The Gaming Den

Go to amazon or any shop that sells used books. The red box, add, and 4e stuff sells for 2-5$ with a few gems going for a little more. 3.x has books selling for 65+$. Look at the cost of main books and the cost of splats and compare. The one that people actually have an interest in will have high p...

Given that Point-Blank Mythic has a prereq of regular mythic, and so do all of the other mythic feats, that's going to be fairly difficult to pull off. Because, really or the most part you just won't have the feat slots to pick up mythic feats till higher up. That doesn't make any sense. Point-Blan...

OgreBattle wrote:So what are the mythic powers Fighters get?

See for yourself, the unofficial PRD added Mythic rules.

Since the power site seems to have an aerial theme, incorporate it into the dungeon as well. Flying critters, lots of them (place a colony of darkmantles somewhere, they are always fun). Also, flying rocks with a deep chasm beyond, so you can have an Avatar moment. Strond winds in some tunnels, low ...

There have various attempts to do that (theoretically), especially in places where people worship JaronK's idea of tiers. Also, yes, it achieves the same goal as 4E did: make almost everything the same. Why repeat it?

Presuming I do PDF, what is the expected standard for formatting/layout that will keep the average reader from thinking about it? Keep in mind this is for a D&D adventure. You can't go wrong with standard 8,5x11 or A4, because everyone can print that stuff at home. Speaking of print, keep borde...

[...] Fighter is bad, Gunslinger is unusably bad, Grit is garbage. Also if anyone was worried that a Fighter/Gunslinger would be able to use guns they assure us that they have no proficiency with guns. What??? I have aids now. An archetype will take care of that. Yes, really. [...] By the time they...

Separating PC knowledge and MC knowledge out can help too. There have been times when PC acts on knowledge that is supposed to be super secret and nobody knows it but then claims that since it was in the setting book in such a way that it's open to PC knowledge. Someone said Eberron? I am running a...

This seems like a weird idea -- turning an adventure path into an audiobook . Is there really an audience for that? Not to mention that it is FVCKING RISE OF THE RUNELORDS again! I am completely lost on that. Why, why, why are they repeating this one AP so goddam often? The comic line? RotR. The ca...

I actually find the content explosion to be an improvement over the way 3.5 handled it. Now that all the mechanics are accessible in one place, I don't have to dig through 5 different pdfs to figure out what someone's character does. I consider myself a Pathfinder fan primarily because of d20pfsrd....

I would add "Pathfinder is more complicated" on top of that. Not only because of the constant state of irritation for all folks who know 3.5 rules from the top off their heads, but also because the sheer amount of character building options is reaching a critical mass. Seriously, if someon...

Haven't really read through it, but it's a mixed bag. Certainly more sane than ELH tough, if that is any endorsement. The advantage of Paizo's approach is that mythic ranks can be applied in pre-epic levels, even at 1st level if the MC feels like it. They run parallel to normal class progression and...

Thanks the review virgil, sounds indeed like a mixed bag with both chocolade and feces... Depending on how complete the upcoming Numenera setting book will be, I can see me picking it up, Numenera as a pure setting sounds ok so far.

I actually like the way Paizo used campaign traits in the recent Adventure Paths: give a small mechanical benefit and combine it with background/story/plot hook to so it becomes at some point later on. Used this in Dungeonslayers, worked great for everyone. I would be a lot happier with FATE if aspe...

I feel like doing some of these. Would people prefer: -The Diablo 2 D&D book -WoW d20 -Other Knowing next to nothing about WoW, casual peeks aside, I'd be interested in a review from someone who could compare WoW d20 against the MMO's early days and today's status. Would be interesting if someo...

On a different note, I need to vent about difficulty in official modules. I have played in some APs and finishes several official modules now, and in retrospect I remember encounters/puzzles mostly being either boring or way too hard. That's the problem with hiring a bunch of freelancers: different...

I believe the amounts of XP dealth with in the game is intentionally set as low as it is, so people from D&D land are less suspicious when the topic comes up ("Well, its just 1 XP, and we'll get plenty of them for sure..."). The Corebook spends some time explaining that cyphers are the...

More importantly, how is a Fighter/Cleric hybrid class conceptually distinct from a cleric ? A Cleric shouldn't have any martial ability at all. Of course that hasn't been the case in D&D. But Cleric getting heavy armor, good hp, decent attack bonus, great saves, and self buffs that are exclusi...

Time for some idle speculation on my part .... If you ever get a bonus of +3, reduce the difficulty of the task by 1 instead so you're never adding more than +2 to a roll. Because yaya extra math steps for no reason. It seems like the obvious intent is to keep the #s small; possibly in reaction to ...

I'm amusing myself about how the old argument of Pathfinder being more balanced than 3.5 seems to have died a painful death. Maybe its because I rarely frequent d20-related gaming boards these days, but I got the impression that even hardocre Paizo fans learned their lesson of wizard>fighter somewhe...

So they really did it . I didn't want to believe what I read about Paizo's plans for the later installments of their latest AP featuring winter, witches, and Baba Yaga. I am still on the fence if this is (kinda) awesome or the weirdest crap we have seen from Paizo in a while. Mixing WW1 era technolo...

The stealth entry is fucked pretty bad, it's just not written coherently. My group ended up interpreting that if-people-are-observing-you bit to mean that, as long as you weren't being observed using an actual sense that was sight equivalent you could stealth, no concealment needed. And once you we...

So, errata for the Core Rulebook's 6th printing is out. Remember that Stealth Playtest Paizo did a while ago? Seems it resulted in two actual additions to the skill description text: • Page 106—In the Stealth skill, in the Check section, in the first paragraph, add the following sentence after the f...

Well, at least it's a new way of superpower crazy and not just same ol' wizards again That actually sounds like a fun idea - destroying games, preferably Adventure Paths, by the entire party building a coven.

I have never heard that you could trade standard/move actions for swift actions, that must be something from SWSE. I've never played that system, did they introduce new things you can do as a swift action? In the SRD its like this: Swift Actions A swift action consumes a very small amount of time, b...