Doesn't seem likely. They might adjust a thing here and there if necessary. But I don't really think there's too much need for that, if any.
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How is that feat once per hour? I can't see any frequency mentioned anywhere on the reveal on Twitter.
I think they mentioned Rage becoming better in the remaster. This may or may not mean the limitation on Concentration effects is gone. It's certainly something I would change about Rage since it interferes with too many things. So maybe Bloodrager allowing spells while raging won't even be necessary.
Apparently the Amazon page for this book reveals the new versatile heritage to be the dragonblood heritage.
Someone on Reddit recently suggested a Fighter using a Rooting, Greater Crushing, Grievous Bo Staff, preferably with Lunging Stance. Crit enemies at 15 ft (including Reactive Strikes), knocking them back 15 ft, immobilizing them and making them Enfeebled 2 and Clumsy 2.
The whole mixed ancestry thing is pretty new and only emerged with the remaster about 4 months ago. Before that, half-elves were strictly limited to humans for their "other half". So there's really no information on how any of these newly possible combinations look or work.
*PS: having someone 100% be able to enchant their frying pan alone would make me give any DM side eye over any ruling disallowing improvised weapon runes.And I would fire back that I would give a player the side eye if they grab a rolling pin and want to transfer their weapon runes onto it just to save them the time and cost of buying runestones. Since transferring runes from a runestone saves you the 10% rune cost, using a rolling pin to carry a rune will most likely be more expensive than using the stone in the end.
I think shoddy means poor craftsmanship much more than poor materials. There's no rules against making shoddy items our of high quality Orichalcum, for example. And for regular materials, the price difference between different qualities is negligible, so I don't see any reason why you wouldn't be able to etch runes into shoddy items.
My AV cleric has dangerous sorcery and healing hands. So his heal hits undead (and fiends) nearly as hard as an equal level fireball. On top of healing every ally in range. That's a very, very good deal. I also very rarely need to heal all that much in combat, so having 5 extra top level slots to essentially blast enemies with is very nice.
Holy Light, Heal, Holy Cascade, Infuse Vitality, Sunburst.
Removing the AC penalty and/or the inability to use Concentrate actions might make Rage too strong if gained via the archetype. It's obvious that the archetype could needs some help, but outright removing these downside might swing too far in the other direction.
The classes mentioned as being revised in PC2 are champion, oracle and alchemist. You might want to curb your expectations for everything else. That being said, PC1 only mentioned the witch as being revised, while the cleric got (at least) as big of an upgrade and wizard was - for better or worse - changed quite dramatically. So there is definitely room for changes/improvements to other classes as well.
I think this a case of specific beats general. In general, non-living creatures are immune to bleed damage. But the vampire specifically is not immune to bleed damage. Seeing how they kind of need blood to survive, just like a living creature, it does make sense that losing blood would harm them.
How are you hidden to an adjacent creature?
Does the effect of Patron's Puppet end after giving the command or after the Familar comletes its actions? If it's the latter, making the companion skilled in deception would allow it to Create a Doversion to become hidden.
I'm just realizing that the familiar ability of Starless Shadow is a bit awkward because you want the familiar to be concealed before casting a hex to cause frightened, but the granted hex cantrip is precisely what will (potentially) make it concealed to the enemy, right after you needed it. And I think sinking actions or even spells into making the familiar pre-concealed would be a pretty steep price to pay for the effect (cannot help but compare Dirge of Doom). You can actually choose whether the new familiar abilities trigger before or after the effect of the hex. So you can absolutely cast your cantrip on a target that's adjacent to your familiar ans immediately make the target dazzled and frightened. Player Core says: Familiar Ability One of your familiar’s two bonus abilities is always the one listed here, a mark of your patron’s indelible influence. The benefit can occur only once per round when you Cast or Sustain a hex, and you can choose whether it occurs before or after the effects of Casting or Sustaining the hex.
Depends on what the poppet is made of, I would say. I could see bones being used to craft poppets in some cultures. But then again, does a "skeletal system" need to be made of actual bones? Would the wooden shell of a Conrasu be a "(exo-)skeletal system"? I think it might. So gut reaction upon thinking about it, I would let this affect anyone with a hard organic suporting system. Which at a glance means Automatons are immune, some Poppets and Leshies (and maybe Ghoran? Don't know too much about those) might be immune, depending on their composition. Any other ancestry would be fair game.
Any chance we can get a preview of the boosts and flaws for the already revealed new ancestries?
