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This concept was inspired by PF, but it could work for other systems. I want to play a summoner (ADV player guide class) that is the thrall of the thing it summons. Maybe it could be using the summoner as an anchor to this world, maybe it is trapped in the summoners body. But the core concept...

My group found PF during the beta and have been playing since the official release. Its not perfect as no system is. But it meets our needs, and we enjoy it very much. As for the spellcasters pacing my games? Never been a problem. The DM has a few really good tools to prevent this: 1. Time...

My worst mistakes involved homebrew riddles and puzzles. I realized very shortly that I just don't reason things out like my players, and what makes sense to me, and what conclusions I draw are not necessarily the same as where my players arrive at. I have been gaming with the same folks for...

There is actually a really good writeup on Sandpoint and some good ideas about populating the region around it in the back of the first module, several pages long detailing all of the locations. There are some neat monuments and landmarks that could easily be re purposed for a myriad of...

My group has seen some play with the Witch, the Oracle, and the Summoner. We reran the first module of RotRL (shuffling up the encounters a bit and adding some new stuff as this the second time through for the group) The playtest classes were not the full versions and you could tell. They lack...

My mother bought me my first set of D&D and found me my first gaming group and even interviewed them with motherly scrutiny. She still to this day (and I am 30 with wife,kids and house as well) brings me any thing D&D related she may find in her thrift store outings. I got a pristine copy of the...

I have been playing Pathfinder since its release last year and have been very happy with it. If you did not really like 3.x then there is a good chance that PF may not be your cup of tea. But if you did (even if you thought it was plagued with imbalances) Pathfinder might be worth checking out...

I would also have to go with Crypt of the Everflame. Both of the Kobold King modules are from Paizo are probably a good match for you as is. If you can get your hands on it and don't mind changing the story up a bit Rise of the Runelords #1 is a tale about goblin attacks against a fairly small...

I would give Goodman DCC's a shot if they were written for 3.x or pathfinder. My group had played through a couple when they were being made for 3.x and found them to be enjoyable. we never tried any of the 4e ones as we were finished with the system based on its own merits and flaws before we...

Mercurius, My own position resonates with your in many ways. I was on board with 4e from the beginning (was even a regular poster on the wotc forums waiting for new info each day until the general negativity of the edition warring there soured me to the place). When the game came out I had my...

I have been eyeballing the 3.x freeport books at my FLGS. Are the worth picking up? The only reason I have not picked them up is that I have a lot of modules already and the one books I picked up (cannot remember which one) that was about freeport seemed like it was set up in a silly disney...

I am not certain how or why people fall out of love with games. I imagine its a lot of things. Our group initially tried 4e over 3.x because of the "grass is always greener" cliche that we fell for rather hard. It was new, different, streamlined, that meant it had to be better right? A years...

Aweasome, someone figured out how to use download.com to spoof mac/ip addresses! That will teach us which edition reigns supreme. There should be an option on polls to disallow anonymous voting. That would put a bandaid on attacks like this. love, malkav

I don't think I would buy a book on optimization for any edition of any game. If I need advice on that there are volumes of it available for free on the interwebs. But if done correctly it may have potential use to a brand new player struggling with mechanical concepts. But I remain skeptical...

I voted love it. 3e D&D revitalized my groups interest in D&D when it was released, and despite some shortcomings has managed to keep my group steadily interested since. Now we have tried some variants like M&M and and some Monte madness, but all in all we just like the 3.x mechanic and feel...

Tried for over a year. decided it was not our groups preferred game nor were we the target audience. Currently playing 2e and Pathfinder and having a blast. Voted dislike. There is nothing about RPGs that bothers me enough to evoke hate. love, malkav

There is a Suarian race printed in Tome of Secrets (3pp source for PFRPG) in addition to it being a pretty cool on its own merits. The Saurian race pretty much is a dragonborn with the serial numbers filed off (minus the breath weapon). Tieflings and Asimar are presented int he PFRPG Bestiary...

All these folks hes bluffing and lying to..they may do what he wants for a scene, but they don't stay duped forever. They may even come and seek vengeance, or spread the news around about that lying bastard bard. Even better yet, they may send assassins int he night, then there would be one...

I don't think low ability scores in and of themselves make a character more memorable, fun to roleplay, or any other nostalgic element of measure that that they often get, when referenced to characters with high scores (or more often when compared to characters that are tuned to a razors edge...

Looks..different. I don't think I will buy it. If one of my players wanted to fork over the high cost of entry and run it , I guess I would play. But I have no intention of paying this price for a boardgame (yes I kn ow some folks are crying about the meme of that statement, but they can get...