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I think it would be much more interesting to portray this as a LG versus CG conflict, sort of a "Civil War" among heroes. One side sees bringing all vigilantes under the aegis of the Round Table as the only way to ensure an orderly society while the other just wants to help people as their...

Yes that's right, the designers at WotC were torn over whether 4e was failing because of poor design or for reasons unrelated to its design. The latter side gradually lost influence but especially in Next's earlier stages you can catch glimpses of what 4.5e might have looked like had WotC gone...

He objects in part to the toe-stepping bardic casting enables in 5e. PF2e spins off the bard into its own power source, occult, and does a more thorough job differentiating its spell list from other classes. Agreed on inspiration dice though.

Sounds to me like the PF2e bard could be what the OP is looking for.

There are several reasons why your players might take a passive approach to your campaign. Probably the most benign is that they simply enjoy being passive, either because they're tired from work/school or because they prefer listening to the stories you tell. A less benign possibility is that...

I would not agree with this at all. Understanding that one physically solid hit is enough to end nearly anyone (see coup de grace rules for more on this), a hit point system has to be about the gradual wearing-down of a foe to the point where that solid hit occurs. This is why you can heal...

I think you've just answered your own question here. Implicitly your blows come ever-closer to connecting as a foe's hit points diminish, first grazing armor instead of missing and then eventually inflicting visible damage that is very nearly enough to impair your foe. But it is up to the DM...

A fair number of groups exist mainly for the social interaction and even groups that exist mainly for the comedy that sometimes ensues. In those settings, where players don't necessarily care very much about plot advancement, it isn't a big deal if one or two players consistently slow everyone...

Our group has now played PF2e for about six weeks. Key reasons to switch: 1) You don't like 3e-style flexible multiclassing and think characters should be more rigorously defined by the class choice they make at 1st level. 2) You don't like choosing from large lists when granted a class feat...

People are mixing up two different questions here. One is whether adventurers understand themselves to be members of a class rather than simply an arcane caster, axe wielder, etc. The other is whether 0-level people have enough familiarity with uncommon occupations to correctly distinguish...

Priestesses of Lolth swear an oath to be chaotic. Would anyone describe them as lawful for doing that? No, any more than someone who took the "chaos" writeup in the PH as their oath would be considered lawful. Following oaths /= lawfulness, it is the content of the oath that matters.

The main thing to do is find out from your player base why, upon hearing that the next session would resolve six months of storyline they ostensibly cared a great deal about, they responded with radio silence. Perhaps your players simply became too busy to game any longer. Perhaps they lost...

Seems to me the answer to this question really depends on what you are looking for. The math is "tighter," yes, but it got that way by eliminating a large swath of player options such as 3e-style multiclassing and skill points that facilitated customization. The design is more "modular," yes...

PF2 is quite a bit easier on the player than PF1 was, with 4e-style "guard rails" on player choices clearly visible. A lot of the more mathematically complex options in PF1, like 3e-style multiclassing and skill points, were resolved by simply scrapping the options entirely and replacing them...

Everyone agrees that they were both on the team, but there is strong disagreement over whether Arneson played a key role or was merely a bit player. In Gygax's telling, he developed D&D from Chainmail after participating in a Chainmail session called "Blackmoor" and realizing how Chainmail...

I think very different skillsets are required for low-level and high-level play. At low levels a DM need to be able to populate dungeons with monsters and handle situations where players fight those monsters and perhaps do a bit of role-playing as they receive rewards from local authorities...

If you feel this way then my guess is you'll like PF2 quite a bit. Many of its innovations including the elimination of multiclassing, the simplification of skill points, and the sharp reduction in feat options at level-up are designed to streamline build diversity so players and DMs can more...

It isn't productive to make players apply ability scores as rolled and then wring your hands about overshadowing. Of course some players will have better scores than others, the only question is how much you are willing to compromise to reduce it. The more you compromise, the less...

Our PF1 group has now spent a couple of weeks with PF2. Our experience wasn't as positive as some of the people in this thread and we're currently weighing whether to give 5e a try once our current campaign is over. Our main issue is what we see as an over-emphasis on simplicity and...

I only agreed with two of the five "improvements," unfortunately.