Search Posts
I enjoyed Fall of Plaguestone.Very cool. I appreciate the recommendation. What did you enjoy about? There's a little murder mystery, it's got a 3 act plot similar to a movie or a play, and it has a little bit of all of the mechanics similar to the beginner box but not quite as on the nose. Pretty good balance between roleplay and combat opportunities.
The level numbers are specific to the hazard/enemy/etc. So the 4 creatures in this encounter will always be Level -1 even when the party is level 20. The threat rating (Low/Moderate/Sever/etc) and xp values are determined by comparing to the party's level and would vary over time.
The reason for this is that ChatGPT does not do math. There's a great explanation by Ascalaphus upthread.
That Razing trait going to bring up the "But Strike says you can only attack creatures!" nonsense again. Isn't this all covered by the rules on Item Damage and the Material Statistics table? The item damage rules seem to pretty clearly call out you can attack (Strike) any object you want: "An item can be broken or destroyed if it takes enough damage.... Normally an item takes damage only when a creature is directly attacking it—commonly targeted items include doors and traps."
Elemental Barbs comes from an interview with Paizo posted on a website. Can't remember the name at the moment Wargaming? maybe. That's where the iron druid thing came from too.
I believe the Cayden's Keg discord has 'play by post' offerings as well. They're a welcoming group of people.
Whether you're right or not it's definitely not as clear as you're making it out to be. Even in the Twitter thread, I assume you're getting that info from, the account clarifies that they are a marketing account, pointing out their observation, and have no idea if that's how future ancestries will be printed. Regardless of what they print it won't change my enjoyment of the game at all. It's really a non-issue. However, I would prefer most future Ancestries to have 2 boosts, a free, and a flaw. Printing boost/free is pure flavor and not even interesting because the current canon has any Ancestry able to be good at any two things they want (this is a great change) so this text does nothing that can't be covered by the text description of the Ancestry itself. It doesn't lend any fun or thought to character building so I think it's best left off entirely if they go that route.
Eh, at the point you're a millionaire, any further engagement beyond soaking up your passive income is purely by choice, not necessity. The choice he makes to keep working with Wizards will be just that: a choice. Per the Twitch leaks a couple of years back they were one of if not the highest earning streamers on the platform at over 9 million dollars over 1-2 years. That's only counting donations not sponsorships, merch, or anything else.
My group has run Fall of Plaguestone, Age of Ashes, Beginner Box, Troubles in Otari, and working through the rest of Abomination Vaults. I think they were all great in their own way. Don't overlook Age of Ashes or Fall of Plaguestone, they're both really solid, and I think the difficulty has become a bit of a meme at this point. My players had never played TTRPGs and they did fine.
For what it's worth I do some work in this field. We're already running studies on providing mental health treatment via machine learning. I totally agree with you and that's always been our hypothesis. However, there are groups that would say it could increase access, supply, decrease disparity, increase revenue, etc. I find all of those arguments wanting for different reasons but they're hard to refute without data. I don't want to derail the thread. I just wanted to point out that the capability is significantly more sophisticated than you might expect and the stakes are significantly lower for a Game Master than a therapist.
For what it's worth I do some work in this field. We're already running studies on providing mental health treatment via machine learning. Subjects are almost always unaware it's an AI unless given that information. I think some are underestimating what these algorithms are capable of when it comes to running a game.
I don't see folks mention it much, but I was thinking about it the other day. There is a pretty major tonal shift towards horror when entering into AV from BB and/or Troubles. That's the sort of thing my group is into, but it might not be everyone's cup of tea. I could even see Chapter 3 of Troubles crossing into that realm too.
This question comes up a lot on the PF2e subreddit lately. I think you'll find a lot of resources there. You would also find a lot of help via their Discord too.
Probably a dumb question. But why is FAQ split by printings anyway? Why not a single list of errata that starts from page 1 and goes to the end of the CRB in order regardless of printing? These aren't patch notes so I'm not sure why they're being organized as if they were. I play Warhammer and there are errata/FAQs all the time and they're organized by things like page number, not the date they decided to clarify. I'm sure someone will be curious about which changes happened when but you could use a superscript number at the end of each change indicating the printing or something.
Love the new option for free/free since it opens up a ton of options. I do agree with others that I'd like to see future ancestries +/+/free/- rather than fixed/free. Fixed/free is sort of a headscratcher on why even call this out when free/free is an option. It doesn't seem meaningful at all.
Nagaji have a feat to force opponents to waste an action on moving towards you. Sacred Nagaji Heritage get a +2 to Reflex saves vs Trip at level 1 and have 10 HP so they seem like a solid pick for Champions.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but having a Swim Speed lets you Swim without making Athletics checks and there are no physiology requirements for obtaining a swim speed. RAW if you have a swim speed regardless of your physiology you can swim. Is that a correct understanding of the rules?
