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Warning, this post is less about PF2 than broader rpg patterns. It just fits in this thread to me. Traditionally, accessible game hits big and you always have a quick push for a more crunch version. They usually do ok. There's always a faction who wsbpnr more cruch or even "we scratch the...

I remember a comment about how courage and resolve should not be considered virtues or "hood" out of context of their application. It's like praising "tpyup, he drove us headlong into that fatal crash, but he never blinked, not once."

Obviously the first and most obvious way to verify he cannot win is to try and win and fail. Most likely result, two dead. keeps coming back to an requirement to keep trying in spite of previous efforts to win that failed? not sure where that train ends. if he tries to negotiate and that...

iirc somewhere later on the Op may have stated it was an oath of the ancients paladin and took the beacon of hope as the key bits... but i may be mistaken.

Fortunately, this paladin did try to be heroic, just not suicidally so when that effort failed. Heroic and suicidal are not synonyms.

Well aware of this concept. Even see it in play quite strongly in ArsMagica... but the implementation of 5e material components is as ludicrous if not more than it was in prior editions and frankly would be insulting to the sympathetic magic lore. How many of them are just knock offs of modern...

I tend to ho with minion casters for the NPCs. So many bits of 5e vombat get more challenging and more engaging and reactive with underlings that kinda serve as active terrain. For PCs, see no need for change. Thrir spellcasters are not being overshadowed and outdone by their non-spell...

"But die fighting is the way here. There's this idea of living to fight other day, or because "The fate of the world is more important". But I counter with "How can I save the world if I can't save this one life?" If I am playing a paladin, I have to be heroic to the bitter end, no question." I...

From what I have seen in plsay, momentum is the one thing that fuels them all - so work to open up lots of ways to generate momentum. I think if the multi-sessions of play I observed did a word balloon analysis of sessions, momentum would be twice as large as everything else.

"Dragons by their very definition are tough, deadly opponents. I don't believe a DM should shield his players when he introduces such a powerful opponent into his campaign. Whether the dragon is a right opponent for players of that level is a different matter." To me the point is that in 5e MM...

"When I throw a dragon at my players, the dragon doesn't usually offer a way out. It is a battle to the death and if the players lose, they die." Two things tho about this case and dragons... This was a dragon vs one, not a dragon vs party challenge as far as we can tell. Second, while your...

Frankly, you and I frequently disagree. However, on the core of this we tend to agree more than not, I feel. I too cannot see the audience PF2 seeks. It's not "for fans of 5e who want more crunch" (a path I would have not recommended but expected.) Its not "fans of PF1 wanting an upgrade and...

Actually, to be clear, unless I missed it, all we know is what one side of an apparent incident claims. Lacking both sides at least, claiming we know what happened in the game is rather overstating things.

Twinned GB is likely no-no because it affects more than one.

"Do I really need to specify a freaking timeline for you. " No. All you have to do is not selectively parse the timeline - ignoring the full part of it to portray it and redefine it as if nothing was done. For me, there was an effort to save this person that failed, so the character did try...

"Give me that man, and you can live. I hunger" The paladin was cornered by a creature far more powerful than them. No mention or hint of any sign of vulnerability is given. The player said he did not want the character to die and wanted to continue the world saving quest. The post said the...

"Doing nothing to preserve the life of an NPC does fail multiple of his tenets." But he did not do nothing. He carried the NPC in an attempt to get away. That failed. They got cornered. So, it's obvious we will not agree whether or not that was enough to satisfy the ancients tenets given the...

And you know given therevis an ongoing mission to save the world, both dead seems a really bad way to get any of that light saving done.

So to be clear, you take that to read that the GM actually means the player staring at the dragon would win the engagement? Really? That it doesnt risk both dying because it doesnt accept the offer? I see it as what it said... this was what he expected. I see no reason to believe it would be...