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As a shortcut to generating NPCs (especially party companions and henchman temps), I want to draw up some standardized equipment lists. After hand-picking the weapons, armor, and magic items of the NPC, I'm wanting the fuss of miscellaneous gear to be mostly modular. However, there are two...

It must be said that when the players in a gaming group pick out their classes and races, if their choices amount to a crazy hodgepodge of characters that make little sense, the GM is expected to run a campaign that not only finds a role for each character to play in the upcoming campaign, but...

It is because you don't have enough blood in your alcohol stream.

How about healing wizards?

All the many new choices and oodles of feats only slows down and complicates character creation for someone who's never played Pathfinder before. Once I got used to having all the extra material, I realized I didn't really need to absorb it all at once--and then the problem evaporated. If I want...

Where could I get a list of these rolled-back changes?

I play Pathfinder because for me, it had tons of more appeal than 4E D&D. PF is what 4th Edition should have been. PF did not walk down the Tabletop MMO road that 4E did, but took the best parts of D&D 3.5 and added more toys for every class. Here are three things I love about Pathfinder: (1)...

Kerlan Redforge, City of Absalom. May the Inheritor grant our city and its people everlasting peace and prosperity. Raelan Redforge, Almas, Andoran. The gods grant you and your kin blessings of health and long life. My dear nephew Raelan, In your previous letter you expounded at length the...

I would rather they publish a book full of rules variants--not new rules but optional rules like 3E's Unearthed Arcana which would replace what's in the Core Rulebook and Ultimate books. A spell point system might go in the book along with the bare minimum of changes to the rest of the game that...

I like Arms & Equipment Guide (3.0 instead of 3.5, but still different). I am also fond of Traps and Treachery I & II from the Legends and Lore series. And then there is the Airships supplement from Bastion Press, some neat stuff to go with the vehicle rules from Ultimate Combat. Other resources...

I'd say yes. If the Rogue was lying in wait and got a surprise round, sure. Now if both were surprised, neither expecting to encounter the other, and if the Goblin happened to have a couple levels of Rogue himself, and neither of the two had Uncanny Dodge, then they should both be able to sneak...

Off and on I've toyed with the idea of using a non-d20 roll for initiative checks. The implementation of this would necessarily require some conversion work with the rules that pertain to initiative. I had thought to resort to a percentile roll, with appropriate houseruling of Improved...

X-Crawl uses a similar system, except that it forbids players from declaring the use of "mojo" (its version of hero points) for their own characters. A player may declare the use of a hero point to apply to the task at hand, but only for another player's character (and it need not be seconded)...

If I may draw from the "what classes should be in 5E" thread, another possible solution to The Epic Problem is to put together a few highly generic but quite formidable epic-level prestige classes. Epic Priest Epic Arcanist Epic Warrior Epic Scoundrel ...to correspond to the 'big four'...

I considered this question when attempting to come up with a list of alternate classes for d20 Modern. Here was my guideline: identify all the ways any given character would seek to solve a deadly and immediate problem. What skills or talents are they able to apply in order to survive in a...

Not 20th.... 12th or 18th. Anyway, what are other options that can be done with class levels, if we deliberately exclude extending 20-level classes? How about prestige classes? The upcoming Paths of Prestige book may help in this area. IMO it would take a lot of work add 20 or 40 or more...

"Epicness" can exist in two different forms: increased power and increased versatility. The former means "whatever you can do, you can do better" and the latter means "you can do other things besides what you can do". Increased versatility is simpler to implement, IMO. Rather than try to think...

I think your definition of "Lovecraftian" is too broad. I would limit it to stories and RPGs designed to function in a setting superficially similar to real-world Earth of any time period from the 1920s to the present day. The Golarion campaign setting as currently conceived does not resemble...

Language house rules I have used: In a real-world version of D&D I ran, outsider languages sounded like instrumental music of different genres. The principle was that outsider speech was not encumbered by mere phonemes or even intonation but was more complex and information-dense than any...

Here are my three questions. Apologies if they've been asked before by someone else. 1. What will be the maximum character level supported by the rules? 2. Will there be any ability for characters to act simultaneously in combat encounters? (For example, two fighters charging each other on...