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Also Zapp, if you're writing house rules, shift your casters to 5E casting as far as preparing spell lists and heightening. It's more fun and it really does allow for having the right spell at the right time you hear so many players claim to be required for a wizard. It provides casters with...

1. Yes. You can shoot a bow fine. A bow is 1+ hands, not two hands. It is a subtle difference in the hands listing making the bow an ideal weapon for a caster. Now a crossbow is 2 hands and I don't recommend it. 4. Depends on what you want to add. You could take something like Blessed One to...

I can only give you my experience as an example. I would recommend the following for low level casters: 1. Use an ancestry feat to get a weapon. Go a little Gandalf or some other weapon and use it to boost your damage at low level. Every ancestry has weapons as an option so a caster can add some...

3. Spellcasters do not need boosts. They need to be patient and not sit on spells to nova on BBEGs. They need to use spells more liberally. They need to take their AoE opportunities when they come. They need to unload focus spells early and often and build up focus points. They should invest in...

I'll add my opinion on a couple of things and more later. 1. Healing potions: Never used them much in PF1 past low level, don't use them much past low level in PF2. No interest in making in combat healing potion use any better. Healing potions are an emergency option or a non-combat healing...

What are you even talking about? A pass? I stated what they did. They are not trying to make a 5E game. Period, not disputable, they weren't even interested. They did a massive playtest targeting their players to build the game. They worked with their fan base to make the game their fans said...

If you understand business, then you understand there can be multiple players and all can still be profitable. Paizo has never been as profitable as Wizards of the Coast. And certainly can't compete against Hasbro. There's such a thing as a second player. Like car companies with a big dog like...

Critical Role is as successful as it is because Matt Mercer is probably the best DM in history who spends countless hours developing NPCs, the world, plots. combat scenarios, and every aspect of the game. He runs the game in a way that makes it easy for anyone to play effortlessly incorporating...

Why do you put words in other people's mouths? No one said anything of the kind one way or the other. You're the one that keeps thinking that PF2 has to compete with 5E, but it doesn't. It needs to find enough players who enjoy that crunchier play-style to take it up. It has a lot going for it...

Not sure what all those things do. Alchemist can do nearly every type of damage now. Their elixirs can do a lot of different things. They have healing. They do have a philosopher stone. Definitely a class for people who like to think outside the box and try to do different things. You can have a...

Other types of alchemists besides bomber still seem pretty weak. Bomber is the only that seemed good on paper and it takes a while to get going as you gain more formulas to allow you to expand your damage options to exploit weaknesses or bypass resistances.

Ah. If you include Sharpshooter, hard for a PF2 ranged attacker to match a 5E ranged attacker. Sharpshooter gives so many perks in one feat that PF2 can't match it, at least at low level. I recall as a 5E DM reading Sharpshooter when a player took it and used it with bless for the first time and...

I have player playing a goblin alchemist up to lvl 15. I feel the class is better than it is being sold. 1. Alchemist is not a premier single target damage dealer. He'll get big hits, but not like the rogue or precision ranger archer. But his damage is like water dripping on stone. It doesn't...

Alchemist bomber overall effect on the group is pretty strong. They do a lot of damage when AoE is easy and your party gets energy resistance to coordinate with the alchemist. Cheetah Elixirs help movement. Goldenmist Elixir demonstrably reduces damage. They can switch energy types as needed. If...

Higher than 5th edition? Sure. I guess adding a few more modifiers besides Advantage/Disadvantage, bless, and magic item modifiers is higher. There are more rules to understand. If the person is hit with poisoned, diseased, cursed, frightened, sickened, or what not, those are all status...

Counters? It doesn't need to counter. You were implying far too much into what I wrote. You can very much miss a modifier or some ability during a round and not ruin the experience of the game. That in no way means play the game fast and loose making modifiers meaningless. It means don't beat...

True. Untyped is very rare which is why I don't mention it too much. I think it only applies to sorcerer bloodline damage bonuses and pick crits. Those are the only two I think I've seen in the game. MAP is pretty easy to calculate most of the time. As a DM I mostly deal with circumstance...

Depends on level. A sorcerer doesn't contribute as much damage at low level, but boosts damage by reducing AC or saves or adding an action in those early levels. Then at higher levels they add heavy to the fast and furious damage. My lvl 14 bard added huge damage to several encounters. He did...

Not sure what you mean by this. PF2 combat is fast and furious, like 5E. Lots of damage both by the players and by the monsters accelerating the combat round. That's how both games accelerated combat. They made both sides hit real hard, so hit points for either side would last 3 or 4 rounds...

I have played with some people who are slower at it than others, but never a person who couldn't learn it. That would indeed surprise me.