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Time magazine is apparently interested in where nerds come from. Apparently the answer is Utah. Conversely, the District is less nerdy than all of the states (they must have a different definition than I do). However, playing Dungeons and Dragons is part of their definition of nerdiness.

I'd take all the numbers and character abilities and throw them into one pot. Then I'd probably divide that into two sections, one for "nature" (stuff that is inherent to your being) and "nurture" (stuff that you learn). That is to say, you'd have skills (dimensional) and feats (categorical)...

I would have hoped though, that given the title and topic, this thread ought to be for people who use PF and accept it as a workable game and want to talk about making it a better version of what it is (i.e. the ones from my solar system).

Maybe he can't improve because he's already doing it right.

If anything, though, I think the absence of genre blindness is characteristic to the way I've seen rpgs played. When I run a horror game, the players know it's a horror game. They don't split up or take unnecessary risks or trust people. They're not surprised when bad things happen. In fact...

Well, implicit in your statements of "I want parity" or whatever else you want is that PF doesn't already have. You're not phrasing it in terms of gray areas ("I want more parity"), so I don't interpret it as such. Moreover, PF already has what you want. It's quite easy to run a game with...

I watched earlier this week; it's been a pretty lame show but maybe it's starting to come around. It didn't strike me as an example of "genre blindness"; it seemed pretty genuine to their situation.

I don't think it's that tough to guess. I don't think it's nearly wide enough. What it needs is more support for the NPC classes and other noncombatant and or non/adventuring archetypes, as well as a wider range of crazy stuff for the adventurer types to do. I think it's stuffed into to small a...

I don't know. I've used the bard in the past of an example of something that tends to be considered as inherently laughable (and indeed, the PF incarnation is not up to snuff, it's fair to say). But that being said, if you're trying to imply that whole dynamic where the spellcasters are just...

Well, there's your first mistake. I don't think that's true. People say stuff like that all the time. I don't think that line of dialogue was intended to convey a literal truth. Particularly in dangerous situations, it's quite normal for gallows humor to kick in and for people to talk about...

True, but what PF does have going for it is the scale and scope of playtesting they did. They gave us the full game, a game that everyone already knew a lot about, and made it free, and we did what we do and gave feedback. WotC still hasn't exactly come around to that approach. What that means...

Well, we can't fix problems that don't exist, of which some implied disparity between your level 10 cleric/fighter/wizard/etc. is one. There have been plenty of tangential discussions, but there have also been plenty of suggestions for things that are. Fix things that are actually broken? If...

A world where the essence of an entire person can be simplified down to one number that defines how good they are? Clearly we have very different definitions of "perfect". But since we're agreeing that this isn't going to happen regardless, moving on... Which is pretty well established in PF I...

I'm not really clear on what your standard is though regarding the meaning of level. For example, if we take as given that two level 10 characters won't always be the same, are you stating that a level should instead be an exclusive range (for example, that no 9th level character should ever be...

I think you're probably right about that. I think it's a shame. To go back to where GMforPowergamers started, with this question of "why can't PF take the stuff about 3e that I liked?", that is an unsatisfactory, if true answer. To be fair, I have no financial stake in gaming; one can't...

But, as I noted above, what's their legal recourse if someone publishes a class that has all at-will magical abilities and similar rationale? Maybe they'd have to change the names of things around or something, but as I understand it, WotC can't copyright the really important stuff. Again, only...

I think it's abundantly clear that the overall effectiveness of any given D&D character is determined by many things other than level. Choice of class, and choice of smaller-scale options are definitely among those things. However, other considerations, including ability scores, equipment, and...

Really? Tell that to Nik Wallenda.

I have run a variety of stories centered around bringing about the end of the world, as a sort of Ragnarok-like battle of the dragons and gods is inherent to my campaign setting. To me, that adds a different feel, and of particular importance it establishes the experience of living in the world...

I don't think it's feasible to adopt that conceit in any game that looks remotely like D&D. There's too many variables. Well, here's the real problem: it's called exception-based design. If there's one common set of rules that everyone uses, they can all be balanced relative to each other. This...