at the moment (not in combat, no initiative order established, etc.), but A has a crossbow trained on B...

In the first situation, you and the other party competed to see who was fastest and you won. You pre-empted his action as soon as he began it because you had the initiative. In the second scenario, who was fastest hadn't been resolved yet- you were waiting to catch the coin, and so was your...