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This is interesting. Might be a function to keep the need for hardware down, but not a bad solution, in all honesty. Also keeps other VTTs viable if they can actually have a full dungeon on the table. But this reminds me of how Critical Role does their setpiece fights. Does mean people get to...

The crafting "rules" in the PHB are 4 paragraphs that only cover non-magical items and, again, are incredibly broad. These aren't as much rules as sort of a guideline for allowing people to do things. Calling them "rules" would imply some sort of system, but this is more of an afterthought to...

Xanathar's doesn't really have "rules" on crafting as much as it has a page of very broad "guidelines". I really wouldn't call them "substance" as much as "placeholder".

Yeah, at a certain point you just miss things, no matter how much you read over it. Having thousands of others looking through the book without the same preconceptions the editors might have (especially when they are searching for changes) will catch things they will have missed.

I also think that, at a certain level, the people moving over like to have things like updates where it feels like the game designers are responding to what people say are problems with the game. Look at 5E, which has been notoriously resistant to any sort of large-scale updating of things...

Honestly I'm kind of confused as to why people think there is a whole lot of errata in here. There are some editing mistakes and the Death/Dying thing, but beyond that it's basically superior version of the CRB. Things are just much easier to find and the book itself is easier to use. I can...

Yeah, 4E was clearly leaning into the idea of cinematic set piece fights that are interesting and important, rather than the more traditional, naturalistic idea based around attrition and "combat as war" stuff. The problem was that the adventures were doing the classic D&D thing of fighting the...

It impacts it when you gain the dying condition. When you get the dying condition, it's 1+your current wounded condition. The impact is basically so that you don't get an infinite unconscious-heal loop. You basically can hit the ground 3 time and get up before you risk death.

Called it. Not surprised, though nice that they "clarified" quickly rather than letting the issue fester. The other mistakes in the errata are pretty minor by comparison, especially with the redesign of stuff like the Witch.

I'm not sure how you do that without making the game very different than it currently is, and I'm not actually sure how much value there is to that. Like, what extra bonuses do you attach between pluses that feel meaningful? Not sure how much you can really fit in that space, and I think moving...

Yeah, this was a widely-misunderstood rule before and they chose the much less popular option. I suspect you'll see most playing it by the old idea of what the rules were, and I'd wager you'll see that eventually become the proper rule given the popularity. I don't think it's something Paizo is...

They can if you want them to. You have the option of taking two free ability boosts, or you can use the more traditional boosts that give you 3 boosts (two predetermined and one free) with a flaw.

The concept of ability scores makes sense when you are rolling 3d6 or 4d6 for stats, but once you move away from that there's really no point. They're just so rarely used beyond the modifier they grant.

Yeah, the idea is that you added 1+ your current Wounded # if you fail a recovery check. It's... not great, though I've heard people debating that it might be a mistake or bad language (the idea being that your Wounded # isn't meant to be readded as much as you are basically retotaling the...

Was that a change or just spelling out the intent? I don't think we played it like that, but thinking about it now that seems like a "This was our intent, it simply was not obvious". Also, boy howdy does that make for some interesting stuff with a Flurry Ranger.

Also, I found out what Reposition is: It's a new action which basically allows you to grab and shift an opponent adjacent to you around you. It basically codifies what Dragging Strike (now Sleek Reposition) did to allow others to do it. Not really seen in a lot of spells (outside of the...

From what I've seen it feels better. There are small layout changes in different sections that were clearly driven by readability stuff. For example, I couldn't figure out why until I realized they took away the big red text at the top and integrated it into the starting paragraph. It made for...

Hey, PDFs have been sent out to preorders and subscribers who have their physical books on the way. Currently going through the book with the original CRB and APG open to check different changes. It's slow, but it's interesting to see. From my (very initial; I'm only still in the Dwarven...

Paranoid, snare-making Ranger could also work.

True, but there aren't really feat trees in PF2. There are generally not feats that require other ones very often. Maybe there are certain paths based on hitting on what you want to hit, but that's a bit different than a feat tree.