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Well, the first two levels of monk are a bundle of goodness to monsters, especially at higher levels. Giving some high-WIS, naked monster with a natural attack routine + manufactured weapon a level of monk will cause its AC to spike and some extra fukken attacks. Plus the ability to stun on a hit a...

The monk just looks really good. You can converse with fish and fowl, throw a huge number of punches, heal yourself, and you will not age until you die. Sounds awesome at first. And a lot of otherwise intelligent people think the Monk is the business at humanoid-on-humanoid violence. So I'll forgiv...

I like how he has five decimal places of "accuracy" on how much various class's spellcasting is worth. E.g., wizard spellcasting is worth 0.4095 CR per level, and sorcerer spellcasting is worth 0.61425 CR per level. Scien-tastic! Even if you don't consider all that stuff, Monks. Also, Pala...

The fact that they never link to other tools means a large number of people won't use them. The fact that there's no system to bring these disparate tools together under a larger banner basically means that a large market won't ever see it. I don't know what to tell you. I don't believe there's a l...

The biggest thing WoW has going for it by far is the fact that it's easy to hook other people up with it. It doesn't require a lot of startup money and you don't have to jump through a ton of hoops to play with your buds. You can already go to the WotC message boards (or another message board of yo...

There are a bunch of free alternatives (MapTool, OpenRPG, Gametable), so I doubt WotC could get away with charging very much. And if they can't charge much, why invest resources in building one?

The sneak attack fighter variant from Unearthed Arcana and the ninja from Oriental Adventures (not the ninja from Complete Adventurer).

Psychic Robot wrote:How is that different from the 3.5 version?

According to a later clarification from Jason, it'll last more than one round.

Catharz: DMG. You just craft it and pay the difference in craft costs. So going from a +1 sword to a +1 vicious sword is 6k market price, so you pay 3k and 240 XP and you have your sword. Ah, found it. Page 288. Actually, it looks like swords are pretty much the only cost effective thing to upgrade...

In reality, purchasing permanent items of almost any kind is the trap , and the relatively good deal is getting wands. Weird but true. And that's before we take into account the fact that DMs are literally encouraged to hand out more treasure to parties who use more potions. -Username17 I agree com...

As for the end point, either you don't know when it is (in which case, you ensure you have what you need when you need it), you do know when it is OOC but can't act on it without being smacked for metagaming, or you do know IC... because the final boss appeared, except by this time you've already d...

But how often does anyone choose to buy an item they don't intend to hold onto? Maybe at low levels you might, but by definition that also makes the cost trivial. Maybe if you get a so-so item in treasure and use it for a while before you sell it, or if the item becomes obsolete (e.g. winged boots ...

A permanent, command word activation item that duplicates a spell costs CL x SL x 1800 gp, half of which is permanently consumed. I still want to know where you are getting the bolded part from. At all. Consumed in the difference between crafting cost and market price. That's assuming you use the D...

Expendables lowering your wealth permanently isn't a problem because it is (or isn't) different from other items, it's a problem because if wealth affects your character power, then characters of ostensibly equal power need to have the same wealth. [...] If permanent magic items actually behave in ...

One shot items are perfect for emergencies and rare occurences. That's their niche, and they fill it just fine. This is all well and good to say, but there is nothing that enforces this idea. For example, the fighter in the game I run (spiked chain tripper) buys potions of displacement rather than ...

One thing that I find people sometimes overlook when they say "Expendables lower your wealth permanently!" is that permanent items lower your wealth permanently, too . I.e., you can only sell them for half price. So if you acquire a pair of Boots of Levitation (say, just for example), tha...

I have no problem with them as 2nd edition style bonus treasure, where you get a scroll and you can use it whenever, but when you do, it's gone. That's kind of cool, and lets you give PCs a powerful one shot item. One shot items have problems when they interact with wealth by level systems though. ...

I don't mind single use items, but that's probably because most games I play in tend to only last a few levels; there's no advantage in being the richest PC when the campaign ends. It should go without saying, but here's my philosophy: If you're going to use a non-combat magic item only once, then a...

Cone of Cold? Ice Storm? BURNING HANDS!? I stopped following the Pathfinder stuff months ago, I take it they never did anything to make Evocation/Direct Damage spells worth a crap? Are they still removing all the SoD's or did that get reverted? They mentioned in the blog that Ice Storm will make di...

Roy wrote: The 4th best stat went into the primary stat.

yo dawg, I herd you liek stats, so I put a stat into your stat so you can play while you play

So no, nothing worthwhile is going to come out of any of that. It's a titanic pile of wasted effort. -Username17 A titanic pile of wasted effort for whom? All it's really cost Paizo is one year's salary for a game designer (what's that, $30K? $40K?). I suspect they'll make at least that much in sal...

RRAAAAAWGGGGHHH! 20 fucking Charisma? WTF? Level fucking ten you dipshit. Buy a goddam Cha item. She does have a Cha item. Of course it's an overpriced +2 Cha/+2 Wis item... :/ Even WotC managed to put their best stat (a 15) in the area where it counts, second best in next most important and so for...

I think he's been pretty clear all along -- if you hate 3.5, you'll hate the Pathfinder RPG too. The problem is that what most people wanted was "Just like 3.5 but with some broken crap fixed." Maybe, but there's no majority consensus on what the "broken crap" is. For every pers...

Guys, I'm really at a loss here. Wasn't Jason Bulmahn the one who wanted people to playtest stuff, but it seems here he is the one who makes a character who hasn't been playtested. I really wonder, what's it gonna take to demonstrate to these people that they don't know how to design? I mean, do we...

My two cents: Champions does a better job at coming up with good building blocks (e.g. "Ice Blasts" and "Plasma Bolts" are all the same thing with different names) and pricing powers (e.g. Desolidification and Invisibility are expensive, space travel is cheap). Mutants & Mast...