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They are pushing back innate traits off of level one for sure. Seems so far all you get for free is stats and the vision/movement for your character. The rest is allowed as traits to specialize. This gets rid of the annoying “I can only trade this off for that” from PF1. There is a restriction...

They are pushing back innate traits off of level one for sure. Seems so far all you get for free is stats and the vision/movement for your character. The rest is allowed as traits to specialize. This gets rid of the annoying “I can only trade this off for that” from PF1. There is a restriction...

There is a number of weapons like naginata/Glaive/fauchard that are basically a polearm with a heavy blade on it. You could definitely rp swordsmanship with that, but it will have the awkwardness that once up close you’re not going to be able to duel. Something like the meteor hammer would IMO...

Charisma however works far better with the classes goblins are likely to be. Things like bards and sorcerers. I could see intelligence being their mental boost, but it doesn’t make sense for wisdom to be the goblin boost. Wisdom means more perception, strength against magical spells on you and...

I don’t believe there is. There is reach Spears, pole-arms, flails, axes and hammers but not a sword. You could take a 2h reach weapon with a blade like a Fauchard and wield a small version of of it in one hand. (Only way to really get 1h reach weapons) But for even 2h reach weapons there is no...

Pathfinder 1 always prioritized crowd control/debuffs over healing. That is after all why cure light wound wands were the most sought out item in organized play. Hence clerics/oracles couldn’t compete because most parties actually didn’t need a healer. Now perhaps in PF2 with resonance and...

I would agree Oracles have better class features than the sorcerer. The flexibility of revelations trump the locked in nature of bloodlines. Spells known I think is the same, just for some reason oracles access their bloodline/mystery spells one level earlier. Stats should be the same with only...

In the thread there they said they can be used by others. They gave the example of making mutagens for your entire party. Also fairly clear they’re moving to resonance as a single tracking option to power magical effects, whether that be making alchemical items or using magic items.

Seems pretty clear they’re not frontloading the classes so much anymore. We’ve seen this now with several different class blogs with class feats pushed back to later levels then their equivalents in PF1. This should give more of a distinction to non caster classes in different tiers of play...

Everyone will have plenty of non combat with ancestry and skill feats they can’t use for enhancing combat as much, plus some general feats and background stuff. What they went over here is the class feats since every class seems to have gone to a build your own class type of system. The only...

Starfinders approach sounds pretty similar to what you described shidaku. Creating a system to allow quicker creation of monsters/enemies is not a bad thing.

Well I would guess that monsters created using the monster creation rules would have access to powerful abilities it wouldn't make sense to give to medium sized humanoid players. Whether that means they can or can't take fighter class feats I don't know.

Considering they already broke from that in Starfinder, I doubt they're going to have monsters follow the same rules. They have said though that you can make enemies as NPCs using player creation rules. That is fine and there isn't any issue with that. But they also want a way to make them...

You did say your premise was it’s okay for fighters to be substandard in out of combat situations since they were so strong in combat and that combat is well more than 1/3 of the game. I agree with combat being more than 1/3, but you’ve done very little to show that fighters are actually above...

Don't stats collected for 5e show that halflings/gnomes are very underplayed. I have never seen anyone play these races. I don't mind making more character concepts playable.

Bite attacks were quite powerful in PF1, because even as a weapon user you could use them at -5 as part of a full attack option. Considering static bonuses were so high there that was a considerable source of damage. In the new PF2 world where an action is an action I would guess a bite attack...

They have said that PCs spells DC will scale with their level to keep lower level spells relevant, so I can see monsters getting the same treatment too.

Yeah charisma makes sense for goblins, although you could see INT as well given the new alchemist iconic is a goblin. Certainly not wisdom though. Charisma is the stat for diplomacy yes but it is also the stat for bluff, intimidate and the casting stat for both bards and sorcerers, all things...

Well as others said already, they're not number 1 in damage and its really not worth giving up as much as they do to have such limited gameplay. Just play a class that can out damage the fighter and actually have options and fun things to do. When all you can ever do is hit things it gets limiting.

The battlemaster in 5e is fine, but I wouldn’t call 5e fighters particularly versatile or fun to play. It’s just attack, bonus action attack for your entire career. It’s not very exciting. Bounded accuracy in fifth makes every class be able to contribute to skills outside combat, so the fighter...