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Just killing the weaker damage dealing, generally less important NPC's l, is the definition of clean up crew. Kill the small ones so melee can have the heroic moment with the big ones. Meshes perfectly with the PF2 design focus of all non melee's just being support for melee.

You are so wrong. Drones are what keep the Pentagon up at night. The ones that have scared them the most in the Ukraine are the fiber optic drones that jammers don't detect or stop. The Pentagon is looking at a new world order where anyone can build drones in their garage that are the...

So the new spot for magic is clean up crew? Interesting.

They've been throwing waves of drones at Russia for over a year now. If you dig deep enough the Pentagon has people working with them to learn what they learn to make our drones better. Probably not overblown.

Well PF2e doubled down on its strong group of players that like the game to be more tactical. They locked in the fact that the game assumes all non melee combatants are support classes. Any non melee class will have far more impact bugging and supporting melee than doing anything else. A lot...

Well player "skill" in An RPG is just rules mastery and extreme min maxing. Not really skill. Just putting the Lego's together to achieve what DM hadn't considered. When GM starts planning games to ou think 6 players then an escalation 8nsues that all but insures that the game will lose all...

It's a story as old as time. Armored thing hard to kill till it isn't. Now one infantryman with the right missile or one drone equipped properly and tank is done. . It's got every 1st and second world nation terrified. The Ukrainian are stripping parts and batteries out of totalled electric...

Your players must be easier to satisfy. I've had thieves that want smart sneaky dogs, bards that want performing dogs, etc. etc. I haven't had a player ask for a war dog or hunting dog for a long time.

5 unarmed men with basic training with crossbows and daggers could easily take out a single knight. The knight can't run them down, the knight can only fight when they engage and eventually he'll tire first. That leaves out pits, killing the horse at full gallop, ropes, maces hammers. Picks...

Dogs are hard. You go from Chihuahua to mastiff to Great Dane. You really could do a 15 or 20 page creature manual on just dogs.

Seriously a lot of armor is really overrated. People don't know that knights where like tanks they required support. Men at arms shield men etc. one of the things that eventually killed armor along with guns was that once the men in armor were separated from support units 3 or 4 unarmored men...

The consistent argument I've had on this for years is that you'll have more true believers. When Angels or similar beings are showing up and helping faith is a logical confirmable thing. Also the one that seems to be hardest for people to grasp. active Dieties will most likely strike down...

Very very rarely compared to earlier editions. It is the safety wheels version of DND.

And Staffs and spears are way underpowered vs reality. The reach a spear gives should put all swords at a severe disadvantage. Or give the wielder bonus armor to simulate the advantage of their reach.

Well my phone chopped off part of my reply. My original reply was supposed to include that IME 5E even at that difficulty is very unlikely to kill anyone off. I'll add the caveat Unless you are playing low levels 1 to 4th.

Which in the means there is a tiny chance one party member will be killed in my experience. Chances of winning lotto might be higher than multiple Players. In some other games it can mean high chance of multiple fatalities and a flip of the coin for party wipe. But you knew that was what I...

Works just fine. 8 just make notes of what he did that session and if we meet him again he gets a bit better fleshed out with each encounter. Some of my best NPCs grew that way

In some systems High difficulty means it could kill off the entire party.

Books for npc's only work if the books for the vibe and levels of your world. . And then you run into what if all the NPC's are used from a few books. I've tried lots of supplements over the years and it just works better making them up in the fly, or as you plan out areas if that doesn't...

I don't really see dex martials becoming more viable as a problem. In a world where armor and heat can kill you that seems to be normal. And the original fix for that was half giants and mules with high con scores. That works also