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Eh, there's nothing automatically that says that the first group of PCs is necessarily the only one. I commented myself there's some potential logic problems with where this second group was while the first was handling the problem, but I'm not sure the situation has to only refer to that first...

My initial reaction was Savage Worlds, but barring that I'll join the crowd suggesting Outgunned or Outgunned Adventures.

Like most D&D derivatives, PF2e assumes all classes are combat capable in addition to whatever else they do. The differences are usually about how and how they go about it and what they do outside of it.

While true, some groups do one game at a time and that's it.

As others have said, if the 3 action economy put you off, that's probably that. I do agree some of the quirkier classes can give a more negative impression than some traditional classes though; I'd probably had a worse initial impression if playing the two-gun Gunslinger I played later than the...

Well, in a campaign with a save-the-world premise, that's pretty much the campaign premise out the gate; its an initial-state situation and part of the premise. That's true in any campaign in the world that isn't a sandbox.

I haven't seen a whole lot of TPKs, but with the groups I played with, I doubt most people would be interested in picking up the same campaign; the TPK would leave a bad taste in their mouth.

The problem usually is, if there's a party capable of picking up the baton at midpoint, the question of what they were doing when all the other stuff was going on? Once you get into major world/nation threatening situations, its easier to just assume there wasn't much of anyone else for the job.

Maybe? But honestly, you can have ongoing events in a non-linear campaign where the consequences are a little grim beyond the TPK itself too, and linear games where the stakes aren't world-ending. I'm not saying linear games don't lean into the high-stakes more, but the divisor isn't...

I've occasionally thought about investing in that one but I wasn't that impressed with an LP I saw of it, and I've got like a dozen TB games backlogged, so...

It can be something of a problem if the situation is cooked up to require thought to work through parts of it though, because they're just going to want to bull through and that won't work well.

Well, for some people its a "win" condition. But far from all.

Huh. Don't think I ever saw the Book of Exploration back in my ED 1e days. Or is that a reprint of some kind?

Couple of days ago picked up the Bundle of Holding containing Ironsworn and its associated books; already had Ironsworn but 15 bucks for all the others was a deal. I doubt I'd ever use any of them, but like the core book, it was interesting reading a fairly crunchy approach to RPGing that is...

Yeah, the "Aunt May clobbers Doc Ock" problem in DCH was brought up years ago. Yes, its there if you consider that a problem, but as Eric V noted, it requires a sufficient low-probability event that in practical terms its a non-starter; you can go through whole campaigns without seeing the...

You're conflating the people who talk about things online with the gaming populace as a whole. This is a categorical error. The people willing to take the time to analyze and otherwise think about rules are the other part of the gaming populace. Even if they're in a minority, there's still...

Or even if that's not avowedly their purpose, they're there to swing swords/sling spells and do funny voices, and putting much effort into thinking through a problem is just not a priority.

I think this is an extremely optimistic view of an at least significant part of the RPG playing populace. There are large parts that don't consider that a priority at all, and a smaller part that consider it more effort than they want to put in.

Without commenting on some of the other issues, I do have say assuming any modern publicly traded company is even thinking three years down the road is--optimistic. The nature of modern stockholder/upper management relationships tends to heavily work against that.

The question is, in how many games does being exactly the same power level matter? It might be preferred but those are not the same thing. Even if you decide to build them to match the comics rather than using whatever character gen system is at hand, that incarnation of the X-Men (or even the...