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Sure, if you're not helpless. I'd generally advise against letting people chop your hands off if you can help it, but sometimes you run out of options (or HP). I'm just suggesting handling it the same way as chopping someone's head off. A PC can try to cut her enemy's head off all day, but it...

I think they just require prerequisite feats and enough BAB. Definitely easiest for fighters, though. There's another track that grants combat maneuvers on criticals as well. The closest for that is Staggering Critical, I think. You get the action denial, but not the movement rate reduction or...

A general called shot rule could be framed pretty harmlessly as "Declare your shot, the enemy can choose to either accept the special effect or take normal HP damage." That means it's not very useful unless you're trying to make a point and means that normal attacks are just called shots on the...

Growing up on He-Man and graduating to Star Wars, Star Trek, the Cthulhu Mythos, Pern, and Darkover... I'm not really convinced there's a useful distinction. Introducing something new to a character takes a moment to understand how that character would see it, whether that "something new" is a...

To the best of my knowledge, there isn't an official answer to that. We've been running it assuming that you can't take a 5' step with it and it's still pretty awesome, so you're getting something great either way. There's also an open question of whether activating the ability (not the...

To avoid being like an MMO, play to tabletop's strengths. Provide problems, not solutions - They need to harvest the seeds from a tree that a sleeping dragon is wrapped around. How? That's their problem, let them come up with something. Engage Roleplaying - Maybe the bird will give up its...

I'm pretty lax on bookkeeping like tracking initiative and ammo, but we have a few specific houserules. Official: 1) Max HP every level for PCs (and NPCs/creatures at the GMs discretion) 2) Critical hits are automatically confirmed 3) No auto-fail/success on natural 1/20 Those were all put up...

Just curious, ForeverSlayer do you use XP or level up at the plot-appropriate points? I'm curious because it seems to me that the latter would keep even the most level-driven characters focused on the plot. I know it helped me tamp down people's kill-stuff-get-XP-gain-levels urges back in 2nd...

Just so we're on the same page: the mythic rules are used in exactly one Adventure Path and we have no idea when, or even if, they'll come up again. The new AP that started this month has nothing to do with the mythic rules, so if you're that worried about them, you can use that... or any of...

Yeah, our average group age is 30 and we love our simple-to-run characters. Unfortunately, my players also love having tons of options during character advancement. Those two butt heads and we end up playing very martial-heavy Pathfinder with streamlined custom monsters. Cheers! Kinak

This is really cool! I ended up using 5' hex maps for a few encounter areas (where the bears were fording the river, the cathedral, and the docks where they caught up with the hostages) and just letting people know the number of rounds it took for movement between them. Something similar to...

Glad to help :) TreantMonk has a good one. It's core only, but that's probably fine for an NPC. The wildshape section is towards the bottom of the guide here. Cheers! Kinak

Depending on a picky point of how you work DR in your game, the Planar Wild Shape feat from Ultimate Combat would be perfect. Failing that, Eldritch Claws (a feat from the APG) would help against some fiends. Here's the picky point, if you're curious: DR X/good can be penetrated by any creature...

This is exactly what I'd love to see. If they have a simple and complex warrior, skilluser, arcanist, and support, then any other classes are just gravy for me. Cheers! Kinak

Rise of the Runelords is the one I'd start with, personally, assuming you're looking for a classic playstyle. Not sure how you'd implement it, but using the Sins in place of Icons would be thematically appropriate. You're mostly going to be converting the spirit of encounters, so reading the...

With your setup, it sounds like the rakshasa would be on the wrong foot and really casting about for options. Illusion-wise, it might do something simple like illusion-up two of their NPC allies to look like it's rakshasa kin "revealing" that they've lead the PCs into a trap. For mechanical...

Well, their class approach is trying to get everything that's appeared in a PHB1 into the 5e PHB. So, applying that to races, I'd expect human, elf, dwarf, half-elf, half-orc, gnome, halfling, tiefling, and dragonborn. Cheers! Kinak

Can't XP you, but this is excellent. Cheers! Kinak

Traditionally, a rakshasa's biggest weakness is having its illusions seen through. Piercing or resisting those illusions could be a really good in-combat skill challenge, especially because you can justify a lot of interesting skill choices beyond (or instead of) Arcane. You could also give...

There aren't any direct equivalents, but Pathfinder does have the Qlippoth and a range of Lovecraftian beasties that can slot in easily enough. For the actual body horror stuff, the closest is probably fleshwarping. It might be worth looking into the Dominion of the Black as well, although...