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I am not looking for an argument, but for me it comes down to this: Paizo wants my gaming money, and they show they want my gaming money. WotC wants my gaming money, but everything they've showed me indicates that their desire for my gaming money is accompanied by an indifferent shrug: "Hey...

The chest-tech isn't the only reason Stark is no longer human. The armor now lives in his bones as memory metal.

And which was the only Teen Titan to escape, as Slade himself wryly observed? "The one without powers." Robin.

Pretty sure that raven has 30+ hp ...

Possibly. I'm still puzzled by this ... ... because I don't understand why you feel that "only human" is dichotomous to "a superhero." "Only human" is like "a shapeshifter" or "someone doused in speed-inducing chemicals" or "the last orphan of a dead world" or "the one and only recipient of...

To you. Batman (Dick Grayson) and Batman (Bruce Wayne) are my two favorite DCU characters ... because they're only human. It is because of that origin and because of that ongoing fact that I enjoy the characters. This is exactly the same reason that I (sometimes) enjoy playing "just this guy...

So now Lois Lane is also not human. Okay. Jeff P.S. I wonder which is worse, being the victim of a Dutch oven or a Kryptonian kiln?

We haven't made a lot of use of CMB/CMD in our nascent PFRPG game yet. What we have seen -- Acrobatics rolls to avoid AoOs -- have been instances where CMD is too high. Technically, I think the "10" part of "10+CMD" is too high, but still. My max-ranks rogue fails these against...

This is just ... bizarre. Are you claiming that James Bond isn't human? Dirk Pitt? Arthur Dent? Any cop on any run-of-the-mill cop show ever? Are you actually claiming that when a protagonist has survived "too much" crap, or shown "too much" competence, he has, by definition, stopped being...

No. All they demonstrate is plot protection. Batman -- both of them now -- is quite human. From his perspective, from the perspective of his friends, family, and (especially) superhero peers, and from the perspective of a reasonable reader. Batman being "only human" is one of the primary...

This isn't at all reflective of any ill will toward 3PPs, as I have just the opposite, but the truth is that my days of 3PP-purchasing are over. I am content within my Pathfinder subscription, and relieved to be purchasing only that.

He's actually barely in the Top Five. Lady Shiva and her daughter (Cassandra Cain, former Batgirl) are both better hand-to-hand fighters, for instance. (There are a couple of others that are considered equal or better -- Black Canary (trained by Lady Shiva; I'm seeing a pattern) might even be...

Just as a roleplayer graduates from "I'm playing myself in platemail" to "I'm playing a character," roleplayers eventually graduate to "I'm playing a character ... but I'm also playing a game and often need to find a way to reconcile 'my character' with the fun of the other players." The idea...

(Zombies should not have ranged attacks That's just wrong. Of course, it would shorten the length of zombie movies to about 10 minutes ... total, for all of them.)

I'm looking for up to three players to participate in a one-shot Pathfinder adventure (7th-level characters provided) on March 12th, from 2:00 PM to 7:30 PM, at my home in Daly City. Beginners welcome. If interested (or if you have questions), please email jeff dot wilder at yahoo dot com

When I read it, I assumed that the paladin moved into the water to engage in order to shield those squishier folks on-shore. (Perhaps there was no retreat possible or tactically sound?)

I honestly can't tell if I'm misunderstanding you, or what, but I think I disagree. (I'm less certain I disagree for 4E, but leaving 4E aside.) D&D -- as a game -- assumes that your character has the potential to be a world-shaker. But D&D -- as a game, and at least as we've understood and...

Not really, no. The uncontrollable factors -- what Ian Malcolm simplistically calls Chaos Theory in Jurassic Park -- will create more than enough random "noise" to override a non-cheater's rolling method "signal," no matter how habitual and similar from roll to roll. They do this because people...

This is true, but it ignores the significance of the rolls. In this case, they were attacks (and even more significant, they were criticals in a system that doesn't require confirmation). I'm sure that I've seen three 20s in a row dozens of times and didn't even make special note of it. But...

Wait, I thought that was John McClane. Wait, I thought it was healing surges. Wait, I have to blow my nose. Wait, I'm good with the "hit points" idea. Jeff P.S. 2d6 works much better than 1d12 for what Gygax originally intended.