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Pathfinder Actual Play: Skull and Shackles

The Pathfinder game I play in with +Jeromy French, +kung fu hillbilly , +Matt Sutton , +Joshua Taylor , and +James Stanton is working through Skull and Shackles. We had started playing using the Organized Play rules, but did not find them to our collective liking. So we made the campaign switch, and now are playing characters of the not-nice variety. This is thus my…

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Pathfinder Read-through – Chapter 2: Races

This is the first real “meat” chapter in the Pathfinder RPG book, and it’s a short one. Still, it gives a flavor for what is to come from a game design point of view. The chapter opens with seven individuals who can probably divide up 7% body fat between them. I’m not sure if that’s…

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Sticking it to ’em: Impaling vs Piercing Damage

+Peter V. Dell’Orto noted here that sometimes there’s a bit of a mental squaaawwwk! when it comes to comparing piercing vs. impaling damage types. He makes some good points, and partly, this ties into penetration and injury GURPS-physics. Impaling damage, by and large, is assumed to result from a deep, often narrow, penetrating injury that gets…