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<blockquote data-quote="AllisterH" data-source="post: 4123232" data-attributes="member: 51325"><p>Seriously, when did gnomes become a magical fey race? At the beginning of 3.0 in the PHB, they're listed as inventors/alchemist and great friends with dwarves and this remains the same in the 3.5 PHB.</p><p></p><p>When did gnomes start be equating with fey and NOT dwarves? And really, multicoloured hair that would never be seen in nature? Seriously, that is so ANIME. (yeah, yeah, I went there but come on, even in anime, multicoloured hair is NOT common, so that's even more ANIME than Anime). </p><p></p><p>re: Stat boosters.</p><p>As others have pointed out, the stat boosters and weapon enhancements are easily made by the party wizard so unless Paizo is cutting the item creation feats off or excising those spells, I fail to see WHY the party won't have them.</p><p></p><p>They are the best bang for your buck you can get. A (+4) Stat booster costs 16k gp and looking at the list of magic items, there really is nothing as "useful" to a character. For example, for approx the same cost, you could get a Figurine of Wondrous Power (golden Lions). As much as we rail about power-gaming, I'd be honestly surprised for an in-chracter reason for a PC to take the Golden Lions over the Headband, all things being equal.</p><p></p><p>re:Races</p><p>I do think the races gained more a couple of points. Stat up for example, a 5th level elven wizard using the pathfinder racial and favored class rules and compare it to a bog standard 3.5 racial writeup for the same class and race,.</p><p></p><p>Look, I could understand bumps in power for the half-elves and the half-orcs but for the other races? WHY, expecially with backwards compatibility.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AllisterH, post: 4123232, member: 51325"] Seriously, when did gnomes become a magical fey race? At the beginning of 3.0 in the PHB, they're listed as inventors/alchemist and great friends with dwarves and this remains the same in the 3.5 PHB. When did gnomes start be equating with fey and NOT dwarves? And really, multicoloured hair that would never be seen in nature? Seriously, that is so ANIME. (yeah, yeah, I went there but come on, even in anime, multicoloured hair is NOT common, so that's even more ANIME than Anime). re: Stat boosters. As others have pointed out, the stat boosters and weapon enhancements are easily made by the party wizard so unless Paizo is cutting the item creation feats off or excising those spells, I fail to see WHY the party won't have them. They are the best bang for your buck you can get. A (+4) Stat booster costs 16k gp and looking at the list of magic items, there really is nothing as "useful" to a character. For example, for approx the same cost, you could get a Figurine of Wondrous Power (golden Lions). As much as we rail about power-gaming, I'd be honestly surprised for an in-chracter reason for a PC to take the Golden Lions over the Headband, all things being equal. re:Races I do think the races gained more a couple of points. Stat up for example, a 5th level elven wizard using the pathfinder racial and favored class rules and compare it to a bog standard 3.5 racial writeup for the same class and race,. Look, I could understand bumps in power for the half-elves and the half-orcs but for the other races? WHY, expecially with backwards compatibility. [/QUOTE]
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