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The PF2E rules have a lot of internal logic consistency. They will seem overwhelming at first but there is a "grammar" to the system and once you 'get it' every new rules falls into place. Some basics: It's unbounded bounded. As in you're pretty tightly 'sync'd' to things around your level but...

It was announced that way but it's ended up being more of a 2.5 edition. We have new actions, all new ways of organizing spells, new casting requirements, player core rebuilt 2 classes somewhat, player core 2 did major rebuilds of at least 2, and minor rebuilds of more. Subtle rules tweaks and...

Most tRPGs have something of a knowledge skill system. Use that. This is a dual failing when this problem happens. GMs should call for or make knowledge checks when there is a 'right way' to do a given X. If that fails, a player should remember to say "Can I make a check against 'Knows XYZ' to...

So I do play one of those detailed games. Player: I try to fix the wagon wheel. GM: make a crafting check. Player: My PC doesn't have that skill trained, but it says I have +3. Rolls dice. GM: Ok, after a bit of sweat and toil you figure it out. Player: Now I want to carve a rune into it so it...

There's a massive RuneQuest humble bundle going on right now. It's a system I last played in... 1984 I think. Looking over info on the system as it stands in 2024 it seems like an anyone can do anything kind of game. A far opposite from Pathfinder and even D&D. That left me with very mixed...

Funny thing for me is I've ended up in the opposite camp. Online digital tools have gotten so good I don't know if I'd ever want to run or play in an in person game again. I love how fast I can find rules on archives of nethys, get some lore out of a wiki, or have Foundry run the math for me...

There are 2 discords where people announce free games: https://discord.gg/pathfinder - Look for the subchannel: lfg | as_gm https://discord.gg/8HapKhrK (this is the Pathfinder 2E discord but for some reason they've left the invite as a random hash rather than the name.) - Look for the...

Look at the Pathfinder Infinite website. That's where third party stuff gets sold. The majority of it is new character options, but there are also adventures. pathfinderinfinite.com Edit: pathfinderinfinite and drivethruRPG are connected - so I think pathfinderinfinite just filters down the...

MMOs got me over this concern. Actually 3,0 started it, then MMOs finished it. I used to be a big fan of the classless, level-less systems like Hero and GURPS. But the problem I now see with them is that it's a roleplaying game. Two words, not one. And the game side is at issue here...

I suppose it's all a matter of where you're coming from. I took off from tRPGs right as PF1E came out. So I'm missing this whole era of 'rule light' games being dominant. Tri-stat was out when I was around, and in fact I used to GM the Super Hero and was prepping a for the Cyberpunk version of...

PF2E is definitely my preferred system. I love the amount of tactical detail. It's a bit rules lighter than I am used to, coming from 1980s era tRPGs like Hero/GURPs and even Other Suns (an obscure Sci-Fi game with trig and calculus formulas needed to resolve star ship actions). There are...

Mine had that too. Maybe a reference to the switch from OGL to ORC, if that switch is contained in the code? It's a curious thing.

I really like how Kineticist opens up different ways to be the "support / heals", all of which are active gameplay options. And yeah. Timber Sentinel was very hard for me to pass up. Especially as when we were level 4 and almost 5, we hit a plot point where a fae wanted 3 trees to replace those...

That's a subject of open debate rather than consensus. On both points. I see people argue over these two things often. Our group is rather enjoying the kingdom building rules in Kingmaker 2E. Abomination Vaults does not have any major sub systems. Gatewalkers uses the deviant abilities...

There's a massive spoiler to Season of Ghosts right in the first few pages of the adventure. So it's hard to talk about that one if you have it and have read past the introduction. I'd also warn anyone who expects to be a player in Season of Ghosts to never even dare thumb through the pages...

There are so many choices that it can come down to what kind of adventure you want. They cover a lot of different themes. For almost every one of them I've heard both very good and very bad reviews. If the theme is the one you're group is into it will be good. If not it will be bad. But I would...

$80? I forgot how much this stuff costs for non-subscribers. Yeah I got it. It's very good. There is one culture in there that seems a bit "on the nose" as a North Korea proxy, but it's less "copy-paste direct than some discussion of it implied. Once I read it I was fine with it. We've only 1...

That reads like an over reaction. I'd not read so much into things. AV and Kingmaker are very popular right now because they have Foundry integration and pretty recent. Newer APs have yet to come into force as much because the average AP takes 1-2 REAL LIFE YEARS to run for many groups. They...

One thing to note is that a lot of people these days have Pathfinder subscriptions. So there are a lot of sales happening that are just 'automatic'. Since the release of the Gatekeepers AP, I've been mailed / PDF'd every thing Paizo makes for Pathfinder, including the PDF only Pathfinder...

In one shots I've also played a Druid and an Air / Water Kineticist. The Druid did not hold up well in combat, but excelled out of combat because I had feats to spare for solid medicine skills even though I did not go down the berry route (at the time I wasn't sure of my ability to have berries...