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I'm on board with all of this. Streamline rules: I have no idea what is in the beginners box, but I did want to call out that I find the copy of PF2 noticeably poor as rules text. In many cases the rules text itself could easily be rewritten to be less verbose and better communicate intent...

Building on this idea 4E definitely has a pretty good way of handling failure in a more abstracted combat -- You can have them expend powers. The other common resources that you can key off of are things like hero points and healing surges. In a certain sense the use of healing surges is...

I am not familiar with Dungeon World specifically, but that sounds worth checking out. Thanks for the recommendation. To the broader point, yeah, I agree 4E does mechanically lack some of the bits I'd like to see for driving plots, scenes, amplifying stakes, and so on. It's why I don't run it...

To pile on here, it's actually more of the D&D trope that running through a dungeon and clearing room-by-room that is the drag. Playing 4E with the expectation that your player-characters move on a grid, roll a d20 Perception check on every tile, kill every monster, will obviously result in a...

I agree with this. 4E lends itself to really fun and dynamic battlefields. I also tend to think that, like most miniatures wargames (because, IMO 4E is a tabletop miniatures wargame) -- You want to avoid having the game be "Fight until every last enemy is cleared off the board." It's a good idea...

If your characters are dead -- Are you really playing? If I were running a PF2 game I would probably houserule that whatever your class's primary attribute is, automatically consider that an 18 irrespective of stat boosts. This might mess with the game's math a little bit, but messing with the...

CapnZapp's characterization paint a negative light, but I don't think the points themselves are inaccurate. It would honestly be a red flag if Paizo's development team didn't have design discussions & internal rulings on these issues. Going back to the statement you quoted, we can examine what...

Are you running as a DM or PC? DM-wise: Be prepared that PF2E is significantly more deadly to PCs than almost any edition of D&D That being said, it's hard for characters to actively die if you have foes pull punches. The dying-condition is fairly forgiving. Beware of TPKs once players start...

Funny to hear 4E mentioned as a beast to run. To me it's the only edition of D&D I am comfortable running out of the box. I suppose it comes down to perspective on prepping, vs. actual game-time as well as personal preference on how much interaction you have to do with the mathematical system...

I wanted to add my two cents that I would be on board with a "Pathfinder 2 Essentials." However the caveat I feel like I would have with this is that I think the scope of changes I'd like to see with PF2 Essentials would probably be outside of the realm of what they are likely to introduce...