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Sorry for the thread necromancy but I believe this question is best asked here. I have a question regarding filling out a WoF, narrow classes and a discussion we had some time ago on exception based design. First though, a statement of what I think has been said in the past: It is my understanding t...

Well, hell, just looking at the Razor Coast adventure path on that site they seem really promising, but, I haven't looked at the actual adventure, so, honestly, I'm basing that opinion on the fact that Wayne Reynold's art is on the cover and it sounds really interesting. But hell, the adventure act...

I don't see why you're so surprised, the_taken. Dragon and Dungeon magazine content has had a reputation for a good long while that the stuff in it is mostly crap and that you need to sift through or line-item veto things to get anything good. One of the few smart moves 4E made was trying very, ver...

3.x retained all the increased frequency items (rings of wizardy, wands, staves) added new options for flexibility (3.5 staves where they let you swap memorized spells) AND they had plenty of shit you could do to increase your magic power (stat boosts). A huge difference is that whatever wealth you...

Sounds good where can I buy it?

If someone wants to make money by replicating any Paizo Material (or WotC Material) or by publishing that they are Pathfinder or D&D 4E-compatible, then they need an appropriate commercial license from the appropriate company. The first part of your sentence is either wrong or confused. I think...

Wait what the hell? Aren't you supposed to define what's Product Identity and what's Open Game Content for each and every work you release under the OGL? Where exactly did they screw up? By simply not being clear enough in the definitions? Sure, terms of art like that should be defined in any good ...

Their CUP, as far as I know, is the general community grant to do whatever people want with Paizo's Open Content provided that the person doing so does not try to make money from the content nor try to sully their brand with things of which Paizo would not approve (like a Pathfinder For Pedophiles s...

The vast majority of the rules are Open Game Content. Their Golarion fluff is not.

I assume everyone here is aware of the Pathfinder SRD, yes? This has all of the Open Content Pathfinder stuff in it plus other things (like art) used by permission.

People were going to follow 3.X wherever it went, so making it objectively worse just made people less likely to stop using their old 3.0/3.5 books and buy 3.P. Not if they want to continue buying the APs. While technically possible to use an AP's material and back-convert it from 3.P to 3.5 is pos...

I don't find Pathfinder to be minor changes. It has more changes in it than from 3->3.5, and most of them seem different for no reason. They did re-write the rules. And to my knowledge, they made it worse . -Crissa Although my posts above may indicate otherwise, I do agree with you on this. They ne...

Frank - I do not always agree with your game design decisions and we certainly have our differences but this: But right now instead I'm going to give you the argument against: Runner Havens sold like a flavored enema. kind of writing makes reading every one of your posts mandatory for comedic value ...

Think about it. Since its inception, Paizo has been a company which: publishes adventures for 3.X D&D, and publishes supplementary rules material for 3.X D&D So 90+% of their customers are people who are happy enough with 3.X D&D already. Even if they aren't copmletely happy with the ru...

LL: Except we need to have exceptions for students, tourists, truck drivers, diplomats, foreign workers, etc. And it needs not violate one of the rights in the constitution, the freedom of movement. -Crissa Yeah my idea is not what I would call "fully formed". It was just a thought to eli...

Maybe they should just set up roadblocks and check everyone for a valid drivers license like they currently do for DUI. When licenses are renewed, you need to bring in a notarized US birth certificate, passport, or suitable notarized proof of citizenship/"legal to be in country document" o...

I don't see the need to bitch (there is that word again!) about the lack of playtesting at Paizo. After feeding us a steaming platter of bullshit about an "open playtest," Paizo blatantly lied to us. That is unconscionable and inexcusable. Never attribute to maliciousness what can be attr...

I don't see the need to bitch (there is that word again!) about the lack of playtesting at Paizo. We all know that 3.5 is broken. We all know that the only core classes capable of pulling a class level x vs CR x same game test off over a wide range of levels are full casters and rogues that UMD like...

If the new Arizona law is racist because it would have the effect of targeting Mexicans, are crack laws racist because many of those arrested on crack charges black?

I can how holograms might fit into the hacker shtik. I just can't bring myself to support the brain hacking thing. If we need a decker, a street sam and and a mage as iconics and all iconics need something unique to do all the time, we break it up like this: Decker: * hacking for paydata * bypassing...

Entitlements are not making us go broke. We spend a lot on them, but they generally make up the difference in economic stimulation. The Iraq War cost $720 billion dollars, the Bush tax cuts cost $2.48 tr illion. Public debt is currently $9.9 trillion. If we had just not done the two grossest pieces...

So, status-quo == useful. No immigrants, no useful work, and so... Why should we secure our borders? If we do that, then we won't get useful work. Or something. I don't follow this 'logic'. Sorry, I am not being clear. Here is the issue: Status Quo Approach: 1. Allows ever more illegals, some of wh...

some stuff Ok, I didn't ask the right question. What is the benefit of having millions and millions of poor and unskilled illegal immigrants in the country while at the same time increasing our spending on entitlement programs? How does allowing additional millions to enter improve American fiscal ...

In the US one of 26 documents is allowed to show right to work. I am away so i camt link atm but can do so later. Also employers do pay some taxes b/c their workers are nominally legal using this easily spoofed system. Many others do not pay any tax at all for the workers - this is very common in te...

2) Entitlement spending is breaking our backs? Since when? Why don't you name these entitlement programs? Social Security and Medicare expenditures are funded by permanent appropriations and so are considered "mandatory" spending according to the 1997 Budget Enforcement Act (BEA). Social ...

Exactly Crissa, If the states on the Mexican border wanted to cut down on illegal immigration they'd go after people hiring them. People come to the states to earn a decent living, if you make the only avenue for them to do that be through legal documented immigration then the illegal type would be...