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This is useful to know. I need to read ahead and think carefully. :) Also, stepping up Gainesville area player recruitment is a good idea. The fall is coming and there must be somebody who needs to start playing Pathfinder one the summer heat ends and people become active again!

That's a fine idea. A second chance at a key moment could make all of the difference! :)

I like Burnt Offering a lot (it was, BTW, a player based decision -- they all voted and wanted that series because of it's strong reputation). We did add a cleric in as a "cohort" and that helped a lot. Part of what went wrong is that the Sorcerer ran out of spells and the Monk was being...

That's not a bad idea. Maybe an heirloom magic item . . . :)

The glassworks was murder. The players used good tactics (a total defense, blessed monk blocking the doorway could only be hit on a 20) but I had the goblins fetch Tsuto and flank using the hallway. The result was three players down and one players (the sorcerer) escaping by an inch with...

We are playing Pathfinder. I'd assumed that the more powerful PF characters would make up for a lot but I was wrong. Some of it had to be bad rolling. The rogue and monk set up a couple of great flanks that ended with the rogue missing. In fact, in five encounters, he only had one sneak...

I just decided to start the PF adventure path "Rise of the Runelords" with a new group. My hope for a gentle introduction was not met. There were 3 characters (elite array, book gold): a human rogue, a gnome sorcerer and a dwarf monk. I found the goblins simply murderous. The characters...

Hoping to start playing Pathfinder. I do have an online 4E group.

True, but making the builds straightforward isn't a bad deisgn goal, either. I do think that there is a niche for a less complex version of 4E D&D. I would find character creation daunting these days without a DDI account; mcuh as I like the tool, I'd rather that not be the case. It is also a...

In Star Wars Saga they made all force powers, as far as I recall, encounter powers. This actually worked really well as it smoothed out the use of daily powers across encounters. It's only an issue if they mix the two approaches (some classes have dailies, others do not) but it might be...

True Seeing eventually trumps see invisible. Energy resistance improves and greater invisibility trumps invisibility (which is why I tend to not to insert it as a second level sorcerer spell unless I want to retrain it). Disintegrate trumps knock. But the point is well taken and there are...

This basic idea, which I wish I had encountered earlier, is really interesting. It creates a nifty way to try and balance the high/low power dichotomy that is often seen in literature. After all, Frodo and Batman both seem to drive the plot more than Superman and Gandalf. I think that this...

I think that the issue is that the 3.5E D&D supplement strategy led to the game becoming a lot less fun and the sheer volume of options led to all sorts of issues with game balance. In particular, the two that annoyed me were: 1) As power levels rose and options changed, the CR system (never...

What do you mean?

:) Anybody else interested?

How much flavor is required? What is hard to include in such a requirement is that world/background is an endless amount of material, if done well. Just look at how much material there is on major fictional worlds (think Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Conan or Buffy the Vampire Slayer). If...

Agreed. Which is why I get cautious about expanding numbers of books in Pathfinder, as well. That being said, I will grant that they are taking fairly active steps to make prestige classes less overwhelming good as options and the idea of switching out class features is fine. It's a lot...

I think that an erratic schedule isn't a problem. I have Pathfinder and some of the adventure path modules so that would be certainly be an option. Minitrue?

These things are difficult cases, I admit. But the general issue is that the splat books add a lot of new material that has to be thought about, integrated and understood. Perhaps I am not the sharpest stick in the pile but I prefer rules where the holes are well understood. If there are too...

Yeah, I am kinda of curious myself. It is hard to see how a first level party (unless there is an element missing) broke the 15 DR or the spell resistance, nor how they achieved tactical surprise (true seeing, te) or handled something that could fly, teleport and kill the party with a standard...