Those of you playing PathfinderFollow

Have you checked out some of the things in the recently released Advanced Race Guide? Some of them seem potentially strong as ****.

Depends on the GM and campaign. By making Con your caster stat, you gain some awesome side bonuses to fort saves and HPs a witch normally shouldn't have. Not to mention the bonus Natural Armor the class gets. Combined with Orc weapon familiarity(proficiency with Greataxe and Falchion), some cheese involving a Mithril Buckler, a Mithril Chain Shirt, an Armored Kilt and Arcane Armor Training, you could be running around with 21 AC before dex at level 10 with no penalty to your spells, making you a reasonably decent person to be up close and personal. Since Hexes don't provoke, you could be a flanking buddy while being a hex bot.

I think that's a silly notion. Everything get evaluated on a case by case basis. Just because there's something new that Paizo publishes does not mean everyone should immediately have unrestricted access to it. It all depends on the specific campaign and party. For example, our party recently got a new player. He wanted to be a half-celestial, there are rules for that and it's totally legit. Our DM put his foot down and said "no" because it would make his character way more powerful than the rest of the party as the campaign progressed. Is that a terrible solution? Of course it isn't, it is the DM making decisions in the interest of improving the game experience for everyone. No one likes to be in a party where one character steamrolls everything and everyone else is just trying to keep up.

Then there's stuff that gets banned because it doesn't fit the campaign setting. Our campaign setting has no gun powder. Folks haven't created it. The stuff doesn't exist. There's definitely entire sets of feats centered around the use of firearms, so I guess it's just a terrible terrible thing that our DM doesn't let us have guns in a world where gunpowder doesn't exist, right?

No, the point is Paizo should not publish something people should not have unrestricted access to. It's the mark of bad game design. You are being sold a broken product which you have to fix.

But that's just fluff. Why are you banning mechanics to ban fluff? IF your setting doesn't allow for guns, then don't have guns. That doesn't mean you can't use gun mechanics though. Just reflavor them to composite bows or whatever you can think of. Creativity is supposed to be a core part of D&D/Pathfinder.

The linkage between Fluff and mechanics is 100% arbitrary ********* In some games, water magic is responsible for healing. In other games light magic is responsible for healing. In Rift, fire magic somehow let you heal people. There is zero connection between how the act is described and what it does. If you game system uses light magic for healing, but you're sett in a Chinese elemental world with no light element, then just have the healing mechanic be water. As long as you're consistent, then there's no reason not to.

Oh, and there's a debate going on right now on the Paizo boards as to whether the half-breed races get access to both of their parentages' racial archetypes/feats. And more than that, whether humans* who take the racial heritage feat get access to those archetypes as well.

*Scion of Humanity** Aasimar, Half-Orcs and Half-Elves likely have access to that particular feat as well.
**Speaking of Scion of Humanity, there's also debate that its existence might allow humans to use Racial Heritage to qualify for Aasimar feats, despite the fact that the race is generally Outsider(Native) instead of Humanoid.

I just got hit with disappointment when I realized that the Scorching Weapons Line of Ifrit Racial Feats doesn't stack with the flaming portion of the Igniting weapon enchantment designed for Ifrit.

Meowcenary

Give them armor that looks like it's made of Pop Tarts, and a Rainbow striped cape, and name them Nyan.

The stuff added for Aasimar in Blood of Angels is @#%^ing ridiculous. Especially:




Some are just entertaining.


Edit: I missed one.


Edited, Aug 12th 2012 2:21pm by Poldaran

Ultimate Equipment: Brutal.