Paizo Friday #8 You Tube - Pathfinder Playtest Character Creation!

[Steel Radial]

Thank you guys for the weekly videos- Especially this one with the character sheet. Very happy to see all the good work going into this new launch!

Though I am new to Pathfinder, I have been reading the Core Rule Book. In the current version Studded Leather Armor seems to give an AC bonus of +3, in the character sheet shown in the video studded leather got an AC bonus of +2. Is this different in the Playtest, or were you guys just testing to see if the audience was paying attention? :-)

[Malthraz]

Steel you have picked a confusing time to start playing Pathfinder. In August Paizo are going to release a play test version of Pathfinder 2.

This version is significantly different from version 1. Studded leather armour (which is not a real armour and should not exist) does appear to be +2 to AC in the play test of version 2, based on the limited information Paizo has released as a preview.

[Steel Radial]

Thanks man.

Do we know why that is? Does it make the math better?

I started to listen to podcasts in the car in the last couple months, and was following ever-green content from the Pathfinder Academy guys dipping into different episodes every couple of days. Bought a core rule book at full retail in April, and then realized in late June - listening to more recent podcasts that the new version was coming! Started to dig in and really like how the design seems to be smoothing things out.

Reading as much as I can on the current version to get up to speed - to really appreciate both the work that has gone into pathfinder in the last 10 years, and the new ideas that are being tested.

End of the cycle of RPGs seems to have lots of interesting crunch. It's totally fine to me to learn the old way and the new way at the same time. Looking forward to some expert commentary here to get me up to speed.

[gwynfrid]

If you have the time and energy to learn PF1 and PF2 simultaneously, then color me impressed! It can be a very interesting thing to do, though - you'll approach both without any biases from previous experience.

The reason why the AC bonus of most things is going to be lower in PF2 is that the math of PF2 is intentionally tightened in comparison to PF1. I recommend you read the blog about critical failure and success. This will give you a good view on why the math of PF2 needs to allow for less wide a difference between the strongest and the weakest characters for any given stat.