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Maybe you might want to wait until your folks have played the new edition for a while before you try this? First off, with the new bounded accuracy, a plus +3 to a roll is a BIG DEAL. The save DCs don't get much higher faster, and they do so linearly. Saves with proficiency actually go up...

Got my PHB Friday and rolled up a pair of characters for a game Saturday. It was my first time playing with a group that has been playing since the basic rules were published on the web. I rolled up a Warlock and Fighter (so that I could make sure to fit in wherever needed). The first thing I...

Worse than that. I think they held a hiring seminar and only invited fired Marvel and WWE writers. Then they canned anyone who made it through 15 minutes without drooling on themselves. Their final selections were the guy from WWE who had a blank page with "herp-derp" scrawled in the center...

A better question might also be what kind of magic items will you give out as your rewards. By the end of 3.5 (and in Pathfinder even now), some of the mechanics conditioned players to not only expect magic items, but also to expect items that exactly fit their desires. With the reduced focus...

You've partly answered your own question. Natural healing got tuned up because of the nature of bounded accuracy. If character progression will not be tracked by bonuses to hit, the only other options for differentiating high-level from low-level is using hit points and damage-dealing. This...

Meh... To paraphrase an example of a notorious logical fallacy, "If Adolf Hitler said the world was round, would that make it flat?" Unless one of the two is sitting in your gaming group ruining your play, who cares? We're going to play "guilt by association" now? I guess that says something...

No, NO, NO, a thousand times NO!!!!!! :mad: No splatbooks. Ever. At all. Give me adventures. Give me adventures with flavors (and perhaps an archetype related to that setting/adventure. Maybe a one-off archetype listed in the basic rules as a bonus. Or in a magazine). But NO SPLATBOOKS...

God, now you've gone and made me look the darn thing up :p. It's a story from a Dragon magazine (AD&D era, I think) about how intelligently used low-level monsters can still be lethal. Someone has made a webpage of the original article: http://www.tuckerskobolds.com/

It's funny how a single gaming experience (run by a guy at Ft. Bragg, iirc) has morphed to become some kind of "touchstone" of early D&D gaming. I never experienced anything like Tucker's Kobolds in all my years of OD&D, 1e, 2e, et al. And yet, for some (I think mostly folks who weren't gaming...

Hmmm. That's even more puzzling (I missed it on my quick read-through... who ever looks at "quick-build" :p). So if there are "guidelines," I wonder if there are any penalties to violating them? What good would a Chaotic Neutral Paladin be if he lost his powers every time he played his...

Yeah. Unless dedication to an oath (as your defining characteristic) somehow doesn't qualify as Lawful, it seems like Paladins would have to be. And the last paragraph in the intro text clearly states that they are sworn to battle "evil"... which would pretty much make them Good. So yours is...

[-Removed post-] -- Edit: I'd rather just ignore the condescension in your post and leave the conversation...

And yet, everything you mention as a positive for Paizo could easily also be a negative (with the exception of the number of APs). The tightly-themed and constructed APs are also very limited in scope, lead-by-the-nose, setting-bound, and change-averse. If your goal is to sit down tomorrow and...

Did anyone else notice this: "A sorcerer's magic arises from a sorcerous origin"? Uhhh, Mike, in the dictionary under "redundant" it says "see redundant"... :lol:

(o) ===> Trees ||| Forest Sorry, but I wasn't asking for specific advice on how to counter a grappling character. I was addressing the general effect of feats to create a numerical and mechanical barrier between "haves" and "have nots" and the limits this places on player creativity...

Please re-read what I said... "rules and feats" caused the problem. Having a rule for grappling is no big deal (that's all we were doing by discussing it with the DM). But having feats for it now means that there is a wide divide between those with the feats and those without. Which means you...

I wonder about that, though. We're those people "retainable"? There are a number of reasons people play RPGs, and not all of them are common to both MMOs and TTRPGs. For folks who are playing for social reasons, MMOs might very well be able to replace TTRPGs. But if you are playing for...

Not just bounded accuracy, though. One of the hallmarks of a readily-optimizable system is when player mechanical choices are made. In 3.5 and its heirs, much of your "choice" during combat is actually made during character creation. Someone with the "wrong" choices will never grapple, say...

I have to disagree with that. I just got back into gaming about 6-8 months ago after a 10+ year hiatus, so you might consider me one of the "lapsed" players, but I have been playing PFS and a home game weekly for 7+ months now. Coming back to gaming, Pathfinder was really the only choice for...