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Classes with solid heavy armor proficiencies, such as fighter and champion, will not skimp on proficiency with the lighter armors. So happy about this. Favorite pfs character of the past decade was a dervish style paladin of Sarenrae. Glad to see that might be possible out of the box
I think for Clerics spells you need to look at 2e D&d. Specialty Clerics could only cast spells from their gods domains called spheres. Your God didnt like fire.. You didn't get flame strike... Etc etc. I think you could divide gods domains into spheres for spell purposes. If you have the domain you are expert in it and it goes up as you level. Spells are one level less. The spheres related to the other domains in your gods portfolio that you didn't select you are trained in and go up slower. Honest I think limiting cleric spells based on what your God does is a good way to limit the CoDzilla nonsense of yore. When D&d got away from that is when Clerics became busted beyond belief. And I think it is super thematic and a nice way to differentiate your cleric from another.
If we are talking radical rewrites of the spell system why not tie it into the proficiency system. Make every spell or power tied to a school/sphere Ala 2nd edition. You have a proficiency rank in every school appropriate for your spell list. The spell level of the spell is the base level for someone trained in that school. If you are untrained, the spell requires a spell slot of higher. If you are an expert it requires a spell slot lower. And that reduction continues until legendary. But getting to legendary in a spell proficiency requires specialization. So a legendary necromancer at 17 would make all 1-3 level necromancy spells into cantrips. Animate dead at the snap of a finger... Sure... You are a freaking legendary necromancer.... Seems about perfect to me. The legendary evoker could hurl fireballs all day. But at 17, that's hardly an issue. Your epic level... Be epic... This would require a paths of power style rewrite but it would be super flavorful and reward specialist. That being said I doubt we will see anything that radical.. I'll settle for arcanist. I think this is basically a modern assumption in New rpgs. Too much arcanist/5e/computer rpgs to put the vancian spell slots on a good place in light of these systems used elsewhere
Shields appear with armor but seem by the wording to be separate from them. It mentions if you want a higher defense than your armor provides try adding a shield. This really only matters for the monk. I'm trying to build a spear and shield monk and I want the fast movement if I'm only carrying a shield. What does everyone think?
It ensures that character creation methods produce similar ranges. The default character building doesn't alow for the possibility of over 18. You get four set of raises and the best you can get to is 18. By putting in the cap it allows the potential option for other build methods( rolling dice etc) without breaking the hard limit the default method imposes based on the math
they have mentioned that witch will get their own class so I think we will get more. And I think the increase in class Feats to class lists will make this options happen given time. That increase is sort of a given
Can't agree with this more. Always liked stun/body split in champions and while this doesn't have the same problem ie unconscious foes it's even better. Allows for interesting options such as a party that's injured pushing forward on few hp but full stamina points. Simulates injured but heroic effort that straight hp doesnt
1) all casters become arcanist style. Can heighten on the fly. Sorcerers can use their limited special ability to heighten to raise a spell one level higher than effective than they can cast. 2) all players get 3 Ancestry Feats at 1st and when they would get an Ancestry feat they get an extra class feat 3) remove magic weapon bonus dice and make it tied to level 4/8/12/16/20 4) add heal to occult list 5) simple hand waive the lawful good restriction on paladins. Any pc playing a non LG paladin I would refer them code wise to the code of conduct found in the 1e Champions series of splat books 6) make up new Mc Feats and homebrew prestige chains But I'm pretty happy over all with it. I think the core math is better than most. I like dangerous combat and the economy reminds me of what was right with 4e without the duldrum of the power system Ps. Make a hero lab style character sheet... The old 1e hero lab sheet is simple but it's so easy to read.
True Story... Our cleric's player in our 8 year 3.5e game had a spreadsheet that selected spells for him based on questions he would ask during an augur with his God every morning. He'd burn a 5th level spell to speak to his God and ask generic questions like will I be leaving the plane or confronting the undead. Based on the gms answer the spreadsheet filled in his spells..... Super flavorful but obviously any system that requires an algorithm to select your spells is busted at the core.
