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Of the various flavors of Alchemist, Vivisectionist appears to be the most popular one among character optimizers, from what I've seen. It's definitely a solid choice. Many people would recommend that you go Vivisectionist instead of Rogue, in fact. Is that what you were thinking of doing, or...

Burn Your Enemies, See Their Ashes Driven Before You on the Wind, and Hear the Lamentations of Their Women. (Come on- I can't be the only one who thought of Conan when seeing the title of the OP, can I?) But to answer the question, if picking between those two I'd go for breadth. Damage is...

You could do a lot worse than team up with Dreamscarred Press and do a full Psionics-themed AP. Psionics are a fairly popular alternative ruleset, and they've never been given the full Adventure Path treatment.

Now, see, this is what Ramaster was getting at. That's a specific level, and that changes the variables involved. At 5th level, flight is a powerful thing that not all classes can do, it's not possible to bring back the dead or to heal more than a few points of ability damage (and drain can't be...

I noted it. I just felt the need to respond with exactly why I prefer a more generic Code, and why others might also prefer one. Clearly, the OP's Code works for him; that's why he posted it here. As my post said, I felt the need to play Devil's advocate.

Rationalizing it is easy if you use the QP/XP equivalency that my campaign did when we went to divine PCs. We used the notion that 1 QP was worth 25 XP to allow for deities to expend personal power (their QP) to raise mortals connected to them to higher power levels, directly. It was, after...

I think it's high time somebody played Devil's Advocate here. :devil: I prefer the generic code in the PF Core Rulebook, myself. The reason? A specific Code can only exist in a specific cultural context. A large world which has Paladins from many different cultures can't assume a single context...

Dude, Azatas are the "new Eladrins," CG Outsiders from Arborea/Olympus. :) Fortunately, your link actually goes to the monster you meant, the Akata (with a K). As for the template: A Will save... or else What? What are you saving against? No Beast type in PF; Magical Beast seems the best...

Good points there. I think some sort of Blindsense is a Good Idea. And definitely DR- though exactly what type is another matter. Do any of the weapons in the movies "count as magical," really? The stuff the Yautja/Predators use seems to work great on them, but lots of human-made weapons don't...

Don't do Immune to Cold, as I seem to recall a Xeno getting frozen solid and shattered in one of the movies. Plus, the Queen in the first Aliens Vs. predator didn't look too healthy before she got free of the ice- though admittedly she did obviously survive a long time. I'd suggest Resist Cold...

Also true. :) As for the OP's problem, I agree with the posters suggesting looking at a way to change the character but keep the Druid powers intact. There should be a way to do it; otherwise the GM is just crapping on the PC IMO. Perhaps the newly-vampiric Druid could gradually start...

You misunderstood what I meant; admittedly, I worded it badly by not making a new paragraph. What I meant was, the four "slightly Neutral" alignments- LN, NG, CN, NE- were always considered "neutral alignments." The Druid itself had to be TN back before 3rd Edition, you are certainly correct...

Incorrect. Druid's Alignment is "any Neutral." That includes Neutral Good and Neutral Evil. Always has, since before 3rd Edition even. You can be "Law-Chaos Neutral," or "Good-Evil Neutral-" both count as Neutral for something. Back in BECMI D&D, you had to be Neutral, but then again, BECMI...

Reason to be a Broodmaster: your Eidolons can use teamwork to help each other. Aid Another for higher roll results, plus they can set up more flanking opportunities for each other and your party members- and they can potentially have Teamwork feats too (though this isn't really the best use of...

Hopefully this doesn't seem like a cop-out, but one of the goals with any Eldritch Abomination is to make it seem "WRONG!!!1!1!!!" to anybody and anything from the "normal" cosmos that encounters it. If you just move the arms a bit, or maybe make them appear just a little bit larger or...

Why not replace Favored Terrain? That would be a similar sort of training to that required to gain the Stealth bonus, I'd think. Admittedly, I'm not a trained military sniper myself, so I don't actually know what's required- but it seems to me that the ability to successfully hide oneself after...

Back when Dragon used to run articles on "The Ecology of... [a critter]," one of the articles was actually about the Bag of Devouring. It expanded upon the ideas you're suggesting, actually showing a map of what the "typical" Bag's main body and stomach region are like among other things. I...

This was what I meant. Many GMs, if looking to give the PCs one final "out," will pull punches- have enemies "forget" attacks of opportunity, structure their buffs just slightly wrong, or the like- to make the PCs' escape easier than it should be. People advising allowing a retreat, above...

Agreed. IME this is usually something that relatively new players do; they need to be taught that some warnings really shouldn't be ignored and their characters are not in fact immortal (at least, not before they reach uber-Epic levels and undergo divine ascension). It's a hard thing to do as a...

Stupidity has nothing to do with it. Skip Williams is not a god, so his rulings are at best suggestions. People are allowed to disagree with him. This was never actually in the books proper; it was always in the FAQs and Sage Advice. This was why you yourself had to point to FAQs rather than the...