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confounding betrayal is a strange one :). but I like the experimentation in the design space this type of hazard exposes. I created a new hazard for a boss fight in The Slithering (to make it harder. yeah! that's right! I'm that guy!), and without the examples given in the CRB and the GMG...

yup that was me!, oh, and YOU REMEMBERED!!!! :) Cheers, J.

sometimes this is easier said than done, but another HUGE way to influence encounter difficulty is to play with 5PC's instead of 4, but keep all the encounters the same. Cheers, J.

I'm a total newb here. I've had a membership for years but really only lurked on the main page until PF2 came along - where I started dipping, very tepidly into online chat. honestly, my contributions were more centered around (Save for a couple obviously sarcastic ones) "if Jman were seeing...

and an equally relevant follow-on comment: " Neither of these assertions actually have much backing them up, and they're probably wrong. PF1 at its height didn't sell as many books per print run as PF2 does now. And you can look at the company dynamics as well- The design team is bigger than...

I dunno. the 2 "problems" the OP lists feels like they cancel each other out. but only if you are not running a game "optimized", and by optimized I mean as a wargamer would optimize things. there's nothing inherently wrong with playing NPC's in a non-"optimized" way. Doing so is actually...

[for emphasis] "If you feel you can supply good arguments...actual fact-based arguments..." Is astoundingly disingenuous. the implied double-standard here is... well... obvious. The rules, in this fact based debate with you, if I understand it correctly is this: CapnZapp may "come up with...

And I don't think its even that simple. Paizo has over the years significantly diversified its revenue streams. While "successful" vs. PF1 is an interesting question, from a business continuity perspective still misses the mark. PF2e being "Successful enough" in the context of paizo 2021...

Pretty consistent with my experience with Plaguestone as well - including your progressing only past the 1st encounter and rules referencing. Cheers, J.

I've heard that as well. as a very quick counter to this. I ran Plaguestone for a group of 5. 16 sessions worth of play. no TPK, no single player perma-death and I increased the difficulty in some parts. cheers, J.

I can say with certainty and confidence you can 100% successfully play without min/maxing your prime stat. with non-optimized PC's, we have not had an unending blood-bath of PC deaths. We have had 26 sessions of Fun. Close calls, not 1 PC perma-death, laughter, hijinks, great role-playing...

[wow emoji] [bulging eyes emoji] [crying emoji] Holy CRAP! this is a DISASTER! ** For Public Release ** Dear Lisa Stevens, CEO Paizo Publishing. Re: my contribution to your corporate ruin. Lisa, It has come to my attention that I am assisting in the ruination of your company. I sit...

I obviously have a lot to say about this :). Couple of points that my table needed to work through. "but what if I roll a 1 on my initiative, and I was the one who triggered the start of the fight" answer 1: tough beans. such is the vagaries of war. answer 2: spend a hero point and re-roll...

nowhere, everywhere... :). this is going to meander a bit.. so stay with me :) we all know that initiative is rolled at the start of an encounter. "surprise" is in delaying the start of an encounter until conditions are most favourable to your side. Initiative is also now determined by...

Surprise rules. at first, because there are no surprise rules in the book, you are going to think its just not a thing. and the editing doesn't help. but they are in there, and once you tease them out, THEY ARE AWESOME - because unlike 5e, where surprise is about a free action, in PF2...

so my saturday game: 1 combat + setup for next combat ready to go (initiative already rolled) Combat lasted 1:10 minutes. 5 players 1 gm. everyone level 6 We are playing The Slithering, so those of you following along, without spoilers, last session was: B3, B4, B5, B6 and B7 (where we are...

LOL. I end up doing that a lot as well. 'cause, like, the story just sorta ran away and went places the module wasn't expecting :) like spending 1/2 a session running down stampeding Elephants in The Slithering's first fight and fending off marriage proposals due to "fish out of water"...

Kinda like what Munchkin was/is to Gurps? cheers, J.

Counter Argument: did anyone read the latest paizo blog post about recent hiring's and promotions Paizo People, February 2021 13 new hires 13 title changes and promotions while there is no way to know if new hires = growth or replacement, seeing things like: Senior Editor to Managing Editor...

one mans opinion is does not data make. and yet... Holy crow, is the Extinction Curse AP, THE ONE that excites me more than... well, just about any "mega" module since I got Rappan Athuk and the 2-part Hoard and Rise books for 5e (because new edition). Like, this just screams fun to me. so...