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[Thomas Shey]

Concentrate mostly makes things with it interact with certain other things; for example, you can't use a Concentrate ability while under Barbarian Rage.

The big one is if you are adjacent to something with attack of opportunity (which, note, is much rarer in PF2e than D&D3e or PF1e), and use a Concentrate ability, it can trigger the AoO (AoOs are also Reactions, which means even most things that have them can only do one a round, and there are other things that can trigger one).

 

[niklinna]

I do 5e and am looking into P2.

I like mages and need to understand exactly what is going on.

What, exactly, is the "Concentrate" trait. I cant seem to find explicit rules for it.

Rules - Archives of Nethys: Pathfinder RPG Database

 

[Campbell]

I do 5e and am looking into P2.

I like mages and need to understand exactly what is going on.

What, exactly, is the "Concentrate" trait. I cant seem to find explicit rules for it.

Is it possible to concentrate on two things that require concentration?

Does concentration always cost an "action" or more?

What are the important mechanical features of this trait?

Oops. Ninjed by @Thomas Shey .

 

[niklinna]

Concentrate mostly makes things with it interact with certain other things; for example, you can't use a Concentrate ability while under Barbarian Rage.

And that is specifically because Barbarian Rage itself is tagged [Concentrate]!

 

[Yaarel]

Rules - Archives of Nethys: Pathfinder RPG Database

If I understand correctly, the link doesnt explain the "Concentrate" trait.

Some spells have this trait, and some spells dont. What is the difference, mechanically?

 

[Yaarel]

Concentrate mostly makes things with it interact with certain other things; for example, you can't use a Concentrate ability while under Barbarian Rage.

The big one is if you are adjacent to something with attack of opportunity (which, note, is much rarer in PF2e than D&D3e or PF1e), and use a Concentrate ability, it can trigger the AoO (AoOs are also Reactions, which means even most things that have them can only do one a round, and there are other things that can trigger one).

So, the Concentrate trait has no mechanics, but other mechanics might refer to it?

 

[Thomas Shey]

If I understand correctly, the link doesnt explain the "Concentrate" trait.

Some spells have this trait, and some spells dont. What is the difference, mechanically?

Whether they're compatible with some other traits and trigger some reactions. That's it. There's nothing Concentrate intrinsically does.

 

[Thomas Shey]

So, the Concentrate trait has no mechanics, but other mechanics might refer to it?

Yup.

 

[Gammadoodler]

Rules - Archives of Nethys: Pathfinder RPG Database

Link here appears to be related to PF1.

 

[Gammadoodler]

So, the Concentrate trait has no mechanics, but other mechanics might refer to it?

Yeah, things like this are probably some if the more confusing aspects of PF2e.

Many/most actions in PF2e have traits (or are triggered by other actions' traits), and some of those traits have traits (e.g. the interact trait has the manipulate trait, having the invisible trait can grant the hidden trait, etc.).

The book is good about tagging things, but it's a level of complexity that requires mental bandwidth that doesn't seem worth the effort in many cases.