So the Ranger in my Kignmaker game got a Fangwire and used it to grapple an enemy. Rolled a Crit Success, so the enemy was constrained and then utterly failed to Escape three times. Next turn, target is still grabbed/restrained (doesn't matter for the question) and the Ranger attacks it again with the Fangwire. His argument was that he's basically pulling on the wire to inflict damage, which honestly does kind of make sense. I'm just wondering if there's RAW somewhere that explicitely says you can't Strike with a weapon or unarmed attack that you are currently using to grapple. I couldn't find anything like this, but if no such rule exists, he could in theory by RAW use the fangwire to grapple one enemy and then still attack someone else with the same weapon, which seems a bit silly.
Since it specifically calls out using a Recall Knowledge check, I would say yes, any effect that interacts with Recall Knowledge should apply.
Runescared Archtype Runescarred doesn't really interact with the cleric's existing spellcasting though, or am I missing something? The question was about adding more spells to the divine spell list of the cleric.
Dragon Disciple can get you a few specific spells added to your spell list. Adapted Adept from the human ancestry can at least add one 1st level spell There's no other way to get non-divine spells as a cleric beyond what your deity grants, I think.
Hasbro is worth something like 8 billion US dollars. They've got a lot more money to throw at a notable videogame studio - and infinitely more name recognition to cash in on, for now - and that's something that folks wanting "a BG3 for other TTRPGs" often miss out on. While this is true, I don't think it's known whether they actually paid for any part of BG3. In fact, Larian might have paid Hasbro for the rights to use the license. But yeah, DnD has a huge brand recognition. Even if a big studio like Larian wanted to make a AAA game based on PF2, doing so without a big name like DnD attached could potentially be disastrous. And quite frankly, something more akin to Solasta would be more fitting for PF2. Larian's very freeform approach to what you can do in their games would likely clash with PF2's comparatively strict ruleset. So the ultimate dream would probably be a game with Solasta's adherence to rules and BG3's AAA production values. But alas, it will likely remain just a dream.
I didn't mention it because I directly linked to its steam page :) But yes, mentioning the name would have been a good idea in hindsight. It's also supposed to be a 10% off on launch, so you can save a bit if you grab it early.
This might interest you if you like small indie games. Otherwise, we got Gallowspire Survivor (Basically Vampire Survivors in Golarion) in early access, and Abomination Vaults, a Diablo-style ARPG coming up. That's pretty much everything that's happening right now, unless I'm forgetting something.
As far as we know, all fiends and all undead have the Unholy trait by default with possible rare exceptions. We will know details once Monster Core is released next month.
Isn't that's what apex items already do? Or do you mean you want to create a lower level kind of apex items that basically grant a partial boost?
Ah, I missed that this was discussed already. So it IS a flaw in the system, not just some weird interaction I'm missing. Good to know, thank you all. I will make sure to add the ability to be repaired to any construct familiar one of my players might want to use going forward.
This ability makes a familiar immune to healing. Previous construct companions (the one from the inventor and the clockwork specific familiar) had basically the same ability, but with additional text saying that they can be Repaired. The new ability lacks that language. Repair says it only works on objects, not creatures. I can't find a general rule saying all constructs can be repaired. So how does a construct companion regain HP? Only during rest and from other abilities like Focused Rejuvenation?
The mummy statblock lists bleed immunity!
Even without the manipulate trait (which it absolutely still has by any sensible interpretation of what happened in the remaster, mind you), Phase Bolt in particular would still trigger Reactive Strikes anyway, since it has you make a ranged attack. Sure there are other reactions that only trigger on manipulate, but Reactive Strike is by far the most common reaction. But yeah, I agree with everyone else that those errata'd spells absolutely retain the traits buried in their original components. Otherwise, one could also say there's no remaster rule on how to provide Somatic or Verbal spells at all, so you're outright unable to use any pre-master spell, period.
Abilities and effects that care about what you did with your previous actions or what yoi do with your next action do not carry over between turns. Yoi must use them at the same time as the thing they interact with. This has been clarified by Lead Designer Logan Bonner about 2 years ago. So you can't use pacifying infusion with a 3 action impulse. Ever. (Unless there's a way to get quicken for infusions. I don't think so but Kineticist isn't exactly a class I'm very familiar with.)
Both these spells are still part of the game. Stuff that's not plre-printed in PC1 is not delet3d from the game in any way. Using spells from the CRB is no different than using spells from SoM or any other book.
But neither tidal hands not air cushion are aura impulses. I'm not sure what you're trying to saying?
Future proofing, most likely. Just in case they ever release a stance Impulse that does not affect your aura.
Spontaneous is better. I say that as someone who (subjectively) prefers prepared. Witch and Wizard need more spells for free. If they are supposed to be flexible in their preparation, they should have access to more spells than a sorcerer has in his repertoire (Yes, I'm ignoring the handful of extra spells they get at level 1.). Giving both at least 3 spells per level up would go a long way to make them more attractive in my book. The flexible spellcaster archetype has a similar problem. I can live with having fewer spell slots, but having fewer spells prepared feels terrible.
