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I've, unfortunately, gotten used to needing 3-5 pieces of information spread across multiple chapters, if not resource books.

Lets say the PCs are in a dungeon of a keep. Suddenly, there are numerous foes chasing after them. I may ask them what they want to do? One player may ask is there a way to cut off the foes and make an escape? I'd ask a few probing questions about how they imagine that happening. The player may...

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Depends on the situation. I tend to think of limiting rolls to things that matter. So, I dont know if a sneak check, lock pick check, search check is necessary for this goal A. Then again, if this is part of an effort of the party storming a keep, building, dungeon, etc.. I might put those rolls...

This is in general, but seems 5E intended. I loved the NPC codexes that Paizo pout out for Pathfinder. Id look to them in the DMs Guild.

My cousin has 7 kids. His weekly trips to Costco are shocking. One of their family's vehicles is a hotel shuttle bus.

I disagree quite a bit with this. I dont see much of anything that resembles old school module design in the adventure paths. There is a lot of setting info, mechanical info in items, NPCs, monsters, maps, etc.. What it really resembles is a kit to build an adventure that yes does take a lot of...

Yes running every AP to a subscriber would be difficult in finding the time but reading them wouldn’t. I feel some context of this exchange is likely missing.

I’m hoping on Dobbins too!

Maybe, I know that supplemental material had its detractors because they felt like it was less adventure. Part of where the “APs meant to be read not played” meme nonsense comes from.

Well, id have defense just baked into character, firstly. You have some proficiency like defense that just gets better (slightly keeping BA intact). Then, some classes will get armor prof, in light, medium, and/or heavy armor. Casters would get access to magic to help their defense. Its the...

Maybe. I am not a fan of WotC offerings so I cant imagine it. I can kinda do so with Paizo, but again, this is a big change and we dont know what the new format will look like.

Aye, I spent 10+ years running PF1 era APs and didnt hit them all. We played every other week and it took us about 1.5 years to finish an entire AP. During my time plugged into the PF community some folks would blast through an entire AP in 3 months! I was subbed up for a good deal of the...

Usually a good solid 4 hour session takes us from 1 to 2. Then, its likely two 4 hour sessions to get to 3. After three its usually 2-3 sessions until about level 5 and then it becomes 3-4 sessions. After about a year or two of play call it quits around 12-14. I was an E6-E8 kinda guy in 3E/PF1...

One downside I thought up discussing adventure publishing is the chapters of the traditional AP. Just becasue the AP has 6 chapters doesnt mean all of them have to be run. Smugglers Shiv is a fave of mine, but id never run the entire AP. Will the quarterly big books be chunkable for folks who...

I agree with some of this, not all of it. I think offensive accuracy and defense ought to be baked into class and removed from the stats. Let the stats largely be saves, skills, and class functionality. Oh, so you must roll for stats but can put them in any order? Seems to mitigate the...

I know some folks can do 30 levels, but even with 20 in 5E (which people think levels too fast) they dont much get beyond 10th. Im just not convinced "leveling speed" has much to do with the desire to actually achieve it.

I dont mind this for a single night of old school fun. Though, I dont want to dig into a logn term campaign where I pour tons of thought into a concept to find out I cant play it functionally. or...

Yeap, thats sort of what im after. Different stats give different outcomes. You can be a wizard with any stat allocation, you just might function differently. Definitely get away from primary/secondary pump and dump routine. It makes ASI choices more interesting too since you might discover you...