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    Pathfinder 2E The PF2 Alchemist - how did it turn out?

    So goblin alchemists just spit onto a leaf and they're good to go.
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    Pathfinder 2E PF2e House Rules:

    As long as you don't end up cursing me because you spent $80 on a 40-year old game that I fondly remember. Browsing a PDF might eliminate the "that guy is nuts" result.
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    Pathfinder 2E PF2e House Rules:

    Its essentially a collector's item these days, but you might find a PDF somewhere illegal. Honestly, I'm sure the original developer would just love that somebody was even just looking at the rules. Hmm, could it be old enough to be in the public domain? No idea. There are 3 versions, IIRC...
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    Pathfinder 2E PF2e House Rules:

    DragonQuest (1980) was the first system I encountered that had two health indicators. (I don't know that it was the first ever.) Champions followed it a year later (1981). I still have a special place in my heart for DragonQuest in that I liked its melee combat, weapons, and armor systems and...
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    Pathfinder 2E PF2e House Rules:

    Oh how interesting. I associated the HP/CON separation with the old Dragon Quest game by SPI (later TSR). You took damage on Fatigue (fast to recover) and then on Stamina (real health). That system also had critical hits go directly to Stamina skipping Fatigue, but that won't work with PF2...
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    Pathfinder 2E PF2e House Rules:

    Yes, there's certainly wisdom behind trying a rule before deciding to change it. It is good general advice. But I would point out we've been playing this system for most of a year now. Yes, there's been a lot of tweaks, but not everything changed from the playtest. I'd love to hear folks talk...
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    Pathfinder 2E PF2e House Rules:

    Hero Lab Online lets you create custom Ancestries and Backgrounds. It appears to me that those features aren't quite complete, when you make a Background you get to choose a Feat from the entire list. When you make an Ancestry and specify two abilities, those two abilities are locked into being...
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    Pathfinder 2E Release Day Second Edition Amazon Sales Rank

    Google Trends isn't helping describe anything at the moment. Apparently, "Maple Story" and "Elder Scrolls" both have something called "Pathfinder" in them that is being associated with the "Pathfinder RPG" search category. The Kingmaker video game is also mixing into the Pathfinder stats. You...
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    Pathfinder 2E PF2e House Rules:

    It's certainly not too early. While folks might quibble that it's too early to be fixing broken rules, it isn't too early for a DM to be making changes to support their custom setting or the homebrew story they're telling. I could also see an "aim" action that integrates with improved range...
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    Pathfinder 2E Release Day Second Edition Amazon Sales Rank

    This is based on current sales, or what? If it is current sales then I'm surprised. I would have figured the market for the 5e PHB would be saturated by this time.
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    Pathfinder 2E Pathfinder Second Edition: I hear it's bad - Why Bad, How Bad?

    Ah, see there you go. I might have figured that out if I had more time with the book. I was trying to find the class just looking at the navigational aids, header and footers. You know, as I paged through the book. I wasn't trying to read content until I got to the Ranger class.
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    Pathfinder 2E Pathfinder Second Edition: I hear it's bad - Why Bad, How Bad?

    I probably wasn't clear. I know the classes are alphabetical and about the Champion. The trouble was I would be staring at a list of Feats and not know which class it was, so I didn't know which way to go. "Is this Monk, Ranger, Rogue, or what?" I'd have to go a couple of pages forward to...
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    Pathfinder 2E Complexity vs. Depth -- A Look Inside Pathfinder 2nd Edition

    Okay, good to know. Yeh, I have to be careful to state Playtest experience as I've not yet spent more than 10 minutes reading final PF2 stuff. I have to make a character for PF2 this weekend. Apparently I'm on the hook to play a Sorcerer this time around, if I get a chance I'll what-if into a...
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    Pathfinder 2E Complexity vs. Depth -- A Look Inside Pathfinder 2nd Edition

    That might work out well for you. During the Playtest, I multiclassed every character. If you start with a martial class and multiclass into a spell caster, you'll get a few spells. But if you do the reverse, start as a spell caster and multiclass into a martial, you'll get a full spell caster...
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    Is Pathfinder 2 Paizo's 4E?

    The long-term game I'm in that transitioned from 3.5 to PF1 should have allowed this, but it didn't occur to us, I guess. We had a few characters that just didn't feel the same after they got converted. We didn't have that trouble converting from 2.0 to 3.0 to 3.5, so we didn't see it coming.
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    Pathfinder 2E Pathfinder Second Edition: I hear it's bad - Why Bad, How Bad?

    Its a question of real-world priorities. If your players can't live with the consequences then your goal of running a "true" sandbox is impossible with your current players. Sure, in the virtual world, Ogres kill Characters. In the surrounding real world, your wife might insist you sleep on the...
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    Pathfinder 2E Pathfinder Second Edition: I hear it's bad - Why Bad, How Bad?

    Sometimes that works. Sometimes that adds to the hype and compels the PCs to engage. At some point the DM has to consider if the players will be upset with a defeat, or if the story would suffer. If so, then the DM either has to just narrate the encounter such that the Ogre runs off the PCs or...
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    Pathfinder 2E Pathfinder Second Edition: I hear it's bad - Why Bad, How Bad?

    I got a chance to leaf through a friend's copy of the books last night. I only had about 10 minutes. It didn't seem to be very different from the Playtest, but the devil is in the details. He's planning to run whatever the adventure was that came with the package. I gather its a levels 1-4...
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    Is Pathfinder 2 Paizo's 4E?

    What's is DMsG? At first I thought it was a typo for DMGs, but it appears its not a typo.
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    Is Pathfinder 2 Paizo's 4E?

    Yeh! And what's with these monetary systems that are divisible by 10? It should be 4 brass bits equals 1 silver, and 12 silver equals a gold. Starfinder should do everything in hexadecimal.
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