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I haven't read through it in detail, but from what I can tell you're doing a bang up job. Looks like you're referencing existing options well for balance and have hit on the key goals you laid out at the start.

I'd also like to give you kudos for understanding what a Firbolg is, since last one I saw on here wanted to make them a Cow-folk which is decidedly not what they are.

I would like to point out that Firbolg Illusory Disguise is probably too short a duration for its intended purpose. I would probably recommend a feat that lets you take on a smaller, specific humanoid form at will, similar to how Battlezoo Dragons does it.


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I wonder how much work it would be to make a PF2 mod for BG3. Like, compared to making a new game from scratch.


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As much as I love playtest books, it does surprise me that they're on the subscription.


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I would love to have Wisdom focused martial, but I would also like to see it not be divine-based. Bringing back the Wisdom based monk like Zoken44 is describing would be my first instinctual pick.

A shifter could also be Wisdom based pretty easily. I'd love to see a version of the shifter that can choose to substitute their strength or dex with their wisdom when they transform into a different form, or something along those lines.

If you did want to stick with Divine, though, I would love to see a Divine counterpart to the Magus. There's still room in there between Magus and Warpriest to fit a concept that really utilizes the extra budget from Wave casting to make martial divine support/healing work very interesting.


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It's too bad that Michael Smith won't be able to join the playtest. We'll unfortunately miss out on his valuable input.


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Razmir, The TRUE LIVING GOD wrote:

I am also safe.. FYI.

ALL HAIL ME!

I can't wait for a level 20 jock Exemplar to shove Razmir in a locker.


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Ripley Riley wrote:
One god at a time? Are you serious? What a terrible way of doing this...

Watch out everyone, we've got a genius at work


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This is fun! Well written too!


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Also, as someone who has the PF2 playtest books, it feels pretty great to have a physical reminder that you were there and contributed to the new thing!


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I hope the newborn god is very cute. If it's not cute, please fix that asap.


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As a perma-GM: I *definitely* want to err on the side of making it easier to balance games. One of the whole reasons we finally abandoned PF1 is because I got tired of having to *always* hand-hold my players through every character decision because it could have huge impacts on my workload if they messed something up.

I would rather say "Poison corrodes circuitry", "All adventure-relevant diseases of this age have found a way to harm most ancestries", and "Everything bleeds some kind of liquid, gas, powder, or magic" than have to look over my players' shoulders to make sure they're not hard-countering the adventure I've planned purely by accident.


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First! (if everyone is nice and pretends)


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Whenever I imagine Netherworld versions of Golarion cities, I imagine dried riverbeds which contribute to the picture of a desolate, ruinous locale. However, I don't recall every hearing about water.

Do you think there are bodies of water in the Netherworld? If so, what do you think they're like? If not, do you picture the ocean areas simply yet more desolate landscape?


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Bluemagetim wrote:
Would it be a good idea to give a hand full of random low level consumables to the party at level 1 at the start of the game just to see how they use them and to get them used to using them?

Yes. Getting fun trinkets into their hands early can be a whole lot of fun.

If they sell it all, well, at least they can have fun with the gold too.


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YuriP wrote:
Now that the game is move away from many concepts of D&D I don't think that even the very concept of underground = more dangerous than surface will need to be kept.

I don't think it needs to be kept, but it should be, at least as a baseline assumption. Part of the fun of the Darklands is how dangerous it is.


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lemeres wrote:
I am not sure how well a "friendly element" might work within the setting.

All lore aside, having no opportunities for respite and friendly dialogue throughout the Darklands would make it an absolutely trash-tier place to set a campaign. Since you need such a thing to tell good stories in there, you may as well use Cavern elves as one of the options.


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I would have been absolutely shocked if Technomancer got turned into a Wizard archetype. There are way too many good ideas for it!

Funny story: During a playtest stream, during a break, there was a hot mic that caught someone saying "ah that'd be good for the technomancer" or something along those lines, but no other details. It was such a tease!


