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[SOLDIER First]

Have some handbooks! Versions 1.20, 1.22, and 1.3 here. They're mostly the same; I don't know the differences myself, but someone such as Swordstar or Haspen could probably tell you.

Fake edit: God damn it, Sirus.

[Sirus]

Mwahahahahaha.

Anyway, 1.2 is the earliest one that we really know about. 1.22 was basically never used because some of the classes had ludicrous new special abilities, but the weapon stats were rebalanced.

1.3 is the most commonly used, though even it is often house-ruled extensively to fit individual games and GMs. It uses most of the weapon stats from 1.22 as well as some slightly diminished class abilities.

[NullForceOmega]

Learning a new system is best handled by immersion, this leads to slow initial games and can be a bit taxing, to combat this I suggest reading the living hell out of the rulebooks and lore, as well as doing a bit of metagame thought experiments regarding those factors.

[mastahcheese]

Yeah, reading the hell out of the book is a great help.

Also, if you have time, practice writing up characters and have them mock-battle/skill-test crap.
It makes it easier to remember what all goes into such things come gametime. I did a fuckload of mock battles with hastily-made characters when I was younger. T'was fun.

[highmax28]

This is gonna be a rough time because the Shadowrun guide is a little hard to follow in PDF format. I'll figure it out eventually. Thanks guys

[BlackFlyme]

Last session we lost both our Wizards, one a DMPC and the other a PC that was away that session. Buddy was pissed.

This session, he comes back with another Wizard. Then the DM drops several fireballs on him, nearly killing him twice.

[NullForceOmega]

Does your DM have something against Wizards?

[highmax28]

Does your DM have something against Wizards?

Wizards tend to be the people who try and powergame, so I think it's instinctual to take the opportunity to blow up the wizard when you can.

Wizard in my group wants to be able to slaughter hundreds of people in a single attack, but it doesn't work that way. I think she plays too much WoW...

[NullForceOmega]

I haven't had much difficulty with power gamers honestly, I've had a couple in my group, but unless they can provide in-depth justification for their character to be able to do something abnormal I straight up don't allow it.  I have more trouble with RIFTS characters with demolition skills.

[Rolan7]

Our group was discussing random nerd stuff like old UIs and counting in trinary, and I had a nice little spiel about Mathematicians in FFT and how OP they were.  Someone came back with this madness:

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/sacred-geometry/
I love it, abstractly.  But if anyone actually tried to *use* it...

[BlackFlyme]

Does your DM have something against Wizards?

Not really. They were the only ones capable of being charged by an angel with levels of Cavalier. The Summoner was chased as well, but didn't get hit.

Granted, they were also invisible at the time, and the angel doesn't have see invisibility or anything like that.

It does have a bullshit aura that auto-dispels all magic in its radius though.

[Draignean]

Our group was discussing random nerd stuff like old UIs and counting in trinary, and I had a nice little spiel about Mathematicians in FFT and how OP they were.  Someone came back with this madness:

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/sacred-geometry/
I love it, abstractly.  But if anyone actually tried to *use* it...

I think I'm in love.

I may have to make that a curse...

[Rolan7]

I made (edited) an image explaining the various fields by purity

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[wierd]

Sadly, the feats provided by mathematician class arent terribly useful in 99.9999999999% of all combat situations.  Sure, they talk about how hard the battle with the riemann hypothesis is, but that is really only a clumsy 'mass sleep' or "enrage" spell when things get down to it. Most monsters lack the necessary INT or WIS to be effected either way, and humanoids tend to either become drowsy or enraged in approximately equal proportion, with increasing power for either based on the number of turns the mathematician invests into the casting. (it is predominantly a verbal invocation, but sometimes kinesthetic and material components can be added to increase effectiveness. IIRC, material is usually either dry erase marker or white chalk.) Elves are apparently immune, not only because they are unable to sleep, but also because of their high INT stat, which is often over the critical threshold for the monologue feat to actually be "interesting".  I guess this makes it count as a "Distract" feat in that circumstance, but really--- Not useful in combat.

[scriver]

NEEEEEEEEEEEEERDS

<barbarian rage>