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By that metric, they'd had been working on Pathfinder revised since the day the Core Rulebook came out. In all seriousness, these threads have been a constant feature of Pathfinder fandom since day one. Which, to be fair, they have sort of been working on it. I mean, I'm sure Jason Bulmahn and...

You're welcome. Glad my experience turned out handy for someone! I've actually collapsed down the monster math in my game and it helps a ton. Each monster has one attack (barring something like cleave) and all damage is 3d6+X. Totally worth it. Advantage/disadvantage works much better for that...

I really liked advantage/disadvantage as a mechanic and imported it into Pathfinder... and almost immediately removed it. Basically, it works really well if you're rolling one thing at a time. So it was fine for skill checks and low-level attacks, but as soon as players got multiple attacks, it...

I think it's more that "one skill point per level" can be read the way you were thinking, but I don't think that was ever the intended rule for 3.x or Pathfinder. I've run into other groups using it that way, but it's always originated in a misunderstanding. Quite a bit did change with skills...

I'm not sure the world could handle the awesomeness of two Lisa Stevens! Wolfgang Baur is a good call, though. You're right that WotC runs a risk that the best adventures for 5e, like the best adventures for 3e, will be published by an outside source. That'll cause problems when the companies...

I'd be surprised to see Paizo take that offer. There's an element of danger in giving another company control over your product lines, as Paizo learned the hard way. As long as Pathfinder's supporting them, sticking with that is the safer option. Cheers! Kinak

Just wanted to say this is pretty slick. I really like the design limitation of sticking with the trifold. Cheers! Kinak

I don't think I've seen the Greek gods for Pathfinder. They had 2nd Edition stats in Legends and Lore, but clerics looked very different back then. Pathfinder does have much of the Egyptian pantheon in Empty Graves. I'd say the biggest trick for converting a pantheon to Pathfinder is getting...

I think portraying orcs as full-on barbarians is totally reasonable. They're not really known for their craftsmanship. Trophies If I were going to spin orcs this way, I'd have them focus on trophies rather than usable items. So their weapons are bone because they killed the thing the bone came...

This is my go-to for Pathfinder demons. Demons are the embodiment of individual sins to the exclusion of all else. Daemons are embodiments of specific deaths. And Devils are defined by their roles in Asmodeus's hierarchy. Even the "lesser" options seem pretty distinct to me. Divs are dead...

There obviously are going to be plenty of 4e "retroclones" produced under the OGL. So the real question is whether any of them will have the industry clout, production values, and product support to pick up where WotC left off. Pathfinder was a bit of a perfect storm, having as much to do with...

Yeah, my Pathfinder monster generation looks like this. Actually, I have it cut down to a business card for GMing on the fly, but the chart is all you really need. I was hoping 5e's monsters could approach that level of simplicity while still having some interesting tactical options. But it...

I apparently did a good job managing my expectations, because it's exactly what I expected. So definitely no love or hatred, just a "yup" and moving on. If I end up playing it again by some weird quirk of fate, I'll form a more detailed opinion. Cheers! Kinak

Pathfinder Sources I know Ultimate Combat and Inner Sea Combat, which came out recently, have some stuff about arenas in them. Both talk a lot about the value of playing to the crowd. As a simple variant, consider giving the crowd's current favorite a +2 (or +4) morale bonus to hit and saves...

It seems hard to be properly angry at 5e if you were involved in the playtest. I mean, you basically knew what you were getting. I had my dealbreakers and they're out there breaking deals, but they were doing that for much of the playtest. There's even less point getting worked up about that...

The Realms have never really done a lot for me, mostly because the RPG material seems to be set at the least interesting possible times. I ran a campaign during the Time of Troubles back in the day, but the lion's share of material was for the new status quo after it. Similarly, the Spellplague...

It would be nice. I don't mind flagrantly ignoring guidelines, but it's nice to know when I'm ignoring them Cheers! Kinak

Unfortunately, it's hard to say if the numbers are good without knowing what the encounter day will look like. Which, in practice, means that whether casters have way too many spells or way too few is back in the hands of each GM. I'm not even really sure what benchmark we were supposed to be...

There's something to be said for a more grounded dark fantasy... I'm not really sure that's ever been D&D, though. I certainly have games I'd rather use for that, although you could move an E6 variant there easily enough. I think beyond that, the mortality of Game of Thrones is heavily...

This is good advice, but kind of like salt: a little bit really helps bring out the more subtle flavors in your cooking, but if you add too much... everything just tastes like salt. The occasional really vile villain stands out much better on a background of self-interested jerks...