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This certainly could be the case. I understand you believe that if PF2 had been more of a 5E clone it would have been better in some sense. But for a lot of people, they play PF2 because it is different from 5E. I certainly do! Given that most people appear to disagree with you, and that you...

Just had another chat with my GM and I believe I overstated the ease with which we succeeded. He reminded me that people have been knocked unconscious, several times, and that although no encounter looked close to a TPK, a fight with a bear was, in his opinion, very nasty, and did down two...

I talked to our GM about this and had a bit of a think. From the GM point of view, he has been running encounters as-is mostly, but has upped the difficulty level occasionally and added extra elements. For example (mild EC spoiler), while running a series of rolling combats in a tower, there was...

I can't help thinking that this thread is crossing across some barrier into parallel universes. We're just about to finish book one and we had nothing even close to a dangerous situation. Not quite a cake walk, but we haven't had a single death saving throw yet even -- not sure anyone has...

The goal of a campaign is for everyone to have fun. It's not a contract, it's not adversarial, and it's not going to work if you treat it as such. Compromising so that everyone can enjoy the result is just normal behavior -- nothing game-specific about it. Yo talk it over and decide what will...

This is a great insight, Aldarc. I thought a bit about my experience with different game systems, and yes, it rings true. I then started wandering if the difference was due to difference in players versus the system itself. I'm leaning to the latter, because I play a range of systems including...

No, PF2 is just plain more dangerous! I think everyone is in agreement on that. In other systems I regularly make adjustments to add challenge to my players. In PF2 my GM almost never needed to do that. A lot depends on the type of characters people want to play. In PF2 if you play a fairly...

Gotcha. PF2 is a bit different as spell casters are not capable for he extremes of damage they could in PF1 / 3x. So in PF2 if the goblins are a moderate threat, a fireball will just end up with 3 goblins maybe at ⅓ hit points. However I'm not sure that even in 4E that fireballs are a one-shot...

Dave, simply stating you disagree is not an argument. Is this just your gut feeling? The school I trained at also taught 6' staff and Japanese sword combat. That experience taught me that being outnumbered 2v1 is never good. I have been friends with some boffer combat people, and 2v1 is hard to...

So, here's stuff I think we can agree on: In all D&D variants, low level encounters are more likely to TPK than high level ones In all D&D variants, combining two encounters makes them more likely to cause a TPK PF2 is designed to be more deadly than 5E So, combining these, it seems pretty...

Hmmm. I'm not 100% sure I agree that early gaming was not intended to emulate fiction. Certainly some campaigns were, but I don't think it's even the most common default. Let's look at a quotes about the very first published adventure: “Dave approached me to invent an evil character that would...

It looks like every other fantasy camping I've run or played in, except that players invest more strongly in role-playing their characters at low level. At mid-high level, death in D&D is just an expense, so it really just makes a difference at low level. Instead of players just treating...

obviously, you do what you enjoy, but planning is an essential part of what most people think of as “war”. If you don’t like planning, then just play systems where you don’t need to plan to be be consistently successful — that‘s the “combat as sport” model — the GM always ensures a balanced fun...

I guess it depends on what you want for a “satisfying combat”. I’ve had groups whose idea of a satisfying combat was spending hours of preparation, scouting and building advantages, and then destroying the encounter rapidly because they had done such a good job. They absolutely felt that was...

Pick up a dedication that allows you to use it and you're good!

Yeah, it plays pretty fast. Just finished off with our level 20 characters and maybe 25% slower than at low levels -- maybe? The single reaction is a big plus, especially since "ready" can only be used for single actions (so very few spells can be readied). It just flows very naturally. My...

From my experiences, 5E is generally easier, but there's not much you can do if things go south. Playing a published adventure, a new player made a couple of bad rolls and was dead in the second encounter. No way to stop it, it just happened (I checked the module after and the GM ran it right)...

For the games I'm currently playing/running: D&D (4E and PF2): "Not that anyone will notice, but I'm very slightly better at avoiding serious injury" Call of Cthulhu: "Hey I have slightly less chance of being taken down by a shotgun at medium range. Up close, still toast" Games without hit...

There are two different themes here that interact in interesting ways. The first is "what sort of game do you want to play?" and the other is "do you want players to define the world". The traditional D&D-inspired game is "kill monsters / GM-only design" and it's a ton of fun and probably still...

And this will be my last post in this thread also, as no progress is being made. In Real Life, this is not the difference between a starting fighter and an experienced fighter. In fact it is the exact reverse. I have been both and when I was a young inecxperienced fighter, I could physically...