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Sometimes a game just doesn't click for an individual or group, and that's okay. I find PF2E so intuitive that I was able to switch to it effortlessly after decades of only D&D without a hitch, and my roleplay is only ever constrained by the fact our PFS games have to end when the store closes.

Pathfinder has some sub-optimal options, but you'd still need to put effort into picking them. Single-classed characters work great. CharOp is not king in PF2E.

Yeah, it seems like those might fit your playstyle better, though TSR only works until you can get cure wands, and had random meaningless encounters constantly.

So more like 4E? Or low-level casters in 2E? 90% implies 4-10 fights to 36-90 scenes of struggling or tracking. Assuming a 5 hour session that's at best one combat per session, more likely .5 combats per session unless they're super easy. So a lot more like a horror monster-of-the-week game...

My experience is that this sort of thing is interesting as a one-off novelty but becomes a drag as a regular thing, like having a spellcaster recite an incantation every single time they cast a spell. Edit: Tracking ammo, food and water, components, etc. are more typical examples.

For every 4-10 combats, how many scenes do you want to spend addressing lingering wounds or tracking things?

Just divide by 20 then, multiply by however many levels you want to reach. Do you want a campaign to consist of 1*levels combat and 1.5*levels other activities? So a four-level campaign is 4 combats and 6 other activities like tracks and wounds?

So you want to go from level 1-20 with about 20 total combats and 30 non-combat activities?

A campaign is ~200 events. How many do you want to devote to tracks and wounds?

...why would an adventure steal the roleplay from the players by telling them what they do? Edit: Lingering effects are mostly just really annoying death spirals.

PF2E is less complex than many and more complex than many, so it's just a matter of what works for the individual. No wrong answers.

Savage Worlds might be a direction to go. There's even a Pathfinder variant for it.

D&D set the precedent that a martial character has to use magic to keep up thanks to Math Magic Items of Plussening and Non-Plussed Resistance. You are not pulling your weight without magic after mid-tier at latest. A gish is a way to be martial character who doesn't have to beg for an external...

A good chunk of 2E material is 99% rules-agnostic. World guides like the recent Tian Xia guide have barely any rules content, but it is SO MUCH content.

I mostly only grumble that the kids don't have it as good as we did back in the day with official content, but I'm so happy the indie space is thriving.

The main reason I get physical books is so I can support my FLGS. Otherwise PDF with a tablet is more practical.

I imagine it works like video games; they get initial the money from folks with deeper wallets or greater desire for that product, then everyone else can pick it up the more affordable ways a bit down the line. There are plenty of materials that I just wouldn't pay for that I own because it was...

Tian Xia world guide has many excellent reptiles, including the most adorable snake girl I would punch a kraken to protect.

Puffin Forest and Zee Bashew both talk about a variety of systems and editions.

Good gravy, do you slurp your soup with that mouth?