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I read all the archives of this column, but I won't be reading it in the future unless a) you post about it again or b) they get an RSS feed that doesn't give the entire site. (I guess I should set up a filter -- never done that before.)

Good link, Morrus, thanks.

Sounds good. So in the two situations I mentioned you'd probably have the people who failed the Jump check be hanging from a ledge and have to make a Climb check, and the people who failed to run from the monster had to jump down a sewer grate and now they need to find a ladder somehow. It...

It just seems so much more effective than all the DMG-approved ways of detecting invisibility (20+ Listen DCs, 40+ spot DCs, checking two squares a round with a touch attack...)

My problem with the "aid another" solutions is usually narrative. I can't imagine how one sneaky guy, with his boots of silent stepping and cloak of hide in plain sight, can do anything to help the court jester with jingling belt of sparklies and Perform (Song that Never Ends). I'd rather have...

How do you guys narrate the results of the group checks? It's always seemed like a huge stretch to me saying "Two of you are slower than the monster, but the two fast ones pulled them along by the hand" or "two of you can't jump the chasm, but the other two showed you the diving board by the...

This is an amazing solution. It brings stealth into group play instead of being something only the rogue can do by himself, and it uses the skill challenge mechanic to turn stealth from a single pass-fail group check into a longer scenario with some tension. Here's what I'd do for a...

There's an invisible creature in the room, and the Flash has no way to see it, and no time to follow the 3.5 rule about making melee touch attacks into two adjacent squares at a time. So he quickly runs back and forth through all the squares in the room at 100 mph. When he bumps into the...

It's definitely not an elegant solution, in that reading it I have no idea how it's supposed to work. One thing that always bugged me in 3.5 was that you couldn't use Hide to get away from a combat because (it seemed to me) you needed to break line of sight and make your enemies distracted from...

How do I view earlier articles in this series?

I guess the intent of the rules makes sense but I just wasn't smart enough to figure it out from reading their literal text.

I was thinking of a cleric or druid having a different stat for spellcasting than you use for Spellcraft checks.

The Spellcraft check is not going to do a very good job of making up for not having to spend XP if the DC is 5 + caster level and you can take 10. That means a caster with Int 10 and 1 rank in Spellcraft can create up to a 9th-caster-level item with no chance of failure. What's the point?

Your forum link is helpful and authoritative, but the subnote link didn't help me because it links to h ttp://www.d20pfsrd.com/extras/pathfinder-faq#TOC-Magic-Item-Crafting and the actual anchor should be h ttp://www.d20pfsrd.com/extras/pathfinder-faq#TOC-Magic-Item-Crafting-5-5-10- (their...

15% is derived from a DC of 10 + 1 for a first level scroll, and a Spellcraft check of +7 from being trained and a 16 ability score. I guess it would be even worse for clerics. So I appreciate the quick answer, but I don't really know who Jason Buhlman is... it would be nice if they put the...

First off, why does Magic Item Creation say "The DC to create a magic item is 5 + the caster level for the item" and Item Creation Feats say "Successfully creating a magic item requires a Spellcraft check with a DC equal to 10 + the item's caster level"? If the second is true, why did they...

Can anyone offer circumstances when the OP's tactic would be appropriate? Obviously in a Marvel Comics genre this would be awesome and much preferred to pulling out a crossbow. I do think something like a barbarian throwing a halfling rogue would be pretty cool. Or perhaps if the ranger was...

That's the best idea I've heard to go with what Ahnehnois said -- it's not a misfortune happening to his farm, it's an opportunity that happens because he has the farm (and because he went on the quest to get the beans, and because he recruited the druid circle to help him grow the beanstalk).

Yes, this is hard for me. Does anyone actually use the "move your attitude up two steps" rules? Social skill checks tend to be pass/fail, yes/no affairs. What does it mean for the Intimidate to succeed, if not that the guard lets the PCs go by? "The guard still says no, but now in a scared...

I haven't played the game yet, but regarding setup I am thinking that two egg cartons should be an official part of the game board. How else are you going to keep all those tiny little tiles and tokens separate? Rubber bands won't work. The setup should go much faster if you can just pull the...