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No mention made of a character with different classes that use different HD or what happens after level 10, i.e. 10 levels of scholar followed by a switch to fighter for a few levels, what is the HD, the scholar's or the 3 HP from fighter? Worthless at high levels, exceedingly powerful at 1st...

Agreeing with the last two posters and repeating myself, but if a temptress is seeing a lot of combat, she should be taking levels in solider and or barbarian. If she's fighting all the time, she's not a temptress. If she's refusing to take melee classes and refusing armour then she has to...

Sands of Death is much cooler. Serpent of the South is very confusing from a Black Kingdom world view seeing as it's North.

The damage is doubled with 2h weapons. For 2h weapons you also get 1.5x str bonus as well (regardless of power attack). This may have been to compensate for 2 weapon fighters being able to get it twice, but it works very very poorly in conjunction with criticals and massive damage. As a...

You'll note my example didn't use 2-h weapons... At 10th level sneak attack will cause massive damage, reckless attack will cause massive damage, power attack with 1-handed weapons will cause massive damage, critical hits with decent bonuses, such as high str from rageing will cause massive...

Actually it isn't. If initiative is equal and the barbarian wins, he will almost be guaranteed to take out the flat-footed nomad with a leaping raging reckless power attack triggering a pair of massive damage saves before the nomad can even take an action. If the nomad wins initiative then...

You hardly need those. Many of the creatures in the bestiary can dish out 20+ damage without much problem, hippos, elephants, apes, sons of set etc. Sneak attack can easily get up to there. Reckless attack can easily get up there. A mid-level thief/soldier two weapon fighting with sneak...

http://www.thecoremechanic.com/2009/04/players-handbook-2-on-wsj-top-15-best.html They are selling out and going into 2nd printings on their books. They're doubtless selling dozens if not hundreds of copies of PHB2 for every Conan core book sold. Just because it's a pile of crap doesn't...

HPs are just about the most important thing in combat. There are lots of ways to deal damage, but if you can't take it you won't survive. If you use massive damage rolls then fort saves are the most important before HPs, leading me to suggest that if you use mass damage saves in your campaign...

4E is selling EXTREMELY well. My guess as to why they stopped letting 3rd party companies sell their PDFs is because they don't want to split the money with them anymore and will sell them all themselves. The same reason they took the Dungeon/Dragon from Paizo and are selling them as PDFs...

It's for every PC. I'd recommend simply using a single XP total for the entire party and just using that for everyone. It saves record keeping and stops people from falling behind and feeling (and being) useless.

Slapping someone's wrist guard with your sword isn't going to stop them from grabbing you.

Before 4E it seemed like half the threads on WotC boards was how feeble the fighter was, how a cleric could buff them self to be a better fighter than the fighter, how a wizard could buff them self to be a better fighter than a fighter, etc. etc. In part this was true because the 3.5E magic...

Side note, but Conan grapple and SRD grapple aren't the same either. Conan grapple is only 1 roll as well, although I find the rules fairly unclear and still need cleaned up, but thats a different thread. I haven't seen the pahtfinder RPG system, but I'd assume Conan could be run in anything...

No. They're using the off hand for two attacks. If the player wants to take a -5 penalty for it being their second attack, allow it, otherwise it's pretty clearly against the rules.