PF Paladin Lay on hands ability

[Liquidsabre]

Nothing wrong with having an opinion about a game you haven't tried playing. Just don't be surprised if others don't give it much weight.

We just converted our two games over to Pathfinder with 11 characters making the move over. This week will be our first look at how it plays for us at the game table. Comparing characters @ 7th level and looking at what they can dish out and are capable of doing, so far the Paladin looks pretty on par with everyone else. Time will tell as folk gain more experience with the individual changes and how they interect with one another.

Generally, for example, our casters are a bit worried about the difficulty of casting combat and melee'rs are excited about the cleave and vital strike feats (moving and making multiple attacks or dishing out greater damage, respectively).

 

[ruemere]

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Generally, for example, our casters are a bit worried about the difficulty of casting combat and melee'rs are excited about the cleave and vital strike feats (moving and making multiple attacks or dishing out greater damage, respectively).

Word of advice, if I may. Get the opponents to move often.

Regards,
Ruemere

 

[SSquirrel]

Is that the official line? Backwards compatibility is forgotten and a new arms race is on? That doesn't sound very appealing to me.

The official line when PF was first announced was that backwards compatibility was very important. Then they released the alpha and I and several others pointed out on their boards that there was some ratehr large power creep. We proceeded to be flamed and shouted down and the complete lack of moderation on their forums plus their crappy forums completely losing posts was reason enough to stop worrying and just forget about PF. Then again, I'm happy w/4E and thought trying to polish 3.5 was the wrong way to go in the first place.

Consider the new PF the new baseline. Old material will need to be scaled up to match the new and we will just have to wait and see if they manage not to introduce power creep in future products. The nature of game publishing in general has seemed to always show power creep over time, except Mage 2nd to Revised, Mages stopped being able to do much of anything then, so good luck to them on that.