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The GM's chosen narration doesn't actually matter though, since the rules for regaining HP don't ask what narration was given. GM says "the orc's blade pierces your liver, leaving you bleeding on the floor" or the GM says something a lot less specific, the HP lost to that attack get restored...

Depending on certain particulars of edition/version, the answer to "doesn't physical damage occur at some point?" comes out as being not significantly, no, at least not unless it killed the character. The abstraction of HP never un-abstracts itself to sufficent enough degree to reveal a moment...

I have always wondered about the "quest for the item" thing too, because when I'm planning out campaigns I usually don't have advanced knowledge of which character(s) will want which item(s) at which point(s) throughout so I'm not baking-in any opportunities for these item quests to fill. Which...

I answered "yes" but there are caveats. Specifically that I wouldn't let a player decide how many magic items they get (so no overflowing bags of potions and scrolls and such), or let a player choose without some kind of framework for what is or isn't a valid option at a given point (so no...

Gary's writing bounced around a bit when it came to the topic of ability scores. In that source he's giving a strict rule that's entirely in the DMs control, and then in AD&D he mentions how a DM should make sure that players have ability scores high enough to keep them interested in continuing...

I'm confused, @FlyingChihuahua ... I thought @eyeheartawk was talking about retailers, and was asking how a retailer saying "I don't like Paizo, so I'm not going to sell their products" is going to see that increase the money they are making... and I don't know what pointlessly aggravating...

How would choosing not to sell products that people wish to purchase from them improve the sales figures of an establishment?

I've had someone watch me roll scores with their dice and still think I had somehow cheated. I've also gone through the fun moment of watching all the players in a campaign roll their scores and then when one player found out what another player had rolled they accused me of letting that player...

Seeing a lot of folks saying "unfair" when they mean "unequal" in the thread. Rolling is just as fair as point buy is, assuming that every player is given the same particulars and no one is using loaded dice - but rolling produces unequal results. That aside, I find my own preference sways one...

If you introduce all weapons dealing the same dice of damage you would also have to completely alter the way in which monster HP are determined, or you'd be making already large pools of hit points feel even more inflated. If you ask me, there's good reason why this ruling went away very early...

Interesting, given how folks seem dead set on the whole "I buy the hardcopy and I get the PDF too" thing, including it constantly being brought up as a negative point against WOTC that they don't offer that like Paizo does, if most folks buy Pathfinder don't actually get that either.

Clearly that's not the case, since this thread contains people convinced of the opposite conclusion from what Amazon sales data suggests. Plus, we don't even know if Amazon is a larger or smaller portion of Pathfinder sales than those done directly, so even trying to treat that data as...

The issue with treating data the way you are treating it is that your anecdote vs. my anecdote has no clear answer which one is in line with more anecdotes than the other, so we don't actually have enough evidence between us (even among this whole forum with the roll20 reports to boot) to...

I like the Rules Cyclopedia version of the game so much that I feel like TSR canceled the wrong game line back in the day. It's still in my top 3 favorite games to play.

roll20 having more PF1 games than PF2 games could come down to the current difference in support level, PF1 having the whole PRD free and ready to use in drag-and-drop fashion while PF2 has to be manually inputed by users or purchased. Either way, it's important to remember that Roll20 reports...

Except me. I was elated to hear that 4th edition D&D was coming and the claims it was going to fix all the issues I had with the then current edition. It turned out not to actually do what I wanted it to in the end for various reasons, but I definitely perceived 4th edition as needed...

The one character in my PF2 experience thus far that does do the "zip past the mooks for the more important target" thing is an elf rogue that has used feat options to increase Speed and to prevent triggering reactions with movement if moving at half Speed. The rest of the characters are still...

I think the design space in which true balance between martials and casters would exist is too narrow to land in without building both off the same building blocks (which is a thing that makes some people very grumpy the instant they see it). Which is why PF2 has ended up with a tightly...

My experience with 3rd edition was rough for reasons both in and out of the game. Out of game, and entirely my fault for not putting myself at a high enough priority, I was running that system even though I didn't want to be. The players I had in my group wanted to be playing it, and I let it...

People, yes, but not all interested people. Campaigns almost never end at exactly the right time to start up something you're interested in that just came out, and lots of folks don't like to convert an ongoing campaign to a new edition - especially when there are significant differences like...