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Iron Golems have "133% resistance to fire", in the OP's terms. Fire Elementals aren't healed nor damaged by it (like humans are neither hurt nor healed by breathing normal air), but there are effects that draw on fire so primal it can even hurt fire elementals. Sanctified Ones of Kord, for...

Being my group's regular DM and only sometime player, keeping track of countless modifiers is in my job description. Consequently, I can normally calculate on the fly the changes wrought by a Shapeshift Druid's Bite of the Wererat spell tacked onto her flying form, along with being shaken from a...

Have you shown your guy that other bit that is in the rules - the bit that is probably the most important rule in the whole book? You know the one, the actual rule saying that the DM is the final arbiter on the rules, even though everybody gets to say their bit? Let's see him argue with that...

Dozen: I think I understand where you're coming from now, and you make some compelling points, which just beg for another answering post. However, since the OP stated that Beguiler was out anyway, this sounds like a different topic then. You want to open it up?

Dozen: I was going on about ease of play, not about customizability. Cherrypicking spells might be better - if you're willing to invest the time and energy (and can command the system mastery) to make it better. That's not a given, however. For a player with less experience, or without much...

Actually, Beguilers are possibly the easiest to play of all full casters, if you have any imagination at all. They're impossible to screw up, since your spells known are fixed and encompass all you'll ever want out of a sneaky trickster/illusionist/mindbender archetype. They get lots of spells...

Sounds like somebody was trying to build Vaarsuvius. What's wrong with that?

I haven't used actual Gold Dragons, although all the other colors have made an appearance at some point, I think. Gold Dragons were always kept in the background, sort of mythical, even to people familiar with dragons. In fact, two NPC Silver Dragons (one of them the cohort of a PC, the other...

I think ability score placement depends a lot on what level you start, and how long the campaign is expected to last. For example, if you start at 4th level and don't expect to see 8th, it'd be ideal to leave your top score odd (e.g., Cha 19 [17 base + 2 racial]) at creation, then use the +1...

Umm... read the OP? It was in there? And has been commented on upthread?

Sorcerers in general have the least incentive of all base classes to invest in skills: not only do they get a low amount of skillpoints, they also have few good class skills, and Int is a stat most would rather dump or keep middling at best (seeing how Cha, Con and Dex might all be priorities)...

First of all, Sorcerers are awesome, and they're even more awesome in PF. I envy you (always gotta DM)! To answer your questions: 1. Good option all in all, Ifrit with the Fire bloodline make a good Sorcerer race. However, I'd answer "no" to your question: "Fire Affinity: Ifrit sorcerers with...

The question is not whether the banshee would fight fair, but whether your typical players would feel treated fairly if the DM sprang something like this on them. Read the rest of the thread...

Let me just say that players who want mechanically powerful characters, but are too lazy to learn the goddamn mechanics, better be ultra-important to the group in some way (providing the place to play and the books, being an extremely nice guy everybody likes, buying pizza for everybody etc.)...

What you're describing is in fact a general problem with high-level play. So many creatures have extremely powerful alpha strikes, and of course PCs do, too, that the game is fittingly described as "rocket tag" at that point. Some would argue that a level 17 party entering a graveyard and not...

Is homebrew allowed? If so, I've posted a PrC that seems exactly fitted to the character concept here.

First of all, the Tendriculous is among the more ridiculous examples of CR =! actual challenge posed. Regeneration and an (at the level) nigh unbeatable grapple check mean that the damn thing WILL be able to do their thing and swallow people if you let them get close. It's really a case where...

The operative word in the sentence you quoted is "or". The ability provides a fixed bonus to you if one of certain conditions is met: if any (i.e., at least one) of the mentioned descriptors apply, you get the bonus. If none apply, you don't. It's not implied anywhere that the bonus might be...

Thanks for the specific>>>general reminder, that clears things up quite a bit. I'll go with that ruling then. And yeah, Darkmantles have Blindsight 90', and Stealth +10, and grab plus constrict. Nasty stuff for CR 1. I'm thinking three, against 10 1st level pseudo-PCs.

The sun is the sun... hence my emphasis on natural illumination. :)