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The downloads page is abysmal, and has been like that for years without update. It is WAY overdue for a serious overhaul to not only make it look cleaner, but to make it actually work as intended not a broken hot mess.

The categories are all messed up, with there being three different "Paizo Inc.: Campaign Setting" categories and 3 different "Paizo Inc.: Player Companion" categories all with PFRPG books. It's the same line of books for the same system, yet they have 3 completely arbitrary categories. The only plausible reason I can think of for it to be done this way is to ensure your customers are confused and frustrated.

The filtering done through the side is just straight up broken. For example clicking on any of the First Edition AP categories will only bring up one item, and it seems to be randomized (sometimes it's Tome of Horros 4, sometimes it's the Players guide for a completely different adventure, etc. But it's never the actual books i wanted. Even the top categories like "Starfinder Roleplaying Game" will bring up the Starfinder Core Rulebook, along with the "Shattered Star Player's Guide" (which is pathfinder), and doesn't bring up the "Into the Unknown" adventure. This makes it so the only way to actually search for the item i'm looking for is slowly scrolling through the horribly-organized list of the hundreds of PDFs I own (see paragraph above).

Finally, aesthetically, it just looks very unappealing and outdated. This is the least of my complaints, but might as well actually make it look pretty if you decide to actually update it and fix the blaring issues.

I think they should give us a peak at what the symbol is first. If it's got the actual word (or similar) in the symbol itself I'm okay with it. If it's just a random icon then no.

I know you said no comments, but there needs to be a middle ground vote to be cast.

What I like:
I love the new organization and format of the statblocks. Putting the abilities where they are actually located instead of just at the bottom makes things easier. I like how it gives you the important details and highlights what you need with easy.

What I dislike:
Quite a bit....
• Y'all went overboard with the simplification. BAB, Ability Scores, AC breakdown, HP breakdown (including HD) are all majorly important things that you just completely left blank.
• HD is used in so many abilities and whatnot and can be critical for a lot of things.
• Ability Scores are important. Taking 3 con dmg is much different at a 12 con, and a 13 con (both would be listed as +2). Same with adding new things that would give a +1 on stats.
• AC. From flavour of wording, to non-stacking abilities, understanding where your AC is coming from (Natural, Dodge, Deflection) is so important.
• BAB. If you add in a new weapon, or the monster has to pick one up off the ground we need to know where we are starting at for adding its modifiers to attack!
• Type/subtype! Favored enemy, bane, etc. This info is needed.

The important critique:
Changing monsters: In PF1 it is easy to alter, add a template, change, upgrade or nerf monsters, or even add in custom house-rules. Everything has enough detail to easily break down the PF1 statblocks to figure out why everything the way it is, and to alter anything and everything needed.

With PF2, that is now no longer possible. Without information such as AC breakdowns, HP breakdowns (including HD), BAB, Type/subtype, and exact Ability Scores you are unable to break down the statblock to understand it enough to do what is said above.

When it comes to adding class levels or homebrewed rules you need all of this to work properly. It would add maybe an extra 30 characters in total to a statblock. It wouldn't look overly complex and it wouldn't add anything completely useless or distracting from the important info. But we need this information!