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<blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6974904" data-attributes="member: 50895"><p>There are plenty of sensible Pathfinder material being created by third party companies, and often are more balanced than many options published by Paizo Publishing. I don't consider everything published by Paizo as balanced, and while there can certainly be unbalanced third party material out there, most major third party companies realize the danger of adding unbalanced material (since that happened a lot during 3x days), and are more careful, so that their material is actually very balanced, even slightly nerfed to avoid the possibility of releasing unbalanced material. Also many third party publishers are the freelance writers and game designers producing AP material for Paizo publications. Many of the supplemental rules - caravan and romance rules included in Jade Regent were rather clumsy or unbalanced, that Legendary Games (who all write for Paizo) create aftermarket material to correct or improve supplemental rules (like caravan rules). Owen K. C. Stevens works at Paizo, but also publishes Rogue Genius, Rite Publishing and Green Ronin third party material - he creates rules for 1st and 3rd party.</p><p></p><p>I think it's completely unfair to accuse GMs that use third party material as doing something wrong or inappropriate, when those same game designers do work for canon Paizo material as well. I agree with the issue regarding elemental creatures and improved familiar by Frog God Games as creating something unbalanced, but I consider that a rare instance of a broken mechanic, not something that consistently occurs with third party material.</p><p></p><p>Consider that the Paizo haunt mechanic, for example, doesn't include appropriate Knowledge checks and DC checks to investigate a haunt in order to lay it to rest - it's not a part of the haunt stat block. However, when I publish new haunts for my products, I always add a Knowledge and DC check in the haunt stat block even though doing so is not official. However, you cannot easily lay a haunt to rest without that information.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gamerprinter, post: 6974904, member: 50895"] There are plenty of sensible Pathfinder material being created by third party companies, and often are more balanced than many options published by Paizo Publishing. I don't consider everything published by Paizo as balanced, and while there can certainly be unbalanced third party material out there, most major third party companies realize the danger of adding unbalanced material (since that happened a lot during 3x days), and are more careful, so that their material is actually very balanced, even slightly nerfed to avoid the possibility of releasing unbalanced material. Also many third party publishers are the freelance writers and game designers producing AP material for Paizo publications. Many of the supplemental rules - caravan and romance rules included in Jade Regent were rather clumsy or unbalanced, that Legendary Games (who all write for Paizo) create aftermarket material to correct or improve supplemental rules (like caravan rules). Owen K. C. Stevens works at Paizo, but also publishes Rogue Genius, Rite Publishing and Green Ronin third party material - he creates rules for 1st and 3rd party. I think it's completely unfair to accuse GMs that use third party material as doing something wrong or inappropriate, when those same game designers do work for canon Paizo material as well. I agree with the issue regarding elemental creatures and improved familiar by Frog God Games as creating something unbalanced, but I consider that a rare instance of a broken mechanic, not something that consistently occurs with third party material. Consider that the Paizo haunt mechanic, for example, doesn't include appropriate Knowledge checks and DC checks to investigate a haunt in order to lay it to rest - it's not a part of the haunt stat block. However, when I publish new haunts for my products, I always add a Knowledge and DC check in the haunt stat block even though doing so is not official. However, you cannot easily lay a haunt to rest without that information. [/QUOTE]
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