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Maybe the seedpods look like tiny golden poops.

Think of it this way: If the item made you immune to magical damage, and your PC buddy just got hit by a mundane sword and a Fireball, would giving him the item heal his Fireball damage?

I prefer to just say skill check should have consequence, one way or the other, rather than associate any negative terms with it. A rogue skilled in lock picking, with the right tools, that has all day to pick a lock, will do so, no roll required (assuming it is pickable in the first place, of...

I see we agree here. I may have misread your post I originally quoted. I just read it as, "if the player can't roll, then he has to try and read the GM's mind," which I don't agree with. But if that's not the case, my bad, carry on.

I'm not sure how my post implies GM/player sparring or player competence, just competence of the PC trained in the skill. If the NPC is a schmuck and the PC is good at spotting cues, I'm going to describe those cues when they try to pull a fast one. If the PC isn't, they don't get those cues...

It's not about ignoring your trained skills, it's about assuming a level of competence from those that are trained in the skills.

Well, it's not the most random sample available, but the char-op threads in the general board for PF2 on Paizo are quickly beginning to outnumber the more interesting ones. And that's the general board, I'm not even bothering looking at the advice board....

I'd be okay with letting players come up with plans to deal with something that isn't "hittable" with a normal attack. It'd make for an interesting encounter. Going against design? Maybe I don't really see it being much of a real problem though. PF2, much like it's predecessors, isn't a flat...

It looks interesting. I'm going to talk to the players about giving it a try when our current 5e game ends. I want to try running it, which is more than I can say for the previous version.

Very lethal, I found. It was my last 3e campaign, and while the final adventure expects the original PCs to be present, none were present, and some players were on a 3rd PC by the end. My players weren't big on resurrection back then, and I pulled no punches as a DM. Unfortunately, that was...

This was done in other adventures? I'm only familar with Curse of Strahd and PotA.

I'd appreciate a return to Spelljammer, but consider this: Neogi are in Volo's and Giff are in Mord's. If WotC were planning on releasing a Spelljammer book, wouldn't they put these guys in that, instead? They aren't going to assume anyone buying such a book has access to either of those...

I won't be much of a fan if a player needs X feat to even attempt to do Y. That's a steak I'd like to see thrown on the grill.

Intrigued, and will get the pdf of the core rules when they release to check it out, but I'm happy with what I'm playing right now.

Players Handbook: Mo Rules, Mo Problems

I once did a "this npc will help you, but you need to do this for him first" quest. The players groaned, saying, "What is this, a video game?" I try to not structure my game anything like CRPGs anymore. :)

Ah, good point. I guess if you're actually casting the spell, you could do it every day and something like this is needed. I never play that high of a level, so wishes are rare and I'd be a little more permissive than normal, I guess.

Seriously, though, I get tradition and old school and blah, blah, blah, but why is this only a problem with wish? Why doesn't the same DM rule that fireball does some heat damage to the poor PCs standing next to it, but, of course, not until after the PC casts it? Like I mentioned above, this...

What's the game like? Is it a long campaign or a one-shot? Is magic rare or are wishes like fishes? Does it involve a lot of comedy or is it serious? If this is a long, serious, campaign where a wish isn't something you see every day, then the DM is being a jerk if you don't get what you ask...

It's free, so there's not much money to save or spend.