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Tom King (hack writer) Oh, I'll never forgive him for Heroes in Crisis, but I just finished his Mister Miracle and it was great. It's not like he'll be directly involved. His Supergirl story got great reviews, and now some other people are going to try to improve it.
I look at the term 'Ancestry,' and I think "all of these can interbreed." In my opinion, inter-ancestry pairings produce a child of just one ancestry. Humans have more of a habit of taking on traits from the other parent with either half- or adopted. Fantasy settings are for magical things and I want a magically diverse world. I make an exception for Ghorans, because reproductive problems are called out in lore, but any other two ancestries can have a kid if they love each other enough. "Your parents were a Conrasu and a Poppet? Well, pick one and adopted ancestry the other."
OP, don't forget your skills. Fighters get to take three skills to legendary and 10+1 skill feats. Your top options are: Medicine: every party needs a backup healer. The medicine skill in pf2 is the way to go for out of combat healing. Battle medicine and a free hand let's you boost poeple in combat, too. Continual recovery is a big upgrade. Athletics: You'll want assurance to avoid a multiple attack penalty. Against weak foes, strike twice and then trip or shove. Titan wrestler is an upgrade, and you'll want underwater marauder. Intimidate: scare your enemies to make them easier to hit. Intimidating glare, battle cry, and scare to death are upgrades. Also consider; Acrobatics: you can take kip up to stand up as a free action, and cat fall to avoid falling damage. Society: An important knowledge skill, but one your spellcasting friends might forget about.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/james-gunn-unveils- dc-slate-batman-superman-1235314176/ Booster Gold and the Authority are near the top of my list. I'm very curious who is going to be on the authority team. Supergirl is another fantastic choice. I'm excited for Waller and creature commandos, too. But ugh, Damien. Please no
This isn't paizo's fault, that's how this market works. People who are willing to switch from d&d are willing to keep switching to the new shiny thing. New techniques make better games. We've seen very clear evidence that an edition is only profitable for about ten years. It's very weird to me that so many people blame Paizo for changing things and not the players who moved on or stopped buying books. Anyway, I could never get into pf1e because it was too similar to 3.5. Paizo had to do something different to gain me as a customer, and now I've even gone back and played a little first edition.
I think this is a misrepresentation of what happened. Pf1e sales dropped. The players were the ones who put 3.5 back in the trash. Paizo had to do something to avoid going out of business.Because the system was becoming bloated. Another revision more in the style of 3.5 -> PF1E would have been welcomed by people like me, who are now not buying PF2E products. on the other hand, I never was a customer of pf1e. Pf2e brought me to pathfinder. It is not enough to satisfy current customers, a business needs to be always adding new customers.
I think this is a misrepresentation of what happened. Pf1e sales dropped. The players were the ones who put 3.5 back in the trash. Paizo had to do something to avoid going out of business.
For your kobold, don't forget skills and skill feats. You get a skill feat every even level, plus lip reading from your background. It's unusual that your heritage is blue, but your dragon disciple is gold. It's perfectly legal, but you might ask your dm about it. Summoner is one of the more complex classes in pf2e, but I really like your concept. I might suggest a summoner with sorcerer archetype would be more powerful. You would be charisma casting for both.
I guess I was wondering more about thrall husbandry for lack of a better term. Are they treated well, livestock would be, but you don't educate or clothe cattle either. If you think livestock are treated well, I may have news for you. Ecgbryt, I recommend not looking too closely at the number of farmers and farmland for living cities either. These numbers never work out.
if I can ever get a group together that's large enough and interested in the Amber Diceless RPG I'll be able to die happy.Ditto. Though I don't think I'm up for running Amber, I'd love to be able to play it again. Speaking of Amber, everyone see we might be getting a tv show? A year ago, I would have been discouraged, but after Sandman, I have some hope.
I disagree. Racially-homogenized settings make perfect sense in fantasy. Separate cities for different races should be a sci-fi thing, where the species eat different food and breathe different air. Most of my golarion cities are no more than 50% human.
