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It really depends on the setting. I home brew a low magic setting. The boss of a powerful thieve’s guild will be a level 5 rogue. The knight-commander of the templars will be a level 5 champion. The finest master of defense on the continent will be a level 6 fighter. These are formidable...

Correct, Paizo didn’t just figure out how to write a good PF2 AP, because they already knew how to write great APs. And Abomination Vaults combined their innovation and narrative skills with an old fashioned dungeon crawl; a genre that PF2 does very well indeed. Hence its popularity. 5e lacks...

So in my experience it is extremely well balanced. (But perhaps our expectations of ‘well balanced’ aren’t equivalent.) Perhaps if the GM is playing optimally and the players decidedly sub-optimally, like using all three actions to attack, or not knowing exactly what their characters can do, I...

Yeah quite a few of my players’ characters have died through mishaps, foolhardiness, or bad luck. Fortunately that bothers us not at all. We’re big on stakes and consequences. (Though I’m also free and easy with hero points and they’re used a lot for rerolls where bad rolls would ruin the fun.)

I never really got into the old world of darkness games from the 90s. I always found the writing ridiculous and the ‘we’re role players, not roll players’ stuff to be tiresome. The only thing rolling was my eyes. There was even a sidebar in Dark Ages Mage called ‘ye olde twinkery’ that told the...

I’m pretty much the forever GM. And I acknowledge that my job is to do almost all the work in bringing the fun. I need to provide the story hooks, NPC interactions, fun scenarios, opportunities for loot and advancement — basically the whole framework for the fun. The one thing I expect from my...

So much agreed. And I’ve always found it bemusing to see the behavior of a plurality of people in a bunch of sectors of the consumer economy. There’s this expectation that everything should come for free, or if not free then extremely cheap with unrealistic bang-for-buck. That if I’m paying you...

This is great news. I ran AV in its entirety in PF2 and it went down great. It's serious but has some welcome moments of wry levity, and the encounters were exciting. Glad it see it's being ported over to the huge audience of 5e, and it should be welcome amongst some of the newer players there...

I know this is an enormous lift, but I’d love to see a new campaign setting for PF2. Golarion is fine but having something more focused and less kitchen-sink-y would be amazing.

Pf2 is one of these.

I’ve found some excellent discussion over on reddit, with people posting their experiences and characters. I do like this site, but there just aren’t a whole lot of fans of the system here. There are a lot of people here saying, in various degrees of detail, ‘here’s why PF2 is dead.’ But this...

Looks really great. Could be just what I need to manage parties of characters.

The rules lite systems you cited are no more ‘modern’.

WoTC is the biggest player and they already use almost completely freelance labor. Their number of actual employees is tiny

I couldn't say how many undecided new players peruse this particular forum, but I'm going to guess not many ;) Edition warring is as old as dirt and people love to do it. (I've avoided going on to the dnd forums to proclaim how the 5th edition's classes and levels all manage to feel exactly...

What? Anyway, it's unfortunate that PF2 didn't work out for you guys. My group of complete newbie players love the system and the stories we're telling with it. Just so much of it is inspirational, the skills and options provide a huge framework for creativity, and the encounters play fast and...

These look like fun.

Yeah, as the years have gone by, I've come more and more to the view that there's simply no room for 'humanoids'. The problems just run too deep. The next game I run will be all humans, all the time. The enemies will either be humans or literal monsters of alien or demonic motivation that are...

Looks very promising. I'll head down to my game store and pick one up. Hoping to expand my gaming horizons a bit.

A thousand times this. I've grown to absolutely detest playing online, even more than I detest the Slack-and-Zoom remote work meeting treadmill. Nuance gets lost, silly misunderstandings get exaggerated, people speak over each other, lag is a bitch, there's no immediacy. Enough. I GM in person...