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Noven wrote:
Is there currently a mechanic where people can look at a map of the galaxy or look at the sky and point to a star and find a path to that system? Like blind exploration? Right now it is you just follow beacons and get to your destination, but what if I see a Type K star "here" and want to go explore it, do some calculations and enter the drift.

That's perfectly possible in SF1. Traveling from point A to point B when neither points are themselves a drift beacon is common, and Absalom Station is a unique drift beacon that's super fast to travel to.

The conceit in SF1 is that areas of space are split into Near Space and the Vast, where Near Space is just areas with a certain concentration of drift beacons. You can travel to a star in the Vast with no drift beacons using the Drift, it just takes longer.


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Might be a stretch but you could flavor Gouging Claw to be a bite


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Everything so far has got me ridiculously excited!


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Word of Recall divided by 7 targets is 715 gold each, which is within spitting distance of the 600 gold you mentioned. Makes it seem like 600 gp is a reasonable starting point for such an effect if a player was going to acquire it on their own.

If I were running it, I would make the creation of the tattoo a custom ritual based on Word of Recall and have the fee set to 600 for wizards who are members of the organization but using the tattoo for personal reasons, and then have the cost waived or significantly reduced if the tattoo is being used for official business. You can say the ritual focus is a super rare and fragile magical construction that the order keeps in their home base.

This ties the access to this custom, super useful teleportation ability to relationship with the order.

If you want it to exist in a much easier to acquire form you could just ignore the actual cost (~600gp) and give it whatever cost you want.

You could even throw in an additional downside, like it reduces your Fortitude by one while it's on you, to give justification for lower prices.


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There is also the Dragonkin heritage on Pathfinder Infinite, also written by a designer of the game, that you could use as a reference.

https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/product/378138/Lost-Omens-Ancestries-Dra gonkin


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Creator of Darknoth Chronicles wrote:
Probably useable only once a week and lasting a specific number of rounds, maybe between 5-10 something like that. Also I made it clear that it would be a 13th or 17th level ancestry feat, most likely a 17th level feat.

I don't advise making any ability with a cooldown longer than a day if you want it to see regular use. It's already difficult enough to make 1/day abilities feel worthwhile, since it's a tough balancing act.

Creator of Darknoth Chronicles wrote:
Yet, it makes no sense to have the build of a dragon and not the physical stats. Given that we are talking about ancestry feat available at either 13th or 17th level (leaning towards 17th level), and probably useable once a week, and the fact that a 17th level character is probably NOT GOING TO BENEFIT from the attributes, I don't see follow your reasoning. Also, I have no idea what you mean by a Battle Form type of Ability or Dragon Form, as I'm new to the game.

If you are so new that you don't know what a battle form ability is, or or what the spell Dragon Form is, or how to look either of those up you absolutely should not be homebrewing this mechanically complex custom ancestry.

Creator of Darknoth Chronicles wrote:
I have no idea what the Battlezoo Dragon Ancestry is that your talking about or where to find it.

https://battlezoo.com/products/battlezoo-ancestries-dragons-pdf

Creator of Darknoth Chronicles" wrote:
Well first I have to find out what an Archytype is.

If you don't know what an Archetype is, you should not be homebrewing this mechanically complex custom ancestry.

Creator of Darknoth Chronicles" wrote:
You were not much help.

Apparently I introduced you to the terms Archetype and Battle Form, so I've already been much more helpful than you are currently capable of realizing.


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1. How long does the dragon transformation last?

2. I cannot emphasize enough how much I do not recommend going down the route of replacing ability scores. This type of transformation should be handled by a Battle Form type ability. See Dragon Form for reference. If the feat gave you a 1/day Dragon Form casting at 17th level that would be about on par with other 17th level ancestry feats.

3. Look into the Battlezoo Dragon Ancestry to see how they handled playable dragons. In fact, you would likely be better off just using Battlezoo Dragons as a base and reflavoring as necessary. This ancestry was written by Mark Seifter who was one of the lead developers of PF2, and is well balanced.

