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There's three different approaches you can take, which are analogous to translating literature from one language to another. (1) Word-for-word translation. Attempt a direct 1:1 conversion from 4E game mechanics to Pathfinder. This is the most time-intensive but produces the most faithful...

I dislike the broad use of the term "broken." I know that it carries the sense of "overpoweredness" or "unbalancing" in modern gaming parlance, but early on, Pathfinder has seemed in my opinion to accept the idea of "power gaming" as an accepted feature within itself, and has actually become...

I wish I could say I was awed by it. I looks interesting from the point of pure character and plot development, but the paths don't have that 'ooh' and 'aah'. Maybe there needs to be more?

You could take Book of Exalted Deeds and apply the features of the Vow of Poverty (p. 29ff), but flip the bonus types and descriptors. As for unusual cravings, I can't help you much there.

I can't immediately recall whether there are any substantial differences between COC/UA taint rules and 3.0 Oriental Adventures, but you might try looking at OA as well as Book of Vile Darkness (3.0) for some inspiration And if your players can't take a simple word without getting puerile...

Slowly getting used to the new format...I have one request: for each ofthe game system banners, could we have a different high contrast color background color? The D&D 3.5 logo is easily observable on a shrunk webpage on my droid. However it would be nice to be able to more quickly tell 5E and...

Sense Motive isn't magic. Even if totally reliable, it can only detect deliberate and knowing attempts at deception. A character who lies but believes he is telling the truth and characters who are pathological liars should both register as 'truthful'. A character who has built such a character...

Here is my attempt to create a "reasonable" fumble system. First let's clarify the terms I use for this system. (If these differ from the official terms for the same concepts, or if they strongly clash with the standard rules in some way that I have misremembered, please let me know so I can...

Critical fumbles look nice on paper but in result they just take away from players' enjoyment. The only approach to CFs that seemed to treat higher-level characters fairly, had characters risk a critical fumble on a natural 1 with their final attack on their turn. This meant that everyone was...

This should be implemented if at all possible.

Well, there's a few ways you could make a world that would fit the definition of "atheist". Which kind do you mean? First let's establish what constitutes a deity from a mechanical perspective. If I understand the intent behind this part of PF, it's that deities (a) are statless characters and...

The forum merger would not bother me EXCEPT that D&D Next/D&D 5E needs to stay in its own forum. My reasoning is that D&D Next forum traffic will flood any combined D&D forum because everyone will still be trying to learn the new rules, putting up character builds for peer review, changing and...

In my multiverse, new material planes are continually being created by the Supreme Being, and old ones are evolving into new upper planes or lower planes. Each new material plane begins populated with its own flora and fauna and small groups of sentients ('first ones') scattered around the...

Once I started investing in PDF copies of the core books and got used to not having physical pages to turn or stick a bookmark, I swiftly got hooked on using e-books for everything. Now instead of a crate of books to tote to games or to take up space on the game table, I have a smartphone with...

The book "...And a 10-Foot Pole" is a nice equipment resource as well, if you can find it. It uses its own metallic currency system (with bronze pieces, iron pieces, and so on) and its prices often deviate from D&D's, PF's, and d20 Modern suggested prices for the same items. A GM running a PF...

Though it may be two "editions" behind, I've kept the Arms & Equipment Guide with my PF books for when I need something a little more exotic than what's in the standard line of SRD items. Ultimate Equipment's additional stuff makes our choices even greater. It would be so nice if WOTC would...

P.S. And as for the non-adventuring players of the world, perhaps some of them are gestalts, but probably most of them will be monoclassed (mainly the commoners, primitives, slaves, and so on).

Viktyr, perhaps you could try this approach: begin with the assumption that most of the adventuring characters in your world will be gestalts (even if one of their classes is an NPC class), then come up with a way to compensate monoclassed characters for their decision to specialize.

For multi-classing in a d20-derivative game, there is a range of functionality: at the "fancy" end of the spectrum you can create "the perfect multiclass" which really just means you synthesize a whole new base class from two or more existing ones. At the opposite end you have the "cookie...

What body slot should they occupy? They can be a permanent or semi-permanent magic item, but there are no ear, nose, or tongue body slots. It would seem odd to lump them all within the 'ring' item class if they are not ring-like in shape, and behave more like wondrous items. If a culture prizes...