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<blockquote data-quote="Retreater" data-source="post: 8052011" data-attributes="member: 42040">Even though I do not watch anime, I believe you. I can enjoy watching buddy cop movies - they can be entertaining, funny, heartwarming, etc. But the premise of the &quot;town watch&quot; campaign in a TTRPG, just gives me pause for several reasons.1) Player agency is reduced - they are given jobs, report to a superior officer.2) You're likely stuck in one town, on one beat, on one shift. You don't get a variety of locations (or combatants), etc.3) Add to that all the other issues mentioned (lethal force, stealing property from people)As someone who has come into PF2 about 6 months ago, I really wish that Paizo would have delivered some more &quot;meat and potatoes&quot; Adventure Paths before something like this, which forces artificial constraints on players and is contrary to what most people would want in their fantasy role-playing game (for real, who fantasizes about being a cop and plays D&amp;D/PF?) Dragons, giants, evil wizards in crumbling towers, invading demons, gothic horror, pirates. These are the things they should be focusing on, since there's next to nothing in official PF2 adventure content (and even less from 3PP). They should forget everything they wrote for PF1 and reset this as if it were a new experience (which it is). So give us something like Runelords, give us something like Kingmaker (which is due out next year for 2E, but that should've been prioritized above this). Instead we got an Adventure Path equivalent of Tyranny of Dragons in &quot;Age of Ashes&quot; (&quot;sorry, but our writers were learning the system as we designed the campaign, and you're going to have to put in a lot of your own work&quot;) and &quot;Extinction Curse&quot; (&quot;if you don't like the ridiculous premise of running a circus throughout your adventuring career, you're just out of luck.&quot;) I am hoping that 3PPs (I guess, only Legendary Games at this point) can carry the weight of good adventure design for Pathfinder 2. This is a surprising thing to say about Paizo, who used to be considered some of the best writers out there for adventure content.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Retreater, post: 8052011, member: 42040"] Even though I do not watch anime, I believe you. I can enjoy watching buddy cop movies - they can be entertaining, funny, heartwarming, etc. But the premise of the "town watch" campaign in a TTRPG, just gives me pause for several reasons. 1) Player agency is reduced - they are given jobs, report to a superior officer. 2) You're likely stuck in one town, on one beat, on one shift. You don't get a variety of locations (or combatants), etc. 3) Add to that all the other issues mentioned (lethal force, stealing property from people) As someone who has come into PF2 about 6 months ago, I really wish that Paizo would have delivered some more "meat and potatoes" Adventure Paths before something like this, which forces artificial constraints on players and is contrary to what most people would want in their fantasy role-playing game (for real, who fantasizes about being a cop and plays D&D/PF?) Dragons, giants, evil wizards in crumbling towers, invading demons, gothic horror, pirates. These are the things they should be focusing on, since there's next to nothing in official PF2 adventure content (and even less from 3PP). They should forget everything they wrote for PF1 and reset this as if it were a new experience (which it is). So give us something like Runelords, give us something like Kingmaker (which is due out next year for 2E, but that should've been prioritized above this). Instead we got an Adventure Path equivalent of Tyranny of Dragons in "Age of Ashes" ("sorry, but our writers were learning the system as we designed the campaign, and you're going to have to put in a lot of your own work") and "Extinction Curse" ("if you don't like the ridiculous premise of running a circus throughout your adventuring career, you're just out of luck.") I am hoping that 3PPs (I guess, only Legendary Games at this point) can carry the weight of good adventure design for Pathfinder 2. This is a surprising thing to say about Paizo, who used to be considered some of the best writers out there for adventure content. [/QUOTE]

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