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Please cancel all of my subscriptions. Working on my budget right now and unfortunately don't have the money for Pathfinder right now. Thanks.
First off, Paizo, I must fully commend you for the system you've put together. Although my wife is a gamer (and a great baker!) and plays Pathfinder and D&D with us, never before has she shown such investment and excitement in a new system. Typically, we build and level her characters for her based on her theme and feedback, but the Pathfinder Playtest has excited her so much that she went out to the local Books-A-Million to buy a paperback copy (as we had been using the PDF). Today was her first real day off in a while (she works at a bakery), and would you believe that she finished reading the Core Rulebook cover-to-cover. Not even 5th Edition was that approachable for her. Although she has thoughts and comments, she intends to save those for the surveys, after we do our actual playtest sessions. However, today when I got home, she did approach me with one question that I was hoping the fine folks at Paizo could help me with. :). You see, it wasn't enough for her to just build her 1st level Doomsday Dawn character (Dwarf Aberrant Sorcerer with the Mindquake Survivor background, named Rosy)- she ended up plotting her out all the way to 20th level - this coming from a gamer that has been playing with us since 3.5 that has rarely built or leveled her own characters from scratch! Finally, to the question: The aberrant sorcerer's 9th-level bloodline spell (granted for free) is shapechange. However, shapechange specifies that is gives you the ability to transform into any form you could choose from a polymorph spell you *know* of 7th level or lower, with the additional benefit of being able to change between those various forms you know during the duration of the spell. However, my wife's concern is that there are no other polymorph spells on the occult spell list. Thus, this spell appears to have no benefit for her dwarf sorcerer. I haven't fully researched into her claims, but when I mentioned to her that I could pose the question on the Playtest Forums, her eyes got wide and she said, "Do you really think they would answer?" I told her, "I have no doubt." So Paizo, please don't let me down. To be fair, though, we won't need the info for a while (17th level). But based on my wife's enthusiasm, we would like an answer at some point. Thank-you.
Not that I’m complaining, but is it intended that sorcerers get 9 + Int Trained Skill (more than the bard and just one fewer than the rogue). The class gets 5 + Int normally, plus four additional Trained signature skills from their bloodline.
Per page 176, wearing armor grants an item bonus to AC/TAC. Wielding a shield and using the Raise a Shield action grants a separate item bonus to AC/TAC. Per the rules about bonus stacking throughout the book, when you would gain an item bonus from two different sources, you use the higher of the two. They don’t stack. We are trying to play the Playtest to as close to RAW as written, but we may have to make an exception in this instance if we want to get any feedback on Shield use.
As more and more information is released, I see more and more of the concepts and mechanics that made my group play and enjoy 4e D&D for so long. I thought it might have just been me, but now I am seeing a growing consensus of people that also see the similarities, based upon a number of posts across the Paizo forums, the Pathfinder subreddit, and especially among 4e fans on EN World. Further, Pathfinder 2 (so far) seems to have dropped a number of the most derided elements of original 4e, the same ones dropped by 4e Essentials late in the edition's life cycle (martial encounter and daily powers, class homogeneity, etc.). It occurs to me that, had WotC committed to providing a follow-up to 4th Edition instead of or alongside 5e, it would have looked very similar to what Paizo has been previewing for PF2. I'm not saying that Paizo is trying to copy or evolve 4e in any way, but I am suggesting that PF2, intentionally or unintentionally, will be very appealing to those fans that still miss 4th Edition. I think Charlaquin on EN World said it best: "And can I just say, I am loving seeing other 4e fans tentatively saying how much PF2 is reminding us of what we loved in 4e. Can you just imagine how delightfully ironic it would be if Pathfinder 2e became the refuge for 4e fans burnt by 5e?" So what do you think? Do you think there is a chance that PF2 is the spiritual successor to D&D 4th Edition that 4e fans have been waiting for? |
