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QFT! After playing 4e, I can't be bothered with rounds/day, or even hours/day. Maybe as a PF fix, divide rounds/day of whatever by 5 (round up); the result is the number of encounters/day that the ability can be used. As in 4e, 'encounter' = 5 minutes. I'd love to, but I don't even know what...

I'm of the opinion that a good game does at least one thing really well, and does other things at least passably well. Note that there is no trying; there are good games, and there are poor-to-mediocre games that tried to be good. D&D has always made a poor simulation of anything but D&D, so if...

KaiiLurker has a couple of good suggestions. Here are a couple more, if you want to make things really simple: 1. Add the cure spells to all spell lists at whatever levels you think appropriate. The players won't be healing much during combat, but it means that the wizard or whoever can heal...

Gee, it's almost as if some people aren't reading the OP before going directly to the Reply button...

I think the best out-of-the-box blaster caster is the kineticist -- when you get to higher levels, where many monsters have arbitrary energy resistances and/or immunities, those 'pick your own flavor' blaster powers really make a difference. (Of course, you'll also want to have as many knowledge...

I believe Pemerton's point is that 4e martial characters don't gain versatility and power in great leaps and bounds by taking wizard levels or by picking up a bunch of wands. 4e fighters, rogues, and so on are awesome just by doing martial stuff.

I know what you mean; sometimes I'll start fixing some aspect of the game -- like spells, for example -- then one thing leads to another, and I again realize that I'd have to rewrite the game to notably improve it. Ah, gotcha. I thought you were one of those "RAWR! PCs don't need anything, WBL...

The jealousy...there are no words!

Obviously the OGL was good for us, the customers. Variety, business competition, and all that. And obviously putting out the OGL and then taking it away turned out to be a huge mistake for WotC. I'm not convinced that putting it out in the first place was good for WotC's interests, even if it...

Different planets again. From my planet, it's clear that the game expects PCs to have -- if not the Big Six -- than the bonuses that come from those items. So scattering those bonuses among even more items just screws with combat dynamics in a horrible way. I remember a story in which Drizzt is...

Yeah, I'm not going to claim that this is more than a rough patch -- my ideal solution would be to rewrite the character progression math, include defense bonuses, and eliminate +X items. Let's say that BAB goes from Level x 0.5/0.75/0.1 to Level x 0.75/1.0/1.25; Saves go from Level x 0.33/0.5...

Man, this'll teach me to check the forum list before going directly to a thread to post. :-S Anyway, the following fix may too mild for a real system-reboot...or maybe not, given the average PF fan's discomfort with drastic change. As I mentioned a post or two ago, I like 'innate' bonuses, for...

As has been pointed out, people from your planet trying to help people from ours tends to result in frustration; but I do think that helping people enjoy PF would be cool, so I'll take a stab at it. I'm a house rules guy, so my solutions are along those lines: As I mentioned a post or two ago...

Clearly, my shorthanding skills need improvement! :blush: If it wasn't already blindingly clear, we're just going to have to agree to disagree, because we live on completely different planets. I agree that those things are true in comparison to earlier editions, so let's just leave it at that.

Once was enough. After that, I started campaigns at 3rd level at the lowest, and advising new players about trap options. Sure, any DM can run a game on zero prep -- just pull stuff out of your nether regions, and roll those dice! The question is: how fun is the result? In my case, improving is...

Only a single sentence to mention The Council of Wyrms? I am a sad panda. :(

Yes, we've established that you enjoy a wide range of power levels. ...You don't spend much time on the Paizo forums, do you? Plenty of PF fans think that LFQW is a problem, although it's anyone's guess which group is in the majority. In any case, I'm not just talking about the LFQW issue...

Are you disagreeing with me here? I don't think I'm disagreeing with you. I don't have percentages I go by or anything; I just don't like certain options being laughably inferior to others. I guess that's where we differ; I want more than okay. As a DM, I want to be able to write or buy an...

You're absolutely right -- but nobody has made this claim. (If it reads like I did, I apologize for being unclear.) You seem to be saying that "No two 10th level characters are going to be exactly the same power level, so why even try? Any range of power levels within the 10th level is...

Yeah, fans who think that 3.x is more realistic than other editions always get an eye-roll from me. Particularly with things like non-level-scaling AC built right into the game's basic rules; so you can't even avoid the gaminess by choosing a different character option! I too think that WBL is...