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Use the Grouped Skills rules from Pathfinder Unchained, but instead of "double proficiency" being equal to character level, it adds Skill Focus. Some feat/PrC prerequisites count this as the Skill Focus feat, while others replace Skill Focus with Signature Skill. Reduce inherent/enhancement...

To their credit, that nonsense has been canonically stated in the descriptions of alignment–and other game mechanics based on it–from Gygax AD&D until the end of Third Edition, fully thirty years from 1977 to 2007. There's practically no way to criticize this without it being a personal attack...

I don't think I'm attractive by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm perfectly comfortable being naked in public; I'm not the one who has to look at me. I do have a bit of body dysmorphia/dysphoria, because despite the fact I am both very large and overweight, looking in the mirror makes me...

I taught myself to read when I was three or four years old, because my biomom would buy comics for me but wouldn't read them to me. So Marvel Comics. Bigly. DC not as much, and I didn't get heavily into third-party comics until my late teens. 80s cartoons. Ur-example, of course, was He-Man and...

I want to say AD&D 2e, but I switched up to 3.0 and 3.5 and PF1. I got  back into AD&D (well, BECMI + AD&D) afterwards. But Pathfinder 1e is one of those games. Never cottoned to the three action economy and it just seemed like a lot to relearn and... for the most part I always like 3PP...

Remember that Evil people are still people; they have emotional needs and personal attachments. This is even more important than remembering they have rational self-interests, because Chaotic Evil is often paired with a weaker sense of self-preservation. #NoLivesMatter There are two kinds of...

Be polite and address the behavior, not the person. Remember that if the conversation is longer than two words ("**** off") the goal of the conversation is to maintain the relationship by preventing the problem behavior from destroying it. The problem behavior isn't their fault, it's just...

Being persecuted by oppressive regimes for attending protests, whistleblowing, and promoting human rights/social justice causes. I'll not go into details here, and I shouldn't have to; to avoid speaking of contemporary politics, we're not two generations removed from this threat applying to both...

It seems to me that one of your proposals depends on the other, and that you're using the "for the children" to avoid talking about the danger your policy would be exposing adults to.

Did you just compare the ability to engage in anonymous political dissent with buying a pack of cigarettes?

Sure. But having grown up in the 20th century and now living in 21st century, I miss the good old days when peak marketing meant trying to convince your potential customers that your product was better than everyone else's, instead of trying to insinuate themselves into my monkeysphere and...

I'm here for it. Maybe I'm just An Olde, but it doesn't feel like "hello fellow kids" energy to me, it feels like old school "I wouldn't sell you a product I don't believe in" energy. I don't stan for billionaires and there isn't a timeline where Warren Buffet is a cool old man, but the fact...

I would if the class system in 5e didn't defer class identity to 3rd level with the same cockeyed and cackhanded multiclassing rules in 3e. Current game started at 6th level, and that's way too high, but I just don't have a solution to it beyond not running modern D&D anymore. There are good...

I've considered similar approaches, but the idea of linking it to one Physical + one Mental hadn't occurred to me yet. Seems a natural fit with Pathfinder's (PF1) approach to ancestry design. Every Advanced Class is already tightly mapped to the Base Class that provides the most natural entry...

D&D Neutral, 3e/5e True Neutral, and 4e Unaligned aren't just sensible alignments... they're the alignments of the majority of humanity. AD&D True Neutral isn't any more implausible than any of the other eight personality disorders. Any question about what makes sense within that system begs...

Black and blue, smothered in extra-spicy mango chutney

Humans are almost always mechanically better, and I'll usually play them over standard demihumans, I but I still lurves me some aliems.

In AD&D, class group was both role and power source: defender/striker = fighter, controller = mage, healer = priest. Utility magic, when the AD&D rules cared, followed a similar pattern. Fantasy peoples don't need to have access to Martial/Arcane/Divine power sources, they need to have NPC...

I am experimenting with a hybrid approach, where ancestries have "racial classes" (possibly multiple) and occupational classes are more narrowly themed-- in a system where multiclassing is default-- and nonhuman ancestries have both a small selection of favored/discounted classes and a similarly...

Generally speaking... Under Warrior, I split Cavalier/Samurai and Fighter (Myrmidon)/Bushi into their own classes, combine Swashbuckler (Fighter) and Swashbuckler (Thief) with... fewer/less Thief skills, Swordsage (Kensai). Paladin and Ranger get more spellcasting access earlier; Paladins...