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I'm not applying for the position. I'm throwing a question out for those who are; Morrus can compare your answers, as a test. (He may want you to pm him with answers to it? So you can't see the answers of those going before you? Up to him.) Because I've been wondering about something. What...

Balance is good, but what balance actually is depends on a lot of things, and one of the biggies is design goal. Let me create a hypothetical example to illustrate my point. Suppose we have a license from Larry Niven to create a game based on his stories that began with a short one called...

I have indeed seen "Starcrash", less than a month ago, as a matter of fact. The lead character (or at least, the one that seems to be the lead character for the first half of the movie) is clearly meant to be pretty much a female version of Han Solo. At one point in the movie, she rescues a...

I've always hated that word "antipaladin", so I'm using "Blackguard" for it when I run my Pathfinder game someday. Rolls off the tongue so much better, especially after I found out it's pronounced "blaggard".

Along those lines, I never saw/heard it, but there's always the classic double option presented in "I'm tired of all these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-Friday plane!"

I pretty much agree with what you're saying, Tylermalan, except I don't interpret the phase "committed the evil act unwittingly" the same way you do. To me, in this context, that means the act that you committed was evil, but you didn't realize it was. The atonement is a form of education, not...

Exactly. When my turn comes, I've usually got it figured out and off I go. Sometimes the person who goes just before me will do something that changes the circumstances radically and I have to reconsider my options, but otherwise I'm ready.

In follow up to the amnesia thing: Elf Witch, you cite instances of amnesia being incorporated into a background, and as you well prove, that's not the same as using it as an excuse not to have one. This guy came to the table unprepared to play his character in terms of info on his character...

For those of you who are pointing to the variations of "my background is really an excuse for not having a background" ... I tried a group a few months ago in which one character's background was that they couldn't remember their background because they had amnesia. I wasn't even the DM and I...

Well, as I say, in my experience, they aren't. But I ran across that complaint on EnWorld boards a lot, years ago when I was on them all the time. Also had an acquaintance that said the druid in a group he played with completely dominated combat. At least part of the problem had to do with...

Back in the days of Advanced D&D (when we didn't know it was "1e") our party had a monk that stole from the party, and when caught, defended himself on grounds that he had "thief functions" (or whatever they were called back then, I forget) and he was just making use of his abilities. As a...

I love what I see with most of the skill changes, and really look forward to giving it a try someday. Cross class rules were too much of a limitation and too much of a book-keeping pain-in-the-neck, so they became the option that effectively didn't exist since no one would use them anyway. I...

I played a Druid-Sorcerer (got to levels 5 and 2, respectively) in 3/3.5, but never went the MT route. I don't know if I would've gone that way with it. The character was fairly ineffective as it was. (I heard lots of people in those days talking about Druids being over-powered. Mine sure as...

I speak as one who hasn't had a chance to find a Pathfinder game as yet, so there's the old "reading is one thing, play may be another" caveat here. But ... ... about the only thing I don't like that I've seen so far is they went to far with the combining of skills for me. Having Spot, Search...

Ahh... Oops. Haven't had a a chance see one in play yet (see my status) so I was just figuring a spell-like ability ... worked like the spell. Still, a matter of degree -- quantity, not quality. But yeah, you got the point. Active vs. passive is an important difference.

Oops (the way things work around have changed in the years since I was around last ... never mind this post. it's an error)

Right, but for example, the point that it's an active, rather than passive ability: does the paladin spend 3 rounds examining everyone he meets? Does everyone he meets sit patiently for the 18 seconds of scrutiny as he does so? Detect Evil still "works", but the paladin has to work it, so...

If I was running a cleric, paladin, inquisitor or anyone else that has strong religious principles but wasn't sure (as a player) what those principles are supposed to be in this campaign, I'd simply tell the DM that I want to do a Knowledge: Religion check to see what I'm supposed to do. If the...

Just one more voice chiming in with everyone above with the sentiment that you don't actually have a problem here, if your GM knows the rules and applies them reasonably. As noted, a paladin can detect evil all he wants, but it's an active power that requires him to decide to use it, not a...

I own, but have never had the chance to play, the "Alternity" game that came out just prior to 3e Dungeons and Dragons. It certainy looked good to me, and I may still give it a shot if the chance ever presents itself. It's probably really hard to get a hold of anymore. I should also admit...