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I'm interested in checking out both Starfinder and Pathfinder 2ed at Gen Con, but don't have the 5 hours to invest in an actual game session. It's been a few years since I've attended the convention and was wondering if there will be shorter demos in either the exhibitor's hall or in/around the Sagamore ballroom for either of these. Thanks in advance for any help!
Our gaming group is fairly generous when it comes to hit points; everyone gets maximum at first level and then you can re-roll when you level up, but have to take the second result even if it is lower. However we've had situations where, particularly with arcane spell casters, level after level they roll a 2 on a d6 followed by a 1 on the re-roll or something similar. Given that these classes tend not to have a high Constitutions it stacks up quickly when you have 3 or 4 bad rolls over a few consecutive levels. Do any groups out there take a look at total hit points every once in a while and adjust for the characters that are severely behind or something similar. There's obviously a certain amount of randomness to the game, but missing four attack rolls in a row is a far cry from getting minimum or close to minimum hit points over three or four levels when you don't have that many to begin with. It just seems to me that players have complete control over every other aspect of the levelling process, but when it comes to hit points (arguably one of the most important parts of it) they're completely at the whim of the dice. I'd definitely like to see if any other groups have noticed this and/or how they handle it.
In an upcoming campaign I have a player who is interested in the warlock base class from Adamant's Tome of Secrets. I've glanced over it, but was hoping to get opinions from anyone who has actually run one of these warlocks or seen one run. Would you consider it over/under-powered, easy/difficult to play, fun to have around, or whatever? Thanks in advance.
A condensed bit of background: I'm currently running a homebrew campaign with the Pathfinder ruleset, the Kingmaker kingdom building rules, and the 3.5 dieties. My players are running characters involved in building a nation newly seceeded from an opressive empire and have recently discovered that a "secret police-type" of organization in that empire may be actively trying to oppose them. Now to the question: One of the characters is a good priest of Pelor who recently proposed forging a set of documents to discredit those "secret police" and also to attribute a few murders to them that he knows full well that they did not commit. The character in question most certainly has enough ranks in Linguistics as well as samples of reports and writings to make this entirely plausible. The character is not lawful and has never presented himself as such, but I'm currently on the fence as to whether his faith would be particularly happy with such a deception. As Pelor is largely devoted to the protection of the common folk, I can see where the priest's actions would benefit the citizenry of their budding nation. However, I'm also having difficulty believing that Pelor would condone such a deceptive act. While truthfullness and honor are not specifically noted as part of Pelor's dogma, I would think that a priest of a good diety may be held to a higher standard than the simple core concepts of that faith. As I'm on the fence, I thought I would throw this out and see what some others think. -Brooks |
