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I'm happy to hear that the Alchemist has been playing well at your table. Our experience with the Alchemist hasn't been as positive. The Alchemist in question is relatively optimized (Bomber specialty, Dex 16 and Int 18, Half-Elf for shortbow access), played from levels 1-3 in Extinction Curse...

Wrath of the Righteous. (And for what it's worth, I completely agree with EthanSental - although the mythic rules are problematic, the storyline is pretty cool.)

Those are definitely fantastic APs. And since the earlier APs have gotten the most play (both because they've been around longest, and because they're not battling "AP fatigue") they're the ones that most people have happy memories of. But a number of the later APs have been highly praised by...

There's also an add-on PF1 book to aid conversion for those who want to run it in PF1. So they're reaching for a pretty broad audience. Hopefully it'll be successful enough to encourage them to do it again!

I find this hard to believe, given how many (interesting, reasonably balanced) house rules I've seen you suggest! ;) Regarding this particular issue, I share your deep dislike for feats which effectively prevent you from using your skills in natural ways. (This was one of my least favorite...

Yeah, it’s interesting. In the quote I linked to above, Mark Seifter (one of the developers) mentions how one of his goals in designing PF2 was to make it easy to house rule and home brew things for the system, and still have things work. For what it’s worth, I’ve found it very easy to...

Yeah, PF2 has sometimes been called the "GM's edition" because so many of the changes of the game are explicitly oriented to making things easier and more enjoyable for the GM. The game is set up in a very modular and easy to customize way, making it easy for GM's to come up with and implement...

In all fairness, there are a lot of rules in PF2, and it’s hard not to miss some of them. I find posting on sites like this is one of the best ways to learn when there’s a rule you’ve missed! Yeah, this matches my experience — going down is a big deal, and PF2 can be quite deadly. In my...

Thanks for this comparison -- I've never played D&D 4e myself, but I've heard people talk about it, so I found this compare and contrasting very interesting. Aside: While it's true that PF2 has a lot of conditions, I think a lot of this is just a consequence of the designers getting "key word...

Very cool! The steady increase in D&D searches over the past 5 years is especially impressive; they've almost quadrupled. I think that's an artifact of the fact that you're looking at query details over the past 5 years. (I also think you were looking at the highest ranked "rising" search...

I worry that you may have misunderstood what I was saying. Just to get clear about the facts on the ground: there hasn't been a bump above how 5e and PF2 were doing before the pandemic hit in mid-March. There's just been a substantial improvement from how thing were from during the terrible...

The Amazon sales rankings over the past couple weeks suggest relatively good news. Both 5e and PF2 seem to have settled into a new regime, and are both doing significantly better now than they were during the horrendous mid-March to mid-April period following the coronavirus shut down. They're...

? Yeah, you trade one of your class feats for a class feat of another class, or a class feature of another class. (Trading class feats for class features is often the most important part of multiclassing, since that's what gets you things like spellcasting.)

In comparing 5e and PF2, it might be helpful to separate non-multiclassing choices and multiclassing choices. With respect to non-multiclassing choices, I take it that PF2 clearly offers a lot more of these choices. With respect to multiclassing choices, it's harder to compare the two systems...

Whatever one might think of PF2, it definitely has more character building options than 5e. At character creation they're pretty similar -- you pick an ancestry (race), a background, a class (and often a subclass)), and make some choices regarding ability scores and skills. PF2 offers a few...

Surely the low guy on the list is the Alchemist! ...but I agree that the Wizard (or Wizard and Sorcerer) are next lowest on the list. (And I agree that the Bard is awesome.)

I feel like part of the issue has to do with the transition to level 1-20 APs. In the PF1 APs, which ran from levels 1 to somewhere in the 13-17 range, they had space to let the adventure breathe a bit, and could sprinkle in a fair number of easy fights. But now that the APs run from level...

Thanks for the report. Interesting to hear what other people’s experiences have been. One interesting thing I’ve noticed is how different the difficulty level is for a party that’s been built to work together. I ran a relatively optimized party (Fighter (Wizard MC), Rogue, Primal Sorcerer...

Good question. I think I can give a partial answer (though I don't know what exactly you have in mind regarding accessories). 1. I believe the novels were written by contract, so they don't bear on the number of salaried staff. 2. Regarding the player companion and campaign setting lines...

I remember wondering the same thing, since it seemed like for a while there was a new high-profile "farewell" blog post every couple months. But there were also several big "new additions" blog posts too, so I wasn't sure how everything shook out, numbers-wise. Here's my best attempt to figure...