There's also plenty of other means to make enemies Off-Guard. If you have someone who focuses on Grab and/or Trip, you can often make do without flanking, for example.
Last time I checked the math, a +1 to attack is roughly 15-20% increase in average damage. That would be way too strong on top of Rage Damage. Fury needs better exclusive feats and maybe better damage resistance. Or more TempHP from Rage because "your Fury won't let you give in", or something like that. Or maybe give it a level 10-ish feat that let's you choose a lower level feat from another instinct without being bound by its anathema. That could be fun.
Hard disagree. A Barbarian's choice for fourth boost is Int/Cha/Dex, which means that if you aren't making the extra investment for Intimidate then you may as well raise Dex. Sticking with your breastplate over full plate also saves you a feat (arguably two since you need Mighty Bulwark to really replace dex investment).There is no need to switch to lighter armors unless you're worried about bulk, you don't get any more AC out of doing so. I don't know how that misconception is still around.Increasing both Dexterity and Strength is not really useful, so it's more optimized to increase only one of them. And if you do, then you switch to lighter armor to remove the armor check penalty when you increase Dexterity and dump Strength. If you're investing in Dex anyway, you can also get the best of both (Max AC and good Reflex saves) by wearing heavy armor that does not have the Bulwark trait. I have a half-plate using Drifter gunslinger build lying around somewhere and it works out quite well.
The Familiar alone doesn't make the witch better than the wizard, in my opinion. Not even with the patron abilities of the remaster witch. The main draw of the witch compared to a wizard are of course focus spells and feats. The Witch has a much broader selection of focus spells and while some are lacking, there are definitely good ones in there. The focus cantrips are still a bit hit or miss but unless you want an arcane patron, you can have at least one decent to good focus cantrip. Feat selection for the witch seems vastly superior in the remaster. Stitched/Spirit Familiar, Ceremonial Knife, Patron's Clain, Cauldron, the lesson feats... It has become quite easy to fill all 10 class feat slots with good or even great stuff on a witch. Wizard feats got slightly better in the remaster but at least for me it's still impossible to find more then a few class feats I'm really looking forward to. So... I would say the Witch is the better class, but Wizard is the better caster. If I wanted to play an arcane spell slinger first and foremost, I'd pick Wizard (and most likely grab the Witch Archetype).
The dedication could need some help. But seeing how the same is true for Fighter, which hasn't been changed at all, I doubt we'll get a buff. But I still think going from unarmored to heavy armor is too much. YMMV, of course.
I mostly hope they remove or at least reduce the armor proficiency from the Champion archetype. It would be fine if it just gave you proficiency in the next "tier" of armor and maybe shieldblock or something like that. But going from no armor to heavy is too much. Not to mention that having this option it's yet another huge advantage for other charisma-based classes.
You can hold it with one hand just fine.
Come to think of it, having a Protector Instinct would make perfectly sense. It could trade the damage bonus for increased AC, more temp HP or other defensive bonuses. That might be worth exploring further down the line, but I doubt we'll get anything like that in Player Core 2, since it inverts the whole premise of the class. And another random thought I just had: The new Protection spell with its universal AC and save buff will make parties who favor defense easier to pull off. Your barbarian might want to dabble in magic a bit or be nice to your party's casters.
I agree. The whole class balance would be destroyed and in need of desperate adjunstments if the AC penalty was simply. And I don't think (non-giant) barbarians are anywhere near as squishy as some people seem to think. The first few levels can be rough, admittedly. After the lowest levels, though, they have high HP, tempHP, above average saves, damage resistance at level 9+ and they are hard to flank. Deny Advantage alone can more than make up for the AC penalty in many situations. The remastered armor proficiency feat also allows a barbarian to get full heavy armor proficiency all the way to level 18 (assuming they keep their current armor proficiency scaling). I expect more barbarians to go the way of the armored juggernaut in the future, which also negates the AC penalty.
While it's true that familiar outside of combat aren't exactly covered in the rules in any way, I would say taking part in a Ritual is a full-time job and takes more effort and time than an independent familiar can muster with its one action per round.
You automatically recognize any spell you have prepared or in your spell repertoire. No check or action of any kind required. That's why Recognize Spell only triggers on spells you don't have prepared or in your repertoire.
It's an unarmed attack. You can enchant it by using Handwalrps od Mighty Blows, just like any other unarmed attack.
There's no reason why you can't use it against bosses. They will be more likely to save or critsave, but that's true for all spellcasters. That being said, the warprirst is ultimately still a support class. I'd be surprised if you actually find a situation in which Cry of Destruction is your best option in a boss fight.
Oh, yeah. There's none as far as I'm aware. I failed to mention that. My bad. I was trying to give the next best alternatives.
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