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I've been running Pathfinder for about two years now and I'd say my only real gameplay issue is that I don't like how 3.x/Pathfinder handles monsters. I end up boiling them down to a simpler framework before I run them. Balance leans lot more strongly towards single-classed builds than prestige...

Awesome! Thanks for the head's up. Cheers! Kinak

I've never been a big Tharizdun fan, probably because I already had homebrew equivalents by the time I ran into him. The "god even the evil gods hate" schtick can be great for justifying weird parties of adventurers, though. Rovagug is good for that role if you're using Pathfinder stuff or...

This is a good article and a nice break from revisiting individual monsters. I think he makes a pretty good case for random encounters as setting tone, discouraging lollygagging, and telling a story. In my experience, it's also important that not every encounter is about the main story...

Taking the wayback machine to April of that year, Paizo was interested in doing some 4e products alongside the Pathfinder RPG. Then the initial version of the GSL was released. And that's all she wrote. I think you're greatly overestimating that PR hit. Paizo doing their own thing was...

Your timeline's a little off there. He'd been working on "3.75" for a while. But, by the time you saw him, had already been tapped to work on "Mon Mothma," the production name for the Pathfinder RPG. This article covers that year. Jason's section is "The Birth of a Roleplaying Game." You've...

My exposure to published dungeons is pretty minimal, but I do have a fondness for Jorgenfist from Fortress of the Stone Giants (Rise of the Runelords #4). The subbasement is linear, but two parties could go through the rest in very different ways and see different content. In a more general...

Seriously, the person you were eavesdropping on has posted in this thread. You could ask him what was going on or, if that's awkward, perform some basic googling. You could find, for instance, his version of the conversation you eavesdropped on: Or the reason he had to go to the D&D...

After some further thinking, my opinion basically boils down to "Not in the DMG." I'm fine with them not having explicitly evil options, or even not having any alignment weighted options, but I don't want players' options in the DMG or MM. If you're expecting everyone to have both at the...

I wouldn't expect they were the only ones. I mean, everyone needs accountants, to say nothing of other managers. I'm not one of those people, though, so I really appreciate you sharing what you did see. I don't think she's arguing there shouldn't have been a Beginner's Box. From what I've heard...

I think almost by definition, making your character better at a given shtick is customization. There are other kinds of customization, but that definitely is one. Now, if everybody always chooses the same shtick, it's pretty boring game design. But that doesn't necessarily mean people won't...

I'm curious where people are getting this idea that it's easier to update someone else's game than it is to make your own game. I mean, it's one of those things that seems like common sense, but isn't true at all in my experience. Do other people's experiences differ or are we just running on...

Keep in mind that Peter Adkison stepped down as of January 1st, 2001. The layoffs were later in the year (I want to say August, but it might have been their traditional Christmas layoff). In my experience with corporate america, one manager's plans never survive the transition to a new manager...

The results of this thread are pretty interesting. It's unscientific, obviously, but it bears out the thinking (that I've heard from both Paizo and Wizards) that 4e and Pathfinder weren't competing directly. It'll be interesting to see if 5e, being closer to Pathfinder in some ways and further...

You're right on that. Here's Lisa Stevens explaining why. Cheers! Kinak

My two best, longest running campaigns both included evil PCs (one had a single evil PC, the other a whole evil party) complete with summoning, deals with dark gods, and all the rest. I understand some groups might have problems, but I'm certainly not looking in two places for spells. It's hard...

I think they're trying to straddle the line with modularity, allowing both innovative options and traditional ones. Which is either crazy enough to work or just plain crazy. History will have to be the judge of that. It's not what I would have done, but props to them for trying to thread the...

Hard to say. Assuming the game market were exactly the same, except Pathfinder wasn't there... probably Iron Heroes or my homebrewed system. Cheers! Kinak

I think LostSoul nails this one. The more a dungeon (and the world) is internally consistent, the more players can actually engage in meaningful decisions. If all you know is that there's a right door and a left door, the choice isn't meaningful or interesting. If the left door looks more used...

I kind of expected some WotC layoffs for Christmas, but starting so early is a little disturbing. Best wishes to Mari and anyone else who finds themselves on the wrong side of a balance sheet. I'd be surprised to see Hasbro license something out, but I agree with your general assessment of the...