4. If you're looking to pack a lot of power into an ancestry, you should strongly consider making an Archetype to go with it so you can buy powerful abilities with Class Feats. Ancestries have an upper limit of power that they can grant.


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What's going to define a SF2 vs PF2 game at our table is going to be almost entirely setting. Pact Worlds vibes vs Golarion vibes. I plan to be very permissive about ancestries and classes. Futuristic item access will be extremely limited for Pathfinder games, however.

Our group played heaps of PF1, then a bunch of Starfinder as PF1 was winding down, then when PF2 came out we almost immediately dropped Starfinder for PF2.

With both Starfinder and Pathfinder on the same engine, we'll be doing somewhere around 50-50 of each.


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Sanityfaerie wrote:
Thurston Hillman wrote:
Androids and their survival in vacuums is a weird fringe case, because while many people will cite "but my old android could do that" the actual play experience of 90%+ of tables, is that almost every player could do that thanks to built-in armor protections. I think seeing some of the updates to environmental protections, which, admittedly aren't as all-encompassing as before, will give a better view on how PCs can interact in harsh environments or lack of environment.
Okay. Why? I mean, do you have especially awesome stories that you want to tell that require that people not have all-encompassing environmental protection? Why not just make "basically everyone has easy access to strong environmental protections" a system assumption right alongside "by default, combat is at range, and flight is relatively easy"? It seems like it would be a really good way to be able to easily handwave away large swathes of this stuff.

An ancestry getting to actually show off their unique ability rather than it being obsoleted by gear is exactly the type of story that I'd like to be able to tell.


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I'm just gonna go ahead and accept that head canon.


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To be fair, it *would* make perfect sense for Wildsong to be a primal talent derived from druid-level attunement with nature. It would then remove the need for the anathema, and make druids seem less like elitist weirdoes.


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Ravingdork wrote:
What if a PC followed through, but then later retrained out of Druid Dedication? Do they really forget a whole language somehow?

I think it's straightforward rules as written. You lose the language because you trained out of the feat that gave it to you. Otherwise you could train/retrain Multilingual infinitely to learn all languages.

In this case I would add a coat of roleplay paint as the meaning of the natural sounds that make up the language gradually leave you.

You can't get it back through Multilingual because don't have access to it, just like how you can't backdoor into other access requirements by training/retraining.

In terms of roleplay, Wildsong is a whole lot easier of a pill to swallow than things like retraining out of Skill Training feats and suddenly being completely unable to sail a boat, despite having been a Legendary Sailor a couple weeks ago.


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BigNorseWolf wrote:
...and explode like a puny meat bag when thrust into the harmless vacuum of space...(wait.. i'm literally being hurt by nothing? What...?)

Just as an aside, in space there's lots of radiation and no atmosphere. They have to specifically design electronics to be shielded from radiation, and to have complicated thermo-regulation features that shed heat through radiation.

Example: Play a game on your PC while it's in a high-end vacuum chamber.


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Sanityfaerie wrote:
WatersLethe wrote:
Have you read up on the Battlezoo stuff?

Merely gazed upon it from afar. I like what I've heard about it, but I don't want to spend money and get all excited about it unless I can somehow find a campaign that would allow it, and available campaigns are very thin on the ground for me.

Though... I'll admit that the bit of the Dungeon ancestry that I saw off of the April Fools publication felt a bit hollow. They did some pretty interesting stuff in there, but I kept feeling like the need to keep things balanced prevented them from making the ancestry that they really *wanted* to make. Perhaps the full publication helped with that.

The dungeon ancestry is probably enough of a peek for you to get the general vibe of the non-dragon ancestries. You would probably feel similarly with the rest.

I like what they've done with bringing gonzo ancestries (like mimic, dungeons, and intelligent weapons) into playability, and that's pretty much as far as ancestries on their own can go in PF2. Lots of others are quite happy with them as well, but if that's not enough for you that's fair.

I get the sense that to satisfy the Gonzo-ness you and others are looking for, SF2 should *really* lean into Ancestry based Class Archetypes.

