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It's funny to read your post right after checking for new posts in the Golarion = Greyhawk thread. If anything, I would have thought a fan of Greyhawk would have appreciated the stuff they did in Golarion more than the average person... Or is that what you are talking about? It's too much like...

Well, right in the rules for speaking. (Duh. ;)) Here's the direct quote if you want (in the section on Free actions): So yeah. No more waiting until your turn to say "ow" after being hit by that fireball or sneak attack! :p This statement implies that most other free actions (unless otherwise...

I believe the APG has a feat with fairly low prerequisites that lets you make a rend attack. Plus there's a number of "natural weapon" enhancing spells, items and feats. I don't ever see it as a full sorcerer thing, but as a sorcerer dip, I could see it. Not sure why it's in rounds though. An...

There's a case for free actions used even when it's not your turn (speaking, for instance). A reasonable DM might allow activating them for an Attack of Opportunity, using up a round to do so (counting 2 rounds if you want to keep them active when your turn comes up). Strict reading of the...

Yeah, if you are using the Changeshape ability instead of the spell Alter Self. If you use the spell, you do need to change (such as when a Red Dragon decides to mess around with a nearby city). There's also the line in the change shape ability about how you supposedly can't change into...

Actually, the crossbows have rules for that: Further, the light crossbow counts as a light weapon, and heavy crossbow counts as a one-handed weapon, for purposes of two weapon fighting penalties. Repeating crossbows can be fired once like this too (light or heavy), but the reloading/refiring...

System Mastery has been really well addressed I feel. A lot of the "poor choices" in 3e have been addressed quite nicely: - Skills! Between the consolidation and removal of the "4x at 1st level" business.. even if you find that you need something levels-down-the-road, you can pick up a skill...

Interesting ideas... Personally, I like the idea of the Warforged's alien mind being more analytical, so a +2 Int feels good (it's also quirky, since they have automatic spell failure chance). Here's how I'd do a Pathfinder Warforged: WARFORGED +2 Constitution, +2 Intelligence, -2 Charisma...

43. As an experiment in fusing demon blood with a tiefling to create a super-demon mortal creature. The sorcerous magical talent and manifestation of this demon creature being the unexpected results of this heretofore considered "failed" experiment. This one is actually how my brother is...

Heh, between that and the shrink item effect of a glove of storing, you can totally go all Ultraviolet style of hand-crossbow.

Quickdraw and Gloves of Storing? Gloves of storing can shrink it down to keep your hand free, and it's a free action to store or retrieve it. The only problem being that you can only have one at a time (for some reason). So have on ready for shrinking, and the other can be accessed by...

I'm guessing you didn't even read the first reply to this thread (mine). Polymorph just requires that you change your size modifiers, not remove all stats. Like I stated in my first reply, a Great Wyrm changing into a Human would have 29 Str, 10 Dex and 21 Con. That's as good as some...

The way I run it (as DM), is that if you are giving up your iterative attacks for the round, you get to have the added vital strike damage. Charging modifies the movement (double move, but minimum 10ft and straight line) and gives a penalty to AC for a bonus to Attack, but to me it's...

Well, in the Monster Creation section of the PRD, a CR 13 Aberration "should" have about 19 HD. Lower HD (and thus low hitpoints, etc) should be balanced by higher saves and AC. The "eye tyrant" has low everything. Honestly, I wonder how much can be fixed by just following that HD <-> CR chart...

Ugh... the "cloak of resistance" was the worst culprit. With others, you could at least describe the effects... bark-like skin, an invisible force protecting your vitals, fire effects on your blade, etc. That cloak had to simultaneously make you faster, hardier and mentally fortified... all...

While I love the effort done here, I'm forced to agree with Nikmal that it's not really on par as a "CR 13" in ability. The thing is.. as I recall, it was always like this, so as a direct translation, it's not really off. There was all this hype about the creature, they were written as some...

Polymorph effects remove access to extraordinary and supernatural abilities... so it'd be a DM fiat change to let a dragon in altered human form use his frightful presence. You could make it a feat: Can "turn on" Frightful presence at any time, including when in a form that doesn't normally...

Well, if you gave them the "Alter Self" spell (since older dragons cast spells), they could change into a medium or small humanoid, but still have all their physical stats. That's some pretty strong and hardy human if you ask me. You could describe it as looking fairly typical for the race of...

As I recall, the dragon was not evaluated in a vacuum when they went with picking the CRs. They felt that Dragons were to be used as "big event" encounters, that the GM would drop a lot of hints before pitting the PCs against it, such that time to investigate would reveal their breath weapon and...

Well, since this is the Pathfinder forum, I'm going to quote from the PRD core rules (not the PHB): "Moving: Moving out of a threatened square usually provokes attacks of opportunity from threatening opponents. There are two common methods of avoiding such an attack—the 5-foot step and the...