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This thread is ten years old and I'm not trolling here. I thought it might amuse you to know that I'm delighted by some of your ideas and plan to use them as a meta plot in my own Kingmaker 2e game that started this January. Ten years later your ideas still inspire.

I did a search for oriental, and the posts I found were 14+ years old. I'm sure what I'm about to ask has been addressed before so I apologize, I'm not trolling. If there is a thread that addresses this that you know of please advise.

I just started a Kingmaker game last Saturday, and my game group is very excited about the Pathfinder game and this campaign specifically (we just ported from 5e). I'm educating myself on Golarion and have been reading the World Book and now know that there are several continents to the setting and one of them is where the Tian racial stock comes from, a nation called Xa Hoi. Xa Hoi is itself just one nation on a continent that has many indigenous nations and cultures. Is there a product out there that outlines new classes and setting information for this continent, or do folks use the various classes as is and give them oriental color, as it were? Are the nations for this place outlined in adventure paths such as the Ruby Phoenix?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

These are the kinds of questions that drive DM's nuts in the middle of a combat when he is trying to juggle five players, six enemies, and all the attendant abilities and effects. I hope that what happened here is that the player in question went with the spirit of the feat in game, and is now trying to find out (outside of the game) what else might be done with the feat. As for myself, the feat seems quite clear, you grab the opponent you attacked and trying to grab someone else is not what is intended, and in my game would not be allowed (unless it made for some kind of spectacular story like saving a fellow players PC from falling off a cliff). Story is king.

The question is so relative to you and your own situation that it cannot really be answered by anyone else but you.

I just ported my group over from 7 years of 5e gaming to PF2e. I've already purchased all the in print rulebooks, and three of the APs even though our actual campaign (Kingmaker 2e) doesn't start until the 13th of this month. Going to the new books is a non-starter for me. I can play for the rest of my years with what I have.

The new stuff that Paizo prints for PF is going to use the new rules. However, when that starts happening the used market will probably have the older books available more cheaply. On the other hand, the secondary market doesn't support the company and keep them churning out more products for you to consume.

No one can look into your bank account and suggest what you should or should not buy (at least I certainly hope not), but I'm not much for reinventing the wheel unless the one you own is broken. From where I stand, PF2e is not broken.

I completely missed this, thank you very much.

I start running Kingmaker in two weeks, and am learning Pathfinder 2e at the same time. I'm looking for ways to shortcut my immense prep requirements, and am curious if there are level/themed encounter charts for the various regions in Kingmaker somewhere. I've not found them in the book itself (which I've not finished reading). I can make my own, but it's one more thing to do while reading all this. Thanks.

Kingmaker 2e has been out for quite some time, and so I'm hoping to tap into some player made resources as I prep to launch my group's campaign using this AP. One is random encounter charts (hopefully tailored per region). My group (and myself) are new to P2 and so I don't know all the monsters or spells, and am just learning the classes and rules while at the same time reading a 600+ page AP. I'm overwhelmed. What I'm hoping for here is that folks might have links to pre-generated encounter charts that I can use while starting off (and expand as I need to) for the various areas of the game. Anyone have anything like this?

I'm especially blessed with very good friends that I in no way deserve, so yes, I agree I value them very highly.

Oh, and he is my best friend, he wouldn't take advantage, he's a great DM in his own right.

Thank you for the responses, I do appreciate them. First, I was incorrect in what he was intending, he explained to me more clearly that his build was for versatility, not to try to milk double slice for a free grab. I misunderstood his intent. Second, I've been running games for 45 years, I know a little bit about DMing, and one thing I also know is not to make modifications to a system until you have essentially mastered it, because you may unintentionally break something if you do. PF2e seems to have had a lot of careful thought put into the system, so I do not plan on changing anything up front, I just want to know what the system is actually built to allow, and so for now I don't wish to house rule anything right away.

He agrees that double slice doesn't allow either a snag or a combat grab (once he has that feat) to be used in conjunction, so all is copasetic.

New to Pathfinder DM here. I have a player who is very clever and experienced, and he is building a character around a bastard sword and spiked gauntlet duo. His plan is to attack with the Bsword, and grapple with the gauntlet as part of the double slice feat. As I read the feat, this is not an option that Double Slice allows for, rather what it does allow for is to let him attack with the gauntlet for it's damage. Also, are there any limitations on what weapons can be wielded once a grapple is initiated? I've a very difficult time imagining a massive Bsword being used effectively while grappling an opponent.

I'm a new PF2e player, and a DM with over 44 years of gaming experience under my belt, and I'm getting old. I know for nearly all the D&D adventures going back for a long while you can typically find advice columns or even detailed guides on how to run campaigns, suggestions and gotchas to look out for. There are 1300+ posts in the Kingmaker forum, which is far too vast for me to pick through looking for such a guide(s). Could anyone link me to one here on this forum, or outside of Pazio that they found to be helpful? I will be running KMPF2 next Summer, and so would like to be competently prepared to tackle it in grand style by that time. Thanks for any help you may offer in this.

James

Okay, so simply look for the Lost Omens tag in the book titles?

Looking at the setting books, I'm unable to tell which, if any, are second edition. Is there a list? I've no interest in purchasing books that have a bunch of rules and such for the first edition of the game, even if the information about the game world is still relevant. From what I can find by perusing the online setting bookstore, there is almost nothing there that is second edition. I'm willing to buy another book to see if it gets any better than the Lost Omens Inner Sea world guide, which frankly was an utter flop and mostly useless to me.

This is my first post on Paizo's forums, and I came here specifically to thank you for working this project through. I've run D&D games for 44 years, and I'm just now porting my 5e group over to Pathfinder 2e and my World Guide arrived today without a land map. I was floored that the company would produce such a work and omit such a glaringly necessary item from it. I was so disappointed I briefly considered sending the book back, but that would be punishing a retailer for what is in truth the publishers shortcoming. My guess was that Paizo planned to create a map sold separately, which is unconscionably cheezy. So I went online to see what player made resources were available and came across this. Thank you for the time investment you all have made in creating this, it'll be invaluable for running my game.