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It's absolutely incomprehensible. I made 3 attempts at reading the book and gave up. It's probably a good system once you've figured out how it works, though.

Please tell me what the heck that thing is. I want to know more.

You'd need something like a really unexpected situation that does not prevent the heist, but screws it up. As you stated, the criminals have all the codes necessary and all the floor plans, meaning that the unexpected situation needs to be something different. What about some kind of in-house...

I have yet to read everything you've posted but it looks interesting. I like the way lore is structured into "tiers" of information. You might want to take a look at the Icon rpg. It's in development right now (by the guy behind Lancer). It's not really a retro clone, but it's obviously...

That's a good point. You'd need something to incentivise healing more.

That's a bit tricky to keep track of with all the thresholds. I propose a different method: Each time you take damage such that your HP is below 50% you accumulate Obstructions (better name pending). You can have multiple obstructions. Example: A character with 20 HP takes 11 damage and is at...

This is close to the solution in Icon RPG (which is not the same as the "icons" rpg). They have a strict separation of combat and exploration, and nothing that is available in combat is available in exploration and vice versa. This means that, for example, teleportation abilities that work in...

What would be the point of having that limit be 5hp? That's less than what a rogue would do in damage with a standard attack at that level. It would be essentially like having a special ability that doesn't do anything.

Perfect is the enemy of good. Fighters have athletics as a main skill. It's frankly bizarre that they gain no benefits to mobility as they level up so a level 1 fighter is mechanically about as good at climbing as a level 20 one. Not faster. Same with all movement types. This has already been...

I'm going to borrow some of these for my martial ability thread which I'm writing right now.

Why should we nerf the fighter? We know already that the fighter is quite underpowered. The fact that an even worse class exists does not mean we should nerf fighter to that level. Rather we should move all classes toward the same power level. Also please don't accuse me of dodging the...

Scaling is a fundamental part of the problem. The problem with martials, specifically, is that they do not scale properly. Whether or not the samurai subclass, specifically, scales I can't say though (never examined it closely).

If you accept the premise that the fighter as a whole is underpowered (which it is), then you could simply buff every subclass without worrying about upsetting anything.

While it is known that casting spells for damage dealing is not optimal, it is useful to know that suboptimal play from a wizard is superior to the basic fighter option. Or rather, you have shown that optimising for something less than ideal (damage) a wizard can still outperform a fighter...

They should toss Brawler and replace it with Echo Knight.

Not necessarily, but if a player looks to start playing they're likely not going to buy a book called Bestiary or Armory or whatever. If you have a book called Player's Handbook or whatever then it's important that it is a clear entry point. This is why Player's Handbook II probably wasn't a...

Yes, except Bestiary 6 is not aimed at players just like Bestiary 1 wasn't, and as far as I know Adventurer's Armory 2 is more of a niche product so it seems unlikely to cause confusion. Player Core 2 sounds problematic, though.

Sidenote: As far as I remember, and related to the discussion about numbering products, Paizo also steered clear of using names like Player's Guide II. They had Advanced Player's Guide which be more obviously something that you don't need when you start playing.

Yes exactly, except you should be able to know what the effect would be before you attempt it, you should be able to know if you can even do it in the first place, and you should be able to know what the consequences would be if you fail, and you should be able to know how long it will take to...

Imo they're too slow with their releases. I don't personally care about more crunch, but I want them to provide more optional/modular things. A good system for ships. A good system for domain management. A good system for spelljammers.