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Because players want to customize their characters to specialize in things? Proficiency and level based solve different things, the first allows players to specialize, the second that high level characters are better than low level ones. I do think the first is more important, but I understand...

I don’t see how it’s worse than 5e. In fact they’re pretty similar with only a couple key differences. They both basically have the rule of after several failed saves (four for pf, three for 5e) you’re toast. They have similar rules for critically failing dropping by two and success stabilizing...

CapnZapp your post I agree with, however PF2 does this much the same as 5e. I fully agree that having skills be trivial like PF1 or auto fails is not a good system. And at higher levels that’s what happened, the specialists can’t fail unless you make the DC so high that no one else can possibly...

Attack and what could be substituted for attack is a huge source of confusion in PF1. I’m surprised by people I’ve played with for over a year who don’t understand how the extra attack from haste works. They stayed last week they are getting rid of terminology to make X act as Y. Alt that stuff...

They’re both still 95% the same game. It’s just they have different flavors on what they want to do. It’s not like 5e is a perfect d20 game.

Where have they said in PF2 that its too powerful to cast 2 spells in a round? They already showed in the earlier preview that you could cast Shield and a 2 action spell in the same round. I don't see why that wouldn't scale if you got an extra action.

Where have they said in PF2 that its too powerful to cast 2 spells in a round? They already showed in the earlier preview that you could cast Shield and a 2 action spell in the same round. I don't see why that wouldn't scale if you got an extra action.

It's basically the same as 5e with the exception that it has level scaling. Since Paizo wants high level characters to be superior to low level characters. Cool thing is you want to recreate 5e with PF2 you just take off the level mod and voila you have bounded accuracy. I'm sure that will be a...

I hope it is just a flat no restriction. They need to take away these effects that do things in a special way. Just give you one more action, would be ideal. No limits on what you can do, just having 4 actions instead of 3.

I hope it is just a flat no restriction. They need to take away these effects that do things in a special way. Just give you one more action, would be ideal. No limits on what you can do, just having 4 actions instead of 3.

There is a difference between magical items making your character better (totally fair) and magical items being necessary to play. 5e has shown that it’s quite possible to play into high levels while doing this, something that PF1 fails at.

It seems you haven’t played high level PF which is very much rocket tag. If you don’t want to die then you need the magical items otherwise your stats just don’t hold up. So yes against powerful save or suck spells that +3-5 saves actually is a huge difference. Same with attack bonuses. Same...

I don't want to use those items, so I'm not sure why you're interpreting my post that way. It's just they're necessary for the math of the game to work for your saves/to hit to keep up. That is why pathfinder unchained came out with automated progression system for those stats so you can get rid...

Because in PF1 being a magical Christmas tree is the only way to keep your character relevant. The big 6 are absolutely necessary as are other items. Also APs and such have a glut of magic items, so you can’t help but be inundated with them. It’s how PF1 was designed and how the APs are written...

Shasarak lots of players like low magic games. They like their class features to define them not all the magic items that they carry. It certainly has basis in reality, both in myself and people I play with.

Critical Role is a show that is bringing a lot of new people to the game. They're likely to emulate the playstyle shown within. There is tons of other streams out there running 5e in a very similar way now. I don't think you can discount the effect that that show has on the game and how many...

Critical Role is a show that is bringing a lot of new people to the game. They're likely to emulate the playstyle shown within. There is tons of other streams out there running 5e in a very similar way now. I don't think you can discount the effect that that show has on the game and how many...

One thing I do like about 5e is they didn't fall prey to the 5 foot shuffle stupidity that is in PF1. If I were to play 5e now that would be my biggest draw to the system. Movement in PF1 feels awful especially if you're a martial character. You lose literally 3/4 of your damage by moving. Just...

One thing I do like about 5e is they didn't fall prey to the 5 foot shuffle stupidity that is in PF1. If I were to play 5e now that would be my biggest draw to the system. Movement in PF1 feels awful especially if you're a martial character. You lose literally 3/4 of your damage by moving. Just...

In something like Critical Role I don't really see anything of what you state for combat. They do what their class rules say they can. Similarly for other streams I've seen. It's cool that you follow the rule of cool in your games but I'm not seeing a lot of evidence that this is actually...