Eclipse Pathfinder – The Sorcerer

This time on “how to build it in Eclipse”, it’s the Pathfinder Sorcerer. That’s a little more complicated than some of the other Pathfinder builds so far, but it’s still just a matter of tweaking the standard build. Pathfinder Sorcerers… Lose six skill points at level one (-6 CP). Lose their automatic access to a [...]

Eclipse Pathfinder – the (Expanded) Alchemist

   For the next item in the “How to build Pathfinder characters using Eclipse” series I’m skipping ahead to the Alchemist – mostly because that base Pathfinder class, as an entirely new creation, is more of a challenge than yet another variant on the original 3.5 base classes.    Most alchemists are fairly ordinary craftsmen, [...]

Eclipse Pathfinder – the Rogue

   Next up on the “how to build it in Eclipse” list is how to build a Pathfinder-Style Rogue. Unlike many of the other characters, Rogues received a major bonus in Pathfinder that isn’t reflected in their point costs; Pathfinder combined many of their most important skills. Jump, Balance, and Tumble were combined into Acrobatics. [...]

Eclipse Pathfinder – the Ranger

   Like the Paladin and the Monk, the Ranger has had enough changes and upgrades in Pathfinder that it’s easier to rebuild them then it is to note all the tweaks to the standard build.    As usual, the following breakdown is for level twenty. That way you can easily buy things as you please, [...]

Eclipse Pathfinder – The Paladin

   Like the Pathfinder Monk, the Pathfinder Paladin has had so many powers altered that it’s easier to simply rebuild it from scratch than to alter the original build to match.    Unfortunately, while Pathfinder has drastically upgraded the Paladin, it hasn’t done a thing about the basic problems with the concept. The Paladin, as [...]

Eclipse Pathfinder – The Druid

   Next up on the list of “How to build Pathfinder-style characters in Eclipse” is the Druid.    Now, the Druid, like the Cleric, has often been considered to be one of the strongest basic d20 classes. In Eclipse that’s because it has both inherent duties like the Cleric or Paladin (which can, and should, [...]

Eclipse Pathfinder – The Fighter

   Next up on the how-to-build Pathfinder Characters in Eclipse list is a relatively simple one; the Fighter.    The Pathfinder Fighter added a few abilities and applied the usual Pathfinder adjustment to their skills, but otherwise didn’t change anything – so all that needs to be done here is to add up the costs [...]

Eclipse Pathfinder – The Monk

   Duplicating the Monk – with it’s wide variety of highly-specific yet independent abilities – is always a bit of a tangle, even in Eclipse. You have to take the general abilities and pare them down to exactly what you want. That also means that – when you start making changes in the Monk build [...]

Eclipse Pathfinder – The Cleric

   Next up in the “how to build Pathfinder characters in Eclipse” series is the Cleric.    Once again, that’s not too complicated; simply insert Fast Learner at level zero, and you’ll have the points to spend to update to later standards. All you have to do is to ignore all the options that you [...]

Eclipse Pathfinder – The Barbarian

   There have been a number of requests for a “Pathfinder Upgrade” to Eclipse.    Well, while Pathfinder did make a fair number of changes to spell lists, skill lists, and various other items, most of that has nothing to do with Eclipse. Eclipse already allows the use of custom spell lists, variant skills, and [...]