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Intentional. if we just let grab give a +2 bonus, it'd be easier to just give Improved Grapple as a bonus feat. Grab gives a +4 because it's more powerful than a mere feat. And because monsters who grab should be pretty good at it; getting in melee combat with a grabby monster should never be...

While damage reduction helps the beholder, at high CRs the expectation is that monsters will have DR, immunities, and the like, so that's sort of implied already. Besides, DR won't help the beholder at all against energy damage, force damage, or untyped damage. Sure, he's got his antimagic eye...

Another bit of advice: when updating 3.5 monsters, don't be afraid to change their stats or their HD. It's best to keep their CR unchanged, but you should adjust HD and ability scores and natural armor bonus and maybe even its natural attack damage at least to bring the monster's CR up in line...

Actually, he IS a god, even though he didn't start out as a god. We do allow the lesser archdevils and demon lords and Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the like to grant spells though. In Pathfinder, there's basically 2 categories of deity: god/goddess and demigod/demigoddess. The god/goddess...

Well... We use Green Ronin's Advanced Bestiary a LOT for our adventures; it's probably tied with the Tome of Horrors Revised for the "d20 book we use most often" for Paizo adventures. In my opinion, the Advanced Bestiary works quite well with the Pathfinder RPG. I make changes to the templates...

Probably less. Although Erik IS galavanting over on the East Coast all week on vacation, so I guess he has an excuse until Friday...

The trick with the summoner is that it's not necessarily the summoner who's doing the tricks in combat; that's mostly the domain of his eidolon and his summoned monsters. It's an unusual class in that you get to play monsters more than your actual character... but since those monsters, in a...

Playing monsters as PCs is a tricky, tricky scene, and not something that can be handled by any simple equation or formula like LA. Simply because monsters aren't built to be player characters. That said, the fact that monsters use the same core building blocks AS PCs, they CAN be played as...

Wild empathy works on any animal, even if that animal's from a region that the druid isn't all that familiar with. Part of a druid's mojo is the fact that he/she has this ability to fundamentally relate with and communicate with ALL animals, after all, even those that are brand new to the druid...

The primary purpose of the Bestiary was to replace 3.5's Monster Manual. And since the 3.5 Monster Manual skewed heavily toward CRs of 10 and lower, that's just a natural result... although there is more variety in high CR options in the Pathfinder Bestiary than there were in the 3.5 Monster...

No. To put it as bluntly as possible, we don't want to produce 4E products at this time. We as a company are doing much better with Pathfinder than we could servicing someone else's game. Someday, that might change, but that day is not today.

We got as many of the magazines set up as PDFs as we could before our license to produce magazine content ended. At that point, we turned all of the art and files and resources for the magazines over to WotC, since they owned all of that content. Our agreement lets us continue selling back...

Some good advice regarding Adventure Paths, for sure! Adventure Paths are one of the most complicated things we produce... and not in least because they're the product of dozens of different writers. I like to think that we're learning from feedback from readers—Council of Thieves is a direct...

PCs won't have a huge presence in mass combats. They could serve as the general of an army and grant some bonuses to the army, but when we have big battles in this AP, the focus is on the armies clashing, not the PCs. This is another reason we're skewing the mass combat toward the simple and...

While I was designing Kingmaker's kingdom-building/city-building rules, I certainly had Birthright handy to look through for inspiration. But the rules themselves are quite different, as is the focus. With Birthright, the focus of the game WAS the kingdom management/building. With Kingmaker, the...

Further off topic... You can, of course, make a human fighter. He gets +1 skill point/level for being human, and can get another +1 skill point/level for fighter being his favored class. Presto! 4 skill points/level, even before your Int mod kicks in!

I just started working on the development of the penultimate Kingmaker adventure (Pathfinder Adventure Path #35), and while there HAVE been a lot of memorable NPCs so far... it's still sandboxy. And since we're moving to new regions often, the NPCs the PCs face will generally be new ones. The...

Hey everyone! I'm really pleased with how Kingmaker is turning out (I'm currently developing part 5 of the Adventure Path, where mass combat finally explodes all over the place), and I'm pleased as well with the strong reception the Player's Guide and the first adventure have received so far...

My 5th grade teacher split my class up into multiple groups and ran us through a dungeon using the old blue book back in the day. He'd run each group through a single room at a time during Lunch break, and then if we wanted to progress to the next room, someone in the group had to write up the...

I'm actually just about to sit down and finalize the fast-play mass combat rules for Pathfinder Adventure Path #35. These rules aren't going to be anything to challenge Warhammer or Battlesystem or anything like that for complexity—they won't even really use miniatures. The hope is that the...