The Dragon ancestry gives a Class Archetype, and two regular Archetypes. The Class Archetype trades out things that Ancestry alone could never touch in order to get real Dragony. Proficiency in weapons and even the ability to use held magic items get traded out for baseline, level 1 good natural weapons and scales. The martial and caster dragon archetypes let you build on your ancestry's baseline stuff as well, and you can go to level 20 without taking a non-dragon class feat if you want.

The dragon ancestry stands head and shoulders above the other Battlezoo ancestries for me because of that support.

For Stafinder 2e, they could even group ancestries with similar-themed-gonzo-ness into class archetypes that grant similar abilities with the same trades. They could also make regular archetypes with big pools of abilities that you can buy as you level with requirements like "having wings" or "have at least 4 arms".


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SuperBidi wrote:
Lightning Raven wrote:

Honestly, at this point in time, I wish they just drop the concept altogether. The niche of "anti-mage" Barbarian shouldn't be locked to that. It doesn't work and traditionally, as we've see how it was implemented in PF2e, it is too costly.

Drop the concept, pick a new one to fill its niche. When you really think about it, being superstition is the opposite of being closed to magic, which is the mechanical foundation of the concept. You believe there is magic, even without it existing at all. Being skeptical and even minded, however, that makes more sense and won't rely on incredibly disruptive anathema.

As a Superstition Barbarian player, I'm fine with a revisitation of the mechanical aspect of the Instinct, and I don't care about the flavor aspect (as this is something the player chooses so I don't have to change anything) but seeing the whole concept of "mage slayer" dropped out of the game would really annoy me.

The Superstition Instinct is the only one to cover that (extremely basic in my opinion) concept. Mage slayers and witch hunters are a common fantasy and having no mechanical aspect covering it besides "high saves and high knowledge skills" would be sad.

I think the theme of Superstition as a mage slayer is great and won't change, but all it needs is to be reframed.

Also, a "warrior in constant battle against wizards and witches" would understand the value of spellcasting, especially supportive casting, when facing those foes. Saying a person who specializes in taking down casters won't accept support (even from divine or primal sources) is SUCH as specific fantasy. It should be an opt-in thing, even for this specific instinct.


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Sanityfaerie wrote:
Perpdepog wrote:
moosher12 wrote:

I am not sure if SF1 had one, but PF1 had a race building engine that codified racial traits into having scores, and races as having budgets. I recall the recommended RP budget to grant people was like, 10. When many races presented in the PF1 system, and by what I've read of SF1 races, would likely have exceeded those numbers. When I would ban races with 16 or more RP, that would ban 29 races, with the highest RP score being the Duergar Tyrant at 47 RP

Ultimately, I don't mind simply not bothering to port ancestries that were simply too good. But it feels like a lose-lose. Players will be annoyed either way. Either they get the ancestry but it doesn't do everything, or they don't get it at all. Either way, Paizo will get flak.

Yeah, and if they're going to get shouted at either way, it may as well be the way that also gives people stuff, since some people will also be happy with that stuff.

Eh... if we assume that the amount of stuff is constant, it might be better to leave out the stuff that's going to have to be nerfed too badly. Like, whatever species it is that got Large and extra arms and something like two or three other things. Better to spend those ancestry-production ergs on aliens who aren't quite so egregiously overboard to start with, you know?

Like, for me? I don't actually want overpowered ancestries. I like the fact that PF2 is well-balanced. I just wish there was space for gonzo creatures that got actual solid rules support for actually being gonzo in there as well, rather than rules that just sort of vaguely allude to it. I want ancestries that get all of these random wacky features... and still aren't any more powerful at the table in any sort of real way than the rest of the party.

Eh... I want a lot of things.

Have you read up on the Battlezoo stuff?


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Dragonchess Player wrote:
As always with any "gate" challenge, I would recommend keeping the Three Clue Rule in mind.

That's a really good read!

As for the OP: I thought it would be a prime number with two digits, and I had to look up a list of primes because I'm dum and arrived at 11. It felt forgettable and fillery, though.


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Man, it's hard to overstate how much I adore the way Ancestries work in PF2.


