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I vote treating ability scores as modifiers (True20) and making skill ranks a fixed value (Unearthed Arcana). It simplifies referencing a whole lot. Before 3e, only a few creature tags were particularly relevant: animal, extra-planar, humanoid, monster, non-living, plant and undead. If creature...

That's what subtypes are for. Pathfinder still has elemental shape despite elementals being a subtype. Better yet, rework the spells so they can't be exploited like that. I think that HD/BAB/saves/skills should be completely decoupled from creature type rather than treating them as actual...

I'm not convinced. It's an extremely simple change.

5th edition more or less uses the 3.5 creature type system except that animals and vermin have been folded into "beasts," magical beasts and monstrous humanoids have been folded into "monstrosities," and outsiders have been split into "celestials" and "fiends." Could Pathfinder benefit from...

The basic premise of the game is that humanoids really are just funny-looking humans with token psychological issues to set them apart like in Star Trek (otherwise their value system would be so alien you couldn't relate to them), and good and evil are objectively defined and part of the fabric...

Should the Paladin kill the baby orcs because they'll grow up to be evil? No? Should he raise them so they'll grow into good orcs? Yes? Why are there not whole civilizations descended from good orcs born thousands of years ago?

Is the polio virus "evil" simply because it is innately harmful to our own existences? By that logic, outer space is evil because it has no air, fire is evil because it burns us, hurricanes are evil because they destroy our cities, and dihydrogen monoxide is evil because it is potentially toxic...

Those aren't people. Killing them is morally no different than pest control.

The problem is this conceit takes away that race's agency, turning them into automatons. All the satisfaction of defeating a villain vanishes when it turns out they never had any free will to begin with: they didn't choose to do evil things, they're just soulless meat puppets programmed to...

I don't consider that thinking a solution. Drow are evil matriarchs and orcs are evil patriarchs. How can we fix this? Make them as morality flexible as humans and demihumans. Every race is divided into societies based on alignment: evil societies and non-evil societies. Why can't evil gods...

I am dissatisfied with Pathfinder's reliance on the cliche of entire races being evil. Even Tolkien struggled with the idea of orcs being born evil or not until he died (he was Catholic). So I'd like to use this thread to brainstorm non-evil societies of evil races. I'll start with the most...

The map doesn't display all the energy and elemental planes because there are an arbitrarily high number of them (including the paraplanes, quasiplanes and demiplanes). Hence the invention of the Tempest, which throws them all into a blender so you can fight psionic and smoke elementals in one...

One thing that has irked me about the canonical model of the planes (otherwise known as "the great beyond") is that the Inner Planes are mostly hostile and the Outer Planes are too similar. In order to rectify this perceived problem, I scoured across 3pp and reordered the planes a bit. They're...

Multiclass spellcasters don't work very well in Pathfinder. Higher level spells are sacrificed in favor of doubling the number of lower level spells. In the Trailblazer rules, spellcasting relies on a base magic bonus similar to a base attack bonus. BMB is used to determine caster level and...

I don't agree with that at all. HoH already gave us the archivist, a divine caster who relies on Intelligence (and what I'm looking for is an OGC equivalent). PF gave us the Charisma-based Paladin who prepares spells. There's really no reason why Intelligence and Wisdom cannot be used for both...

Sorry, that is not what I am looking for. :( I was looking for a class that is to the druid what the oracle is to the cleric. I found such a class in New Paths Compendium named the Shaman (not to be confused with the hybrid class from Advanced Class Guide). Now, all I'm looking for is a divine...

They aren't what I'm looking for, unfortunately. :( The Theurge is the Mystic Theurge expanded into a base class, casting both arcane and divine spells without a loss of spell level, but suffers from multiple ability dependency. The Magister is a spontaneous counterpart that also suffers...

While comparing the different spellcasting classes, I noticed that there was an uneven distribution of classes based on spell lists and primary abilities. Intelligence- and Wisdom-based casters always prepare their spells (from spellbooks/familiars and meditation, respectively) and...

As it stands there are nine outer planes, one for each of the alignments. However, I feel that this ignores the nuances of alignments. While there are nine basic alignments, there are also alignment tendencies. For example, neutral good (lawful tendencies) or neutral (chaotic and evil...