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Character 1 (“Hans Studemacher”) Fighter with a soldier background. His clan sent him to fight in a far-off battle. He returned home to learn that his wife and child were killed in an orc raid. The religious authorities bemoaned the loss to the clan, but treated his personal loss as...

Not going to disagree. I was simply quoting the previous poster.

Eh, while I’m sure that a great roleplayer can create a reluctant hero that isn’t grating on the players that actually want to go on the awesome adventure, certain archetypes are more likely to cause friction in a group. Characters that harp on how they don’t want to go on the adventure are one...

Except they aren’t. You can create an extremely religious character that is not Norse, Scottish, a warrior, a miner or an artisan that is recognizably a dwarf. You can create a character that is conservative and tradition-bound that is not Norse, Scottish, a warrior or a miner or an artisan...

They’re also super religious. And super tradition-bound. And extremely clannish. And stubborn and unwilling to forgive. As artisans/miners, they have an affinity with fire and earth. There are frequently portrayed as prone to greed. Seems they have quite a few notes actually.

“Mr./Mrs. Reluctant Hero” is also an archetype that can be profoundly obnoxious in game. Shame that it is a traditional halfling archetype.

Should a skill check be as good or better tgan a 2nd level spell? Absolutely! I mean, the most comparable example to what you are describing is the Knock spell, and successfully picking the lock with thieves’ tools is a skill check, and doesn’t make as much noise as Knock.

Yup. Have a basic melee and a basic ranged attack. Have the character choose at 1st level if they want to do fire, cold, acid damage and csll the class the Elementalist.

I think it is more than simply organising DM notes. On the Dm side, I think it is about a systematic way of thinking about these challenges and organising this information, so you don’t start from scratch each time you have a new challenge. Edit. Also helping newer DMs.

i have a similar story. Friend with a demanding job and a ton of extra-curricular activities. He plays with us because we’re friends and he like to hang. He’s definitely not lazy because he doesn’t invest as much time in the game as the people with less demanding schedules.

Or that a dwarf would find the same attributes attractive as an elf.

There is no specific game, since it is just the example used in the book to illustrate the rule. If you need to pile on a ton of context to justify the example, it’s a bad example. And criticizing a poster from relying on the example the book he’s citing uses doesn’t reflect badly on the...

To quote Seinfeld: “You just ‘yadda, yadda-ed’ over the best part!” “No, I mentioned the bisque.”

The landlord is the example given in the PF2 Gamemastery guide. You may feel the example is stupid, but that’s not on @M_Natas .

While I like the idea of the PF2 influence rules, and even took some cues from them the rules I use (which are overall more inspired by the 4th edition skill challenge rules), ultimately they have the same problem that most PF2 rules have, they feel overly engineered and require quite a bit of...

But have you considered that if they provided pointers to you, the PGA professionals would be putting their niche protection at risk? 😀

That isn’t an unreasonable answer, though from an immersion perspective, which sounds more alien: Bruenor Battlehammer or Chewbacca from Kashyyyk? Which looks more alien? Follow-up question: is Luk Skywalker a dwarf?

All that is true, but it is worth pointing out that in some respects D&D is even lazier than Star Wars. Despite Bruenor Battlehammer being a dwarf, his clan name is in Common. Same thing with virtually every Dwarf character in D&D. It’s kind of like a French person introduced themselves as...

Buddhists say “Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon”. Geographers say “the map is not the terrain”. Let’s come up with reasons why a professional assassin fails to kill a sleeping victim who is a regular guard is saying preset mechanics matter more than the fiction. In my...

Yup. For any of several reasons. The stats aren’t particularly well-defined, so the mental stats cover several traits that aren’t particularly correlated in real life. Maybe my low-Wis character is reckless, or maybe he’s just unobservant. As a player, I would definitely take it poorly if...