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In one campaign our party acquired a Chaos Diamond. We sold it without a second thought. The DM, deciding to teach us a lesson, had the buyer use it as part of an evil scheme. Called in to deal with the fallout, we defeated the buyer (and got a reward) and re-acquired the Diamond. Which we...

In our first ever 3rd edition campaign, my sorcerer did end up having to stand in the front line occasionally. With high Dex, mage armour and shield (3.0 version) he had the highest AC in the party, and with a 5th level wand of burning hands he was one of the best damage dealers as well. I...

I'm fine with all that, so long as the DM is okay with the hostage failing to get saved on occasion. I'm much less keen on "save the world in 24 hours or die trying" sorts of adventure, where the characters have no opportunity to recover from a bit of bad luck early on, potentially leading to...

That's a good point. I get frustrated with "core only, for the sake of balance" DMs in Pathfinder games, since I'm perfectly capable of breaking the game with a core-only Wizard or Druid (I choose not to, obviously) but this means I can't try out something that looks be fun but certainly not...

For the purpose of this discussion I assumed that had already happened (in life, let alone on gaming, I usually start by asking someone nicely to do something before deciding whether I need to insist, since that's basic politeness) and the player saw no reason to change. I guess I should have...

I find many of the PbtA games to be very intriguing. I'd love to try out something like Mountain Home (technically Forged in the Dark rather than PbtA, but I think that's close enough for the purpose of this discussion) which I could in theory play in Pathfinder, just to see how it went with a...

What should the DM do if a player character's ability is turning almost all encounters into a cakewalk and everybody (or everybody else, anyway) is getting bored and / or upstaged? 1. Nothing 2. Nerf the ability 3. Rewrite every encounter to either 3a Add more foes; or 3b...

"There are no Paladins because Achaekek ate them all." "But can I play a Paladin?" "I guess so. You do realise Achaekek hasn't gone away?"

As a player, if I think my character is over-powered I will nerf it myself. So I'm pre-disposed to get a bit annoyed if the DM then nerfs it some more afterwards. Generally, I won't play a character that has been nerfed by the DM, since the whole point of playing a specific race, class etc. is...

Well, I did back Kingmaker 5e and (like all crowdfunding projects) it'll be done when its done, and I'm happy to wait for it. I've backed several projects that never arrived at all, and plenty that delivered years late, and I've learned to be quite relaxed about the whole process. Instead, I'm...

I don't own it, but according to the link in the OP it was Drow of Porphyra - Karza, Children of the Loomqueen, which had "mature themes".

They did have one product which was too "adult" for the compatibility licence, but I think the main reason was they were tinkering with the system and once PF2 was announced (with fairly major changes) they decided to publish their own version of PF1. It's a bit like Paizo did when they came up...

D&D is a group game, it's not just about one player. In our group everyone else would find it hilarious if the situation forced the caster to get caught in the blast of their own spell.

One of the PCs in my group is a magus built around using shocking grasp as often as possible. I decided to convert the (excellent) old Dragon adventure "Temple of Poseidon" to Pathfinder. It was more of a "thematic" conversion than a faithful update of the original, so I threw in a load of...

Thank you so much for mentioning the Americans. I'd never heard of it, and when I did look it up the premise really didn't grab me, but I gave it a try based on your recommendation and it was amazing from start to finish. My wife loved it as well, although she did find some parts too gory to...

In my case, just because one of the PCs is a half-fiendish ninja octopus doesn't mean that they are common. Player characters in my campaigns are not typical examples of society as a whole.

I'm happy to play in a game with restrictions, even if the logic of those restrictions might not immediately be apparent - I assume the GM has a reason for what they are doing. I might get a bit wary if there is a sweeping restriction like "no classes with access to healing spells" - one of the...

I like that idea, it's an elegant way of dealing with the issue of why all these powerful NPCs would entrust their lives to a bunch of neophyte adventurers.

I've certainly heard stories about players getting flak for building unoptimised characters, sometimes to ridiculous extremes (e.g. in a 3rd edition game, one group apparently banned sorcerers, on the basis that "if you want to play an arcane caster, wizards are better so we won't accept...

City walls can also help when the local peasants get thoroughly fed up with being taxed and decide to do something about it. Also there are usually cavalry barracks close to the city centre, which would seem a strange place to have them unless you think you might need to use them against your...