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It's a little wonky, but there's a specific exception baked in for Deadly Aim. Link So it is supposed to work. Cheers! Kinak

My spouse and I both GM. She will usually draw entire levels out in advance and cut up an old black T-shirt to get pieces to cover everything (one piece to a room). You can see some examples on my tumblr. If I draw things out in advance, it's usually encounter-by-encounter on gaming paper. The...

Man. I thought they were good to go because they'd made it past Christmas. I hope they, and anyone else who's effected by this sort of thing, are able to land on their feet. Getting laid off sucks even if you sort of know it's coming.

Some of the details are different from 3.0 to 3.5 and from 3.5 to Pathfinder, but as long as you're willing to doublecheck things rather than relying on memory, you won't have any problems. As gamerprinter mentioned, there's much less encouragement to multi-class now. It's still possible, but...

It's cool that they're getting their licensed products rolling out :) That said, this one isn't for me, based on the X-Men version. I like card games and I like dice game. I even like deck-building games where other game pieces are used so you don't have to shuffle all the time. I'm just...

That's... actually pretty cool. Getting a trickle of feats and classes and whatever from adventures you play sounds like more fun than poring over the stack of books you own.

For a newly formed group, I'd take Rise of the Runelords. Value-per-dollar the anniversary edition is a winner and it's just good, general fantasy... with a bit of a horror bent, I guess. My current Pathfinder group started with that and transitioned to a "Next Generation" of Shattered Star...

The Beginner Box is a great introduction but only covers up through level 5. That's about the first book of the AP. My suggestion would be to run a few sessions of the Beginner's Box material and let people try out different characters while everyone gets a handle on the rules. The Box does a...

5 out of 5 rating for Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords Base Set I think, as a vehicle for playing Rise of the Runelords without the usual stumbling blocks of RPGs, this is a great game. It's a little complicated for my tastes, but the design is very deep and a lot of people...

4 out of 5 rating for Pathfinder Player Companion: Ranged Tactics Toolbox Our archer's player bought this and didn't find anything for her. But our rogue grabbed a couple of talents from here that are simple and really help expand on her theme. Overall, I think the rules content in here is...

It is weird in certain situations, but it's also fairly reflective of how it works in play. The vast majority of enemies are near the party's CR and that makes the SR a coinflip. You could make it any roll of over SR - caster level. Which would at least cut out a roll, but still slows things...

It's an interesting thought, but I agree I wouldn't quite work. If I were going for a simple fix, I'd tend towards something like completely negating the effect if they roll an 11 or higher on the save die. It works out similarly probability-wise, removes a roll, and makes life harder for...

It's an obscurish class ability, basically evasion for Fort and Will effects. So if you succeed at the save, you take no effect, rather than a reduced effect. Especially for bosses, it helps take care of save-or-suck effects that still suck if you make your save, like suffocation. Cheers! Kinak

I shy away from SR unless I'm using pre-statted monsters. It discourages blasting, while allowing summoning and buffing through fine. Both of those strategies make combats drag at my table, so I don't throw SR in to make the blasters feel ineffective. There is something to be said for the...

Let me see if I can dredge up some memory from last year's GenCon Adventure Path seminar: * The AP grew out of the response to Council of Thieves, which a lot of people really wanted to be the "fight House Thrune" AP and wasn't. * It kicks off with a new leader being named in Kintargo, which is...

I'd be pretty excited about this. At the very least, TableTop could bring a lot of new players to RPGs, as they have with boardgames. Cheers! Kinak

I don't mind my players getting monster information. For particularly complicated fights, I'll even print sheets with all the monsters' ACs and SRs. But I usually don't roll out in the open. It's mostly old habit, but also because our gaming space just isn't conducive to it. I GM from the edge...

We recently made a bunch of characters for shared play (basically, whoever wants to shows up, grabs a character and sits down). They're pretty carefully chosen to keep the complexity down, so lots of Core Rulebook stuff. I don't think any of them have non-core feats or spells, but a few simpler...

Oh, man. That's one of my all-time favorite supplements just for sheer density of crazy ideas. I hope you enjoy it. Cheers! Kinak

5 out of 5 rating for Shattered Star Adventure Path Shattered Star is really interesting in that it's not a Superdungeon, but is basically all dungeon crawling anyway. You just change location once or twice a volume. The dungeon crawling itself is top notch. There are good encounters, lots of...