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For the record, all my Starfinder players went with races that were easily recognizable and evoked solid roleplaying hooks.

I've seen/played/gm'd:

Android x3
Ysoki
Lashunta x3
Elf
Brenneri (Otterfolk)
Uplifted Bear
whatever the wolffolk were called
Dwarf
Skittermander
Shirren
Vesk
Pahtra (Catfolk)
Goblin
Human
Ghoran
Sarcesian (Reskinned as an Angel)
Svartalfar

For the most part, if it wasn't easy to immediately grok, they weren't interested.


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The Fury Instinct was obviously sold as the "no hassle" instinct, but was never billed as coming at the cost of mechanically sucking. I strongly believe the intent was that it would fall in line mechanically with the others, but they overvalued the level 1 feat.

For many of my barbarian concepts, the level 1 feat selection is take it or leave it.

Fury could work as the feat instinct if it gave you additional feats at later levels.


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Jacob Jett wrote:
AnimatedPaper wrote:
arcady wrote:
Just being 'Mr. Furious' ought to have the best baseline damage as what it gets for not having any other theme - yet it's the weakest one.
For the record, the lack of theming is supposed to be the primary benefit of Fury Instinct. That's also why it has the weakest bonus.
I'm not sure that makes sense. But it is what it is.

I think it's a straight up bad design decision, if true. Theming should be a *draw* not a burden.


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One thing that I love about Battlezoo's Dragon ancestry is the Archetypes and Class Archetypes that you can take to lean into the dragon powers. I think it would be almost a no-brainer to have a few Starfinder ancestry Archetypes that let you spend class feats to get ancestry specific powers that fall outside the acceptable limits of Ancestry feats.


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I was planning on it being a Prescient Planner type thing.


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I think making Androids their own ancestry is appropriate. Versatile Heritages are great, but they're limited in scope. They're not equivalent to a Class Archetype which can make structural changes to the Class, Versatile Heritages are a bolt-on that makes sense when talking about biological or magical gene-mixing.

Essentially, Android as Versatile Heritage would further limit the mechanical impact of being an Android and we're already seeing at least some dissatisfaction with the tradeoffs being proposed for the SF1 to SF2 transition.

I think you're far better off making a Xenometric android heritage and plugging it into the Android chassis until Paizo gets around to publishing their own version (which they said they plan on). That's the cleanest solution in terms of continuity anyway.


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PaizoCon is going to be a wild ride this year, I think.


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I'd like to see the damage resistance come online earlier, or the temp HP from raging beefed up. I don't feel quite as solid as I'd like as a Barbarian. However, removing the AC penalty is for wimps! You're not a wimp are you?

Fury and Superstition need help.

Concentrate restriction is the only reason we don't already have a functioning Bloodrager and it drives me nuts.

As for Anathema, you can often just ignore it if it's giving you problems. If you really need a mechanical option, maybe bake it into a feat of some sort that you can ignore Anathema for certain things.


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Driftbourne wrote:
Not sure why calling pre-gap times ancient would be problematic in the Starfinder timeline. Ancient definition: Belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence. In Starfinder the entire planet of Golarion is missing and the Gap erases any continuous connection to the past. Is there something I'm missing that is problematic about the word ancient?

As the previous post pointed out, there's nothing inherently ancient about those heritage options. You could have modern androids with the same abilities, and very likely *should*. Why couldn't you make those Ancient sub-heritages full heritages, and have the same ability to roleplay as an ancient android?

Since there's no mechanical tie-in to it being dubbed Ancient, it shouldn't be called that.


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Sharkbite wrote:
The emphasis appears to be on making a smaller number of species that have more robust variety of options.

As well as more lore meat and roleplay hooks. The vast majority of SF1 ancestries felt like hollow, throwaways because there was so little supporting info. Roleplaying them differently from standard ancestries was basically impossible without making up vast swathes of info from whole cloth. Boiled down to the Cantina feeling like a bunch of humans in halloween costumes.

