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Since Labyrinth Lord, Swords & Wizardry and Pathfinder don't count (I consider Pathfinder a retro-clone of 3.5) I would have to say: Barbarians of Lemuria-sleek and rules light! Savage Worlds- We found it okay. BRP Fantasy with a lot of CoC thrown in. vs. Monsters

Now Barbarians of the Aftermath looks gonzo, maybe the genre is covered enough already?

Now would be an excellent time to make a PA version of Pathfinder as the WotC rpg/ccg idea for Gamma World is already coming under heavy fire. Provide a roleplaying game and you will have a lot of customers, I'd wager.

I appreciate the replies, everyone. For us, the 4d6, drop the lowest, assign as you will works well and I believe that all of the characters are pretty even for the most part, there were not particularly high or low rollers. If anything, it was the shock that I was so wrong for allowing a...

I believe that someone opened the proverbial can of worms on this one. Publishing another genre probably makes 10x more sense than padding the fantasy game passed the point of recognition. I am not sure that my Pathfinder game needs to go beyond the last purchase, the GM screen. Maybe the...

I will certainly check it out. I had seen something on the Paizo page, but as I now stay away from their page and forum I was out of the loop on this (I just buy material for the Pathfinder rpg, and I am really not a fan of that messageboard, so I just throw money at them). Thank you for...

Gee, you really like to make things difficult for yourself, don't you? We use the D20PFSRD , which makes a copy and paste take about 30 seconds. If it wasn't for this resource, any type of gaming for 3.x+ would be pretty pointless for my group since we normally play oldschool games (and thus...

I am not sure how extra books=better non-combat roleplaying. Before multiple dragon books we still had a lot of non-combat roleplaying. That is why it is called roleplaying. The statblock should be a representation of what happens when the conversation turns physical. In B/X D&D we had fun...

My oldschool group tried 4E, it did not suit us as an alternative, but we like Pathfinder immensely. It isn't our go to game as it takes more preparation time than our usual games, but it is fun and everyone likes the depth in the classes. As we get more adept at the rules (keep in mind we...

I made a comment a while back on the Paizo Pathfinder forum regarding a dwarf sorcerer (which one of my players has). There was a reply to me to the effect that it was not a wise idea because a dwarf has -2 to Charisma. For a while I tried not to think about it, but I see this attitude as a...

The map is very nice. Oldschool? No. I am not an edition wars person at all, if people like 4E, that is absolutely great, you are doing nothing wrong. However, the beauty of the oldschool is having a simple ruleset that you build upon. not having this or that rule to cover every possible...

No doubt! Some of us adults enjoy these games too!

Call me cruel, but I am letting a player run a Summoner but with a twist. The eidolon will be more like a tulpa and at each evolution it will strain to be free and independent of the summoner. If it gets the chance to break free it will be an independent creature, a thought-form made manifest in...

That is a bit of a point. Even though a player has voted against Pathfinder, that doesn't mean that we won't be playing more of it. He is new to the group and I am sure that I can sell Pathfinder to him. The depth of the classes is really an excellent selling point.

I understand your point of view here, Remathilis, and I have also been in games like this, and have had players abuse Player Fiat as well, so this breaks even at a point. When running a game I would rather allow out of the box things to happen than put limitations on my players, therefore when...

There is nothing wrong with this approach either, as I have always said, any game that works for your group and yourself is the perfect game, regardless of edition. Basically what I like about Pathfinder is fleshed out classes that run well together. Skills and Feats I could have lived without...

The less rules you have, the more options you have. Having a set number of a mechanic like Feats is actually more limiting, as long as one has imaginative players. Do you believe that OD&D didn't have fighters that used a Mighty Cleave on an opponent? It happened over and over, there just...

And just tonight a new player voted for Labyrinth Lord and against Pathfinder, which he deemed unneccessarily complicated for an rpg. So, even without traits I have votes against Pathfinder.

That is why we are keeping it simple in my Pathfinder game. Subscription based? Maybe for you, but I feel that subscriptions for a roleplaying game are nonsense, not all of my players are hooked up to the internet all the time and we all like substance over digitalia for our gaming material...

I read/use this as a Dwarf gets +2 on their Perception roll to notice unusual stonework of any kind, but this bonus would not apply on a trap or other device cleverly made of wood (or anything not stone or rock), as dwarfs do not have the same level of familiarity with substances other than...