Indeed. Layout was poor.At least for me its not the language that's the issue, it's all organizational. Feats and spells being arranged alphabetically rather than by level, needing to flip between the various appendices to parse out conditions or focus spells, stuff along those lines. All a massive hassle if you're using a book or pdf and makes learning the system horrifically tedious. I love pf2, but this is true. It's even worse with exceptions. Soothe is a healing effect. Undead are immune to healing effects. Soothe works on undead.
I do kinda read that as baiting.
I feel like "not allowing GMs to disallow characters" whether it's because they're suspicious about the provenance thereof (a la side-eying rolled stats) or they don't fit the campaign or they seem likely to cause intraparty conflict or whatever is a dealbreaker. Hasbro sees DMs as employees who pay them.
As an Economist, I wonder why WotC thinks they have a competitive advantage. I imagine AI-DM will be closer to a video game than a TTRPG. It sounds like they are planning it in a combat-only role, and I'd rather have Diablo or WoW mechanics than any version of D&D. The advantage of D&D is doing weird stuff. I have a professional interest in thier plan to compete with video games. My prediction: When you can get a human GM, only the GM needs to buy the books. When you need an AI GM, everyone's gotta subscribe. This, Plus Grinding! We'll have people who play all day, every day, just like in WoW. They'll have maxed out level 20 characters, running quests over and over again for the best gear. Then they'll join human-DM games with super-powerful characters. Letting players transfer characters between human and AI games is the only advantage WotC has and it's predatory as hell.
This is deep, and I'm going to spend some time thinking about it. I don't know if I want any numbers attached to social interactions. I do want a chance of failure, and I want players who aren't sliver-tongued to be able to play characters who are good at social interactions. Those two factors push me back to mechanics. How about a flat check? With feats to improve success? Everyone would have a chance, but if you want to play a honey-worded character, you could take those feats.
I have only heard bad stories about using the proficiency without level rules. I might suggest instead a campaign that will never go beyond level 3 or 5, as Keith Baker(creator of Eberron) describes his "ratcatchers" campaign. Usually in Eberron, we expect NPC's with third level spells to be common. So limiting your players to level 5 or lower will ensure they don't overtake the generals. Instead, players would get extra feats as they advance. A level 7 elite unit is always going to be at the edge of what a level 5 conscript can fight.
Quoting myself from a previous thread like this. Comedy relief--Think Pippin and Merry. A character who advances the plot by screwing up. I have no idea how to create this without breaking the math of pf2, but it's an character type that is common and missing. In certain other games, you can get this with a bard, but bards in pf2 are much more power fantasy than comedy relief. Distance-mancer--Vista from Worm, parahumans. She has the power to manipulate distance. Could be a single spell that scales. So you cast the spell, no character moves, but the distance between them is reduced or expanded. Maybe even a character who bends space like a gravity wave. Even on a virtual tabletop, this would be hard to represent. Power thief--Kirby from Nintendo. 3.5 had the spellthief, which is kind of what I'm looking for. Someone who steals enemy abilities and uses them.
Jaya Hemond was a warrior in the crusades. She was captured by demons and her soul and flesh were bound to a Brimowak. She was rescued by the mythic heroes, but the binding could not be undone. She is a constant source of heat and flames. Feeling uncomfortably warm in normal temperatures and looked down upon by her fellow crusaders, Jaya fled to the north to die. She was found by the broken tusk tribe, who welcomed her after some initial confusion with a "sister cinder." She hasn't told them about her demonic origin yet. Human Tiefling Elementalist Sorcerer (fire)
My top three favorite villains are Magneto, Grand Admiral Thrawn, and Dr. Doom. The only one that might work in a party is Magneto, and it's only because he's not actually evil. Thrawn and Doom both expect to be in command. Doom will absolutely kill any party member who tries to give him an order. Thrawn is not a backstabber, but again, the reason he would work better is that he's close to LN. Villains don't work in teams often, and especially not without a clear leader. EDIT: For an interesting fourth villain, I like Nero from Star Trek [2009]. He would have a different problem in a party. Central to his character is that he makes awful choices. He chooses revenge over saving his people. Nothing will distract him from his target. He wouldn't last long in a party game.
