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PF2E "suffers" from being well balanced and also "suffers" from being too easy to keep viable to play all the way up the level ladder. It also "suffers" by letting any character of any class be able to fun and engaging and lastly it "suffers" from it being somewhat difficult to make a too weak...

I've been debating trying to justify 'cup of tea' and 'paint brush / ink quill' as Kensai weapons, but I've yet to figure the right ranged one. I'd love the Kensai weapon to be 'unarmed' - because all the bonuses there would be great for an unarmed fighter.

It all comes down to the actors. Replace your players with all the people that were BOTH 'cool kids' in high school AND on the Drama club... and you're done. But you might have to pay them 6-8 figures to play in your games... Otherwise... you're never going to really get this one - make a game...

On feeling guilt over calling out a cheater - I don't have much to say there... once you've hit that stage you just have to deal with it and the consequences and then move on... hoping everyone can stay comfortable. As to stopping cheating before that point... Over the years I've seen this...

I suspect some publishers might very well make modules with the GM/DM in mind as the audience and ignore players on purpose... If your aim is to sell books, you need to make a potential reader interested - and you can do this by selling them a “shiny piece of junk”; great art, cool commentary...

I think the MMO genre basically disproves a lot of this. Some of your elements are just the 'next step' in MMOs. MMOs didn't end up replacing tRPGs, they did come close, but that was actually because the tRPG market was collapsing (or at least it looked that way to me), and people were 'stuck'...

Sometimes the “law” is unlawful, sometimes a society uplifts evil conduct and villifies good conduct. If you look at LG as a champion of concepts like universal equal rights, justice, honor, charitable nature, protect the weak and downtrodden, etc... - that’s your core “good”, much of it...

Hello; I am in Hayward, across the bay. How goes your search? I’m thinking on whether or not that distance would be viable.

You can go down this route and start knocking off the classes that are not critical. And once you do you can then start wondering why have classes at all. Plenty of RPGs get by without them. Then you can look at the success of those RPGs versus DnD. Sure DnD has much of its success from being...

The next time you get a player like this, use Inspiration Points "AT THE START OF THINGS" before it gets to be an issue. Set up and Inspiration Point system (DMG pg. 240-241) with these variations: Inspiration Points are awarded for Inspirational Actions that are Highly Genre Inspiring. Even...

Except... it wasn't until WotC bought D&D that we had anything else? And where did they start, a class that at launch of 3e was basically the same as a Wizard, except you didn't need to memorize spells, with the exchange that you only got a limited number. And ever since then they have been...

I usually like half-orcs that were either the process of a normal family mix, or who's Orc parent was captured by humans. Then again, even before WoW and playing Horde, I looked at the DnD races and alignments and felt I'd rather look at them from a different perspective. If I were in a game...

A side effect of watching "Martin" in the 90s is I just say "Shanaynay" when I see that druid thing, whatever it is supposed to be. A side effect of playing WoW for a decade is I can't imagine playing a Druid unless I could turn into a bear and... avoid owls I guess because, that kind of kink it...

I suspect people who pick Beastmaster are most likely trying to recreate their Hunter from years of playing WoW. And the class... probably should respect that - because that's a very enjoyable playstyle for a lot of people (I was never really one of them, but it probably accounts for half of all...

Nothing ever comes out right or comes across right on the internet. Whenever you try to make a point that has emotions and conflict in it - half the people will agree with you somewhat randomly and the other half will see all the reasons you're being a jerk. Either side could be right or wrong...

Power dynamics / agency. Let us imagine for a second that I hated whites and sat in my room ranting and raving about it all day long. Let us even imagine I did it on a street corner. And lets then imagine I went out and attacked someone(s). Now... as a minority with little power in the system...

Going to quote some things out of order here... I'm one of those minority gamers who is more or less now an ex-gamer. I left this hobby roughly 10 years ago after some incidents with a couple of gaming groups and some rather rough conversations in a number of online forums all convinced me...

In the final published game, I'd prefer but don't expect to get race not mattering as much. I would rather have players choose a race for a character because of story and background than because they believe the bonus to X will be most useful given the DM's penchant for using trick Y.

This is something that has bugged me about dungeon crawl adventures since I was 10 years old back in 1981... The only realistic way to do one of these home invasion really, is 'Seal team vs. Osama' style - come in stealthed from above, storm the building, and use the layout against its...

Yep. I used to use all the random tables to make my adventures. I remember my sheer excitement when I finally moved from D&D to AD&D and found I could also make random maps. :) In 1981, modules like Saltmarsh that had actual plots in them of a sort were beyond my concept of managing, and flew...