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Without some homage characters and a recognizable "age," I've been unable to develop an affinity for Autumn Arbor. First and foremost, I want theme and tone from a setting---with all of the elements in that setting in service to both.

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Thanks for the feedback, Wulf! And, yes, I agree the compatibility issue has been blown of proportion. I should have been more clear, I was trying to rephrase the backwards compatibility design goal so that it allowed for more flexibility to entertain new solutions such as RangerWickett's...

Wulf, what about a monster rewrite that was as simple as "decrease all monster CRs by 1" to account for the increased racial and class effectiveness of Pathfinder PCs? My hesitation with PF after having playtested almost weekly since it debuted is that the "front end" of 3.5 has received the...

With the debut of the Known Realms, that doesn't seem to be the case anymore though. DCCs, while still eminently usable in any setting, have setting-specific info and Punjar, the Tarnished Jewel (their first 4e product) is certainly set in Aereth. Has there been any word from Goodman Games on...

Paizo makes use of them in its Pathfinder modules and APs and also GR's Book of Fiends, IIRC.

I know us DMs are supposed to "Say yes!" now but for times like these I'm sticking with a tried-and-true "No."

Did anyone else attend a midnight sale of 4e at their FLGS? Four members of my group whiled away the evening downing ales until it was time to head to the Compleat Strategist in NYC. The store put on a great event and I want to thank the staff there for it. Aside from getting our books, they...

I'm really pleased that WotC is trying to protect the day for those FLGS owners out there. I know that early shipping was my local store's biggest concern.

Thanks, Wulf! I didn't even try to run Death in Freeport yet--we converted to PF as soon as it came out and there have been enough sessions that I could eyeball the converted adventure and judge that the numbers weren't going to add up. I'll give the increased budget a try (and keep in mind...

Wulf, I spent the weekend using your system to convert Death in Freeport and it worked great in every respect. Naturally, however, it led me to some of the same balance questions that lay further afield. Specifically, Pathfinder devalues NPCs without racial hit-die to CR-2 and NPCs with only NPC...

Release 3 didn't include Wulf's scheme but I assume that the timing was too tight to include them. That said, I really hope Paizo does utilize them in the Beta. I'm doing a full Pathfinder conversion for The Freeport Trilogy and Wulf's system is lightning fast and even fun. On the other hand...

My group just did this last night. We have two DMs in the group, myself and another, and our group plays Pathfinder at the moment. For KotS, I DMed and the other DM played. The players enjoyed the game while us DMs had a more negative reaction. Having played some at DDXP, I was pretty excited...

1st level spells at 1st level. (oh, Release 3 is up!) Thanks, Jason!

It seems misleading to suggest that Pathfinder RPG would be adopting 4e "mechanics" by using Wulf's system. 4e tools? Okay. But the word "mechanics" for me would signify such stuff as all spaces count as 1 square, the elimination of schools, magic missile as an attack, etc. The more such 4e...

Pathfinder Table 12-3 has XP values for all CRs, so any CR-valued monster is supported. Wulf's system is simplifying Tables 12-1 and 12-2 in Pathfinder and it does.

Thanks for the alternate system, Wulf! I'm looking forward to trying "point buy" encounter design in my PF game.

Pathfinder is not meant to be 3.5. Backwards compatibility with 3.5 is a design goal, but not the only one. The correct question would be "How far will Pathfinder have to go before it its a sub-game and not really 3.75 at all?"

This sounds like very good news. The new presentation of the GSL seems reasonable and I'm heartened that Wizards isn't going through with the more restricted terms seemingly included in the prior presentation of the license. I'll be visiting the Compleat Strategist in NYC in the morning to...

From the Paizo blog, here's a Pathfinder bard. It looks like he has the same spell progression (which I lament in a wailing gnoll dirge) but more spells per day (as the OP hinted at in the playtests). Any there any other tidbits that can be gleaned here beyond the addition of song of doom...