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The first part of the gameplay chapter has extended sections on alignment. One system is very... shifty, where people's alignments change more often based on action. Settling into alignment and performing actions that support it will grant you affirmations that you can spend for bonuses, or...

Going through the skill changes... The Background skill variant divides skills into two sections: Adventuring and Background. Adventuring Skills are the ones like Perception, Stealth, Disable Device, and knowledges directly associated with adventuring. Background skills are ones like Handle...

Summoner's changes are mostly to the Eidolon (which means the class should be compatible with archetypes). Eidolons have fewer evolution points now (15 at level 20), and are required to pick a subtype. The subtype grants them thematic abilities replacing the lost evolution points. I guess this...

The Rogue's big new changes are the addition of the Rogue's Edge feature (which grants skill unlocks, more on those later), and Finesse Training. Skill Unlocks are basically skill tricks. Things that grant you extra functions for your skills. They're not super impressive, but they're pretty...

Getting to the monk now. The monk has full BAB, so Flurry now just adds bonus attacks. The big change are the Ki Powers. A lot of these have the same names as normal monk powers, but function differently. (For example, Diamond Body requires you to spend Ki to neutralize poison, rather than...

I'm going to start sort of poking at the classes while I have time, since I think that's the hotbutton topic for this. First, the Barbarian. The big change here is rage, which (as previewed), applies direct bonuses to rolls and temp HP, rather than bonuses to strength. I'm not super familiar...

Short version? Players get three actions per turn. Things that took a swift, standard, or move action now just take an action. Spell casting usually takes two actions. More complex stuff takes three. There's a whole chart of options I don't have access to at the moment.

Oh crap, front page. So, for the record, the deeper I look into this book, the more I'm trying to clarify what's going on. So, when I can, I'm going to put a few little blurbs here. The first one is Variant Multiclassing. Variant Multiclassing is theoretically compatible with normal...

Pathfinder Unchained is shipping to Paizo's subscribers. Below you'll find a quick look at the table of contents, introducing the five chapters of the book and what's in each. The book seems crammed full of new optional rules and systems. UPDATE: Be sure to scroll down to the comments below this...

Even if you didn't use the default setting, the combination of Modern + D&D Style Fantasy is kind of compelling. My current UA style game forgoes the Shadow, the gift of Lethe, and all of that stuff. Everything is out in the open. Including the evil overlord that followed the fantasy races that...

Wow. I was running a modern 5e game on Fantasy Grounds, but got fed up for various reasons (Difficultly adjudicating certain rule situations, lack of support in FG, Grass is Greener Syndrome), so I switched the system to 13th Age and the venue to Slack. AND THEN ALL OF THIS HAPPENS. ...I do...

I'd like to see Incarnum Classes again, or a reconsideration of the concept. That and Psionics would be it, really.

This looks cool, and I wish you the best. But unless this becomes something like Spotify for RPG content, I can't justify a sub for every one of my players. A lot of online rpg services demand cost per player, as opposed to cost per group. If there was a group option, or a free version, I'd be...

I'm curious as to how G-Core Prime won. I checked it out, and the presentation was so bad I was too busy trying to gouge out my eyes to process the actual text. Is it really as good as claimed?

4 out of 5 rating for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide One of the biggest problems that Pathfinder has is its unusual relationship with multiclassing. On one hand, the way classes are designed means that the best option is often to stick with one class. On the other hand...

4 out of 5 rating for Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Technology Guide First, a brief disclaimer: If you're hoping that Pathfinder's Technology Guide will help you round off your futuristic pathfinder campaign, you're going to have to be prepared to do some extra work.The Technology Guide is...

There is also the upcoming Occult adventures book, if Playtest materials are allowed. But then you wouldn't be a sorcerer so much as an outright psychic.

I wonder if it would be possible to switch to a Paizo-like model, where the main source of revenue is subscriptions to adventure paths and lore content, with the mechanical rules being added to the SRD on a delayed schedule. D&D has an abundance of settings to draw upon, and they've...

...Aww. I had hopes for Dungeonscape. At least as a way of having the rules online. I had sort of a half formed dream of being able to buy a GM License so I could share rules with my online players without having to make them purchase the books (or worse, resort to piracy). This is sad. I...