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A lot of that is the same residual crap that kept it out of 3/3.5, but even I admit that Pathfinder Psionics got crazy broken really fast. They started out weaker as they didn't nearly the same amount of buffs PF gave the arcane and divine caster, but by the second psionics book things got really st...

Ok, so I've learned all about how to make a great thief in Pathfinder by not being a rogue... how about being a bulky melee type? Other than "Cleric with a martial melee weapon". Like how Inquisitors and Alchemists make great Thieves and can totally dress in black ninja hoods, do they als...

Rogues should have a way to apply status affects with their sneak attacks. And it needs to A) available at a lowish level as a base ability B) be status effects people actually give a shit about C) 'SA damage affects undead and constructs' should be included as one of the low level effect options an...

Inquisitor- why does this class exist? Best explanation I've seen is that it's a jack of all trades fighter/thief/caster class for people who don't want to play a Bard because they think all that music/perform crap is gay and that Bards all must inherently suck. And to be fair, it does mostly have ...

So what's the method for pathfinder divine magic users to hit things for massive damage in a way superior to sneak attack? A few domains grant Smite or something like Smite and Evil or Neutral clerics could use the Channel Smite feat to add that damage to their melee attack against living targets. ...

Then take Trap Finder, you've got a pretty awesome Rogue. Or be a Ninja with Trap Finder and make a more roguish 'Rogue+1' Another good trap finder would be the Inquisitor who gets 6 skill points a level, already has the class skills, most of those spells and can cast them more than once a day, AND...

How much of a quick kludge fix would just merging the Fighter and Rogue together be? So full bab, all armor shield and weapon profs, 8 skill points, sneak attack, evasion, uncanny dodge, lots of class skills including UMD, feats. They'd have things to do outside of combat, and they'd be able to fill...

Herein lies the problem. You have invested a feat in not having to wear armor. If your ability gives you the same AC as someone who is wearing armor, they are just like you but have an extra feat. Your feat effectively grants you the ability to ignore your ACP, which is possibly worth a feat I gues...

For what it's worth, Ninja and Samurai had similar problems in D&D 3.X - you could take two Ninja base classes (Rokugan and C:Ad), then something like three "Ninja of X" prestige classes, and if you line them all up, you get to spin a bonus reel or something. I might be remembering it...

Even the new Neverwinter MMORPG steals the names of 4E powers, but doesn't use the mechanics at all. I'd think that's more because the 4E rules would be horrible for a MMORG than anything else. Some genres it would be fine for. Hell I would have genuinely loved the fuck out of a Final Tactics style...

Some opinions on the last test document for the Advanced Class book, because I'm just finally bored enough to read it. The Arcanist- I was always a huge fan of the broken as fuck spellpoint using wizard variant, so I like this quite a bit even though it's clearly balls out stupid crazy overpowered. ...

Another dev quote: I read that and my first thought was, "yeah, those bastards are either going to have some horrible, unlikable character that spends 98 levels being a shitty useless waste but at lv99 gets the "Instantly Rape Every Bad Guy In a Thirty Mile Radius Forever" spell or t...

ishy wrote: For example: eldritch Knight, you still need martial proficiency.

Proficiency With All Martial Weapons being turned into a single basic feat any class can take is just one of those common sense changes Paizo will never do I suppose.

Because the True Evil ending has you fuck over the campaign setting in a much more grievous and awesome way. The You Go Full Spirit Eater ending? Despite all the doom and gloom, that doesn't really screw up a fundamental part of the universe , like messing with the Wall does. You just become FR's b...

fucking loved Mask of the Betrayer for the first 95% of the game, but the 'Good' ending was literally the most retarded and infuriating thing I've ever witnessed in any form of entertainment. My problem was that the 'best' ending was only attainable by collecting the hidden multi-part macguffen tha...

And another feat in regular phb: Use any one stat for Melee Basic attacks Errata when essentials came out, to only give you half of your stat on damage! Oh right, I forgot the half damage thing. I knew they had done something to the feat but blocked out exactly what it was. Frankly, deleting it wou...

Never had DDI, maybe that would have made it better enough to . I could be remembering wrong, but assault Swordmages got very little improvements. Almost all support for the class focused on the Shielding version of the class. Which, granted, started out in far worse shape than Assault did, but by ...

5.) Errata policy. I think I could have lived with their Errata policy under different terms. I mean it could have represented a concept shift from the game rules being these hard and fast, almost never changing things written on paper, to a living, ever evolving document. The problem was that woul...

I mean, fuck, Toril has Fantasy Europe, Fantasy Asia, Fantasy Mezo-America, and Fantasy Arabia and none of these settings actually interact with each other because traveling between different continents is extremely difficult and the people with the power to do so generally don't give enough of a f...

Who was in charge of 4E around the time of the third players handbook? I recall it being a lot better done and more interesting than the previous 2. Though, that may have just been due to lowered expectations. I honestly considered the phb3 to be the point where 4e started it's downward spiral, not...

It has always been my experience that regardless to how good a system's ship to ship rules may be, players preferred attack strategy will always be to form a boarding party as quickly as possible. Hell, I once went to the trouble of throwing together a dynamic ship to ship combat system for 4E from ...

For a wide audience it runs on everything, ipods, smartphones, playstation, flash/HTML5, and everything, including shit like special prices for people buying golden healing apples at the apple shop. If you like, you can even licence out the right to make a tabletop RPG loosely based on the rules, f...

What would be a more useful character. So I want to make a platemail wearing spellcaster/ironman ish character. my idea was: Dwarf(maybe duegar) with the 2 ASF reducing feats (light and medium armor) and item creation feats. My question was the class levels. 1 Cleric / X Wizard or 3 Cleric/3 wizard...

OgreBattle wrote:What exactly makes a runepriest different from a cleric btw?

they lack the three+ years of updates, new options, band-aid feat fixes and support the cleric got (also the three+ years of nerfs, but since the Runepriest was weak to start with that really doesn't help much).

Wait... PF Online won't be class based? What? I mean, I'm actually always happy for another point based game, but it's fucking PF/D&D, classes are a rather important thing to have in this case. How can they stumble that badly this early on?