The Gaming Den

Was it the demo, or the adventure module for backers that raised that? Probably both. I'm sure there are people who were keen to contribute because of the book, but I doubt many people would have paid $50 or $100 solely for a 64 page book. I wouldn't underestimate the fan's desire for special suppl...

Paizo are currently committed to a clear editorial policy: Never admit mistakes. Never fix anything. Yeah, I'm getting that impression too. I read a few things on their boards, which by the way still have terrible layout, and every time (not so) tricky rules questions came up, it felt like a good o...

Blech, old group had one player make a monk for their Pathfinder game, and consider it a very powerful character; after giving him a nerfed Vow of Poverty (no Exalted feats). Their reason for this opinion? At level 13, the monk duelled a level 15 barbarian NPC, and both KO'd each other. A nerfed Vo...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1675907842/pathfinder-online-technology-demo/posts Did you guys see this? Wow.... just wow. On a sitenote, I read the Skull & Shackles Player's Guide because I heard they included options for peg legs and the kind of mutilations you see on pirates every now an...

Let's run with D&D. Being an open system, there are some terrible, TERRIBLE books out there. Hell there are terrible books from WOTC that break things over their knee and throws semblance of balance into the fire. I have a simple rule of thumb. The more books you use, or the more obscure the bo...

The only time I have a problem with min-maxing is when it creates a situation where there's some serious intraparty balance problem, or when a character's power level makes the type of story we want to play untenable. If we're playing a game where typical, Hollywood-style werewolves are supposed to...

Now, Wizards is so good at hammering out the math because they long ago started hiring the people who were best at breaking the game from off the Pro Tour to work in R&D. Seriously, the Development Team staff list reads like a Magic Hall of Fame, and these are all people that are used to testin...

Traits/Flaws... I' unsure about this. We used it in two games, and both times it end up in cherrypicking. Maybe that's even the point? A few roleplaying fans aside, you will always try to minimize the negative impact of flaws on your character's combat survivability. So you end up with a -2 in stuff...

Well, usually there are at least a couple of ideas to salvage, thanks to the multiple rounds with different goals each. I sometimes scroll through their archives when I need a singe weird item/monster/npc and I'm too lazy to pick up my books. But yeah, primarily its just a huge pile of stuff, and y...

Well, usually there are at least a couple of ideas to salvage, thanks to the multiple rounds with different goals each. I sometimes scroll through their archives when I need a singe weird item/monster/npc and I'm too lazy to pick up my books. But yeah, primarily its just a huge pile of stuff, and yo...

Utter madness What? I never really looked at the epic stuff, but now I'm kinda happy about that. This sounds utterly ridiculous. Not just because of the fail math behind the spell creation, but because of the complex process in itself... if you are an epic character, or a god or demi-god, this soun...

Totally agree on removing the enormous saving throw benefits of multiclassing, but why not having good and bad progressions? If all three saves (assuming you keep those) are the same and you need to invest feats to make them any better, wouldn't we have option paralysis again? If you want to go tha...

Funny... I only know ethergaunts from 3E (I think they appeared first time in Fiend Folio?), but this is the same question I'd been asking myself after reading their entry: "Why didn't they already conquer the whole world?" I think they make great villains, the problem is playing a race th...

Personally, if I were to redo it, I'd get rid of all good and bad save progressions, and have all DCs and saves go up at a rate of one per two levels. Then, you'd pick up a "good" progression by either a class feature, feat, or something. I don't like in 3.x that there are two separate pr...

@Aharon: Yeah, same here. I started playing D&D with the online SRD only and never held any translated books in my hand. And, besides the problem of not all supplements being translated into German back in the days, prices are ridiculous. A used german PHB costs at least something between 60 and...

I'm going to be in the minority here and say the only important thing is that your dungeon make sense. It should be designed so that it actually serves the purpose it was supposedly created for. A lair shouldn't a series of encounters, it should be a place where your enemy lives and works. A tomb s...

Benjamin, I started to translate some of the Tomes into German a while ago... I have most of Tome of Necromancy and maybe half of Races of War done, but I did only the text and no mechanics. If you're interested, PM me