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My group (a 1st level party) is searching for a missing person inside a city. They've got a couple of good hunting dogs and an item that belonged to the person that carries her scent. I'd love to hear how you'd run the search. Specifically: Is it even remotely plausible that dogs could track...

My players just hit 9th level, and got news from one of the dwarven queens that she's going to attack the human capitol city in a few weeks. She's got dwarven, drow, and svirfneblin troops with her, and her goal is to overthrow the evil human wizard-kings who rule the land. There's also an...

Hillside Games of Asheville, NC - the worst game store in America? Unethical practices, domain-name stealing, anti-competitive tactics, and frivolous lawsuit threats against those who criticize are just the start! This news item was originally a forum thread posted Nareau. I've promoted it to...

The good guys cast Darkness, knowing their darkvision will give them an advantage in ambushing their enemy. The room they were in was already dim, so now it's totally dark. Their enemy happens to be a spellcaster, and he casts Major Image. The illusion is that of a fire elemental. Does the...

My wife has started making geeky soaps (to sell on Etsy), some of which contain soap-dice. They're pretty awesome. I suggested she could make a series of soaps with dice rolls we might actually see at the table. Here's an example: "Critical hit with a keen flaming burst longsword!" 2d20...

I've got a rules-savvy player who's chosen to start playing a 5th level illusionist in my Pathfinder game. He recently asked me a few questions, and I thought I'd turn to the peanut gallery to help with the answers. How would you rule on these?

False Fog School illusion (figment) CASTING Casting Time 1 standard action Components V, S, F (a bit of moss) EFFECT Range long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level) Effect fog that fills four 10-ft. cubes + one 10-ft. cube/level (S) Duration concentration Saving Throw Will disbelief (if interacted with)...

Does the bonus from the aid another action apply only to a single die roll, or can it apply to secondary effects as well? Let's say four wolves are attacking someone, and three successfully Aid Another for their alpha (who's rolling an actual attack). Does the alpha get a +6 (+2 each from 3...

On Sunday, my players are going to be venturing to Kyoto (circa 688 AD), and I need to get together a city for them to explore. I'm looking for something along the lines of the old Greyhawk folio, with info on locations, power groups, people, etc. Preferably in a PDF, so I can download it and...

I just started my first PF campaign (Kingmaker) last Sunday, and we had a blast. The PC's ambushed some , and decided to chase after the two guys who decided to flee. I had read through the chase rules once, but hadn't prepared anything for this. So here's what I did: I grabbed a deck of...

I'm starting my first Pathfinder campaign next weekend, and one of my players has an unusual request: He wants to play a monk whose primary stat is Cha instead of Wis, and who has a mostly-rogue skill list. I'm OK with the stat-swapping. If anything, putting points into Cha instead of Wis...

I'm preparing to run my first Pathfinder campaign, and have started finding some questions. First off: Does Beast Shape I grant size modifiers to hit and AC? If I'm medium-size, and I turn into a small eagle, do I get the +1 size bonus to AC for being small? If so, why isn't this specified...

Let's say I charge up to my enemy. He has a readied action to use a power as soon as I'm adjacent to him. His power successfully dazes me. Which of the following is true? I can finish my charge by making an attack, and still take a move and a minor action I can finish my charge by making an...

I'm just trying to wrap my head around how some of the keyword stuff works. Would this feat give you combat advantage against someone so long as you wielded a frost weapon (doing cold damage)? Nareau

I'm playing a two-weapon-fighting ranger, and beginning to think the ranged ranger would have been a more powerful build. My thinking is that they're pretty well matched in terms of powers (ie, just about all the attack powers can be used in melee or ranged, or there are equivalent powers for...

As has been pointed out in a couple of places, the Ranger Attack 3 power "Shadow Wasp Strike" is strictly worse than the Ranger Attack 1 power "Evasive Strike". Can you suggest a balanced houserule for how to fix SWS? Nareau

It looks very familiar, and I'm thinking I saw it in the Monstrous Compendium back in the day. Anyone know who the artist is, and where it first appeared? Nareau

I'm putting together a Hollow Earth Expedition campaign, and have a mystery that's central to the game. I'm worried that it's going to be WAY too hard to figure out, because it requires several steps, understanding the nature of the riddle, and understanding the techniques to solve it. My...

If you haven't played Carcassonne, it's a little like dominoes in that you lay down tiles that have to match up edge-to-edge. Each tile has 4 sides, and each side can have 3 different "features": A road, city, or meadow (R, C, or M). I think this is a pretty simple permutation problem, but...

I've had a group of evil NPCs kicking around in the background of my campaign for a little while, and it's coming time to have the PCs encounter them. I need some help coming up with good ideas for them. They're part of a druidic organization called "The Western Gale," who believe that the...