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Savage Worlds Horror Companion, I think. Fun book so far, using it for a Call of Cthulhu/Deadlands game I'm running. Several powers that are a nice addition to the list.

I listen to Fear the Boot, Know Direction (a Pathfinder podcast on 3.5 Private Sanctuary), Gamer's Guide to Pathfinder, RoleplayDNA, and Smiling Jack's (a daily one-hour commute gives me a lot of time to listen to podcasts). Fear the Boot is the only one that regularly gives GMing advice...

My Strength-based magus still uses Power Attack regularly. Cleave isn't really worth it, but Cleaving Finish (the 3.0/3.5 Cleave, it shows up again in Ultimate Combat) is worthwhile if you're going to be enlarged regularly - and you probably should be, if you're Strength-based. Might be worth it...

Speed factors only work if you reroll initiative every round, and declare your action before it's rolled. I don't have much interest in doing the "declare, roll, act" thing again - I always hated that.

I'm pretty sure you're mistaken - Stalwart negates secondary effects that take place even if you make your save from effects that use Fort and Will saves. "If she makes a Fortitude or Will saving throw against an attack that has a reduced effect on a successful save, she instead avoids the...

A 5th level spell slot is a pretty high investment for casting personal spells on other people, so I don't see much of a reason to have a problem with this. Still, it is quite clever. What spells would you say it's most useful for? I'm having trouble thinking of things it's actually worth the...

For Gregor: Yeah, you're totally right that I was rushing to actually get to the end of the story and submit something. Totally my fault, but I wanted to have something to post. Didn't end up getting done. Honestly I took too much time with my setting and introduction, but I was having enough...

"I need to be a playa for a while" is also acceptable, considering the circumstances.

I've only seen one vorpal sword in all my years of gaming, a sentient scimitar named Judgement of the Sultan. It was a Lawful Evil weapon that was wielded by the party's assassin-type. It was a scheming thing, it had its wielder pretty well controlled and manipulated my PC by playing to his...

Listens-to-Wind from the Dresden Files would probably qualify. In story he's a wizard, but mechanically he's an excellent healer and a powerful shapeshifter. He's also got some weather control magic. Sounds druidy to me. He even speaks with an animal companion at one point, and argues that it's...

Pathfinder characters are a little more powerful than core 3.5 characters, but I think some of the strangeness of 3.5 has been reigned in significantly, though not outright eliminated. The classes all reward you for sticking with them. Taking a couple of levels here and there to end up with a...

I'm going to be spending a long weekend in Seattle near the end of May, and I'm curious about suggestions people might have for what to do there. My girlfriend is going to a conference there, and will be available sporadically to do stuff with me. For the most part, though, I'll be spending the...

Glad you liked the Pathfinder box! As to your second question, yes, "add your INT" would always mean your Intelligence modifier. I can't think of any situation in which you add your ability score, rather than the modifier, to a roll.

I'll admit that I'm not a big fan of the Mythos as part of a reality outside of and larger than the "normal" D&D multiverse. I'd rather it be a part of it. Cthulhu and such can be demon lords and such, rather than being by necessity greater and more powerful than everything else. Maybe they...

I actually love the idea of using the size modifier as a penalty rather than a bonus against Acrobatics DCs, but I'm not sure it'd be worth it to have multiple entries for CMD for monsters. It's certainly something I've considered for when I get back to running Pathfinder.

You can generally assume that extra DICE of damage (bane, flaming, vital strike, etc) don't multiply on a critical and that a flat numerical bonus (Strength modifier, power attack, enhancement bonus, destruction judgement bonus, divine favor, etc) DOES. Exceptions to this rule will be explicitly...

I don't think you're limited to selecting deeds - I think you get all the deeds that are your level or lower.

The second seems reasonable, though it suggests that the ring itself doesn't do anything magical. Is the vial of blood the important part of it? What's the draw of having the item in the first place instead of just giving them the power you want them to have? Is it an insignia/symbol of office...

My understanding is that they stack to allow full attacks.

I also really like the quarian and the geth from Mass Effect, and would probably drop them mostly as-is into any sci-fi game I ran. The pair make a great setting element. I always liked the Vorox from Fading Suns and the weren from Alternity. They're pretty much the same conceptual space as the...