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So, lately, I've come to be a bit frustrated with a few things about Paizo. They still put out some really excellent adventures and some really interesting campaign setting material, but I'm leery of rules bloat with books like Ultimate Magic and Ultimate Combat following so closely on the...

The best use of a Healer is to take one as a cohort at high level so that he can raise your friends without expending any gold . . . ;)

First off, I want to agree with Ari that this is, indeed, not an edition limited problem. The same discussion has come up on Paizo's boards discussing how Paizo wants to handle epic level rules with Pathfinder. One of the problems I think we had from the 3rd edition Epic Level Handbook is...

Indeed, Armored Gopher is the world's first fully sentient game store. There for a while it demanded TPKs regularly from campaigns run inside. I think its thirst for blood has been slaked for a while, as its been months since our last TPK. Although when we started tracking TPKs, we had to...

Woo hoo! Now I can sleep tonight . . . OCD, deactivate! ;) Seriously, thanks all.

Because I'm horribly OCD, I just noticed that this year I've got 299 distinct visitors to my Games and Geekdom Blog. I must see this go over 300. You will wonder why you wasted your time, I will warn you up front, but you will have the warm, fuzzy feeling of knowing that I can sleep at night...

Isn't there a relative that Kevin J. Anderson can find to finish this up?

My comments about good drow come from the fact that there are secret drow cults of Eilistraee in the Underdark, and groups of surface dwelling Eilistraee worshipers in the Dalelands and the Savage Frontier, as well as the drow of the Promenade under Waterdeep in Undermountain. I'm not saying...

Pawsplay and fba, I think I am just trying to overthink this before it even gets going. For all I know, I'll have a bunch more people that haven't contacted me in the group, and I'll have a different mix of people than I thought, or things will just flow naturally with everyone once they make...

Honestly, the thing I am the least worried about is the setting. If I'm not using DC villains and NPCs, then I might as well have started up a M&M3e game instead of calling it a DCA game. Part of the fun of this campaign, for me, is that I will get to act like Lex Luthor, Joker, Bizarro, and...

Heh. Honestly, its less about my "quiet" player and more about only having four people, and one being "quiet" and another being "this is going to be the absolutely best campaign ever!" I think I'm almost more intimidated by the player that thinks I'm going to present the greatest campaign ever.

Well, they aren't significant changes from the origin of drow, but they were significant changes from how more recent drow material had been presented.

I've gone back and forth on the issue. I've never run a campaign where I didn't allow raise dead spells, and I've not been in a D&D game that excluded them, but as a GM, I've seen a fairly good amount of players refuse to be raised, and I've had a few characters die and I've let them be so I...

I always wanted to have a cult of Bahgtru show up in one of my 3.5 campaigns, with some of the orc cultists being battle dancers from Dragon Magazine. For some reason it just seemed so right at the time, and yet never fit in the campaign.

I really liked a lot of the background material on the drow in Second Darkness. The biggest problem that I saw was that its hard to get people to leave their baggage from other settings behind when you try to present them with a slightly different drow paradigm. For example, drow don't have...

Okay, maybe terrify is a bit extreme. I've got an upcoming DC Adventures campaign starting up, and I was thrilled to finally get the chance to run this. I'm a huge DC geek, and I'm really looking forward to hamming it up using established DC characters. The closer I get, though, the more I...

The "trap" I fell into was reading someone classify it and A Song of Ice and Fire as similar "types" of fantasy, with a lot of emphasis on courtly intrigue and life at castle, etc. Eventually I came to the conclusion that if Arya Stark and Simon were working in the same castle, she probably...

I just gave up on reading The Dragonbone Chair, by Tad Williams, which is odd, because I normally don't give up on books, especially since I was already about halfway through, but I just kept thinking that the book was going in circles and halfway through the book I still didn't like the...

My (now) Ex-Wife insisted on joining my gaming group when we got engaged, and she made a cleric. She was so obsessed with being the center of attention that all of my friends ended up dying from serious injuries rather then tell her they were running low on hit points, for fear of giving her...

Wow, not only is Paizo down, but the unofficial chat room is unavailable as well.