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So your spellsword is closest to an arcane-casting paladin, with arcane magic rather than divine, and some magus stuff in place of divine powers. You gave them the sorcerer/wizard spell list, which is the most powerful list in the game. Interesting - I would have expected the magus list...

I think StreamOfTheSky has it right with Disarm vs Steal. Disarm is for items carried in the hands, Steal is for items on their person. I agree that it's not necessary; our group has used the disarm mechanics for other items when cutting things free with a melee weapon. I agree that Sleight of...

Haha. I had a vague idea for an underwater critter with a gaze attack, but it never really gelled into anything. The new picture looks interesting.

I didn't want to have to dance in and out of combat - I had people depending on me as a tank to engage foes, and two rogues in the party that I often flanked with. It made more sense to me to just keep my concentration check high and easily make the roll than move around and avoid rolling. If...

I had it, and I barely ever failed to cast defensively... I think I had a +23 concentration roll by the end of the game, and the highest DC I ever had to make was DC 23 to cast a 4th-level spell. I failed only on a natural 1. You can shuffle in and out of combat for a little while, until you...

The shield spell is likely a better choice, in my opinion. You can cast it pretty easily even in the middle of combat. I played a swashbuckler with one of those rings once, and the inability to upgrade it over time hurts. If you can convince your DM to allow you to upgrade the thing it'd be...

I started at 9th level with my character, as he was a replacement for an old character that I retired. As you stated, I went with Str/Int as highest, then Con. My dump stat was Wisdom - obviously not a min-maxed choice, since it drops your Will save, but it made sense for my character to be...

I just played a magus that got to 13th level. He was a beast. Very high damage output, though energy resistance was a sizable problem. You could plan around it but it's going to drop your numbers. Accurate Strike is the 3e Wraithstrike again, but magus-only. It lets you do a full attack against...

I use Evernote for this, but I don't use it to give info to the players. It's just for my reference. I'd use TiddlyWiki if I wanted the group to see it. I also have an index card for important NPCs that I jot notes on. The front is displayed to the players while they're interacting with the...

There are two distinct questions here - mechanical abilities and the morality of assassination. Mechanically, an assassin studies a target and kills him with a single deadly attack. I don't view this as significantly different than a huge volley of sneak attack damage, or dropping a raging...

I'd say that if you get the 1.5x Strength modifier, you get the other benefits of wielding a two-handed weapon. I can't see why I'd keep them distinct.

Three examples. First is a new wild mage PC I had just rolled up. It's the first round of the first combat of the campaign. I cast a spell - wild surge, a 1 in 20 chance. DM asks me to roll percentiles to see what happens, then cackles. Asks me to roll percentiles again. I roll really high. He...

I'd love to hear it if you get Mechwarrior 3 running stably on a modern PC. I haven't been able to play that in years because it crashes regularly. One of my favorites, though.

I'm curious - what'd you like about it?

Yaaay! Thanks, I had a good time with this. Looking forward to the next one!

There is a sequence, yes. Therefore he should be able to pick up a 1st level slot, as he's a 4th level oracle at that point. The favored class bonus should probably be considered a class ability from that order.

I still have it, haven't looked at in ages though. I was part of a team doing a conversion of Dark Sun that never really got anywhere. I coded a lot of the psionics system before the group/fell apart. I've heard of people using it with a projector to do a tabletop battle map. I want to put that...

I like channeling far more than turning undead. The party cleric won't have to spend as many spells slots acting as a healer if they have a general ability that can heal the whole party. This allows them to do other interesting things with their spells, rather than seeing his interesting...

I'd recommend... GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program, essentially a freeware version of Photoshop. It's a little clunkier than PS, as I remember, but I've been using this so long that I know it much better now.) The Steam client Microsoft Security Essentials, a nice, free, light-weight...

There are no public plans for a new edition, and it's my understanding that they've stated they don't want to do one for a pretty long while. Based on http://paizo.com/products/btpy88yj?Pathfinder-Roleplaying-Game-Core-Rulebook, I believe they're on the fifth printing of the Core Rulebook...