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Iolaus, hopeless sidekick wrote:

Guntermench wrote:

The base assumption of the game is you're basically playing Hercules, or Achilles, where yes you CAN take on an infinite number of random commoners. If that doesn't work for you, use this rule and it will work largely like 5e does.

Folks keep telling me this, but somehow the challenges stay the same and I never do feel like Hercules...

Fight something you fought at lower level. It literally won't be able to hit you.

The math stays the same when fighting equal and above level enemies, true. But that doesn't mean you aren't basically a demigod by level 15.

Like... with Sudden Leap + Raging Athlete + Assurance (Athletics) you can jump something like 36 feet straight up in the air to hit something. How is that not heroic?

Sounds super heroic, actually. Hopefully, I live to see it someday because my party contains Salmoneus and Joxer.

The base assumption of the game is you're basically playing Hercules, or Achilles, where yes you CAN take on an infinite number of random commoners. If that doesn't work for you, use this rule and it will work largely like 5e does.

Folks keep telling me this, but somehow the challenges stay the same and I never do feel like Hercules...

Another way to look at it is humans are a blank slate. I mean how many times have you heard folks want to go against type when it comes to elves and dwarves? These alternate ancestries have baked in traits and such to give them flavor. Sometimes though it stifles creativity. Humans on the other hand, are easy to customize.

Why exactly are humans boring be default?

The thing I love about PF1 is that I could play any ancestry over and over again and it will always be interesting. There is a lot more to just having pointy ears. You could be from any number of places around Golarion. You could have any number of classes, even the same class over and over and still have variety. Even if classes had only two options each, you could still differentiate on personality. There is no limit to where you can take it.

I met Bruce Campbell while he was doing a special screening of Evil Dead in Minneapolis. Oh you said famous person...

There are so many ways to play Lawful...

Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) was lawful.

Pretty sure Herc went from town to town convincing people not to listen to their leaders traditional, backward, and terrible ways. I mean I was there.

You should picture your gobo PC like me.

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...What if they made Ecco the Dolphin into a movie???

LOLWUT?

Ioluas here, kids dont trust water