Your thread reminded me to ask this. This thread is more of a poll style thread. Would you like this or not
Another post reminded me to ask this: does anyone else think that the prepared casters should look more like the arcanist from 1e or casters from 5e D&d? Seems a logical and elegant solution to simplifying the game while keeping the flavor of memorizing/praying for spells. It allows easier heightening of spells a d allows those classes to still have access to huge amounts of spells to choose from each day, but the player needs to choose wisely. For those that don't know how this is done in 5e, casters memorize x spells a day, but don't memorize them into spell slots. When they are cast they choose the slot to cast it in so long as it's at least the minimum level of the spell. I know this would require at least the sorcerer to be reworked a little, but I feel the real flavor of the sorcerer comes from the bloodline options and maybe having more spells known than a wizard could memorize in a day. What does everyone else think? If you would like to see this please post below saying so. If not or you have concerns please post as well. I'd like to take the pulse of the crowd on this as I think it might be something that we still have time to change without requiring the design team to reinvent the wheel so to speak. Thanks.
I'm all for this change. I firmly belive that 5e/arcanist got spell slots right for the first time in D&d. It allows for memorizing/praying to be part of the rote while aligning with the fictional narrative more. It's very hard outside of gamist theory and Vance actual stories to justify memorized spells into certain slots.
"Class poaching" is kind of a strong phrase. Most of the push I've seen has been for giving the Fighter and Barbarian actual class feats and letting other people get some combat-focused feats without a tax.They kind of already did this design space with the archetype/multiclass feats. It makes no sense to include further class-poaching rules. If they were gonna do that, they'd make building a character entirely freeform, with characters only being "classes" in name only, and you building them with whatever mechanics you want that the rules provided. I watched the show. What Mark said was they weren't going to make things like Double slice free to everyone to take, because they don't think a one size fits all option is right. He mentioned they need to add more options, and will, like a rogue 2 weapon attack. He also mentioned that the ranger 2 weapon attack might be different from double slice to be more flavorful. Basically, once they add more content in the class feats, we will see support for more combat styles spread out among the classes, but not necessarily the same way for each class.
Alot of complaints I have seen so far involve "I can't build x anymore". Part of my learning of any new system has been to build characters from other systems to see what can and can't be done. So I'm suggesting that we kick the modular nature of the new system by seeing what niche character types can be built. Here is the challenge. Post a theme/archetype/trope that you'd like to see pointed out in the playtest or that you think is missing in the playtest. I'll post a version of what I could work up. I encourage others to post versions as well. I'm aiming most characters for 5th level as that seems reasonable, as many complex characters in pf1 didn't really come online until at least a few Feats were gained. Obviously some character tropes might need higher levels but I think 5th is a good starting point. Let's see what we can do with the modular system as it is at the moment.
The 5th level Barbarian pregen indicates Bastard Swords are actually Slashing, with Versatile P and Two-Hand d12. Can you tell me where you found the 5th level pregens? I've been looking everywhere for them?
I know some have mentioned that magic weapons are crucial to the game as is because you can't keep up with damage levels otherwise. What is the increase to damage was tied to your proficiency. Base damage is trained, 2 dice at expert, 3 at master, 5 at legendary(or possibly 4, but 5 feels more legendary). What does anyone think this would do to the math?
I think alot of this maybe a function of the playtest having limited options. Yes each of the class Feats basically leads the players through the archetypes, but I sense that there will be more Feats etc in the full book/splat books that allow for more varied paths than the clearly layed out character arc. They mentioned this in the paladin blog that other styles etc would be included or coming shortly after release but the playtest only has a limited space so they are choosing the strongest archetypes to represent. Yeah they are tropes at this point but from a playtest standpoint the first thing you need to know is can you represent the stereotypes before you ask can I build the outliers.
