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The problem with them in a lot of places is the degree to which the law restrains them is, shall we say, varied. Which means they're a...

Of course you tend to get some weirdness in buildings with right angle corridors with hexes.

Its nothing you want to occur, but if you don't have your back to a wall or ally, its still something you have to account for happening...

I consider that pretty absolute. If it just applied a failure change I think you'd have an argument. Far as that goes, I think you're...

Not routinely. The only cases where they do is when there's either a long distance initial encounter distance, or when one side has an...

Booth Draw Steel and Pathfinder Second Edition put substantially more effort into non-combat mechanics than D&D typically does.

I think the common comparison to 4ed is apt, as I think they are both in the positional tactics niche; tough they do it somewhat...

I don't know if they're "proper"--there were distinctly some problems with the first of these two, but if anything they were the...

Seriously: rage against the HOA. On principle. When we were shopping around for a realtor, I told potential candidates that a HOA was...

Step 1: Make up fact Step 2: Get called out on made up fact by someone who understands the subject better, pivot to more subjective...

Yeah, my son and I are both avid gamers and we have a big disagreement about PvZ2. I understand why they did it -- the original was...

That would be article "The Last Gasp" in Pyramid 3/44, if anyone is interested in reading it.

Yeah, but its not a mystery those are off the beaten path as GURPS approaches generally go.

That sounds probable. While PF2e has a lot of conditional attacks and such, if one's played 4e, there's no where near the amount of...

While I agree with a lot of this, I think it underestimates the degree positioning matters for many character types in PF2e.