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Very cool. Especially interested in hearing how the your ideas for "Downtime" activities (like your suggestion to require them to spend money to train, etc) ends up shaking out. I was originally lukewarm about the PF2 Downtime stuff, but listening to some Blades in the Dark podcasts (the...

I think part of the pressure people have felt to maximize one’s main stat comes from the difficulty level of the first batch of adventures Paizo released for PF2, when Paizon was still getting a feel for the system. (And since they have to send this stuff to the publishers loooong before it...

I believe Paizo is partnered with Roll20. And Fantasy Grounds, for that matter. I believe the reason for Roll20s poor support of PF2 is due to internal decision-making about how to allocate resources. Fantasy Grounds has good PF2 support even though they’re a smaller company; their internal...

One of things that's not immediately obvious when building a character, but which has (IME) an outsized effect on player enjoyment, is making sure the character have a variety of attractive options for what to do with their third action (after casting their 2-action spell/cantrip, after...

I would be interested in seeing Paizo pair up with some wargame-style game for an alternate take on starship (and mech?) combat. For example, a conversion of starships and starship rules into Full Thrust, X-Wing Miniatures, the FASA rules, the starship rules from Stars Without Number, etc.

This is one of the places where I agree the rules seem more complicated than they need to be. My reaction to this was “Meh, this is easy to house rule. If we’re not running a Stealth-focused campaign, I’ll just wing it and call for Stealth/Perception checks with whatever modifiers seem...

Just to fill in a few details: RAW, you can use the Command Animal action on an animal that isn’t hostile or unfriendly, for a set list of tricks. (If you have a high enough proficiency level, the CRB suggests allowing this action on more exotic creatures to, though this is left to the GMs...

Just to be clear, you can build NPCs using PC rules in PF2. But they also have quick-build rules you can use to build NPCs. So what you said earlier is completely right!

There are a number of PF2 actual play shows I’ve heard people talk about, though (unlike 5e with Critical Role) I don’t know if there’s one single show that’s leaps and bounds more popular than the rest. The shows with official ties or licensing deals with Paizo that I know of are: The Knights...

FWIW, Golarion currently has all of that. You can find steampunk in Alkenstar. You can find different flavors of sci-fi in Numeria, and on Aballon and Apostae. You can find different flavors of post-apocalyptic in the Worldwound, the Cairnlands, the Mana Wastes, and on Eox. And so on.

Just to address this last point, since it suggests a confusion about Paizo's role in VTT implementation that seems to come up often. The relationship between Paizo and Roll20 is a lot like the relationship between Paizo and Barnes & Noble. Paizo would love to have Barnes & Noble stock all of...

Yes, I do! Go to this website, and in the "ASIN" blank enter the number: 1640781684. That'll give you the daily Amazon rank of the PF2 core rulebook for the last two years. (It'll also give you the lowest FBA price each day, and the lowest price with shipping each day.) Here's the full graph...

I agree that the first two PF2 APs largely stick to this format. But I think this is more a consequence of the kind of adventure they're telling in those books than a feature inherent to the system. By contrast, the current Agents of Edgewatch AP leans more heavily into skill-based encounters...

Yep! (Though the area is described in enough detail that it seems it would be pretty simple to just run the heist "straight" without the subsystem if one preferred.)

I'll confess I'm a bit surprised to hear the sentiment that Paizo doesn't try new things. Although Paizo tries to stagger their more experimental APs with "standard fare" APs to appeal to multiple kinds of players, it seems to me like the experimental APs are trying new things all the time...

I haven’t watched the video, so I can only comment on the example cited above. But claims like the Druid turning into a T-Rex every fight because it’s “optimal” really makes me doubt the speaker’s system mastery. For one, the Druid is a 10th level caster, and you can’t cast spells while wild...

I believe you should always be able to get a 16 in your main stat without taking voluntary penalties (since you can use your free racial boost to offset racial penalties). One of the devs talked about intentionally setting things up this way to ensure that in PF2 every race/class combination...

I mean, this is obviously subjective. But here are some of the features of the PF2 I like (which is not to say there are features I don't like, but that's a different post!): Encounter difficulty is really well balanced. From a GM perspective, it's easy to construct encounters that will be...

Ordinarily I'd recommend PF2, since this sounds like a list of PF2's strongest features: interestingly varied mechanical builds, tactical combat, lots of character options at each level, and possibly the best balanced game I've played. But if you already tried it and didn't get into it, I...