Yesterday, Paizo announced Monte Cook’s involvement with refining the rules to their interpretation of D&D 3.5. I’m rather excited because the last time I read about him, Monte was burned out and looking to move on from RPGs to fiction which was the goal of every other employee at TSR.
His two cents will increase Pathfinder’s legitimacy since he was a key designer in Third Edition, namely the DM Guide and my personal favorite, The Book of Vile Darkness, aka the best villain handbook for fantasy games ever. I can only imagine what he could’ve done at GDW if he decided to take the job before they scraped the barrel bottom for Dave Nilsen and Nick Atlas. Oh wait, he would’ve bailed for TSR in six months after realizing how GDW was run by Homer Simpson.
Meanwhile, I have been going over the current Alpha 2 of the rules. Nothing too radically different from Alpha 1 other than trying a different solution with skills and setting a DC for diseases and curses. I agree with the latter matters. It is rather unchallenging to automatically dismiss mummy rot with a spell like it were a light switch.