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My experience differs. Players have been, after an encounter, have been using a basic procedure of using focus pool-based healing options, then refocusing while Treat Wounds is done, and then debating if the time cost of another round of Treat Wounds is worth the risk - and usually deciding...

Say you start the adventure with a stock of potions, and each day of the adventure with a stock of spell slots, and you have so many hours per day until you need to rest or face fatigue - and so many days of supplies before you'll need to abandon the adventure if you haven't completed your goal...

One of my most successful AD&D 2nd edition campaigns of all time (measured by players from it reminiscing about it and wanting sequels and successors to it) had all of the characters as different specialist wizards. The campaign was centered on an arcane academy and I was careful to select...

Attrition still exists, and is still an important consideration - it's just not treated the way it is in other similar systems. There are still resources on daily limits, and the things which can keep you going 'indefinitely' always cost time and often also involve chance, so every party will...

people basically do say they want a full heal after every encounter - whether that comes from constantly retreating to rest up, wand spam, hit dice, or treat wounds or anything else that can achieve it is barely relevant. What is relevant is if the system holds up to whatever the best the...

I find PF2 to be the easiest on me as a GM out of all of the D&D and D&D-like games/versions I have played over the years. Primarily coming down to the encounter building guidelines being not just easy to remember and utilize without doing much math (which numerous versions have achieved) but...

I used to run with just a start time and no definitive end time... but once I ended up in a situation of trying to "sneak in" another session each weak and it was hard-limited to ending at a particular time because people involved had obligations like class and work and sleep before those, I...

You got it backwards. The controversy is when a GM tries to say potions don't work and are then upset at the designers "because there's no way to actually get rid of this curse it must be a typo or something"

It's a relatively minor issue if the GM isn't looking for the most punishing reading possible as the one to go with. The basics: the wounds it inflicts are cursed so that if you fail the save against the curse you cannot be healed except by magic and healing spells have to contest with the...

I play Exalted with a big group (as many as 10 people at the table sometimes) and I made sure we'd have enough d10s for everyone to have 20 each... and then also bought most of the sets put out for the Chronicles of Darkness games that have the success numbers painted a different color because...

...since someone did some math, I had to go back and up my vote... I've got more than 4 pounds just in ten-siders!

Hard to answer accurately given that I haven't counted the lil buggers... but I do know that I am in the neighborhood of 10 pounds of dice. Dozens of sets, dozens of spares, dozens of random singles and almost-sets. So many that I've float-tested them, found enough wonky ones to fill multiple...

I used to make up a whole new setting for every campaign I devised myself and run any published adventures I decided to run in whatever setting they presumed to be default (or again make up a whole new setting if they didn't have a default world to them)... and I too found that players mostly...

...I'm not conflating anything, I was asking a question. Information gathering, not argument - so stop trying to put words in my mouth, if you please.

But is that a "doesn't feel good" because wizard no longer has something unique that it is better at, or a "doesn't feel good" because any reduction of potency feels like losing even if it is completely fair and justified?

Fair warning: if 0 = dead in PF2 characters will die with about as much frequency as they did back when you had to roll HP at 1st level so surviving more than 2 hits at 1st level was surprising.

The entire purpose of the wounded condition is to make you more likely to die if you return to 0 HP without having had a chance to take a breather - that's all. Theoretically there could be other mechanics devised that require the wounded condition or are enhanced by the wounded condition like...

Not officially, though you could easily switch to a "you can only heal up as long as you've got magic to support that" style of play by limiting how often characters can regain HP from the Treat Wounds action. The wounded condition plays directly into the dying condition. If your dying condition...

I haven't finished most of the adventures I've bought. Most of them it is because I haven't started them either, for reasons of being too busy with the ones I have finished or did start. The ones that I've bought, started, but haven't finished are Hoard of the Dragon Queen/Rise of Tiamat which...

And if you dare say "I believe in you being able to make a better choice for your specific table than I can" they'll fire back with "then what am I even paying you for?!"