Not sure on how ac is calculated. I know each character has proficiency in armor types that gets added to the item bonus. Are we just adding the plus or because it's a proficiency do I add my level as well? For example a 10th level fighter in +1 chain shirt and 18 dex he has master in light armor, is his armor class 18 (+2 for armor, +1 for magic, +1 for master and +4 for dex) or is it 28 (+2 for armor, +1 for magic, +4 for dex and +11 for master proficiency) Thanks.
I think it looks great so far. So much customization. And all the reaction to "x class only does this..." need to remember this is a playtest with limited options compared to 20 years of expanding splat material for 3.x/pf. Hard to be upset that I can't do X in a playtest that took them years to create in the previous editions.
I'm running our groups annual halloween game, which is always dilly and odd. This year are the characters are parodies of famous occult investigators/monster hunters. Buffy, Shaggy and scooby, Dresden etc... One I'm struggling with is Ash. i've seen him built as a gunslinger, but I was thinking about going swashbuckler, with the panache just being a heroic lack of common sense. Any advice on what class you would build him at. P.S. we are using Starfinder rules to try them out as well, so technically it's a starfinder game where i'm converting the classes over if that helps the options. Thanks
The Pathfinder legacy section talks about giving monks the operative trick damage without a roll. An I reading that correctly? That would mean a 5th level monk would be doing 1d8+str bonus+ level damage from weapon specialization + 3d8? So realistically something like 4d8+7 damage a hit at 5th level... That seems really high. Anyone got another reading on that?
I am converting a character over from 3.5 to pf that was an unarmored priest, that wore magic vestments. Looking at making a version of Robes of the Archmage, except for divine casters only. Can't seem to price it out right. There is no listing for the +2 level effect in the core creation guide that I can see and it seems to come out more expensive than the robes on base evaluation. Any advice or pricing help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
I think the Rules are simply an interpretation of the Story of the Setting. They are by no means the only way to interprete the story, but the Story(Setting) is the important. You could run Golarion in PF, 4e, Savage worlds, etc, etc... and while they all use different mechanics, all they are doing is giving you a mechanical way of representing what is happening in the story. None of them are "correct", they just focus on different aspects of the story. I see this coming up with people doing conversions alot. For a long time, people have been trying to convert the MTG setting to a RPG. Everytime they do it, they always want to recreate the MTG mechanics in an existing game by making new rules. What they often fail to see is that the existing game almost always has rules for something like that expressed another way. No need to make a First Strike mechanic that works exactly like MTG, when Improved Initiative in D&D does the same thing from a story standpoint. They both represent going first to strike in battle. Game rules are just the conflict resolution mechanic that makes it a game and not a joint literature project.
Savage Tide rocks. Very Classic feel, rich in Blood War/Classic D&D settings and villians theme. It's a good chance to rub elbows with alot of the classic Big baddies from D&D lore, and kill lots of them. It also has a pretty varied series of adventures, everything from city intrigue to saling, to siege defense and dungeon crawling, all the way to invade the outer planes with an army. You really go from nobodys to Heaven Shakers in the course of 20 levels.
Pre-gens are set up to deal with ** spoiler omitted ** Thanks for the advice. Exren's spells are worthless against her though, as she is immune to fire and has acid 10 resist. I think i will try to spin the tale in such a way that they do some looking into who is the enemy before they go to the shrine, so that they can provision for tanglefoos, cold iron, etc. My players are fairly crafty once they know what to expect. They have a tendency to blunder headlong into fights, so I may have to find ways to coax them to get some intelligence on the area before they go. Maybe the cleric will surrender, or be captured unconcious.
Thanks. It is a home game, and I've read it has a tpk-ish like ending if not careful. My players are vets of at least 3 plus years, a few are 30 year vets. They wanted to try this before going to make their own, in a pfs game I am going to run, because they wanted to kick the tires on characters that show off the difference in pf over 3.x. 5th level is a nice level. Not too complicated, but you can get a feel of what the character is supposed to be like. Plus the pre-gen iconics intrigue them...
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