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I haven't found combats to be quick in any edition of D&D/PF including 5E or PF2. Fast combats really depend on the players. My players tend to overthink everything. Sometimes I sit as the DM as they overthink the combat thinking "Why didn't you have your action planned before it reached your...

I haven't really had much trouble narrating feats and things characters want to do even if improvising. Adding in Quick Jump or Combat Climbing just makes you better at something every character with the same skill can already do. It seems like that is what most skill feats do. They don't let...

I was at first surprised there was no ring of invisibility and a lot of old items are missing. I figure they will be released in future books. We shall see. Balance seems to be their primary starting point. DMs can work there way to what they want from the base point of balance. I don't think...

Yes. It is cluttery as written. I think they could clean up a lot of clutter with another few editing passes. So much of this info could have been condensed. PF has always been cluttered like the 3E system. 5E is more approachable for quick gaming. But Critical Role taking up D&D and bringing...

Interesting view. We will see if it goes that way in time. It really comes down to how many old PF1 players buy into PF2 and whether 5E players eventually want more crunch in their game. If 5E never moves out of the very basic game they've made, then PF2 may well be there for those looking for a...

Yes. I see the point. Hopefully it is understood that this is my personal opinion on 5E and PF2 and how it meshes with my preferences. I think 5E is a good game that has revived the hobby for a generation of players. I see lots of young players getting into D&D again in even greater numbers than...

You are lucky. The feel of going from a PF1/3E caster to a 5E/PF2 caster would be like going from being Superman to Robin the Boy Wonder. PF1/3E casters eventually became god-like instruments of destruction that could practically run an adventure alone. Then again martials used to be able to...

Concentration along with other measures to reduce the power of magic made casters unable to challenge a group like they did in PF/3E. Magic was the huge fulcrum around which challenges were built as you gained levels. One well-built caster could support a group of enemies in a way that doesn't...

I'm sure Dave2008 can challenge his players when we wants to. Heck, the PF1 system was way worse than 5E when it comes to weak monsters against the PCs. Main reason I found it more interesting is the monsters had a lot more options to build them including being full casters, summoning lots of...

Dave2008 would definitely have to make sure not to go overboard killing characters with dead at 0. I'm sure he could figure it out, but it might take a few sessions.

I did run Out of the Abyss. I quit running it because it became too easy and bored me. It started off ok, then ended up a complete sham. Sharpshooter archer and paladin smiting ended the creatures quickly, even the demon lords. It was sad. I think I was doubling Demon Lord hit points at a...

We have played every edition differently than the rules state. We made a bunch of house rules for other systems. I think PF2 is the first edition of D&D that ran well out of the box. We wrote house rules for nearly everything or made things up for nearly everything dating back to 1E. I wrote...

I hated this so much in 5E. This is one of the few 5E mechanics that I truly despise as a DM. I'm sure all the super easy going, casual gaming crowd doesn't even notice this, but man, this just looks like some kind of comedy healing in my mind's eye. We call it pop up healing like some kind of...

If you want attrition, just play monsters cruelly. It happens. So far the ranger is on animal companion 4. The bard has died. Rogue has died and been saved by breath of life. Everyone has been near death multiple times. You don't have to work very hard to kill them at all if that is what you...

I'll try to summarize my experience up to lvl 11: 1. Low level cleric healing sustains you or some other class with healing. You don't have a lot of hit points. You get up pretty quick and can die pretty quick. 2. Level 7 or so you start to get those Master Medicine healers. They can heal real...

Maybe I am used to ruthless DMing. Even in 5E no healing was not going to work. We heard people running 5E with no healers, but were surprised. In general, I play monsters to kill the party. That means leveraging every ability whether mobility, lair actions, or legendary actions to take the...

Hmm. We didn't find that to be the case in 5E. Life without a cleric was tough in 5E, especially when AoE damage factored in. Are there a bunch of people running without combat healers in 5E? I only play with my group and we found having a combat healer necessary. I think the only version of D&D...

I like more tactical options than monsters in 5E have. 5E has very simplified monsters without many out of combat abilities. 5E monsters were built to fight. Almost every ability was some short-term attack that didn't last long. I would have had to modify quite a few monsters to make them do...

I was wondering if this would bother me as we have a good medic able to get the party back to max hit points in about an hour as Capp stated with no magic. But when we ran into a lich. Wrecked the party. The in combat healing doesn't keep up with the damage output of the monsters at higher...