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So where do the gods get their power? Rather than clerics needing deities, what if it's deities that actually need clerics to get their powers?

It's not just because. It's because they live in a universe where swearing an oath is something the universe pays attention to. That's how you get curses, ghosts, revenants, and ... paladins.

If miracles can do anything, and all you need to do is believe in yourself, why do we need fighters? Heck, why do we need farmers, why not just pray for food?

I think it's great if your origin or species or whatever you call it is mostly for background. On the other hand, I would want some traits available for things like having a protective shell, or being able to see in the dark. The gripping hand is, those things don't really, truly have to tied to...

I think you can just pretend Doug is a badly written, badly acted character in a TV show. Characters still react to his actual Charisma. However, his actions still matter. Just like the fighter's high Strength hardly matters if they don't engage in combat. Effort is expected.

I'm pretty sure it's another "dimension." In the BECMI version of the rules, other dimensions could have different laws and properties, and I'm pretty sure that non-magical Earth qualifies.

I wouldn't classify it as "clickbait" because it seems genuinely interesting. He's not trying to trick you into paying attention to something meaningless. He's curious what kinds of results one might see in a survey like that, and he thinks you're curious, too.

In older editions, you didn't need a god to access lower level cleric spells. So literally anyone can create a cleric.

A lot of replacements are more folkloric, so I wouldn't say it's very Talislanta-ish. It is kind of "anime-ish" in that it has kind of a unique cosmology in the background that is definitely not traditional fantasy, but something more story-oriented and flashy. I would say the ghouls in this...

In PF2, you have to parse how each of several layered choices will affect you at ... level 1. A PF2 character at level 1 has about the same number of free choices as a PF1 character at level 3. It's kind of silly to note how many archetypes a PF1 character might have, when every few levels, a...

Oh, I see. Thank you for clearing that up. Which are? And how does someone come by this knowledge? Are you sure? ... which is first level, particularly if you're human. Which is about two to four times as many choices as a PF 1 character generally makes. For instance, a Pathfinder 1e human...

Character creation in 2E requires more choices and more calculation than in PF 1. First you pick an ancestry, and get a heritage. Apply ability boosts. Background, apply ability boosts. Class, apply ability boost. Here's three different funnels of feats you need to understand by level 2. Also...

Well, wizard does ultimately come from the worse wise, and implies excessive or bad knowledge. Warlock probably comes from oath-breaker or deceiver, so implies profanity, corruption, and artfulness. Sorcerer is kind of odd; it comes from a word for fortune-telling.

It's more consistent, with more general cases and fewer specific ones. But it still has a lot of moving parts and a fair number of complex procedures.

A Lawful Good avenging outsider versus a titan-spawned elemental that may be entirely hostile to lesser beings is an entirely different creature. They just recycled the name because they decided to do something else with celestials.

What do you mean, "in disguise?"

The 4e version of archons were definitely unique to it.

I'd say PF2 is maybe 10% less complex. Actually, character creation is often more complex in PF2 at first level, but levels off more quickly. I'm a Remastered convert after skipping the initial 2e release; the improvements are minor but there is considerable thematic and quality-of-life...

D&D ghouls are fairly intelligent, but are almost never depicted that way, other than the occasional ghoul cleric. I'm glad ghouls get more of a role than just an undead to terrify low level PCs with. It looks like paralysis is out, grabbing and biting is in. Note that ghouls are based on the...

Originally, 3e only hinted that sorcery came from a bloodline, something 5e returned to. The basic concept is that a sorcerer has a "spark" of magic, whether that's a draconic blessing, fey blood, or exposure to wild magic. A wizard has insight. They also have a kind of "spark" but it's more...