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I'm quite interested in making a small number of wands or staves available with +1/+2/+3 focus bonus "runes" on them. The game wouldn't suffer from it, and spellcasters could really use the small boost. My players are currently 12th level with +21 for spell attacks, so these runes are going to...

In my homebrew campaign, the spellcasters are having a blast. We have a fighter, a rogue, a wizard, a druid and a cleric. So we have three traditions covered. When they need to buff someone, we have Stoneskin, Heroism, Haste, Fly and a few others. They've gotten a lot of mileage out of...

Payn, I'm assuming that you're refering to significant combat penalties inflicted on combattants once their hit points fall below a given threshold. Dangerous stuff, that. Unless your plan is for the penalty not to apply to PCs. Because additional numerical handicaps to PCs because their...

BigZ, it already seems frustrating when you have the actions required to do something, but can't do it. For example, a hasted character cannot throw two (2-action) spells, or do a sudden charge and then a power attack. So I can't help thinking that this house rule, dropping the action cost for...

About Recall Knowledge checks... When the PCs first see an adversary or a group of adversaries, I give them a free RK check. They don't have to choose a skill, since they're trying to recall anything they might have learnt about these critters. Instead, I tell them "make a...

Cap Cap, just to be clear, I do not claim that all criticism of PF2 is unfounded. Simply that my experience of running the game over 56 sessions so far (with PCs now at 12th level) has shown me that the game does work with the existing rules. I have agreed with you that the medicine paradigm...

The real answer is more a question of RPG tradition. Pathfinder and Golarion follow directly in the footsteps of D&D (via DD3.5), a gaming tradition going back to the early 70s. D&D-esque RPGs have long borrowed from Earth religions and mythology. Already, in '76, we had Gods, Demigods & Heroes...

This is the tricky bit. It all depends on what critters you choose to face them, and how you adapt their statblocks to jibe with the PCs' abilities. With PWL, all you have to do is subtract the critter's level from all hit bonuses, AC, saves and skills (if relevant). You'll also have to adjust...

Yeah, Dave, that seems pretty far out of the PF2 wheelhouse. It sounds to me like you want a low-level game, but with small increments of advancement. Let's look at your list. Low magic: this is easy to achieve by simply stating that magic shops don't exist, that formulae for crafting are...

IMHO, PF2 doesn't really need any major house rules. The design team has been pretty thorough, and there aren't any glaring holes in the game, as far as I can see. Every time some PF2 detractor pops up and starts complaining about this or that part of the game, I just shake my head and gather...

Whatever you do with those NPCs, if you are following the rules of the Leadership feat, you can never increase their levels beyond what Leadership gives you. And they'll only ever have whatever sort of special gear, weapons and equipment that you buy for them. If you're using a different system...

Just saying: y'all keep breathing life into this thread that should be allowed to die. The Pathfinder forum here on EnWorld isn't dead. But I for one would be very happy to see this particular thread scroll off the bottom into oblivion. The only way for that to happen is for eveyone to post...

I haven't played Abomination Vaults, and am purposefully avoiding reading any of it the wistful hope that one of my players will put on the DM hat and run it one of these days. This said, from a plethora of comments I've picked up, it sounds like an old-school dungeon crawl of the PMT variety...

That's really interesting, I wouldn't have guessed there were DMs who pulled out all the stops to try to optimise monster tactics to destroy the PCs. I tend to try to run monsters and NPCs organically, so that they are focused on their own goals, rather than just destroying the PCs. Also, most...

Even without those feats which make treat wounds work well above the baseline, out of combat healing still works fairly well, even from 1st level. My initial group included a fighter, a rogue, a druid and a wizard, and whadayaknow, they all decided to be trained in medicine at 1st level. After a...

Payn, I agree completely that some of the trait interactions, like intimidation having the concentrate trait, making it require special hoops to jump through to make it work while raging, are totally counterintuitive. It's a situation ripe for house rules - I'd be tempted to simply exempt...

Ignoring rules? Pffft. Over the course of some 50+ sessions, my players have learnt how to handle the Treat Wounds checks on their own and in total accordance with the RAW. It doesn't really cut into table time, since after a big fight, I often need to take a short breather - us old guys have...

Ah, Cap'n, just as negative as usual. It's good to see that some things never change. Of course, it's natural for there to be limitations on important activities like treating wounds, or intimidation or diplomacy, and for there to be feats which lift some of those limitations and improve those...

FWIW - Mark isn't gone, he's simply left Paizo as an employee. He has said that he will continue doing freelance work on several unspecified projects. And he's heading up a new company, Battlezoo (publishing for both PF2 and DD5), which looks very cool indeed. I'm not sure how I feel about...