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    D&D 5E (2014) Being strong and skilled is a magic of its own or, how I learned to stop worrying and love anime fightin' magic

    Martials should level into anime, imo, the everyman against the world is a low level fantasy, a level 10+ everyman is an oxymoron. The games more or less already work that way, like, how is your dude actually hurting this thing? in any game 9+/10 times its going to be by swinging his sword into...
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    Pathfinder 2E Humble RPG Bundle: Pathfinder Second Edition Strength of Thousands by Paizo

    heheh, they keep sucking you back in somehow don't they?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Being strong and skilled is a magic of its own or, how I learned to stop worrying and love anime fightin' magic

    Yup, the GMG has two fleshed out variants for changing the tone of item usage, depending on how: Automatic Bonus Progression, which is probably what would fit the best. High Quality Weapons and Armor, which I personally just think is neat.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Being strong and skilled is a magic of its own or, how I learned to stop worrying and love anime fightin' magic

    PF2e does do a really great job of this because martials can have techniques beyond just attacking and can do some appropriately 'approaching demigod status things' at high level but there's still a lot of options for someone who is just attacking really fast or whatever even at high levels. The...
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    Pathfinder 2E Secrets of Old Pandora: The First Five Levels (A PF2e West Marches Report)

    So, some of you might be aware that for the past six months, I've been running a Pathfinder 2e West Marches on my Discord Server. Since many of our players recently hit level 5, I thought it was a good time to talk about how that's gone so far, since I know several members of the community are...
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    Pathfinder 2E Pathfinder 2 and support for other playing styles/subgenres

    This thread reminds me that I should write an update on my West Marches when I've got the spoons, its doing very well sans a few personal issues we've run into that don't really have anything to do with system.
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    Pathfinder 2E How is Pathfinder doing?

    I've got a pf2e west marches on a discord server that we're thinking about recruiting for, it IS a sandbox buuuuuuuut it might still be a better fit, has player scheduling, openings are usually 7ish on saturday/sunday EST. Explicitly LGBTQ+ friendly (but plenty of non-players as well) honestly I...
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    Pathfinder 2E How is Pathfinder doing?

    For uh unrelated reasons, may I ask what timezone you're in and when you like to schedule games?
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    Pathfinder 2E How is Pathfinder doing?

    Dedicated Healing or Champion's Reaction or Shield Block generally fixes that up, since they can undo a lot of the damage, that's what our parties tend to do.
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    Pathfinder 2E How is Pathfinder doing?

    They already are according to them, specifically the TTRPG market is just that much bigger now that they can be doing far and away the best they ever have been.
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    Pathfinder 2E How is Pathfinder doing?

    It depends a little bit on party, but pretend you've got a Wizard, Cleric, Fighter, Thief (Rogue), and a Bard The Fighter and Rogue (and/or Cleric depending on doctrine) will generally flank, leading to a +2 to their attacks, this also provides multiple targets to soak the boss's damage, let's...
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    Pathfinder 2E How is Pathfinder doing?

    When you do succeed, it is disproportionately effective, especially as a caster where even a low level fear spell is super likely to knock a point off their AC that stacks with flat footed (if not 2 from a failed throw) and the parties buffs, demoralize is very common as well due to Charisma...
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    Pathfinder 2E How is Pathfinder doing?

    I like the tall boss fights because to me (a player who started with 4e and loves it dearly) the wide boss fights don't feel the way boss fights should-- they don't feel like you're punching up at something super powerful because the HP values are generally hidden, so your larger damage numbers...
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    Pathfinder 2E How is Pathfinder doing?

    That might also be changes in consumer habits with no cons the last couple of years and their newer fans being less in-the-scene, and the growth in subscriptions. if i had gone to gencon this year in person, my copy of Dark Archive still would have had come in the mail weeks before so i could...
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    Pathfinder 2E How is Pathfinder doing?

    Flaming Sphere did have uses for me in boss fights, but my best memories of it were from pack fights.
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    Pathfinder 2E How is Pathfinder doing?

    Wizards get an extra spell from their school, I was indeed playing my evocation wizard (the blasting Wizard), and a universalist could do it as well by simply restoring their blasting spells via the universalist version of drain bonded item. Largely I prefer the feel of the way it's balanced...
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    Pathfinder 2E How is Pathfinder doing?

    I've had great success with Flaming Sphere, Magic Missile, Sudden Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Fireball, Disintegrate (+True Strike), against single targets. Take Lightning Bolt for instance on a base level 5 Wizard that just got it, cast against a Level 8 Chimera-- the base level 5 wizard has a spell...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is 5E Special

    I think there are four markets that all compromise on DND: - Story centric players who don't like the war game elements who would be better off with indie PBTA style games. - Mechanically invested people who like character building and mechanical texture and game balance and would be better...
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