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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again..Yeah, the only games where weapon swapping doesn't have some cost is ones where the weapon choice virtually doesn't matter. -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e?.Eh. I suspect your expectation for "stand up to melee" is different than mine. Given their AC isn't much different from most classes...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Because "in fiction" (that is to say, in the theoretical reality of the world as perceived by characters in it) the minions aren't...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Still kind of comes across as swallowing the whale and choking at the minnow when virtually every humanoid opponent you fight after the...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Anybody can be killed by any serious weapon strike, really. The whole D&D hit point structure (at least as it applies for human-like...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Velderan's post in the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again. with
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Paizo definitely saw there were some issues with the action economy, since they addressed it requiring 1 action to put your weapon away... -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again..There's a lot less bonus types in PF2, and a couple of the ones that remain are hard to get on-demand.
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Thomas Shey reacted to Nebulous's post in the thread Shadow of the Weird Wizard Is Finally Here! with Like.
No, not yet. We are trying to wrap up a 2-year 5e campaign and we are right at the cusp. I also want to run Dragonbane and Nimble and...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I think that's not actually assuming the "in-fiction" part there; its just a typical fictional convention for that kind of fiction, and...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e?.There's some issues with "Let's go through the classes and pick out the things listed there. Then let's look at the skills and see what...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Retreater's post in the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e? with Like.
In PF2's defense, you can kinda go through the book in order and build a character organically. You pick ancestry and get your heritage...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again..Yeah, Staffan's post a couple up shows why looking at similar problems will often have somewhat similar approaches (Payn's not wrong...
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Thomas Shey reacted to BryonD's post in the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again. with Like.
exactly. I see huge differences between PF2E and 4E. But I also see a heavy reaction to the weak spots in 3.5 in both. Some go in...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Staffan's post in the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again. with Like.
Well, for one thing different people identify different problems with 3e. But there are some commonly identified. For example, one...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e?.And honestly, in PF2e, rogues can hold a front rank if they have to (so can an investigator far as that goes); there's not that much...