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The point is not to necessarily change the minds of those set in their ways, but to counter-program: to provide ample evidence that those defending Gygax are just wrong. It's important to address those claims, to put out the proper facts, otherwise you simply cede that ground to the other side...

I do wonder if they are going to give people more reason to hold on to it a bit longer, so you'd actually want to have the passive effect rather than always spend it immediately on the finisher.

Don't you mean "Groovy"? ;) Also interesting that "Bravado" stuff can give you Panache on a failure, but only until the end of the next turn, which is an interesting way of doing it. Makes it way more difficult for a Swashbuckler to not have access to their class feature, but pushes them to...

Hard to say. With Paizo, I think a lot of their sales come through their store, where you can simply subscribe and get both the physical and PDF copy on release. Uh, not sure where you are getting that math from, since it's 5000+ for the PHB 1 versus 500+ for the PF Core. Closer to a 10 to 1...

You're not wrong on that one. I understand the problem of skills going up might make things easier to identify things, but I generally do them it based on their rarity and adjust difficulty from there. I find there is some fun in not knowing a monster's capabilities, but that isn't necessarily...

You're making up intent where there isn't any. Leveled DCs are there to show what level proper challenge is for a PC based on their assumed bonus. DCs don't need to move in relationship to the PCs at all in PF2, but giving "Leveled DCs" for certain things that actually require them. In the GM...

But that's not really true: you can scale the challenges if you like, but you don't need to if you don't want to. The system does both perfectly fine, it's just a matter of what you want to do.

Nah, Trip, then attack with a -3 Penalty because someone on the ground is Off-guard. :D ;) I dunno, I feel like MAP is one of the really easy things to pick up and I don't really think it's "clunky", any more than a +5 to AC for Cover can be. It's a simple thing, and with MAP it makes for a...

Yeah, I don't think we've ever agreed on something so much as the idea that the 5E skill system is just trash. Just a very bad system in general, especially with how it is implemented with classes (I'm utterly amazed that Wizards still limits skills by classes and doesn't just give a free skill...

This is an interesting idea, but I'm not sure BAs live up to this. Like, a simpler thing for Smite would be to give it a "Once per Round (or Turn, if you want to give them a little bit more ability" limit which would still limit things while allowing them to use their tools with their class...

It really depends on the type of game you want. But d20 is not really built under those assumptions, which means it requires more than a bit of work to get that sort of feel out of it... and it's never going to feel right, regardless.

Honestly I would be down for it, but I think we have to recognize that this is sort of an ancestral aspect of d20 systems: they've never really been built to handle lingering conditions that aren't, like, plot-important. Most of the time it's just about healing yourself up, not about what wounds...

And we do see that in the stuff like the crafting rules and such, as well as the proliferation of healing abilities all around. Paizo is very much big into being able to run their PFS games RAW. Not saying that it works any different, but I think in part the APs are simply much more direct...

I would not use PFS as an example for the reasons @billd91 describes. But I'm sure, compared to other D20 systems, a lot more PF people are AP people because one of Paizo's big strengths is supposed to be their adventures. Hell, I remember running a decent portion of one (Wraith of the...

I find APs for most systems (but especially D20) are designed in a very specific way for a very specific audience that wants stuff now rather than later. I'm not sure that it talks about how the game necessarily should be played, but rather the sort of people who are more likely to buy pre-made...

Nah, you're good. My problems with PF2 (outside some sort of add-mechanical quibbles that I can fix) are that it's still stuck in the sort of healing/damage assumptions of D&D, which has never been great at figuring out how to do long, lasting damage/injuries as well as long recovery (Or at...

Eh, it's adjustable. The nice thing is that they did a lot of work outlining how to do the adjustments, if you so do. :)

Yeah, this kind of hits on the problems I was having recommending everything else. The 5E-ish games are still going to have similar if not the same conceptions and ideas. Hard to say they wouldn't get bogged down in the same problems. With MCDM and Daggerheart, I am excited for both games (the...