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See, now, that's why I'm extra careful to make sure people can tell the difference between what the rules say and what I think they should say. I don't think readying an action needs a downside beyond the fact that you're locking yourself into a specific action and you're not taking a...

This whole column is a trial balloon to gauge the level of interest; it's monthly for now, but the final schedule is going to depend on how much of a positive response it generates. If I get enough questions to support a weekly column, and enough people want a weekly column, I can produce a...

Out of just the core, everything but the Druid and the Barbarian are more powerful than their core-only D&D counterparts. With supplements the D&D characters pick up the advantage out of sheer mass of material. The Druid suffers from the nerf to wild shape, and the Barbarian's "flexible" rage...

At 1st level, you get your maximum HD value plus your Con bonus. At 2nd and subsequent levels, you gain your hit die roll plus your Con bonus. And yes, you do get an extra HD at each level. That's a +1 bonus to one ability score of your choice. Character level and HD are pretty much the same...

Thanks. I'd throw you some XP, but apparently I just threw you some.

In Pathfinder, creatures with regeneration take normal damage from all attacks but regain hit points every round, just like fast healing. If they take the special kind of damage they're vulnerable to, however, their regeneration stops for one round and if their hit point total is low enough...

Really good changes: Skill points are much simpler: skill points purchase skill ranks 1 for 1 regardless of class, no x4 skill points at 1st level, and trained class skills receive a +3 bonus. CMB and CMD are simple to calculate and save you from having to memorize several slightly different...

Hello and welcome to the very first installment of Finding the Path, E.N. World's new monthly Pathfinder advice column. My name is Viktyr L. Korimir and every month I'll be choosing a handful of your questions about the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and answering them to the best of my ability--...

I've been under the impression lately that I'm the only person on the planet who enforces that rule. Still, if you're limited to one PrC at a time-- which I don't think makes sense for Tristalt-- you can replace all of your Wizard and Ultimate Magus levels with Sage Sorcerer. Chameleon gives you...

You need Factotum on any Tristalt build because at that point the only thing that matters is breaking the action economy. Factotum 20//Zen Archer Monk 4/Swashbuckler 3/Soulknife 2/Soulbow 1/Chameleon 10//Eidetic Wizard 4/Sage Sorcerer 1/Ultimate Magus 10/Swiftblade 5. That ain't workin', that's...

Why do you want world peace? Even if you managed to somehow overcome eons of human and hominid evolution to create a world without war, the results would be terrible. No progress. No culture. No purpose. Just generation after generation of humans getting fatter, lazier, and dumber until they can...

Oh, and I owe TarionzCousin XP for suggesting we get some competition in here-- unfortunately, I just gave him some for something else.

Thank you, Thotas. I had been hoping to catch an example question, and this is a good one to start off. It's times like this that I'm thankful for the weird little voice in the back of my head-- the one that nags me until I check my car keys, the one that won't let me sleep until I've checked...

I like to think that I'm something of an expert on the Pathfinder rules, but it still seems like every day I'm learning something new-- by which, of course, I mean to say that I'm spending every day reading them. I'm not the kind of person who answers rules questions off-the-cuff. When I run...

Well, if you want a bunch of baseless conjecture and house rules, here you go: Orc: +2 STR, +2 CHA, -2 INT Goblin: +2 DEX, +2 INT, -2 STR Hobgoblin: +2 DEX, +2 WIS, -2 CHA Kobold: +2 DEX, +2 CHA, +2 INT, -2 STR, -2 CON. They're already more or less kitted out with racial abilities. Figure...

Oh, sweet. I cannot wait to get my hands on this.

Yeah, I prefer the Pathfinder concept of advancing in a single class as well. I just don't like the 3.X/P multiclassing rules at all; I don't think they represent what they're supposed to very well at all, and they encourage character concepts that don't make sense.

So, inspired by some of the recent comments on 5e threads on RPG. net (from which this is cross-posted) and my own previous attempts at reforming the D&D class and race rules, I think I've finally found what I would consider the perfect solution. For those of you fortunate enough to have been...

Fochlucan Lyrist doesn't have anything to do with Evasion; the Evasion requirement is there to enforce having at least two levels of Rogue. Prescient Sense does not satisfy the prerequisites, any more than wearing a ring of evasion does. This is incorrect under both RAW and RAI. They should...

Soulbow is hands-down better. I dip Soulknife 2/Soulbow 1 on most characters, especially if there's Wisdom synergy of any kind. If you want a dedicated psionic archer, Monk 3/Soulknife 2/Soulbow 1/Ardent 1/Slayer X is the sauce. More levels of Soulbow will get you bonus feats and enhancement...