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Again, it depends on your experience with it. I had a wizard that was an artiste with it. He would always go into combat in front rank and nail the enemy in a line and hit at least 3-4 of them early in the combat. We did mostly overland exploration that campaign and ran into a lot of massed...

I guess it depends on what you are used to. Personally, I rank them Fireball, Lightning Bolt, Dispel Magic and then Haste. Then again I never write up stats with buffs added unless I make a note of both. We use it so often that it is almost automatic for our group. We have one guy who does it...

I don't know why it was supposedly so hard on the DM. You just subtract what was dispelled. We kept track of all the buffs on the plexi so it was easy to erase the appropraite ones.

I'd never consider Dispel Magic as a throw away. Too valuable a spell, but YMMV. It is probably the third most valuable 3rd level spell.

I see it used more often to remove negative effects on the players rather than a debuffer, but it has always been a commonly used spell. Thus far we haven't been high enough level in PF to use it much so hard to comment on the good/bad of the changes.

I have allowed leadership in smaller parties when an essential role has been missing in a party, but in larger parties I generally don't. I have always used NPC's to fill in at times when needed but gangs of hirelings generally not.

We had our Friday game tonight 5 players and had a much better time. I know that at least most of us had fun! I know I did and it played much better. Sorry, didn't mean the huge slam to 4E. In our 6 months the game was engaging and fun. It just wasn't D&D to us so we quit playing it. I would...

That is my concern with the system. It is also why in 3.5 we cut off the expansions when Players Handbook II came out. From that point on it became a different game IMHO. Pathfinder seems to be an extension of the end of 3.5 rather than its core. From there on we got the march towards 4E which...

Well in the "it could be worse territory" I used to run a small design company and have either designed or had a hand in designing nearly a dozen products over the years, mostly 3.x. The company went defunct when the publisher decided to go in house only and only publish under their own old 30+...

I thank all for their input. Although I have already cut the group size down from 10-13 to 8, perhaps I need to limit it to 6. We have made some changes and if they don't work we may just have to do that. Correct, the topic is spinning its wheels, time to close it.

He has been a group leader at the table by popular choice for over 10 years now. How do you think he got to be an officer? He let one of the newbies lead for the last few months who assumed the role on his own and that is when thing started falling apart.

I think I will give the party a NPC rogue for time being until someone wants to fill the role. As for not being elected, he is a duly elected officer of the club and has the respect of the entire club.

Several of the players have played parts of this before in previous versions so they know how tough it us. I am currently running them through a section that was designed for 1-3rd level characters and they are 6th! I don't know how much easier I can make it on them. Part of the issue is the...

As my background is from Judges Guild I have always seen my role as a judge, an arbitor not an entertainer. I hate to say this, but when the club and I spend nearly $500 on a setting that we have decided that we want to play and a few new people come in that don't have skin in the game and are...

Stating those warriors out with some of the suggestions and they are not bad for a CR 1/3. Not bad and you can have a whole mess of them! warrior CR 1/3 XP 135 Human Warrior 1 LE Medium Humanoid (human) Init +5; Senses Perception +2 -------------------- Defense -------------------- AC 16, touch...

This is Rappan Athuk. The traps are dangerous and the foes are worse. If the party won't make sure they have the proper skill set they will learn why it is called the Dungeon of Graves. So far they have dug 12. This is a sandbox not an AP. They better figure out when they don't belong and when...

I am afraid you are right. Given the choice I would rather lose someone that has been with the group for 3 months than someone that has been here for 10 years.

This was discussed at the last game and now I have one of my players threatening to quit because he can't play his summoner. Sounds like you have a pretty decent group there. And yes generally you don't need to assign roles to people but when the players make a group that is so far off balance...

I have no issue with a ranger and they are a core class and can fulfil the role of a tank and some of the role of a rogue. The alchemist is more of a blaster (yes we have one) and the bard is more of a buffer. None of these will ever match the all around 8+ Int modifier in skill points of a...

It was meant less rhetorical than obviously you have taken it. As for the roles in question: tank and rogue.