MonsterEnvy
Legend
The Demons and Devils will probably be notably affected as the primary ones which are not Pathfinder original are likely to go away unless they are renamed.
It's unsatisfactory to discover a creature's weaknesses based on die rolls anyway. It's more interesting by uncovering it through exploration (perhaps its maker left a book somewhere) or by asking relevant NPCs.
I have played an adventure path that involves at least two of these bastards, might've been three even, and all of them were horrible.To add onto 'golems are getting redone':
Golems are being renamed bastions (probably to get away with the association of the Jewish legend of the golem; I am going to call them bastions for the rest of this post) and instead of being immune to magic, they will now have damage reduction to magic and some other ability changes, with a particular weakness to certain types of damage.
People find bastions as is to be highly frustrating and reductive; they have blanket immunizes to all kind of magic except the one they are weak to - which can often be just a single spell or a spell trait. This overrides what the spell actually does and instead does a certain amount of damage and applies a status effect. This makes them really weird to fight, and if you don't use Recall Knowledge and succeed, you can become very confused as to what is happening.
IMO, while I haven't run a proper combat where players have faced a pre-remaster Bastion, I agree with these takes. They feel much more like a puzzle boss and I'm not certain how well set up Pathfinder 2e - or any tabletop RPG, really - is set up for that; since if you don't "solve the puzzle", you can lose hard or end up in a boring combat. This is probably particularly bad if they are used as solo PL+2 or PL+3 encounters.
Bastions will be a lot more usable and interesting from now on.
They shipped my subscription order a few days ago, so I have the PDF but haven't had a chance to look through it yet. I probably won't get time until this weekend so hopefully my print book is here by then.Has anyone picked this up yet today?