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To me, definitely cooler and more “finished” than the placeholder art. Though honestly, I liked the art from wayfarer’s guidebook better than either of these two pieces. What would have been even better, in my eyes, would have been a cover taking inspiration from some of the 1920s pulps, which...

Consider that even Pathfinder 2nd edition has picked up a few 4e-ish ideas (multiclassing works on the same principal as original multiclassing in 4e; class features have a VERY similar structure to the way powers are picked from 4e; magic items are classified by character level of...

DM: "...a bedraggled gynosphinx sits in the corridor, before the wall of invisible force. She says if you solve Keraptis' riddle, you may pass." PC1: "...I use a passive sniffing tool to sample the challenge-response dialogues between Keraptis and the sphinx, and brute-force the encrypted...

I'd suggest to note if the players find the roll as uninteresting as you do -- if they do, then all good. If not, I'm fine with (in the specific instance mentioned) leaving it as is in the PH, namely either stealth vs. NPC passive perception, or group check and go with majority result. I always...

I don't know - single-target d6-base, with a weak 1-turn partial-bane effect? The fact that it targets Intelligence makes it stand on its own two feet, but I would not take it over a firebolt, eldritch blast, or even ray of frost necessarily. I'd say it sounds balanced - I really can't see...

I can’t help but feel like, were he around today, Franklin would have been like some weird amalgamation of Barack Obama, Elon Musk, and PewdiePie, from a cultural standpoint. Too politically nuclear to hold a prime office, but always near the levers of power and EVERYONE would follow him whether...

I do feel it when, mechanically speaking, my cleric of Pholtus looks just like my friend Bill’s cleric of Pelor, who looks just like my friend Sue’s cleric of Lathander. Down to same Radiance of the Dawn, Fireballs, and warding flares...

I’m not digging EITHER cover, honestly, but I am happy about the Eberron material.

Ijust started reading my copy — how does splitting the difference at PL+ or -3 work for you? :) apparently, PL +4 is an “extreme” challenge, and +3 is a “severe” threat or elite monster, with +2 being “tough”. Conversely, PL-4 is trivial, and PL-2 is easy. Now, actual play, I won’t know for a...

I should say that none of it is yet making me not look forward to playing some PF2 — but unless it’s been dramatically streamlined somehow from what I saw with the playtest, I doubt it’ll be my go-to game. However, just hearing someone say, “does this action have the manipulate trait?” during a...

More of the first than the second; it's like when some video games have characters that end up with 1500 hit points and do 100 damage a shot against enemies that have 10,000 hit points, when scaling everything down by a factor or ten or twenty would have the same effect - but to people, the...

For our group, the biggest problem for us in PF2 is something that we know will be in there thanks to the playtest - the continuing problem of spiraling numbers bloat. Thankfully, characters wont be as far apart as in PF1, but there's still that problem that what starts out as +5 and +7s here...

Same applies for any hobby. Should someone study Kasparov and Fischer and read about strategy if they want to be better Chess players? Sure - but they can play Chess just fine for their entire lives and enjoy it without doing so. As far as serious fans of D&D already being DMs, we have around...

I agree - I’m also of the opinion that, just as every DM owes it to themselves to be a player at some point, each player should try DMing at least once or twice, because it does give greater appreciation for both sides of the table in my experience.

So... they don't know the show. In other words, they are ignorant of the show. Or, you alternatively allow that they could be being dishonest (to themselves) How is that *NOT* the "you must be ignorant or lying to disagree with me" argument that we generally frown upon? I understand that...

For me, quite a lot actually, until about my senior year in high school. My defense was making friends with other kids who the bullies were scared of. :) In particular, one dude’s homophobic slur was his favorite word to use against me and basically anyone he didn’t like. Don’t know if he ever...

I think part of the broad brush with which early D&D is painted is due to historical distance, but also because Gygax and other TSR authors (such as the infamous Roger Moore “Tucker’s Kobolds” story) talked about these early tendencies and how they were prevalent, and how we shouldn’t do them...

I’ve never understood the triggering nature of TBBT with some individuals; I self-identify as a geek/nerd and have in public for close to twenty years now; my love of computing, comic books, RPGs, and pop sci-if has never been in question even when old CEOs and CFOs in business suits would poke...

Just google “Disney ruined Star Wars” and you’ll get a deluge of fan-hate; now, there are also plenty of people who talk about Lucas ruining Star Wars with special editions and midichlorians as well, don’t misunderstand - but it seems like as time goes on and the Sale of Lucasfilm retreats...

Bill Slavicsek’s been unknown to far too many SW fans - then again, many fans seem to treat George Lucas’ Star Wars as being somehow perfect compared to the work of Disney and others, easily glossing over the things that used to be maligned in the past (e.g. the whole ‘Han shot first’ thing and...