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If the players don't mind it works well. I'm just saying it makes the skill less useful. Just like the new Rogue trapsense ability makes Perception even more useful. Unless I make a habit of it, I only ask for Perception checks if I'm suspicious, in which case I might as well assume falsehoods...

That's your prerogative. However If I knew that I would not put much in Sense Motive in your game. Either that or ask for sense motive checks whenever someone COULD be lying about something I'd care about.

Brock Human Fighter 10. "Brock" 25-point buy w/2 stat gains and magic belt Str 22 Dex 16 Con 14 Int 14 Wis 10 Cha 10 Skills: Climb +17, Intimidate +13, Know: Nobility +7, Know: Engineering +10, Ride +15, Survival +12, Perception +9. (These numbers may slightly lower because of a previous...

Yes, well builds are nice and whatnot but I like to see builds that works across the levels and not just level 10 or 20. A major disadvantage two any TWF builds is that they require alot of feats to work well, while the more traditional builds are less "costly" but are of course improved by...

First of all, Sense Motive is no a lie detector. You can however get an idea that a person is not being generally truthful in a conversation, that he's trying to bluff/con you. Action: Trying to gain information with Sense Motive generally takes at least 1 minute That aside, it's generally...

You are doing it wrong, as Barkskin has target: Living Creature touched. Some touch spells can affect multiple creatures, which are noted in it's description. I can't really recall any multiple-creature buff spell that requires touching.

While this looks decent it takes a long time to get to this level, while a str. based fighter can dish out as much or more damage in the first few levels! You didn't specify the order of feats. but I guess you took weapon finesse and TWF first along with Weapon Focus. So that's +2/+2 1d6+2/1d6+1...

Yes but that means hobgoblin will almost always be able to defeat an orc because of higher stats, more HPs and an extra feat to boot. A warrior is not a "skirmisher", a warrior is a warrior and a fighter is just a name for a heroic version. But anyway, yeah it works if you don't think too...

Hmm race of clerics, hehe in some ways they are... But in 3.5 Assimar were listed as 1st level warriors just like any other humanoid/person without racial HD. I'm guessing the new take is "whatever the PCs are most likely to encounter." Rather than "the majority of it's race." If it was the...

Well yeah at least if they pick Toughness. I wonder though why the Hobgoblin race are listed as Fighters, is it because of their martial training and discipline? I mean even Elves, Dwarves and Humans are listed as warriors as standard, while Fighters are the exception. Also, since...

Hmm well I have given my players +x inherent bonus to their physical stats so that might help will that (and they can eventually get stat boost items as well). But it doesen't help spellcasters much - did you mean monsters have generally too high saves in 3.5 MM? And thus spellcasters needs...

Hmm so far I've gotten what I need from the Pathfinder core book, coupled with D&D MM and Pathfinder SRD. I'm using PF stats for some monsters, but quite often I see the monster are very minutely changing (for example the ogre has +1 HP because Toughness feat is improved). I'm not sure if I...

Ok, Ironwolf is right, it IS described as a sort of iron with cold forged techniques. In any case you need iron to make steel, and you cannot mine steel. Our conclusions were the same though: Nothing in the rules or the fluff prohibits it from being used to make any kind of metal weapon.

Well... no cold iron is not the same as regular iron, not in D&D. And we are talking fantasy here. Cold iron is a special material named after iron because of it's visual appearance. Since it is a fantasy metal there is no telling what kind of weapons can or can't be made of it, and the RAW here...

If you want a greek twist, Toxotai means archer/bowman... and sounds kinda toxic ;) Toxotai Diablos ;)

Realisticly, that just doesen't work. First of all if using steel or normal iron a sickle and a rapier would need different kind and qualities of steel (a rapier would have to be alot more flexible for instance, while a sickle could be harder (and thus more brittle). A blacksmith would know some...

Uhm well it's kinda hard to evaluate ALL those lines of class abilities, it's pretty much the same as asking "rate all the classes from 1 to 10." There are differences here though. Some of these are meant to be main abilities, some are meant to give a class a little interesting power. And most...

Hmm yes apparantly Deflection bonuses as well and some others. Any other points? Edit: I noticed on point 7. that you could read the damage part to mean you can choose between the listen types of damages without being actually required to have the correct item. Of course that's a stupid literal...

Is it really that more quick to make than in 3.5? As far as I could tell the only "tricks" was a simplified skill system, a few "typical feat lists", and guidelines on budget for types of magic items. You still buy stuff piecemeal though, which can take ages for high level PC/NPCs. That's...

Grappling! Sigh.. I thought the new grapple rules were supposed to be less complicated and more steamlined than 3.5 grapple (at least that's what supposed to be one of the winning points of PF). After rereading the grapple rules it seems it has changed more than I thought initially: 1...