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Really interesting topic. I think it's fair to put players in a "good" campaign into this kind of moral dilemma. In my group, such moral dilemmas are a lot of what drives party conflict. I don't think it should be a foregone conclusion that the orcs and goblins will turn to evil, or that the...

Check out Treantmonk's Guide. I think the guide only talks about options from the core book, so you'll still want to peruse character archetypes, feats, and spell options from APG and Ultimate Magic/Combat. It's possible to make a strong wizard using only core if you don't want to read all...

Quick, someone xp RedTonic for me. Signed, A theater person

It's a great series, although it can feel a little heavy at times. I noticed this particularly in the first half of the first book, where RSB has to do a lot of exposition through internal monologue and it drags on. The scenes where sorcerers battle are some of the best I remember reading in...

Yes and no - if they want funky flaming swords or swords that burn with holy fire, bypassing DR is delayed.

Sure. Basically, it starts slow and speeds up as level goes on. The character can use the bonuses awarded to add additional enhancement bonuses to their weapon or to add special abilities, as they choose. For example, a 9th level character with a total +3 bonus could have a +3 weapon, a +2...

Ah, I see. The way I handled it was when I scaled up the attack bonus to compensate for no magic weapons, I just made a certain amount of it a level-based enhancement bonus. I developed a progression based on Oriental Adventures / Rokugan ancestral daisho rules to figure out about what level a...

There is already a rule in PF that does this for you.

I'm a little late to the party. I've been using some TB rules (action points, simplified iteratives, treasure parcels), but TB revolutionized my GMing style with its first principles. I'm talking about "the Spine," where the book breaks down the math for encounter difficulty in terms of...

Or you could go totally the other way with it. In my game, having eliminated virtually all magic items, there is virtually no worry about maintaining proper wealth levels for the PC's - I can send them chasing after a fabulously expensive diamond at level 3 without any concern about them...

Are you concerned about the work you'll have to do on the back end? For example, there are a lot of monsters requiring special materials or whose special abilities might require players to have access to the kinds of abilities that magic items grant?

Cool ideas. I'm running a campaign right now that uses something similar. There are almost no magic items, but I would describe it as a high magic campaign, the idea being that most of the bonuses are because the characters are special. They are almost comic book superheroes, or they will be...

This site has all the information you need with handy hyperlinks. As for pointers, I really like most of what Paizo did. The fighting classes got a nice overhaul and some options, and the things they did with casters are less of a power increase and more of a flavor increase. The only...

I think it's a cool spell, but it should probably heal less hit points than mass heal, a spell of the same level, given that it is so much more versatile in terms of action cost. This is especially true because mass-heal heals ten points per caster level, to a max of 250 at 25th level. Your...

What happened rules-wise with the arcane morphic in the latest update? It was amazing, by the way.

Well, they also made divine power into a luck bonus, so it doesn't stack with divine favor. The end result is that PF divine power + righteous might is -5 to attack versus the 3.5 trinity of spells (or -7 if you didn't know about the errata'd divine favor). Also there is no persistent spell...

This. I was reading the thread and thinking "they're arguing about the meaning of attack, when they should be thinking about opportunity." I'd agree that casting a spell with a ranged touch component provokes two attacks of opportunity, but I'd go on to say that if the two occur...

Yes, but if the power has the "weapon" keyword, you get to add "proficiency bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls from your weapon or an enhancement bonus to your attack rolls and damage rolls from magic weapon..." pp. 55-56. So in the case of a twin-striking ranger with a +1 weapon, you do...

Any chance of an update? (bump)

Why hello! Hi there! I'm a long time lurker who has been playing D&D since about 1988. God, 20 years! The last 15 have been every Sunday night with the same gaming group. When I got married, all my groomsmen and ushers were fellow D&D nerds. I love the Story Hours and the Rogue's Gallery in...