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[Sirus]

I've been invited to play a Pathfinder game, but I've never even touched the system before. Could I bother the good posters of this thread for a brief rundown on how PF works, maybe a link to some helpful resources?

[My Name is Immaterial]

It's 95% similar to D&D 3.5, so almost anything you know about 3.5 can be translated into PF.
Also, it's all free, on this SRD.

[Sirus]

That's...pretty helpful, yeah. Thanks.

[flabort]

It's the other 5% that throws me...

[Bohandas]

Yeah it's closer to 3.5e than any given D&D edition is to any other edition

[Bohandas]

Was there ever official errata released for Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss? The description of the Sibriex demons mentions spell like abilities that aren't in their stat block and I'd like to know what's up with that.

[Flying Dice]

There's a reason that the most common nickname for PF is D&D 3.75, after all.

[highmax28]

I killed my buddy's "father" (his maker) while possessed (but the thing was, I was gonig to do it outside of possession because reasons) and he lost his mechanus (his big ass robot) in the same round.

My buddy lost everyone his character loved in the matter of seconds. And since he's an android of a sort and generally emotionless, its pretty bad when he feels only loss.

Why did I kill him? He had unlocked the secrets of immortality and had knowledge of power so great, that we had a vision of the world being destroyed, and my character knew this knowledge was too great to be known. And because of that, he took every note, every book and every memory orb so no one who comes by here will know what happened. He also copied the notes so he will remember what was written on them, so if he loses it (and he kind of did), he knows what to look for when someone is trying to recreate it.

Oh, and my character is permanently possessed by this guy and sees him every now and then in the distance.

Oh, and the guy who possessed me? He's based on Reznov

[Jimmy]

Our party's Cleric looks like he's gonna be dropping out of our Pathfinder game due to a change in his work hours. I'm trying to decide if switching my Leadership cohort from a Summoner to a Cleric might be a good choice.

[NullForceOmega]

Healers are always useful.

[Flying Dice]

And as long as you don't have anyone who actually wants to be a healbot, it's usually better to delegate that to a friendly NPC/hireling/cohort/UMD guy with wands to avoid anyone having to take one for the team.

[SquatchHammer]

I... I um... I think my character has a problem. He is a Paladin of Pyros, and no Pyros is not the The Slow Doberman of Justice but the deific fire Elemental being in my friends game. There is temples of Pyros across the world that each has a "Wall of Flame". Each wall is a "relative" flame elemental of Pyros that is birthed within the temple. One of the ways to commune with Pyros is to walk into the wall. It's only done either for very few ceremonial purposes, crisis of faith, or the last is if one feels like its time to return to the Flame.

Well, over the course of the campaign Gregory had gone into various Walls more times just in the past year, let alone over the course of the entire time Gregory had been with the Paladins of Pyros, than any other member in the chronicled history of the Order's existence. Now he has a intricate design that has a golden glow coming from within his left hand and forearm. The only time the phenomenon occurred happened with the few paladins returned to the flame within one of the walls. Right before they disappeared in the flame, their entire bodies were covered in the said glowing designs.

I feel like Gregory might be addicted to going into the said walls at this point, much like a character who shoots up enough maco to get blue arm.

[Kadzar]

Is there any particular reason he keeps walking into the Wall of Flame? Just because you can take several hitpoints worth of damage without consequence doesn't mean you should.

[Jimmy]

Is there any particular reason he keeps walking into the Wall of Flame? Just because you can take several hitpoints worth of damage without consequence doesn't mean you should.

I beg to differ. My wizard regularly stops arrows with her face during the surprise round simply because she has an ungodly amount of hit points and it saves the party worrying about spending valuable time and resources trying to find hidden enemies.

Actually, given her habits, it's starting to look like a far better idea to have that Cleric cohort. Since she was raised inside the temple of Nethys, I guess she'll get one from that faith. It's a shame though, I'd much rather a cleric with access to the Travel and Luck domain (or alternatively, Madness).

[Rolan7]

Yeah the travel domain is *boss*. Free motion x rounds per day without preparation, yes please! Not to mention teleportation.