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Workable, but not distinct enough from Frankensteins in impetus. Also, the ritual is too unintentionally hilarious. Frankensteins are created in order to make a new person, and want to be real. Eidolons want to be someone specific that they are not. There's conceptual overlap in that they are both ...

A bit sad. Initially I thought 'hey maybe I'll go do some writing on his own' but then I realized without 3.x/Pathfinder providing some sort of framework to work inside he'd probably just turn out 3d7 roll-under systems or something too awful to even bother wasting mockery on :( Apparently he's wor...

Speaking of train wrecks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6JUdZlu9cvc Muaha..hahaha. And if you think that looks horrible, just think: that's a demo using the Unity engine. Which means that content generation and graphics and stuff like that are mostly solved by the engi...

Folks are now discussing that Druids got nerfed in Pathfinder and that shapeshifting is underwhelming. I don't know what the difference is to 3.5 though. Polymorph got revamped in PF, and is now much weaker. I don't actually recall how it works now, though, because, man, fuck Polymorph. I do rememb...

Ah, I misread what he was asking. Not no reference to size.

Do be careful about what you swallow, though, because they can just cheerfully shred your vulnerable innards from inside you.

Of particular note, is there any creature that explicitly gets to swallow whole creatures under a certain size category without referencing the creature's size. This doesn't work. The Swallow Whole general rules have always said: Unless otherwise noted, the opponent can be up to one size category s...

Stahlseele wrote:Are you scared of statistics with images of pastel coloured ponies?

With good reason.

Yeah I am not clicking any link to a site named ponyhead.com.

So I looked at a changes summary from D&D 3.5 to Pathfinder. Do I really even need to worry about much conversion other than making sure function calls (as [insert spell/class], [feat] as a bonus feat) are still accurate? It seems like by in large a D&D class doesn't need much work to conve...

Pseudo Stupidity wrote:Edit: Unless 3.5 monks have it even shittier than PF monks, which I find hard to believe.

3.5 VOP works differently (albeit also poorly).

It's poorly phrased, but I agree with the sentiment: if it's impossible to build a weak character in your game's character-building system, then there's probably not enough choice (for my taste) in your character-building system. This goes a step further: that some options will be deliberately crea...

so skr

such game design

wow

This is just sad.

While we're on the subject of Pathfinder fapping to simple tactics and nerfing more involved ones, what the fuck is with their love of those retarded '1d6 + INT and/or half-level' ranged blasts that can only be used as a standard action For crying out loud, those shitty things are shitty pieces of ...

Wiseman wrote:So now the question is why does pathfinder have a hate-on for mundane classes?

Because giving them nice things isn't -*-Realistic-*-.

malak wrote:Hmm... I thought temp hit points didn't stack?

These do, because they say so.

Actually it has a lot to do with flask rogues. [...] they went through the same game test rogues for 10th level and nerfed all of their equipment so that they don't benefit Rogues anymore. That doesn't explain why people say Paizo hates rogues in places where the flask rogue is considered impractic...

What makes PF Rogues significantly weaker than 3.5 rogues? I remember hearing some grumbling about dropping flask bombs not working as well, but that was a pretty niche thing anyway. It seems like they've taken away crit immunity from a bunch of enemy types, which would be a big boon in general cir...

Every archetype boils down to "maybe you could talk to the GM and ask to exchange one class feature for another one". That isn't anything new. The other archetypes at least do the work of choosing which class features to exchange, so they're useful if you're terminally uncreative. They co...

The thing about bronies is that they post a lot of MLP porn on tumblr, and don't always tag it, so kids search for MLP or Rarity or Twilight Sparkle, or whatever, and find pics of their favourite characters with three foot long dicks. And parents, understandably, get their panties in a bunch. That'...

Actually not much of an issue. As long as power levels stay even vaguely sane, Batman style heroes have no problem contributing in a group environment. They are able to compete for exactly the same reason as Flasked Avengers contribute in 3.5: there's no particular reason why "scouting," ...

You can start with Persephone - she was the goddess of the dead (by the virtue of being Hades's wife) and goddess of harvest. Harvest easily mutates into hunting, which is done with the bow. Or it just translates into the sickle, scythe, or maul, which are actual tools you use to harvest things. It...

GâtFromKI wrote:A godless cleric is better in every regard.

Except that the developers of Pathfinder never fail to remind everyone that godless clerics are cheesy misinterpretations and have no place in Pathfinder despite being specifically called out as an option in the book they wrote.

I vaguely recall there's some cleric archetype where you claim that everybody gets what your god represents wrong and he's actually for this and that, allowing you to bullshit in a different domain choice. You might be able to use that to talk your DM into allowing a different weapon or pick a diff...

fectin wrote:I found this by him: http://paizo.com/products/btpy9376?The- ... t-Shoggoth

How could you not link this career-defining masterpiece?