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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7739087" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>The fact is, PF1’s math makes it very difficult to run a low magic campaign in which the PCs can be expected to triumph over the monsters, particularly at higher levels. Sometimes that’s what you want in a low-magic setting. Sometimes you want a world where adventuring is an extremely dangerous prospect and you survive past 6th level only by a combination of excellent tactics and no small amount of luck. But sometimes you want to play in a world where ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things simply through enough perserverence and training. And that’s possible to pull off, but only with a lot of custom-designed monsters and/or rules hacks like Unchained progression. Some folks would like a system where that’s easier to orchestrate. Hopefully PF2 will be able to provide that, without taking away the ability to play a high magic campaign without having to do a similar amount of extra work. One way to do this would be by removing the numerical bonuses to saves, AC, and accuracy from magic items. Focus the magic items more on the abilities they grant than on statical boosts. Then DMs who want to hand out tons of magical trinkets can do so without putting their PCs way ahead of the expected number progression curve, DMs who only want to include a few extremely rare magical artifacts can do so without putting their PCs similarly behind the curve, and DMs who want their PCs to consistently be behind or ahead of the curve can do so with their encounter building, pitting them against monsters either too strong or too many for the players to be able to handle without flawless planning and lucky rolls. That seems to be the designers’ intent behind removing things like Rings of Protection from the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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