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Rogues are sneaky hit and run fighters. Come in, shank in the kidney, disengage and move out. Or better yet, sneak it from the distance. Use goblin tactics. Short bow, stay at 80ft, shoot for sneak attack, bonus action- hide. In melee, your lv1 rogue hits for 1d8+1d6+4 ( rapier, sneak, 18 dex)...

Leave poor cantrips alone. In 3e they were 3/day at 1st lv, then 4 day rest of game. That was pathetic. Best thing PF1 did for casters was introduced unlimited cantrips, including damage ones. They were trash and didn't autoscale, but at least you still had some magic when you used your 1-5...

Control vs blow stuff up as optimal build for caster is highly campaign dependent. FE in our current campaign, control build would be pretty much useless most of the time. PCs are part of one side in 3 side civil war, campaign is based around warfare (with PCs being something like commando unit)...

That's one houserule we implemented in our group. Crits do max damage, plus normal roll. So longsword is 8+1d8, greatsword is 12+2d6, etc. So even if you roll poorly, you still do above average damage, and if you roll really well, you hit hard. We also tried double dice and double bonus ( so if...

Depending on multiple factors, dozen CR 1/4 creatures can be deadly to level 6 party. Goblins are specially nasty. Shoot, move, hide. Rinse and repeat. On the other hand, put them in confined quarters without space to maneuver, and level 6 party wipes them out in round or two.

Idea of high number of low cr monsters being viable threats for high level PC's was good one. At least from the world building and in setting consistency point. It makes imaginary world feel more real and less video game like. Problem is, for that to work, it starts to trickle into tactical...

We have one homebrew setting dating to mid 2012, in which all campaigns, short campaigns and one shots take place. So all the characters we ever played, depending on timeline, might be alive and kicking. My current character was made way back in early 2013, played few sessions then, fast forward...

I would allow it in this form- Extra attack- cast cantrip and make attack, then you can use bonus action for another attack. So, for the cost of your Action and Bonus action you can make two attacks and cast one cantrip. Not that overpowered for lv 13 character to be honest.

That's why everyone in my games has bow (martials usually longbow) or long range cantrip like firebolt (or eldricht blast with eldricht spear invocation). So they don't twiddle their thumbs while their opponents pelt them with arrows from the distance. As a player, i always have at least one...

What people already said. Most spells have very short ranges. When cannons enter the picture, best use of spellcasters is for defense, not offense. Wall of force to protect sails/masts, tiny huts to protect deck crew and similar stuff. Even without cannons, balistae had ranges of 200-300 meter...

Long ranges are 100-200 feet. From what i read, published adventures rarely or never have encounters on open plains, light forests and similar terrain where both groups can reasonably see each other at few hundred feet and engagement starts at longbow ranges, with enemies going for cover...

What are better long range AoE options? I skimmed trough 5.5 rules, didn't go into all the spells and what changed. Also, did they give pure martials any real AoE options? That was their weak point in 5e.

@Zardnaar How usefull is power drill if you need to cut wire? Not very. But if you need to drill holes, put some screws, it's very useful. In the end, spells are just tools. Very few are always useful, most are good for specific situations. Counterspell is super useful if you are going against...

Spirit guardian is cool spell, but it's 15 feet range. Fireball is 150 feet. So, unless all encounters are in closed quarters or start in relative short distance or enemies don't stay out of melee and plink away at range, fireball can be very solid choice. Next session, we are defending city...

Draggy combat is more 3.x/PF1 thing. It's been good 13 years since i last play 2ed AD&D, but from memory, even mid level combat (7-9) wasn't very long. Low level combats were usually very short. If you are playing wizard, they are even shorter ( someone sneezes at you, you are dead). It also...

I noticed something similar. When we played online during covid, there was lot less joking around. But it's mostly cause we were all at home, with wives and kids around. Can't really go all out like we do when we are in person and alone (no SO, no kids, we can let loose our inner teenage boys...

From what Jeremy said in this video, you don't get 2 cantrips. You get cantrip and 2 attacks. Bladesinger's multiatack triggers warmagic in a sense that you replaced one attack with cantrip which fullfils Warmagic stipulation that you get extra attack as a bonus action when you use action to...

From the wording perspective, both do similar thing. You can attack and cast. Warmagic is less powerfull version since it burns 2 actions (one for casting and bonus for attack). Bladesinger on the other hand, can do it using one action. Personally, i would rule it as no, you can't use both...

You're right. Haven't used that one in long time, forgot it's only for spells that require attack roll. Thx :) But rest of it still stands. It's magic mortar and if you use it as that, it's solid.

Fireball is magical equivalent of mortar. Decent range and area burst damage. Paired with Spell sniper feat ( double range, ignore half and 3/4 cover) is nasty against grouped enemies in warfare scenario.