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Pathfinder Game Two

January 15, 2010 By

I played Pathfinder RPG again yesterday and had a blast. It is seriously “better than the 3.5 rules, but still has that first edition feel” if I am allowed to say so. I helped mug a wizard NPC that stole money from another player. I actually picked the wizard’s pocket, if that is not first edition, I don’t know what is. I also got to see the cleric do a channel energy in combat for the first time, and see how the judge ruled it for the game…

It started as a combat against a couple goblins on goblin dogs and a wererat down in the sewers. Lets just say, things were not going well for the goblins, one even fell in the water and knocked himself out. Just after that happened, one of our rogues fell to bites from a goblin dog and he too was drowning in the murky water. At the very next moment someone could act, a party member grabbed the downed theif and raised his head out of the sewage and gave him a potion to get him stabilized. On the clerics turn, he channeled energy to heal all within 30 feet. Cool, I am thinking, because the priest did not have to venture out into the fetid water to heal the wounded PC. Then the DM asked who are you going to exclude? The priest was 2nd level and the DM said he could exclude a number of people up to his level from the channeled energy effect. He chose the wererat and one of the goblin dogs. Seconds later the rogue comes around and at the exact same time the thief was coming too, the other downed and supposedly drowning goblin sits upright out of the water and gasps. The combat just got a little more interesting… The cleric healed the party and the enemies of the party. I was totally impressed at the new dynamic.

I think that was a cool combat. I did not realize channel energy would work like that. I actually don’t see it in the rules, but I like the DMs adjustment if it is not in the rules. Needless to say I do enjoy Pathfinder RPG more than 3.5 and definitely more than 4e.

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