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Crow, Neo wants to play a kitsune oracle.

That depends on what works for everyone, but probably either Thursdays or Sundays.

Hmmm...

Unlike I can make guest appearances from time to time, I think I'll have to skip this one.

My possibilities are tuesday nights or weekend morning, so I don't think that's gonna happen.

What content is allowed? Any of the DSP Psionics or Path of War stuff allowed (the former isn't too necessary, but the latter is practically essential if you want non-spellcaster characters and kineticists to contribute in meaningful ways besides being an ubercharger that craps out buttloads of damage or a trapfinder)?

I'm suggesting Path of War for the sake of anyone who wants to play someone who isn't a spellcaster. It's a system based off of the Tome of Battle from 3.5e, but further refined and rebalanced to better suit Pathfinder.

Basically, it gives martials a system similar to spellcasting (in how it's executed mechanically, to help make it easy to learn to players familiar with spellcasting) that allows them to use maneuvers which give them abilities they otherwise wouldn't have in the base system (for instance, a charge attack where you charge through multiple enemies and hit them all or using a shield to protect yourself from a dragon's breath weapon). Some of the disciplines are also supernatural in nature, such as Elemental Flux, which provides a more sustained magical approach rather than the "fire-and-forget" spellcasters.

Almost all of it is on the SRD, with the only things lacking being some feats, the Medic class (which I have the pdf of), Unquiet Grave discipline (Lords of Night supplement, though the playtest material is still up), Fool's Errand discipline (just released), and an unreleased discipline with an open playtest designed for natural weapon users.

It's super easy to learn, since unlike spells, you don't have components or finicky AoO rules. Granted, the Zealot is hard to understand, but that also uses Psionics which is its own entirely separate system.

(Oh look another R20 thing...... Goes and cries in a corner)

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If people want to learn PoW, it's almost all on the SRD and is just a cleaned-up version of 3.5's Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords which some of those who participated in Os's thing should already know (I think X played a Crusader).

The reason behind suggesting it is so that martial players aren't bored to death since there are only a few particular playstyles with martials (ubercharger, ranged full attacker, melee full attacker, whirlwind attacker, and reach AoO abuser) and most kinda suck. The grand majority of martial classes are only good at dealing damage or soaking it up with little to no out-of-combat utility (and if it does, they suck in combat like the Rogue).

Path of War not only gives martials more options to play around with and enjoy (seriously, so many build options in just a single discipline), but it puts them on a balanced level of power (All of the Path of War classes are Tier 3 or High Tier 4, or roughly equal with the Bard, Inquisitor, Magus, and Alchemist). While they might outshine some spellcasters in combat in terms of sheer damage output, they will never match spellcasters in pure utility or field control (seriously, spellcasters are basically God with high-level spells like Simulacrum or Gate). Furthermore, it has a high optimization floor, meaning that even if a player screws up their build or doesn't build optimally, they aren't useless like a poorly built Fighter or Rogue.

Basically, Path of War alone fixes the biggest problems with Pathfinder by increasing the power of martial classes (and the Kineticist) so that they aren't useless compared to spellcasters and gives martial players more options, helping them feel more engaged (because doing the same exact thing every combat gets pretty boring).

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You can add another shakey maybe, if that helps.