While I don't have a strong preference for alignment one way or another my wife really likes it. It helps her to conceptualize her character and to decide on their actions in-game. I know that alignment is not meant to determine your actions but it really helps her and adds to her enjoyment. The same goes for alignments and gods it helps her creativity a lot because sometimes it makes her consider a character concept she hadn't before. I think for some people rules and restrictions, like alignment, can help focus their creative process but for others that could feel like a weight holding them down.
That said, these adventures also have some unique challenges, from ensuring the pregenerated characters' abilities and the adventure's obstacles align well to providing material that's narratively deep and sufficiently complex without being difficult to pick up and play in one sitting. Happily left a review. I wonder if now that one-shots could be disentangled from first-time players/streamers if that would remove some of those concerns. They could be a product for more rather than less experienced players. You could still have lower-level one-shots that are welcoming to new players too. I know this is wishful thinking since the line has been sunsetted but maybe it could make a return in the future. Honestly, I'd be happy even if it wasn't even a dedicated line but every once in a while Paizo was like hey we did this cool one-shot don't know if there are more in the future but we thought you'd enjoy.
I think the line is discontinued.Ah, okay then. Bummer. I really dug them. I wonder why they were discontinued? Just not good sales? I think they said something along the lines of the one-shot line being redundant due to the VTT products they're releasing now. The original goal for the one-shots line was for streamers to have a prepackaged product to perform on streams and that doesn't seem as necessary now with the high-production/quality VTT products. What I thought made the one-shots line unique was they could experiment with any theme, area of the world, subfaction, etc. without requiring you to invest the time into an entire book or books worth of content. They also got better and better with each release. Mark of the Mantis was phenomnenal. I'm super bummed they won't be back.
As a DRG player and backer of the board game Kickstarter I think this is super cool. However, like the decision you've already arrived at, I'd strongly prefer it entirely divorced from the DRG Universe and fully embedded in Golarion. Randomly generating dungeons has been a concept for a while but I like the way you've put the pieces together and arrived at a board game feel. I have friends that I don't think would be interested in Pathfinder but they'll play Descent and similar games so would probably love your idea. In the same vein I don't think any of the current PF board game products capture the flavor of an actual PF game so that may be a gap in the market. Not sure any of this is helpful but I think your idea is awesome and look forward to seeing more.
The thing is, they clearly are an expected part of designed adventures because AP writers keep writing dungeons where encounters are expected to roll into one another.What do you mean here though? Encounters where there are written mentions and conditions for enemies to go and attack PCs themselves or just relatively close groups of enemies which could be logically assumed by a GM to be very aware and active? Because if it's the latter, I wouldn't agree with your statement. GMs making dungeons more reactive because they like it and AP writers expecting that are two different things. Going along with this, from those I've read, I've seen more APs and Adventures where they provide explicit, sometimes quite contrived, reasons why the rooms wouldn't collapse on each other rather than providing instructions on how they alert/collapse/etc. A lot of times when an alert does happen it's just 'they're ready and waiting for you' instead of '-2 initiative because they were arguing over a card game' or 'have to spend a round/action arming themselves.'
Resources should be saved for those fights as blowing off your Amped Imaginary Weapon against redshirt guard number 3 makes your amped up powers seem like they are there for casual use The fact that there are entire classes and 'subclasses' designed around using focus points regularly suggests otherwise.
1. There are 5 feats. You get monastic weaponry and resistance to damage/ki spells dependent on the trait of your school of perfection. fire, water, etc. There are 12 Focus spells. 2. You're a member of the shield marshals. It's obviously got a steampunk/western upholder of the law feel to it. The final feat specifically requires a firearm but the rest could apply to any character. 3. There are environmental hazards and a chance for wild magic. Seem easy to plug and play into any setting.
Don't know how I forgot this on my list but Darklands book is a must for me. One of my favorite parts of the setting.
- Inquisitor
Really sad to see this go. IMO the line's not redundant just because they're branching into other VTT options. None of the one-shots would've ever made it as a bounty/scenario and AP's turned VTT are 10x the length. They were able to be thematically cool and experimental in ways none of the other product lines are. I don't expect them to reconsider but super disappointed.
The current model does make subscriptions more attractive considering you get the PDF for free and that discounts the Foundry module as well. I would assume this is intentional with their business model.
I feel the same. They are the perfect solution when one of my five players cannot attend a session that it is critical their character be at. Yeah Lionlodge took my group like 1.5 sessions.
Would love to see more of these. Each one has been progressively better than the last. The last one with Red Mantis was phenomenal.
Do we know if this will be something that gets shipped with a Subscription or will I have to choose between physical and PDF? (don't want to have to buy both separately unfortunately) It is not a part of the subscription and will need to be purchased separately.
