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Two suggestions I just thought of overnight: they're rather esoteric though, so maybe not what you're looking for. (1) The Far Realm Has Different Physics Okay, yes, that's obvious at a glance, but take a step back for a moment and consider what that really means in a game context: the rules of...

Different games have different needs, even conducted within the same setting. For example, if you're not planning on doing a kingdom-building game, then most of chapter 4 will be totally irrelevant to you, but if a PC suddenly decides he wants to be the adventurer who owns his own tavern (a...

Don't forget the ability to craft without a prerequisite spell using a higher Spellcraft DC, in PF. You'll usually have to meet a caster level prequisite higher than 5th to be able to craft a Golem, too (which is yet another prerequisite you'll need to increase the DC for if you're lower)...

Looks quite reasonable to me. In fact I'd be inclined to not even require the feat tax to do this in my game- if the caster has already spent the feats to be able to craft Constructs of his own (and IME, very few PCs do), then doing cool stuff like that should be allowed for much the same reason...

I've had heavy Far Realm presence in my games for years. It can work very well if done correctly. You seem to be doing it correctly, at least given that you can only have a rough outline with few to no details before the PCs get involved! I suggest taking a look at the Far Realm adventures from...

Something wrong with the Daemons that Paizo put in Bestiary 2? I thought everything in the official PRD was open game content.

"This is the game that Talisman wanted to be." Whoa! That sure got my attention! :O

Hee hee! :D Thanks. Now that we have a number, we can figure out how to answer the question (though I for one am too busy with regular life to set up a study). As I mentioned above, I do live in a large urban area, so my experience may admittedly be skewed- but it's a large number, not just one...

Suspect away. While it is true that I live in a large urban area (Chicagoland), and it is also true that one of the groups I'm counting for this purpose was actually a group that played online (and therefore by definition had players engaged in the Internet), the other groups were all in-person-...

Define "large percentage." During the last 12 years, 100% of the game groups I was involved with paid attention to online forums and kept up with industry news. And by "100%" I mean, 100% of the players involved in those groups, not just that every group had at least one involved person who did...

My take: (1) I wouldn't even charge for this- it's a magic item with lots of more powerful effects, and magic rings resize to fit their wearers- so these bracelets likely would too. So they can already change. Turning into tattoos would be just part of the effect that makes them hard to remove...

Regardless of what feels "realistic," the fact of the matter is, PF is a game first and foremost. You have to be fair to all the players, and that means that if you don't require training to level up in even one class, then you shouldn't require training to level up in any class at all...

Your GM has to approve something like that at start, and many GMs won't- that sort of spell is really better used as a reward for completing quests than as just something you can get whenever. Of course, different GMs have different preferences in this regard, so YMMV.

Nope, no reason. The skill check is the only barrier. That's one of the primary reasons for spellbooks of enemy casters being valuable treasure: if the enemy caster was higher-level than the PCs (and most end-bosses will be), then the PC Wizard can potentially get spells for future development...

For the race creation rules I'll agree with that; the other race rules I thought were very well done (the racial Archetypes I particularly like). Use the racial abilities in the creation guide as examples, and "eyeball" it- making a new race has always been more art than science anyway. The...

Role-playing over roll-playing, there's no reason to favor any of those characters over the others, so I'll focus on roll-playing reasoning. It looks to me like your party is currently screaming for an Arcanist, so I'd actually put the Wizard as my number one choice right now. But if anybody...

Yeah, the skill is given new uses in Ultimate Campaign such that more characters will want to take ranks in it, assuming the GM uses the Downtime System in that book. Craft is sort of campaign-dependent as a skill, in terms of usefulness in game.

Yes, your main problem here appears to be mental- a result of using the incorrect word ("banned" instead of the rules-correct "opposition") to refer to the mechanic of specialist Wizards having less access to some spells. PF lets Wizards prepare spells of those opposition schools; it lets them...

Sadly, that doesn't work by RAW- both Archetypes have an ability that replaces Bardic Knowledge, so they conflict. Arcane Duelist replaces it with the Arcane Strike feat, while Detective replaces it with Eye For Detail. That being said, IME Arcane Strike is a fairly weak feat in most...

So should races like Catfolk and Ratfolk. There's no consistency. And the spell immunities aren't so important as to justify treating Humans different from Centaurs. That's just ridiculous, since Centaurs are in fact Humans from the waist up, by definition.