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You don't actually need new classes. Rogues will cover most of what you need. The second t hing is no character can do all the work of secret police. They have specialists. While most members might be rogues (eg surveillance experts, lockpickers, assassins, etc) some members will be fighters...

Glad to hear it. Plenty of players quickly became DMs after being in a game with a poor DM. There is at least one upside: it's a learning experience, and you've learned some of what you need to not do. Since you're taking over from another DM, there might be a need to fix a few issues. You said...

A 3rd Edition bow deals 1d8 damage. Point Blank Shot lets you deal +1 damage at close range (within 30 feet). Frost arrows deal +1d6 damage and must be at least +1. Given his level, it's doubtful he can afford anything more expensive than +1 frost arrows. His damage should be 1d8+2 +1d6 within...

The latter, and yes, that would suck for the affected character. In fact, your initiative would be affected, something commonly forgotten, because it's annoying to recalc initiative.

This question comes up a lot because WotC wasn't clear about it. A character casting a Still, Silent spell without material components or focus still provokes an attack of opportunity, unless you make a Concentration check. Doing so implies you maintained enough focus to keep your defenses up...

I've played 7 years of 2e and that trope never really made sense to me. You would need to have spells that make you good in melee and spells that blast/control and weapons skills. Or perhaps you're looking to use spells first, then when you run out use a weapon. That seems a good idea at low...

Don't worry about True Strike. You won't miss it, unless you wanted to use lots of ranged attacks. Why? Because it's a standard action. It's almost a "neener neener" spell, in that it looks really good, but is actually worthless. This is kind of ... confusing. I'm not sure what your PC expects...

Your AC will always be low. Don't rely on it. Pick illusion spells such as Mirror Image and Displacement to make sure you just don't get hit. At higher levels, you can actually get a good (indeed, ridiculous) AC by abusing Polymorph Self. Turn into a troll, enjoy your new high ability scores...

I had a badly-behaving player in my group for some time, in a similar situation (multiple DMs). We don't have "rules" for booting people or anything like that. I declared that I would not run games for him. Said player can leave the table when you're running, and maybe come back when you're not...

By level 8... I know the magus class from Pathfinder draws a lot of heat, but it helps fix this problem. The real problem here is action economy. The Eldritch Knight has powerful defensive options, mainly Mirror Image and Displacement. Mirror Image can make your AC nearly irrelevant, and...

Especially when the elf is frightened or running. That's some really inconvenient pheromones, considering that any elf that runs into a thri-kreen tends to get scared and run. (On Athas, elves with high Dexterity scores can actually outrun thri-kreen... but most cannot.)

Kuo-toa whips are known for dishing out lightning bolts. You could replace those with custom water spells that shove PCs around. It'll be nasty to anyone who assumed that a lot of Resist Lightning spells would protect them. Kuo-toa monitors are monks, or something similar anyway. If you have...

Is this written somewhere? Is there a standard damage per level chart? IME that's only possible if you're using dailies and action points, and you can't do that every round.

It's the age of the internet. Of course, 5e is new, so there's still time for a premium rulebook set. I wish there was a good offline (but downloadable) rules source, with the crud pared out.

Druids aren't strikers, but some of the wild shape powers are striker-ish (in terms of melee). If you're looking for a druid that can kick ass with ranged spells, however, you need to multiclass. The invoker is a Wisdom primary "controller", with the wrathful invoker having some striker-lite...

More choice means more power, even if most of the new choices were suboptimal. Of course more choices also means more chances to make bad decisions. I'm personally not a fan of mixing roles that much (it's one reason I don't allow hybrids in my campaign). A fighter using Twin Strike would deal...

Huge. 4e is very popular with DMs because it has pretty transparent balance. In 3e you could have high-level characters with really low AC or low damage or one or more low saving throws... Worse, there was very little help in determining what good values were. Contrast with 4e. It's harder to...

1) I played a human. Elves just don't make great fighters. Dwarves do, if you pick one of the concepts that must wear heavy armor. (The concept I started with started with heavy armor, but almost immediately dropped to a chain shirt as the speed restriction was just too much.) 2) The concept I...

Pretty sure this will be moved to the Pathfinder-specific forum. There's really nothing for cultists in that book. There's only warpriests and shamans when it comes to divine spellcasters, and neither are more powerful than clerics or oracles when facing a gunslinger. Gunslingers are obviously...

Pretty much this, removing some OP content as well. But I'd also like to see a few things like action points vanish. I'm not a huge fan of the e-tools but the community in general is, and I think that's necessary. Will these e-tools work in Windows 15? Probably not :( Then again, I wonder if...