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If you don't have 2 agile weapons, but just one, all you have to do is use the non-agile weapon for the first strike, then the agile one for all subsequent strikes. Nothing requires you to alternate.

If a "flexible" character is strictly better at doing a thing (like fighting, spellcasting, using skills, etc) than a class that is dedicated to doing that one thing, then everyone will choose the "flexible" character that has greater breadth. It seems very logical to me for a "flexible"...

Yes, that's a very different question to what the original poster asked. The question becomes one of accounting - do we need to track ammunition use at all? One of Gary Gygax's pet games was "Outdoor Survival" and the underlying mechanism involved tracking food and water acquisition and use...

Well, that's just it. You don't saw a block of wood to make arrow shafts, you use suitable wood that is already long, thin and relatively straight, picked green and then straightened when necessary, usually using a heated soapstone. See this article for some details about arrow straightening...

By the book, in PF2, there is no quick way to craft minor items that should really take hours, at most. I suggest working with your DM to set up a house rule to allow crafting of minor, low-cost items based on your average "earn income" check, dispensing with the 4-day lead time, which is...

I suspect you may be disappointed in the alchemist. General consensus is that it is one of the weakest classes, and that the various things he can make feel underpowered. We had an alchemist in our group, and my first suggestion was that he take a multiclass wizard dedication at 2nd level, and...

We use the Paizo condition cards, and they generally clear up any confusion. This said, our campaign has only reached 3rd level so far (after a long COVID break from the game) so I'm sure we'll see more and more conditions pop up. Also, since my players are all new to PF2, we have not made...

I remember back in the 70s when one of nthe selling points for parents was "Sure, your kid is playing D&D, but at least he'll get a lot of practice in math." All of this niggling about situational bonuses is a feature, not a bug. My players think it's fun to try to use the situation to wring...

I don't think it's so much "baseless leftist propaganda" as the reviewer trying to cover all his "political correctness" bases. Just as Paizo is trying to cover theirs. I think this AP based on "playing the police" isn't bad juju as such. It's not helpful, in that the AP seems like it's too...

Tooth fairies mining skeletons! Clockwork dragons whose wings wouldn't turn a windmill! What is there not to like?

Contrary to what the naysayers seem to be suggesting, PF2 is not an "inferior product". It's very different from PF1, and also very different from DD3.5 (and DD4 and DD5, for that matter. A lot of people who have actually given it a chance by playing in a PF2 campaign have good things to say...

Great stuff, and pretty much spot on. The players-fighting-for-good and against rampant corruption theme reminds me a lot of the old Neverwinter Nights video game official campaign. Except that was written in another time, and it explicitly allowed two divergent paths: the good cop who...

I have used Pathbuilder on my PC with an emulator (Bluestacks) and it works great. I've used it to create NPCs, mostly fighters and sorcerers, but it works OK for anything I need for the current campaign. Just export to pdf and then email it to myself. Since this thread started out with...

Pffft! That's absurd, Cap'n, and you know it. Why? Many items have a form that allows them to be used or tried out without knowing anything about them, like weapons, rings or other worn items (as long as they don't have a command word). There are many DM plotstrings that can be pulled so that...

But... is that a feature or a bug? You no longer need a spell to identify a magic item, just 10 minutes and a good skill check roll. Sure, the PF1 Identify spell only required a single action, but as Kenada pointed out, there is a skill feat that can reduce that 10 minutes to one minute (10...

Yow! Thread necromancy is a forbidden art! This said, I don't find the current PF2 detect and identify magic paradigm to be entirely untenable, as long as the DM bends the rules ever so slightly. The Detect magic cantrip, at low levels, only says "yes, within 30' there is magic" or "no"...

The nice thing about the 3-action system is the versatility of each action. Sure, your 3rd attack isn't likely to hit anything that poses a real danger to your characters (unless you're pumping the system to reduce your MAP). But there are so many different things you can do with that 3rd...

FWIW, after watching Perram's podcast about the Pathbuilder app, I DLed the emulator he suggested, as well as the Pathbuilder app, and it works great on my PC. In 10-15 minutes, you can create a character and export its statblock, and with only a very small amount of post-editing you can create...

That's absolutely the bottom line - finding a table, finding a table with an enjoyable group of players and a good DM, these things matter immensely more than the choice of a game system to use. I'm convinced that the final call has to go to the DM. He's the one who has to put in the hours...

Actually, that's not too far off. When you crack open PF2 for the first time, the first impression is one of déjà-vu. Humans, elves, dwarves, hobbits; Fighters, clerics, magic-users, thieves; Spells, skills, feats; d20s. But they fixed the d20 mod bloat. Fixed the linear fighter and the...