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I'm a mirror/weapon implement Thaumaturge. I'm also the party's only frontline warrior-type. If I disengage, that opens up the rest of the party to get attacked and also denies me of my ability to use Reactive Strike. There have been the rare instance where I've been able to mirror myself to an...

Interestingly enough, we're currently playing Ruins of Azlant (converted to PF2).

To be clear, I never have the opportunity to take a 3rd attack in a round. The MAP for 3 attacks (-10) would be too great to consider that. Best case, I raise shield, and attack twice. The -5 is an acceptable penalty. My first attack is almost always a hit (and often a critical hit). I still do...

My experience is that my group really makes few decisions in PF2. We use a rotation of the same abilities every combat. I could basically write a script that would handle most encounters and I could watch TV or something. 1) Do I have an enemy with an exploited vulnerability? If no, do that...

"Free" can be great for certain audiences, but I haven't been exclusively motivated by cost since I was in high school. I'd rather pay something and get more exactly what I want. For a "modernized OSR" Castles and Crusades has long seemed to better fill the same niche.

Yeah. They reference that being in the GM Core.

On closer look, Simple DCs are provided in SF2 Player Core. Not exactly where I would've placed them and not exactly in a way that stands out with layout - at least not that gets my attention. I guess a player could extrapolate if they're 3rd level, you're wanting a DC 18?

To me, PF2 and SF aren't games designed for immersion and to make the characters feel like they're in a realistic world. It's a structured game, even more than 5E, Call of Cthulhu, or OSR. My thaumaturge uses Charisma to attack. That's not based on anything realistic, but it does try to make a...

You get a few examples of potential actions you could succeed at at different tiers of proficiency, but no numbers. To be fair, I just looked and it's not in the PF2 revised Player Core either. I never noticed it because I've had no reason to really look at PF2 core (my class isn't in it). I...

I picked this up yesterday at my LGS. I'm sure the Pathfinder Core is probably presented in a similar way, but I miss not having DCs in the player's book. It says simply "the GM will tell you." I think many players of Pathfinder and Starfinder would like to know DCs in advance of taking...

I'm somewhat disappointed that the new Starfinder Adventure Path (Guilt of the Grave World) covers levels 1-5. Like Princess Leia, I had to ask "aren't you a little short for an Adventure Path?"

Hmmm. I'm struggling to find something negative to say about this change - and that's something coming from me.

You can watch the Professor DM video. He said the majority of events were 2014 (not 2024). He said that D&D had lots of tables that weren't full and some that were cancelled because no one signed up. Like, yes, absolutely! Absolutely D&D is the biggest RPG in the world. I was responding to a...

That's not what I've seen. From my angle, few are playing 2024 D&D (based on DND Beyond character numbers, GenCon events, and reported book sales). The 3D VTT that was going to be a cornerstone of the new revision proved to be DOA. Virtually every high profile employee at D&D is gone. It's...

Well, I'll still be playing Daggerheart even if they're not. Very disappointed though. Was kinda hoping for a sea change in the hobby where we could "maybe" start to branch out.

We had a one-shot game of high-level Swords & Wizardry for an online convention. The writer of the adventure (who's generally speaking a good designer and very cool guy) ran it with some of the most outlandish pregens I've ever played in a con game. I specifically remember a warrior-type who...

My most nostalgic period included a consistent group of my best friends. We were in college, so no real jobs or responsibilities. We could stay up late, eat junk food. We hung out all the time, even outside the game. We talked motivations, campaign worlds. Tragically, we lost one of our friends...

Right. I would give first casting for free. That way you could count on "critical" utility castings at least one time. Other than that, I dunno, maybe the system would play okay for my tastes, provided the group got in the right mindset and you ran or prepped a good adventure for the system.

With the exception of my wife, I don't game with the others regularly. I also doubt my ability to run it well. Maybe, but she at least had hope that SD would be different by listening to interviews with Kelsey Dionne and watching a very fun live play at Origins '24 that she ran. She claims to...

I'll comment on the three games I played. Con Game 1: was designed and run through Lurking Fears. I think they're something of the official organized play because they work directly with Arcane Library. It wasn't a "bad"session. Just a mediocre dungeon hack with lots of monsters to fight. I...