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This has been turning over in my head and I've been wondering how many times the characters in question have a back up plan. An answer to "What happens if I get caught?" When you have to run away, how many times do players say something like "I toss a bag of caltrops/marbles behind me as I run"...

The Pathfinder Adventure Path, Hell's Vengeance, has the players playing evil aligned characters. Running my players through the We Be Goblins adventures, my players have definitely been guilty of murder, arson, and jaywalking.

When the party decides NOT to run, you as the GM need to check your assumptions. Do the characters know they're up against an unbeatable foe? The players may but their characters don't and they're not acting on meta-game knowledge. Do the players/characters think escape is possible? What if...

You can find a summary of all the official pathfinder modules here. All of the PFS module summaries are here. Maybe you can string together some of the PFS scenarios together to make an overarching plot?

@Heliomance was working on Heroforge Anew. It was an attempt to remake the old Heroforge excel workbook. I don't know if that project is still active. Edit: It looks like you can get Heroforge Anew here.

Off the top of my head: Dolphins follow the ship and the crew takes it as a sign of good luck. (Crew gains small bonus on checks for the rest of the day) Sharks follow the ship and the crew believes it to be an ill omen. (Crew takes a small penalty on all rolls for the rest of the day) Snagged...

My organization is scattershot. Back when I played in person, I used a Laboratory Notebook, like this. I could draw maps in it since it had the grid and then I would keep all my notes for the next session in there. This was also back when I had time to design everything myself. Dungeons...

I wound up making Nabthatoron the big bad in the end and scrapped Dyr'ryd for him. :)

I think though, that if you tell your group that you're interested in a published adventure path and they agree to play, that there is a tacit agreement that there will be some rails and that the group is ok with them.

The paizo forums were very helpful when I ran Shackled City. You can certainly see if anyone there can be helpful. You can also buy the pdfs and take them to your local library to print. Support your library and save your own ink! It's what I've been doing lately. :)

The goblin rogue in my campaign has been infected by magical crystals that spread by corrupting organic matter into more magical crystals. The rogue has survived long enough to make it back to his village and is asking the shamans for help in curing his affliction. Now, while I could just say...

timidly raises hand I'm still GMing two pathfinder games.

Arise from your grave, thread, to haunt this board once more! For those of you that have a copy of the rules, what are your feelings on the rules system? My daughter is almost 12, loves The Dragon Prince, and has played some 1E Pathfinder with friends and family. Is this something that a 12...

More like I'm sure my players will try and mess with it and I wanted to have an idea in my head before they do.

If a PC were to remove the focus for a Soulbound Doll (Bestiary 2), could they communicate with the soul trapped inside?

And the equivalent maintenance. Grooming, stabling, feeding, cleaning. In D&D, at least, those costs are pocket change to most adventurers. 15 gold? Here's some platinum. I don't carry gold.

The biggest deterrent to mounted combat in 3.5/PF was how easy it was for your mount to just get shot out from under you, especially at higher levels. So unless you invested in a class that gains a special mount or animal companion, your horse is one fireball away from being soft cover. Never...

Dragons should always be scary, especially played smartly. Why is your dragon in a 20x20 featureless room and why would it fight fair? I like how in PF1 the dragons get more abilities as they age, including spellcasting. And that their abilities varied by the type of dragon. In the last 5E...

Didn't 3.5 have this problem with polymorph and wild shape? Constantly trying to balance it? Isn't it why we got the Rules Compendium?

This right here, 100%. I know the rule I need isn't in the core rulebook. Is it in the GM's guide? No? Oh, it's in the appendix to the bestiary. Because I would have obviously thought to look there first. I make it a point to tell people that I GM for that if I cannot find a rule quickly and...