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A new game world is attractive to me when its quirks and oddities and the other aspects of its unique flavor are reflected by the game mechanics which support the gameplay in that universe. For flagship game worlds this is harder to pull off because they are supposed to set the standard for how...

Here are the paladin derivative classes, in PDF form. It took some time for me to figure out online file sharing but I'm hoping this will work out. Paragon, Crusader, Blackguard, and Renegade classes

It makes sense to me that if there can be a paladin class, there should be an anti-paladin class. While it should be exclusive to NPCs outside so-called 'evil campaign', there should be a fully functional class antithetical to the Paladin. I also believe it is reasonable to have a holy/unholy...

If I had a whole bunch of time on my hands, I would actually go the opposite route, and compile a single PDF from all the material so far added to the online PRD, using the Core Rulebook's organizational structure. For example, the Class chapter would contain all material for base classes as...

In my experience, getting the players to react emotionally to some event in the game is only slightly related to the actual in-game thing that's going on. The largest part is how you describe the situation, which is not something that can simply be communicated because that is also dependent on...

How effectively could clerics, druids, paladins, inquisitors, and other socially acceptable casters keep the relatively small population of the land's wizards and sorcerers in check? While wizards can be neutralized by taking away their scrolls, spellbooks, and magic items, you can't simply...

A left-field approach you might consider is adopting the Words of Power game mechanics from Ultimate Magic. There are 152 "word of power" components listed in that book. You might try this: Out of all the uncountable possible combinations of the 152 words of power known to exist, there are only...

Pretty much. For example, in many campaign settings, LG gods probably already tolerate NG and LN followers whose methods of worship may not be completely in line with preference, but if the causes of Good and Law are furthered then why mess with success?

The native deities of the world I am designing are fairly weak in terms of the amount of attention they can devote to false followers. As such they may be willing to overlook a certain level of disingenuity (for now) if there is no direct undermining of religious structures or prestige, in lieu...

I agree that Dimensional Anchor is what you're looking for. If you absolutely need to have a reason why there was no detectable green glow around the Anchored priests, there is a metamagic feat called Invisible Spell in D&D Cityscape (page 61). To summarize, there is no visual manifestation to...

I really like the suggestion of Bluff and Sleight of Hand to conceal the use of Verbal and Somatic (and Material) components. Maybe a caster could conceal magical writing (as on a scroll) to make it appear as ordinary wriing using Linguistics, and this would be opposed by a Spellcraft check...

I'm currently taking Calculus II, and I made an A in Calculus I and Statistics, so taking the mean of a value for me isn't complicated. But, Pathfinder (or D&D) is supposed to be an enjoyable pastime. I play Pathfinder to get away from math, not indulge in it further. :)

I'm not sure I would like having to do such "advanced math" as taking the average of two numbers as a player. To me, if I decided touch AC was too easy a target, I would probably award firearms an equipment(?) bonus to attack rolls to represent the extra power of their projectiles (compared to...

I think I'll take your advice because it makes sense, and also because I would prefer not to load down the campaign with a lot of house rules if they aren't really helping the problem they are supposed to solve. As an aside, what were your thoughts on the feats I proposed? They are all...

Attitudes in my world are meant to vary widely. There will be kook fringe groups and even whole towns on both ends of the spectrum, but most fall somewhere legally between "benign wizards are ok if they are licensed to practice" and "possession of a spellbook or spelllike abilities will get you...

So would it be fair to say that you don't believe divine magic would be able to compete?

OK, so here's some rules modifications which I threw together after a little browsing in my library. I'm hoping these rules modifications will make casters PCs more viable in the face of the additional social drawbacks which their respective classes will be enduring. Please evaluate and...

A metamagic rod would be great for that. Weren't there some "quickened metamagic" feats in one of the Complete books for D&D 3.X that, while probably broken in a normal game, let a caster metamagic a spell without spell level cost 3/day?

I'm designing a campaign world where magic users are feared and hunted down, but I still want to be able to have PC casters who can still reasonably practice their art undetected. All my players who want to do a magic caster have an idea of what they're getting into, but I also want to give...

A different approach you might be willing to explore is how 4E does skills, where you pick skills to be trained or untrained in. But where 4E did some serious generalization, go the opposite direction and super-specialize them. Bring back Innuendo and Intuit Direction as separate from Sense...