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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grufflehead" data-source="post: 5203071" data-attributes="member: 35977">Although I haven't read beyond chapter 3, ENWorld's own <a href="http://www.enworld.org/index.php?page=wotbs" target="_blank">War of the Burning Sky</a> certainly has some different elements and challenges to it. Whether they can keep that up as the levels increase I'll have to see. From past experience, I'd put good money on Rite Publishing having a damn good go at it with <a href="http://ritepublishing.com/ritualsofchoice.html" target="_blank">Rituals of Choice</a> but that is heavily tied to Arcana Evolved so probably would take a bit of work to shoehorn into PF/3.5.As far as the Paizo AP's go, my experience hasn't been too stellar BUT it was all early stuff. One of the original gripes was with Age of Worms (which I think was them in the days they still did Dungeon for Wizards). I played 2 chapters of Rise of the Runelords and gave up. Boss fights taken to the max, it's the first time I've had a PC killed in a long time (and that was just a run of the mill encounter), and we were pretty much TPKed 4 or 5 times. The bad guy at the end of pt 2 (or maybe it was pt 3) was just ludicrous, frankly, so we left it at that. Kingmaker seems to be a fairly radical departure in game style though, so maybe the newer stuff is more varied?Of course, the 2 answers to my moaning are: 'well if you're so clever why don't you write something better', and, probably more tellingly, 'the majority of our customers like this type of game so we'll continue to produce it'. For point 1 I'd pick a better game system, and for point 2, even though everything I've said leading up to this has been a criticism, I hope Paizo keep doing what they are doing. I want them to survive and flourish as a company, so if that makes them money, then it stands to reason they should pursue it.Thanks for the video link - think it sums the 'balance'  issue up pretty well <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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