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Tagged with balance pathfinder-1e
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What can I do when I accidentally gave out an overpowered item?
In our last game, the players worked their way through a series of fiendish traps into a high security vault, where they recovered a Staff of the Magi. After the game I looked at the stats, and ...
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What tier are the Pathfinder classes?
I know what tiers are, but what tier are the various Pathfinder classes? This is about Pathfinder only, no 3.5 material is relevant.
An ideal answer would cover all available (non-prestige) classes, ...
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How are Fighters Linear but Wizards Quadratic?
The phrase "Linear Fighters, Quadratic Wizards" gets bandied about a lot, but I've found I don't have a good way to explain it to newer players.
The tier system post has some examples of how wizards ...
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What tier is the Kineticist?
What tier is Pathfinder's Kineticist? Why ought it to be classified in that tier?
Some background:
This lists the Kineticist as T5 alongside the monk, with another poster arguing it should be T4 ...
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Does Pathfinder have the character imbalance problem that D&D 3.X has?
Many agree that D&D 3.X has a tier "problem" (or system or classification, depending upon your preference). I enjoy the basic rule set of 3.X but have a hard time having fun with a system that is ...
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What effects would allowing same-class multiclassing have on interclass balance?
In Pathfinder, taking multiple copies of a class is controversial from a rules-based perspective. Most of the groups I have played with allow same-class multiclassing in 3.5 but not Pathfinder. I ...
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How do I balance a very-low magic campaign?
Recently, my players and I got kind of bored with the fact that Pathfinder relies heavily on magic items than martial prowess for fighting classes. I realize and accept the fact that spellcasters are ...
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Depowering a high AC PC without killing the rest of the group
I am a relativly new DM and we are playing Pathfinder. We are playing a pre-made adventure, Rise of the Runelords. My group consists of a Bard, a Sorcerer an Alchemist and a Knight on Level 7. Problem ...
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Overly strong level 1 barbarian
I am new to DMing (this is my first campaign) and one of the PCs rolled a 18 str char and made a 20 str Barbarian.
What is the best way to deal with this at the early levels of the game where his hit ...
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What about "Save-or-Die" spells makes them so powerful? Are they balanced as is, or require tweaking?
On reading guides on classes, most notably caster classes, near every guide recommends that the player take the "Save-or-Die" or "Save-or-Suck" spells. Usually, these end up being status effects. I ...
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Are There Weaker Alternatives to Cleric, Wizard, or Druid? [closed]
Clerics, Wizards, and Druids are widely regarded as having so many more and more powerful options than non-spellcasters, like Fighters, that trying to play a game involving both of them will leave the ...
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Why do the tiers of classes change so little regardless of what additional material is used
From comments by user2227713 on this answer:
Why hasn't Paizo done more to balance these low-tier classes? Don't get me wrong, new classes are great, but I'd like to see balance changes too.
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Will a spellthief break Pathfinder?
My Pathfinder PC died recently, and the GM is allowing me to pick also from D&D 3.5 classes for my next PC. I'm considering the class spellthief, and my DM has approved this pick, but I'm worried ...
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How do class tiers in Pathfinder shift through levels?
I have read some explanations of abilities that make T1 classes so strong, and what makes T6 classes so useless.
However, most of such explanationes mention very high-leveled abilitites, or even ...
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Were "class tiers" in D&D and Pathfinder made on purpose?
As I read it everywhere, classes in the games I mentioned in the title differ in power a lot. This takes place in 3.5e and wasn't fixed in Pathfinder. Some search indicates that this problem isn't ...