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Traps in PF2 hit above their weight class because they're balanced to be "speed bumps" that the party follows up with about of healing. If a simple trap figures as part of an encounter, I include complex trap XP instead of simple trap XP which is 80% lower, and I include it in the Encounter's...

If it feels tuned too high, perhaps everyone can agree to tune things down a level? There's no shame in doing so. Despite PF2's balance, I found (at least at the lowest levels) that certain party makeups are going to have a harder time. And it's a game at the end of the day. And I agree with...

Strange... do you not see graphs? This is what I see:

I only discovered this online tool recently, but it looks like the Subreddit for Pathfinder 2e has been steadily growing, with an uptick of interest since the APG's release: Subreddit Stats - statistics for every subreddit

I posted the video for the original topic of this thread: whether PuffinForest is giving a fair review of PF2. His "combat example" from PF2 complains about the potential situational modifiers that goes into one attack. But 4E is swimming in modifiers that come from the use of powers. I HAVE...

Puffin Forest video ranted about PF2 is too complex, and now he runs a 4E one shot? So I'm not sure where he's coming from:

If they are indeed hiring, then that would mean they are larger than during any time during 1e, and during covid. Impressive.

I honestly don't know if a consensus can be reached on how to "fix" 1e, while keeping what people who are sticking to 1e like about 1e. And it would need to do this "fixing" while staying compatible with the content 1e players already possess.

I don't deny that players of casters would give up on casting those spells against higher-level creatures, but I do question whether that's wise. I've seen making a scary brute creature blind, even for just 1 round, negating 1 or 2 scary crits and hits and knockout on more than 1 occasion, and...

The way the math works in PF2, a creature 3 levels higher than the party hits like a truck. You definitely feel like it's dishing out nearly as much damage as your entire party combined, and that each of you can only chip away at it. A crit will take a character from full health down to 0. In...

Yes, awarding Hero Points 1/hour and reminding my players to use them for rerolls and to stabilize, moved the game from Dark-Souls-punishing bordering on feeling unfair, to tough and exciting. They are a default rule so definitely use them.

Oh, yay, it looks exactly like the same things they did with PF1. On top of that, they're trying to be 5E. AND just repeat what they did with PF1. Yeah.

To the OP who was interested in simulated high level play, check out this guy's reports over at the Paizo forums. High level play sounds dramatic and exciting without getting as bogged down as PF1: https://paizo.com/threads/rzs42poa?Level-20-Test

Can there be a Pathfinder 1E tag instead of a generic "Pathfinder" tag, just there is a "2E" tag? The 2 systems are quite different, and the current labels might be causing some confusion.

I don't know if you've seen this but this has been circulating. Some good ones here: https://me.me/i/d-d-adventure-premises-inspired-by-stupid-bear-puns-premise-a-7d03dd85273a4dd8848ba546218afe59

Actually in 2e someone behind another creature is "screened." Perhaps this is why a different word is used, to limit the ability to hide behind someone?

This was so evocative and inspiring! I especially love your childhood "first glimpse" into the Realms! I was exposed to the Forgotten Realms via the computer games and didn't make much of them. But reading your words makes me see why they would have inspired and enjoyed by so many!

This was so evocative and inspiring! I especially love your childhood "first glimpse" into the Realms! I was exposed to the Forgotten Realms via the computer games and didn't make much of them. But reading your words makes me see why they would have inspired and enjoyed by so many!

Yes, though the terminology the Rulebook uses is "proficiency modifier" which COMBINES level with proficiency rank... It saves on verbiage throughout the book, but it's pretty opaque to people new to the system.