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I'm still looking to get a Pathfinder game going, and I've subscribed to the Adventure Paths and am trying to gather up the old ones I don't have yet because even if I don't ever get to play them, they're turning out to be great reads.

I'm one of those who isn't a promoter, but I don't need to be because I'm also one of those who you can't know very well at all without knowing about that. I've loved comics since being a kid, and people tried to discourage it, but instead I carry them around with me to this day and don't care...

The decision paralysis point is very much an important factor. And while the question itself is comparing systems, and that factor is pretty much true of all of them, it's relevant because it looks like you're concerned about speed regardless of system. So what ever choice you end up making...

Well, yeah. What you're calling a "problem" is actually pretty much my "design goal". The concept of alignment always struck me as a guideline to what was important to the character in character, which I like, but I thought it could've been done better. And when I read the allegiance rules...

Ever check out Mutants & Masterminds 2e? That game has what it calls "allegiances". Your character can have up to three of them. They can be an organization, a country, a person, a concept, or whatever else makes sense in the context of character or campaign. So if you made a Captain...

I "hate" Vancian magic. But ... I got used to it. It feels weird to say it that way, but it's what it amounts to. If I'm reading a book or watching a movie, I'd still have that same "Grrr, that's stupid! Magic should be a force within me that I control, or an expression of knowledge that...

Number 10, totally. I hated Captain Bartender, as I used to call Guinan.

I haven't seen this, believe me if I had, I'd have picked it up for the bottle alone. I have had their brews before. (I live in Oregon, their more mainstream products are easily available.) They're a good brewery, I'll bet what's inside the bottle is good stuff, too.

Even back in 1e, my groups have always used a grid. But before 3e, the idea that you took up exactly 1 square and it was "on" the square were alien. You plonked your mini on the mat, anywhere, the line between two squares, at the intersection, it didn't matter. If it was iffy as to whether...

And great maps of the world aren't that big a priority, really. Just big enough to handle your immediate plans ... ideas are going to come later that you'd have wished you'd left room for. If you're going for something really big, you should leave most of it general, meaning you can draw that...

Tell them I send my regards.

I got convinced to get into the Pathfinder bus a few months ago, haven't found a game yet, and am trying to figure out how usable my old stuff is in the new context ... you're me, a while back. I'm loving everything I'm seeing, and while a pure Pathfinder game sure seems perfectly viable, I do...

A group I played with had a guy who couldn't come up with names. He was creating a new character at one point, and before the game wrote "Captain Falcon" (apparently a video game character ... I don't know much about those) as just sort of a joke/placeholder for himself. Unfortunately...

Bestiary 3 rules! And let me give you one simple (if somewhat lengthy) reason why. Some couple years of so ago, I saw a story through some news outlet of a paleontologist or archaeologist or some such in Australia who had found some remains of a relative of the kangaroo. These kangaroos had...

I have yet to try an espionage genre game like Top Secret or Spycraft that the players didn't approach as if it were D&D.

First, I thank those who have SteelDraco and talok55 for their referencing me to places where my request may already have been handled. Second, I didn't mean to derail or hijack the OP's thread. So as much as I appreciate it, I think past this we should let the subject go back to what it...

That's exactly why I'm asking! I played one in 3.5, and was liking it more conceptually than in execution, partially because it was a little underpowered. Since almost every class got a little juice in Pathfinder, it just seemed like using it straight up would be making that problem even...

Paging Dr. Zaius, paging Dr. Zaius ....

Arminas, with all these conversions you're doing from 3.x, I'm wondering about the Marshal from the minis hb. It's one I've always kind of liked, and chance you'll be working that one up any time soon?

Yeah, Derren's right. No amount of playing with "crunch" will really provide the missing element here. It's pretty much the perfect example of what "fluff" is all about. (Does anyone use those terms anymore?) I think campaign worlds could be better designed for that purpose, though. Look at...