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Oh my yes, it is good. It is one of my favourite systems, and if I'm not careful I'll gush about it endlessly. ;) It is geared towards narrative/story heavy play with theatre-of-the-mind action sequences (if the game has action sequences). It's very flexible, and I've run several games in...

To clarify, for me it feels closer to (not the same/identical, but more akin to the feel of) 3.Xe than it does to the feel and experience 4e. As in, if I were to map the feel/experience of PF2e compared to the my feel/experience of 3.X and 4e, it would be like this: 3.X -- PF2 ------ 4e (Also...

Thank you for this write up! I have read the book and while it is very nice looking with some great art pieces the rules system didn't catch my fancy at all. Wasn't sure if I was missing something in my read through, but from your description (which matches my impression) it sounds like not...

Having played both 4e and PF2e, I'll concur that PF2e has a very different feel and plays quite differently than 4e (and 5e, for that matter). For me, characters feel much less capable especially at lower levels*, overall the abilities don't reach the same level of excitement, there are more...

Hmmm, seconding the above or adding to the list, from off the top of my head: Less feats, but more impactful ones. Remove the base/generic +X hit and +X damage and +X defensive feats (most of which were a feat fix for improper math – revised 4e would fix the math). Something like “flail...

Nope. While I love some mechanical differentiation (but by the gods interesting ones, not something like attribute bonuses), if a world has different races/kin/species, then they're gonna have different cultures and histories and views, and RPing one of those is going to make each one different...

As a shame researcher*, she posits that though shame is commonly understood as having a preventative function it doesn't actually function that way. Guilt can have that preventative function, as can "consequences", but with shame being tied with the diminishment of self it often sends people...

To add to this, Brené Brown has some great distinctions between guilt and shame, with (in her view that I subscribe to), the former being a productive driver in our lives, with shame being an unproductive and even deleterious driver. (Put simply, the difference between the two is that guilt...

0.18% of the book notes that some of the material lavishly reproduced and celebrated within is discriminatory. 0.18% of the book notes that some of the material lavishly reproduced and celebrated within is discriminatory. Why can I only give this a single thumbs up?

Mostly 4, with a slight nudge towards 5 in some cases.

"I don't understand why people are making such a big deal out of this," is another classic deflection technique, said by those who made it a big deal. (See also "political".) This is a 576 page book. Let's remove 16 pages of TOC, index, blank paper, adverts, whatever, to make it a nice...

Thank you for posting that. It has made me angry, for now I realize that the REAL controversy has been suspiciously ignored: the lack of Oxford comma use! It's an affront to proper language and an attack on all of us readers! Where's my Fauchard-Glaive-Voulge-Guisarme-Fork?

True and exciting! Wonder if they'll end up in the revised ST:A. :) (And the species linked above is of the non-morphic (though still sentient) variety, so a bit different than the Caitians... be an interesting episode to have one of those, a Caitian, and Spot (Data's cat) all get trapped in...

When it comes to "they were a product of their time", I find it often is asserted by people who equally don't want to take ownership or responsibility for who they are, or what they've done (or are doing). It's easier that way. They don't have to confront what they've caused, either for...

The crossover we need, the crossover we deserve... ;) Or a Black Panther that is also a warepanther? Sign. Me. Up. (edit to add, if you DO want to play a lioness in Star Trek, I might have you covered: Gaming Thursday: Star Trek Adventures Species)

Och, this freakin' thing. I remember being at a Firefly LARP once, and pre-session a few of the other players were making fun of Furries for being so low on the chart, like haha, what losers. I felt like shouting "dudes, you're in a Firefly LARP, you're only like one step up on the chart...

With a, if I'm reading this right, paragraph or two in the foreword of a nearly 600 page tome that proceeds to display in full glory and praise the work of the creator in question? That is one heck of an inefficient way to pass judgement or declare themselves a lord of moral authority. Also...

Second hand account of what Ernie might have said, but certainly Kevin there (and Ernie, if true) attacking furries is... well, yikes. Kicking other fandoms to try and make their RPG geekery be all tough and shiny and...

To which I find the opening post/premise of this thread also hyperbolic. All suggestions in this realm -- whether dealing with RPGs or with life in general where interacting with and being with a group is at play -- cease to be productive and often become deleterious when brought to the...

I concur heartily. To make this work you need to lean away from weapon use as the Ranger's main schtick, since that's already covered (in 5e) by the fighter (expert weaponsmith), the rogue (cunning weaponsmith), or the barbarian (overbearing weaponsmith). A properly designed beastmaster can...