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At this point I have to interject that there are folks that push 4e past those limits - I know a few that praise War of the Burning Sky to the heavens for breaking that model. I have seen several threads dealing with 4e Kingmaker where it sounds very much like the DM has a firmer grasp of its...

The APG is where I first started liking Pathfinder as more than just a replacement for D&D. I fell in love with archetypes. Witch has become my default spellcasting class for NPCs in at least two settings. The Ultimate books only continue changes that began in the APG - worthwhile, but not...

It is impossible to overly nerdify kids. :angel: I am in a similar position - I had left D&D and was brought back by 3e. Then 4e drove me away again, but Pathfinder was available for me to enjoy. The more 5e resembles 4e the less likely that I will be to ever play it. It sounds like the more...

And in this your statement is one hundred percent wrong. Some very important things for a setting, or in the real world, can happen over an amazingly short amount of time. The PCs may, as an example, find themselves in Sarajevo in time to stop the Black Hand - they are heroes, this is what...

At least this time they are doing marketing research, and hopefully listening to the research and paying attention to playtesters. (Yes, the debacle with the skill DCs still ticks me off.) Deep down, I suspect and fear that 5e will fail. :( I don't want it to fail, but I think that WotC broke...

I am pretty sure that they do not - the minis are of the standard critters in the game, with no need to reproduce what is already available. I will know for certain tomorrow, since I am getting a case for my group. Some I will repaint, others I will give away. The ones that I want most are the...

As I said, the point is that something is going to happen. Sometimes it is minor, sometimes it is major, sometimes it is even to the PCs advantage. That would drive me crazy - the closest to that I can remember running was a Pavis/Big Rubble RQ game. (And, yes, I added a timeline, but only to...

The timeline does not need to 'amp up' the number of encounters - all it needs to do is prevent the PCs from resting after a brief period of activity. Kill some goblins, hole up, kill a troll, hole up, quick as a wink three days have passed, and in that time the bad guys can be busy. The...

The thing is that I have not liked any of the 'fixes' to game design that people have come up with to solve a problem that I don't have. It feels like people giving cars square wheels to keep them from rolling downhill in San Francisco. I don't live in San Francisco, and think that square...

Whereas other people choked on the fact that 4e forced a different playstyle, and did so, if anything, in a more direct fashion. And for us 4e sucks because of it. I am not saying that you don't have a right to enjoy 4e, or even to enjoy it more than Pathfinder, but that there is a reason why...

Yeah, that is a problem inherent to games that borrow from real world religions.... Moving right along... I wonder what percentage of folks that like playing wizards, clerics, or other spellcasters who prefer Pathfinder is compared to those who prefer playing them in 4e/Essentials? Good for a...

Kill Healing Surges dead. Seal them into a 50 gallon drum filled with fresh concrete, then tip the barrel into the Thames. The Auld Grump

I think that it can't be - not if they are sincere in trying to regain the folks that dropped 4e. I also think that if they want to keep the 4e crowd then it has to be. In all, I think that it won't be much like 4e, but will have some means to implement 4e elements. So, both and neither. The...

But is, however, very much in the Catholic and Orthodox old testaments, and is also still part of Judaism - in short the old Old Testament. I believe Lutherans also still recognize the book. King James (may he rot*) did some picking and choosing. The Auld Grump * My dislike of King James has...

The thing is that an awful lot of us don't play D&D (4e) when we want to play D&D, because D&D (4e) doesn't feel like D&D to us anymore. For us, Pathfinder is more D&D than D&D (4e) is. Pathfinder is what I play when I want to play D&D. Mind you, I call the version of D&D that I play...

Exactly - I cannot say that 4e is a terrible, awful, no-ice-cream-for-you game, just that it is not the game for me. I honestly think that WotC could have done better with it without changing the core of the game. That the roll out and presentation was bungled, and may have killed the game, not...

For me part of that 'I want to play a Wizard' comes down to the balance between versatility and preparation. My short stint with 4e did not have either element, to speak of. The Auld Grump * I heard a rumor that part of the reason the movie The Sorcerer's Apprentice was made was because...

You may want to look into The Book of Tobit (in the Old Testament), Asmodeus was not a nice spirit when it first appeared. Misogyny was definitely among those sins that he embodied. I could go on at length, but I want to keep clear of the too much religion rule. More of a user of Ashtaroth in...

Though it is important to note that at those same high levels the foes often either have access to those same abilities or the mans to circumvent them. Sometimes both.... (The Pathfinder APs tend to be pretty creative as to how to handle high level scenarios and foes. As did the Dungeon APs also...

Not disagreeing, particularly, but where did you get the data points to create the graph?* Going off of a single GM's campaigns would likely skew the data. The Auld Grump * No, really not disagreeing - the chart seems reasonable, though for me the bogging starts at a slightly higher level, at...