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Maybe use the Weak Monster template, too. I believe the monsters from the AP are on Archive of Nethys, which means you can apply it to them through the website.

Yeah. I will say that one of the things they really did away with in the Skill Feats to make them much easier to use is the plethora of "You can do this, but at -2" conditions that were all over a bunch of feats. But in general I think the idea of always going with "level-appropriate" feats is a...

Yeah, that'd be a bit more difficult to keep them all advancing at a rate to keep up with the advancing level DCs. But it feels like at that point we're talking less about something inherent to the system and more about the intent of how a specific class was built; the Fighter wasn't meant to be...

The last Wizards game besides 4E that really did something with this design space I think was probably Star Wars: Saga Edition. The concept of the damage threshold and condition track were things that could still work in today's game and could really add something to the concept of "Big hits...

Society, I suppose? Recall Knowledge is more useful in the Remaster, but I can understand maybe seeing that as less of a combat skill. But also I don't think there's any sort of sacrificing of "combat competency" here because Athletics is basically one skill that you can keep up pretty easily. I...

<emphasis mine> Uh, what? How are you sacrificing combat competence? Athletics and maybe Acrobatics are the only "combat" skills, with the former being the most important and being something you basically get automatically from the class. All other skills for social stuff have good uses in...

Apologies, that's what I meant but did not specify: the execution of BA with the skill system just fails. I suppose I could really search for a problem when it comes to combat, but BA is not really as much the problem as the execution of some classes and monsters. I've always heard that PF2's...

Are you supposed to do all that, or can you have advisors who help with such things? I don't know the AP, but I think that is not a system problem but rather an adventure-building problem, especially when you start talking about "level-appropriate DCs". Reality doesn't make everything...

It is not. In the DMG, it never talks about preventing a player from attempting a check because they lack a skill or proficiency. It mostly goes over the expected results of the difficulty levels, going from the easiest (DC 5) to the Moderate (between DC10 and DC20) and the very difficult (DC...

The skill system just works way better as written. I can understand some people not liking the execution of some skill feats, but it feels like they've done a decent job in the Remaster of upping what you get out of things and making general usage clearer. It does a good job of not being a huge...

Where is it rules as written? I don't see it in the PHB in the Skills section, nor in the DMG section about skills. Those sections largely talking about when to apply proficiency bonuses or not for various uses, not gating skills.

It's a real problem in that the fix is just a Rule 0 solution, and I don't really see it as being "accounted for" in the rules. It's just something that has largely been dealt with through a community solution rather than one actually outlined by the rules.

I mean, if I really wanted to say one thing, it's that while the proficiency modifier is great for attack bonuses, DCs, etc, it's just not great for skills. If you wanted to create a basic skill point system where you could have skills go up, but only go up to something like +6, that's actually...

You can do that, but that's a GM choice and it's something that has come about with time. You also can't gate everything, since certain things are just going to be things anyone can do, at which point generally people who have the attribute are going to outshine those who don't (Until the...

I can't reconcile the first paragraph with the second. The bounded accuracy problem is that it makes skills less meaningful because everyone can roll; it creates points where having a skill is less meaningful than having the attributes. Combined with the lack of distinction with skill along with...

Ah, see, I LOVE doing stuff with miniatures like that. I want to build one of those virtual tables out of a flatscreen for just that sort of thing. And yeah, the setup can be time-consuming, but I find it to be rewarding and almost artistic in the better ones. For Foundry, it's fairly easy. I...

I mean, listening in and I don't think I'm terribly impressed with what is being described? I mean, it sounds functional, which is good, but also I suppose the limitations are the opposite of what I want from a VTT. That's obviously a taste thing, but I find the whole "I like to do theater of...

This is interesting. Might be a function to keep the need for hardware down, but not a bad solution, in all honesty. Also keeps other VTTs viable if they can actually have a full dungeon on the table. But this reminds me of how Critical Role does their setpiece fights. Does mean people get to...

The crafting "rules" in the PHB are 4 paragraphs that only cover non-magical items and, again, are incredibly broad. These aren't as much rules as sort of a guideline for allowing people to do things. Calling them "rules" would imply some sort of system, but this is more of an afterthought to...

Xanathar's doesn't really have "rules" on crafting as much as it has a page of very broad "guidelines". I really wouldn't call them "substance" as much as "placeholder".