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I haven’t found higher level wizards or other spellcasters to dominate fights in 5e simply because classes like fighter and rogue can deal a lot of damage, particularly to those important boss-type targets. Yeah, wizards have much better area control and really strong debuffs, but they typically...

If you wanted a dragon to be deadlier in its lair, you’d add hazards to represent the increased power.

There was some talk of Bestiary 3 being the litmus test for continued PF2 support on Roll20. Well, the book's out now on Roll20, so there's that. Plus they also added the Sundered Waves one shot.

If we’re still in exploration mode, the action cost doesn’t matter, so any character can try understanding the detected phenomenon with Recall Knowledge rules. If we’re in encounter mode, a character can spend an action to Recall Knowledge as usual. Obviously if the haunt is a simple hazard and...

Don't you just use Recall Knowledge to figure out how to disable haunts or other hazards? That's how I'm running it.

If I wanted to restrict the spammable nature of cantrips, I might limit the use to proficiency bonus + spellcasting ability score modifier times per long rest, except warlocks for who it’s per short rest. I suppose multiclass casters would choose one ability score to determine the uses. If you...

I’ve recently started Agents of Edgewatch and I haven’t experienced any issues with the rules not being able to fit the concept. We don’t use the AP specific non-lethal damage rules and instead rely on the default PF2 lethal and nonlethal attacks. No issues. We also use the GMG automatic...

Really? I find PF2 and 5e creatures to be a lot more similar than PF2 and 4e creatures. 4e has the roles, which both PF2 and 5e lack, and 4e monsters also have the secondary roles (minion, elite, standard, solo), which 5e has the remnants of (legendary monsters and lair actions), while PF2 lacks...

5e also has much less product coming out. Paizo releases a full several level adventure with colored maps and art every month. WotC has a handful of books per year. It’s not exactly a fair comparison. The PF2 sheet does have drag and drop compendium support for all feats though, including class...

It’s a bit misleading to say that you can’t get mainstream PF2 content on Roll20. Roll20 offers all the core books outside the Lost Omens line, plus 2 full APs (and not the bad first one), two standalone adventures, and the Beginner Box. PF2 has a Roll20 supported character sheet that’s in...

Exactly my experience too. In my first 5e game I just told the players what the enemy was casting, but by the time the party hit tier 3, I implemented the Xanathar's rule because counterspell had become such an obvious powerhouse. It's a really fun spell for players, but it's also too good at...

I think it serves two functions: a GM guidance tool, and if desired, a way to add tracking of time to exploration and social encounters and challenges. The first function can help GMs adjudicate common scenarios. For example, a sneaky PC wants to scout out ahead -- the exploration mode rules...

3rd edition was the first RPG that I ran as a GM, and 3.0 ultimately was the game that got me into the hobby. A couple of years ago I finished a 3.5 campaign from levels 1-14. It was fun because I finally implemented all these variant rules and restricted classes to reasonable tiers, but I'd say...

PF2 Easytools does have a toggle for proficiency without level. It changes creature stats as expected. I understand that there is a game that’s somewhere between 5e and PF2 in complexity or clutter. Level Up could be that. Personally 4e is that for me. But Paizo selling that as a product...

This sounds a lot like 5e. I think Paizo would be making a big mistake trying to sell 5e v2. We have 5e already, we don’t need another one.

I know this is a necro, but a stumbling drunk is actually not a good representation of incapacitated at all. Incapacitated doesn’t inflict any defensive penalties. Attackers don’t get advantage, you don’t have any penalties to saves, rogues can’t automatically sneak attack you, and so on. You...

You could remove action points from PCs. That should also speed up combat. Only one immediate action power per PC (after level 1 so defenders keep their starting kit). Fewer monsters but still no more than 3 levels above the party, and give them static damage boosts to compensate for the threat...

I'm not a fan of Signature Spell the way it's written right now, or Spell Study or Wizard's Flair. The reason is that they add extra things to be tracked. A wizard is already keeping track of spell slots per long rest. Then you have Arcane Recovery once per long rest. Add Signature Spell once...

You wouldn't need a separate list of all spells by level since they're already listed per class, in ascending order of spell level. Spell details means the full spell description -- you don't want that by spell level because that means you'd have to memorize each spell's level to find its full...

I will say that the Level Up logo looks a bit harsh, the contrast between the sharp black lines against the cover art. Maybe you could make the logo borders slightly fancier? The shape I mean, not necessarily adding art on it.