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Later-era Pathfinder modules / adventure paths specify what level the PCs ought to be for each bit. They also hand out plenty of story awards (typically, "if the PCs achieve X then award them XP for a Level-Y encounter"). When I run Pathfinder, the characters level whenever I feel it is...

I think it is a "legacy" skill, since the "old school" approach to adventures is to have a rumour table the PCs can roll on before they head out to the dungeon. I assume the 3rd edition designers thought "I guess we need a skill for that now". Pathfinder just adds it to the Diplomacy skill...

Except for the "hidden" synergy bonus of having 3 ranks in Acrobatics (Tumble) giving you an additional +1 AC when fighting defensively, which is still in the Combat chapter of Pathfinder.

One thing the 3.x Toughness feat had going for it was you could pick it more than once, so if you had a fairly straightforward monster with a lot of HD (and hence a lot of feats) but no feats left that you particularly wanted it to have, then you could fill up its remaining slots with Toughness...

A PC might well face off against a succubus alone, under certain circumstances ... The cleric is the one most likely to be able to remove inconvenient conditions, but that doesn't help if the cleric is the one dominated. (A dispel magic from a wizard could work, but the CR 7 succubus uses her...

IF you invest in save-boosting magic items? I'll happily muddle along with a bunch of +1 weapons, +1 protective devices etc., but my cloak of resistance is going up to +5 the instant I can afford it. Failing saving throws is often no fun at all. In Pathfinder, the 1/day dominate person effect...

Yeah, "I'd like to play a human fighter". D&D 3.5 - great, note down the human racial traits then turn to the fighter page Pathfinder 1st edition - are you sticking with the standard human racial traits, or do you want to look through the alternate ones? Do you have a fighter archetype in...

In terms of Pathfinder (1st edition) * I'm not sure how Pathfinder handles diagonal movement, since we use Theatre of the Mind *That's not how skills work in Pathfinder (1 skill point = 1 skill rank, you get a flat +3 if it's a trained skill) *Pathfinder changed how combat manoeuvres work...

I'm not quite sure how best to respond to this. Has the collective wisdom really reached the stage of thinking 3rd edition was a badly designed game but we on EnWorld might still be able to rescue it into something playable? Lots of people played it for a very long time, including me. I am...

That's the one. I once watched it with my step brother, who is an air traffic controller. He was not impressed! My pet nitpick is the Watchers' minions in Buffy. They were very much working-class Cockneys (or what passes for them on American TV), and complained that their bosses got to fly...

Here on the edge of Normandy, we have a joke that if a Parisienne and a local want to have a conversation, they eventually resort to speaking English.

My character died in my last Pathfinder game - partly bad luck (x3 crits can do an insane amount of damage at high levels) but also my own fault, as I forgot about a class ability that could have saved him. I was annoyed with myself, but fortunately the other characters stumped up the money for...

I once failed about a dozen consecutive 50/50 miss chances in a D&D 3.5 game. Most boring combat ever, as the opponent ran out of fun things to do by about round 4, and was reduced to plinking away with their rapier for the rest of the fight.

I voted False (a long time ago) but come to think of it I have played through Pool of Radiance. It might have been moved to the DM's own homebrew setting, though - I can't remember.

In my campaign world the main religion claims that the gods created most of the races, and the Adversary created the reptilian ones. No one (not even me) knows whether this is true or not, as it has never come up in play. However, the nature of the gods makes it more likely that they actually...

I also have updated Wilderlands maps from Bat in the Attic Games. I got them from the City State of the Invincible Overlord Kickstarter (of which the less said the better) and it's in my library on Drivethru but doesn't seem to be available on the site itself. I'm not sure if it was Kickstarter...

The Queen of Elfland's Son always makes me smile - both a riff on Dunsany's "King of Elfland's Daughter" and a subversion of the tired old "Male Professional's Female Relative" trope.

I have an idea that Goodman Games's Morningstar was a submission https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3039/morningstar Rich Burlew (of Order of the Stick) was one of the three finalists. I think he's mentioned that the published version of Eberron includes elements from the other two...

I'm still buying DVDs. Of course, the last one I bought was The Big Chill (1983), so it might take a while for me to get to the studios' more recent releases.

Yes, I remember it as $100,000 as well. Plus the glory, undying fame and lots of freelancing work for WotC, including the chance to write novels for them.