Personally, I'm all for keeping it, Inquisitor. I just really like the name. Additionally, we've already had them named in 2E. If the name did change, I'd be disappointed, but I'd have the class I want so still a win. I have to admit I'm not totally clear on the motivation for the change. I think I've seen some people say because it's not an accurate descriptor and others that the name is problematic. Is that a fair assessment? I'd love a further explanation if anyone is willing to provide it.
To muddle things even further in the Knights of Lastwall lore sections there are descriptions of using animal companions and maybe familiars as scouts. Obviously, there's a divide between lore and rules, but I thought it was interesting.
There are some that have an ability that lets them make multiple attacks for only 2 actions, but says that each attack has to be against a different target. Why? Did they just think it would be too powerful if they could all attack the same person? The first one that sprang to mind is the Gug and their ability doesn't increase MAP until all four attacks are completed. So 4 Strikes at 0 MAP against one person. Seems like it would be pretty rough.
Just wanted to second this as that's how I do it.
For the most part, you can spend as much downtime as you want between books because there is no pressing danger at that time. Sure as heroes you want to save the world and resolve the conflict but there's no time pressure. There are also some points during books where there isn't necessarily a time crunch - book 1 after you resolve the initial conflict, most of book 2, book 3 is tighter on time, and book 4 has the option for downtime. I haven't played through books 5 or 6 but I have read them but I think time is a little tighter in those.
The nice thing about the Uncommon/Rare tag is that it would serve the same purpose as PFS Restricted for home games. You don't have to look much further than Hellknight Plate to see a similar concept with a better implementation. It has both the Uncommon Trait and an Access requirement. Not only that I seem to remember the additional benefits of the Armor only apply if you're a Hellknight, but I don't have the chance to check right now so I might be misremembering.
I noticed the Gray Maiden Plate Armor in Shadows at Sundown. It's Full Plate with only 16 Str requirement, 3 Bulk, and costs 35 gp. So -2 Str req and -1 Bulk from Full Plate and it only costs 5 gp more. It's not listed as Uncommon or Rare and has no Access requirement. This seems out of bounds power-wise to me and at a minimum it should have either the Uncommon/Rare tag or need to be a Gray Maiden to Access. It's always possible I'm missing something in my reading. Did anyone else notice this and what do you think?
It would be great to get the term 'splash damage' defined outside of its usage in the Splash Trait.
It’s also my understanding that 2e doesn’t have any adventure paths widely regarded to be straight-up D-tier the same way 1e did with things like Second Darkness, Serpent’s Skull, or Council of Thieves. Yeah I'm seeing a lot of similar feedback online and it looks like it only gets worse as the AP continues.
I don't feel strongly either way if Serpentfolk becomes a playable ancestry. This seems like a weird hill to die on considering all the other possible ancestries that haven't hit the game yet and don't carry the same baggage.No one is "dying on this hill". No one has said they won't play PF2 going forward if they don't get Serpentfolk. Come on. There are definitely people dying on a hill in this thread. As in there is nothing that will sway them from their position. That statement has nothing to do with quitting PF2e.
Have to say I'm hyped for this book. One of the biggest issues for my players and myself are the non-scaling nature of magical items and the gaps in items available. I was hoping Grand Bazaar was going to fix that and was disappointed. Happy to see this need being filled with Treasure Vault. Edit: wanted to throw out my disappointment with Grand Bazaar had little to do with the actual content and more with my incorrect expectations.
I don't feel strongly either way if Serpentfolk becomes a playable ancestry. This seems like a weird hill to die on considering all the other possible ancestries that haven't hit the game yet and don't carry the same baggage.
It might be worth checking out this existing one: Tome of Infinite Shops
I mean, the Ancestry Guide was nothing but a big bomb of new Ancestries, and it was incredibly well received. A sequel sounds plenty reasonable to me, and gets Ancestries people want to them sooner than they can expect a book on Vudra, Arcadia, or the Darklands. We’d still be waiting for Androids otherwise. I can't site this for you right now but after the release of the Ancestry guide I remember the lead saying the book was all hands on deck for rules and lore and that it was unlikely such a book would be created again.
I think you're really overvaluing the brand of Might and Magic in the year 2022.
The more I hear people describe wanting a class that delivers on drawing on the last of your strength to increase your power level the more I'd like to see that delivered as well. Whether or not that's in the form of the Kineticist doesn't matter so much to me.
Can you share more about why the monk doesn't deliver on what you're looking for? They have the movement and action economy built into their chassis to do what you're describing.
It wouldn't surprise me if the increasing amount of lore or even adventures in rulebooks is to get buyers something more than they would get just from looking at AoN. Just speculation, could definitely be wrong. Pretty sure Paizo has said before that customers prefer the combo over each in isolation but there are so many things I've seen in different places I might be wrong.
I like that warpriest didn't show up in anyone's tier list XD
|