You may have also missed that they're going to be publishing a lot more ancestries for Starfinder 2 than Pathfinder 2 saw, and PF2 saw a lot.

Add on to this that Versatile Heritages can add a whole lot of nuance, and PF2 ancestries are compatible, you're going to be seeing quite a lot of Cantina patrons very shortly, and with a whole lot more to back them up.


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One of the reasons comic book character discussions are pointless is that they change so much over so many different factors and often at the whim of one writer's throwaway plot point.

However, I think OP's take on wisdom is flawed.

OP wrote:
But inherently when I think of batman the character I don't think of him as an incredibly wise individual, he makes reckless descions and puts others in danger fairly frequently and to a great extent he lets his trauma have far to much dominance of his life "

Reckless Decisions - A wise character can take calculated risks, it's just Batmans risk math is different than others'. Often his reckless decisions are shown to be the right call in the end, and others just weren't wise enough to see it at first.

Put Others in Danger - That's an edicts/anathema question, not a Wisdom question. A wise character can have the strength of will to make tough decisions that work out for the ultimate good, as an example.

Trauma - Psychological disorders don't really map to high or low Wisdom. The wisest people can still have mental scars.


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moosher12 wrote:

Honestly I feel that Ancient Androids are a poor choice of words.

Artisan Androids, Laborer Androids, Polyglot Androids, and Warrior Androids each have their uses even in modern to scifi days. I find it hard to believe such androids would no longer be in production. I think these should just be named as normal heritages instead of ancient heritage. We don't call the carry over feats from PF2E ancient feats, they are just normal feats, after all.

Why WOULDN'T you make your C3PO android to accompany you that can speak 6 million languages (or more appropriately to the 2E system, 4-8 languages)

I hadn't thought about it before, but this is a very fair complaint. As tidy as bundling them into one heritage is, it's not super necessary to do so and it *is* problematic to start a trend of calling things Ancient without a lot of thought.


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Some random thoughts:

1. I'm not bothered by Androids or robots needing air. Very few things are designed to work properly without an atmosphere, and it's easy to take that for granted. Even a sleek modern cell phone needs an atmosphere to shed heat into. That being said, I don't think I would really care that much if some ancestries just got a pass on vacuum-based challenges.

2. Some degree of space-walking without suit-based protections could be handled by having atmospheric bubbles projected from points of interest like space ships and stations. Then, after the players get access to higher level equipment, they can go longer and farther outside those protections, eventually trivializing them.

3. Gas-based challenges can be held separate from vacuum-based challenges. A sleek and comfortable vacuum-survival-suit might just create a personal bubble that gas permeates into without issue, or doesn't work at all inside an atmosphere, or any number of other conceits. A big, bulky, expensive, not-for-dinner-wear space suit might provide the gas protection as well but have some other tradeoffs until the highest levels of cutting edge technology.

4. Aliens needing specific mixtures of atmosphere to survive should definitely be handwaved. The Cantina everyone is picturing doesn't have everyone inside their own personal bubbles. This could be as simple as saying you have a necklace that treats the air you breathe to make it comfortable. No need to bring that can of worms into the discussion about whether or not an ancestry needs an atmosphere at all.

5. Creatures that don't need to breathe can be affected by contact-based gas challenges, like acid mist or skin-penetrating oils, so even if you gave Androids and SROs immunitiy to vacuum, you could still merely give them a bonus against gasses/disease/etc.


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I'm considering implementing a house rule to ensure that players will always be able to take advantage of magical crafting feats and character build resources even if downtime isn't available for one reason or another. My proposed rule is:

"Once per level, during your daily preparations, you can choose to put the finishing touches on a crafted object that you had been working on during free moments in the past. Perform the Craft downtime action, but ignore the time requirements. You cannot achieve a critical success when crafting in this manner."

The idea being: I've had several scenarios where multiple levels have passed by and there has been zero downtime available, making the players' crafting skills useless for uncomfortably long stretches.

What do you think?


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Thanks for the recap! Regarding the spell traditions point, did they imply they're not adding new traditions?

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