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To expand on this a little, the idea was simply to cut the amount of power points a psionic manifester gets to some fraction, and allow them to be spent per encounter, with a simple recovery mechanic of something like 5-15 minutes spent in psionic focus/meditation. Additionally, an overdraft...

Not actually a trick, but the first adventure in Shackled City featured some kidnapped children, which nobody suspected of being anything else. So if you really want your 'damsel trick' to work, consider using children instead, maybe after you have the adventurers hired to go rescue them.

Not very. I've been running the Rise of the Runelords adventure path with first the Beta rules, and now PFRPG, and have been making any adjustments totally on the fly without any real problems.

Not that we ever used the massive damage rules much, but they've also been changed in Pathfinder. Now you make a DC 15 Fort save if you lose more than half your hp in a single attack (minimum 50).

Do you mean the spell wall of thorns, which has been around since at least 3.0?

I'm not sure the paladin sucked before, rather I think folks would have different reasons for playing one. Before they were pretty much an alternate fighter with some inherent resistances, but now I think they'd fill in as a reasonable replacement for the party healer as well. That said, my...

Someone sculpt that balor into a mini, please!

It can be fun to turn the just-captured nameless monster or NPC into a babbling idiot when given the opportunity to win its freedom. Sometimes those background details come in real handy!

I'm of the opinion that reworking a monster to fit the prepublished CR is preferable to readjusting the CR, from the standpoint that this is less likely to break older modules that might use the monster in question.

From what I gather, Paizo has two bi-monthly product lines (Pathfinder Companion and Pathfinder Chronicles), which act to help fill in some of the gaps of the Golarion setting. That said, the books are only 32 pages, and are more gazetteer-like, leaving lots of room for individual GMs to tailor...

I'm not sure there is one anymore in Pathfinder RPG. The Concentration skill is gone, and the new Concentration check looks to be a caster level check with their spellcasting attribute modifier tacked on.

Unearthed Arcana (3.5) p.58 has a variant fighter that basically trades the fighter feat progression for sneak attack. A few lines below it is a variant rogue that trades its sneak attack for bonus feats as a fighter. There's your rough class equivalency right there.

Chances are good that someone in your gaming group has a box of Lego packed away somewhere in their basement. Do I really need to say more? ;)

We use psionic/magic transparency in our Eberron campaign, but with a little twist to preserve some of the flavor that psionics are just a little different: Knowledge (arcana) can be used as Knowledge (psionic), and vice versa, but with a -5 penalty. Similarly with Spellcraft and Psicraft...

The best healing bang for the buck is a wand of cure light wounds (or wand of lesser vigor if you're using Spell Compendium), but the downside is that you generally need to use a lot of charges to bring characters back up to fighting strength since each charge only heals a relatively small...

When dividing up loot, my group generally throws in an extra share for the "party", which is then used for party expenses like cure-sticks, potions, bags of holding, diamonds and/or diamond dust for raise dead and the like. In practice this seems to work very well for us. Think of it like...

The three very evil souls providing V with power were clearly happily anticipating the idea of V casting familicide. To me, this is a very strong indication that in the OOTS universe, the act would be considered evil. Sorry: EEEEEvil...

Plus, "geek the mage first" isn't just good advice, it's a time-honoured tradition! ;)

When the erinyes showed showed up, my party figured there wasn't much they could do about her in the big chamber and beat a hasty exit out the double doors leading to the entrance hallway, which made for closer quarters. The thing is, our wizard had anticipate teleportation running, so when she...

There's an easy fix for the rogue, though: loosen the restrictions on what they can sneak attack. Trapfinding may fall by the wayside, but I suspect few rogue players will care all that much if they can still regularly roll a fist full of d6's.