Recent content by Micah Sweet

I would have it take your action.

We used roll under all the time in our mostly 1e games.

You're allowed to expect more from the people you choose to game with, but that doesn't mean it's fair to pass judgement on those that don't meet your standards, and especially on the hypothetical people who in your opinion taught them poorly.

Good question. I'm very interested if the logistics can be worked out.

They can think what they want, but design intent for the rule would clearly be simulationist. If all you want to care about is the math, well, you do you.

Cool. That's what I thought, and why I bounced off it hard when I played it last year.

I didn't know know PF2 had Hero Points either. Has it taken PF in a more narrative direction than the original? I thought PF2's issue for me was the IMO excessive reliance on mechanics over fiction.

So you have no experience with the situation I described. That's fine, but it does mean you can't pass judgement on why such people act that way.

Not sure what you mean here.

C'mon! How is that not an attack on an assumed bad GM you likely haven't even met? There are plenty of reasons that a person doesn't have the desire to provide flourid answers to your insistence for more attack description.

I hear you. I had a session zero for my new Level Up campaign last week. I had no particular restrictions on character build, but I am so happy I got a Human PC (the others are a Changeling and a Goliath).

5.5 has Hero Points?

Good for you. Not all of us have the option to fine-tune our gaming group that way, usually because some or all of them are friends and/or family.

To be honest, I'm never completely comfortable with any party that doesn't include at least one human. I feel it adds necessary (to me) perspective. There's a reason nearly all fantasy or science fiction stories have at least one human, and often they are the majority.

What do you do if someone says, "I attack", and is uncomfortable with being more specific, or can't think of anything more interesting than, "I swing my weapon at it"?