I saw an Eberron guide in homebrew the other week... I've seen at least three Eberron conversions. This is the one I would use. https://scribe.pf2.tools/v/2qF7WjsY-pathfinders-guide-to-eberron But I have nothing against this one: https://shardfinder.darkcloudblogs.com/?m=0
So I'm playing a thaumaturge in PFS and we are fighting a group of foxes. The foxes have no weaknesses, so when I succeed on exploit vulnerablity, I pick a weakness that applies to one fox and just that fox, right?
Is this the proper way to play a serious member of the dark archive? What serious weakness would a fox have? Im not complaining, I'm curious what other thaumaturges would have done. Playing comedy characters is pretty common for me, and I'm glad to have the opportunity, but I don't believe this is how Paizo intended the class to be played.
A young girl was walking along a beach upon which thousands of starfish had been washed up during a terrible storm. When she came to each starfish, she would pick it up, and throw it back into the ocean. People watched her with amusement. She had been doing this for some time when a man approached her and said, “Little girl, why are you doing this? Look at this beach! You can’t save all these starfish. You can’t begin to make a difference!” The girl seemed crushed, suddenly deflated. But after a few moments, she bent down, picked up another starfish, and hurled it as far as she could into the ocean. Then she looked up at the man and replied, “Well, I made a difference for that one!”
I'm in a strongly story-based 5e weekly Eberron game, a weekly PF2 game/society play, and a weekly SWADE game where we try to avoid combat.(we're not very good at it) I would not play a combat-focused 5e game. I'm really bored of 5e character concepts, and I can't stand silly rules like "see invisibility doesn't let you defend yourself from invisible creatures."How's the SWADE game going? I would love to play more Savage Worlds, and I do have a Slipstream game llined up for early 2023. Tonight is our third session, I haven't made up my mind. I like classless systems in theory, but in practice, the party kinda lacks cohesion.
I've only skimmed the discussion here, because I've been in too many alignment arguments (And I'm a young fella by some of your standards) I'm generally against alignment, but Or 5e, which does have an alignment grid, but almost completely divorces it from actual mechanics. They even crossed the dreaded rubicon of letting paladins be whatever and it turns out it wasn't a big deal and nobody cares and the game was better off for it.I hope alignment stays a staple of DnD descendants. In fact I think a game without alignment cannot really belong to that family. I cringe when I see a CN Paladin. You swore an oath? And it's the power of that oath that empowers you? Were you planning to abide by that oath? Does the Oath restrict your freedom? Have you got a detailed explanation for why you chose two opposing stances? No, you just wanted to smite things and be edgy? Rogue sucks, but you want to deal big amounts of damage, you say? Animate Dead doesn't have the Evil tag in 2e. Thank the divinity within!
I'm in a strongly story-based 5e weekly Eberron game, a weekly PF2 game/society play, and a weekly SWADE game where we try to avoid combat.(we're not very good at it) I would not play a combat-focused 5e game. I'm really bored of 5e character concepts, and I can't stand silly rules like "see invisibility doesn't let you defend yourself from invisible creatures."
Comedy relief--Think Pippin and Merry. A character who advances the plot by screwing up. I have no idea how to create this without breaking the math of pf2, but it's an character type that common and missing. In certain other games, you can get this with bard, but bards in pf2 are much more power fantasy than comedy relief. Distance-mancer--Vista from Worm, parahumans. She has the power to manipulate distance. Could be a single spell that scales. So you cast the spell, no character moves, but the distance between them is reduced or expanded. Maybe even a character who bends space like a gravity wave. Even on a virtual tabletop, this would be hard to represent. Power thief--Kirby from Nintendo. 3.5 had the spellthief, which is kind of what I'm looking for. Someone who steals enemy abilities and uses them.
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