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Filling out the survey after running chapter 1, the questions about running out of Resonance felt like a bad joke. Unless you have an alchemist, there's very little opportunity to have enough items to use Resonance on - how exactly am I supposed to run out?
Now, if we continue those same PCs at level 2, with one or two magic items apiece (and/or a small collection of consumables), we'd have a much more accurate test of low-level Resonance tuning. Personally, I've decided to run the PFS level 1 scenario for my playtest group (with some upgrades of the challenges to account for their being level 2), and see how that plays.
Filling out the survey after running chapter 1, the questions about running out of Resonance felt like a bad joke. Unless you have an alchemist, there's very little opportunity to have enough items to use Resonance on - how exactly am I supposed to run out?
Now, if we continue those same PCs at level 2, with one or two magic items apiece (and/or a small collection of consumables), we'd have a much more accurate test of low-level Resonance tuning. Personally, I've decided to run the PFS level 1 scenario for my playtest group (with some upgrades of the challenges to account for their being level 2), and see how that plays.
I haven't taken the surveys yet, but it could be that they're trying to get a read on how Resonance affects parties with Alchemists in them. I know the biggest worry I have with that class is that Elixir-focused builds could be less effective due to the RP cost for allies.
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I haven't taken the surveys yet, but it could be that they're trying to get a read on how Resonance affects parties with Alchemists in them. I know the biggest worry I have with that class is that Elixir-focused builds could be less effective due to the RP cost for allies.Filling out the survey after running chapter 1, the questions about running out of Resonance felt like a bad joke. Unless you have an alchemist, there's very little opportunity to have enough items to use Resonance on - how exactly am I supposed to run out?
Now, if we continue those same PCs at level 2, with one or two magic items apiece (and/or a small collection of consumables), we'd have a much more accurate test of low-level Resonance tuning. Personally, I've decided to run the PFS level 1 scenario for my playtest group (with some upgrades of the challenges to account for their being level 2), and see how that plays.
Our group ran out of RP using alchemist healing, even with a bard in the group...
They are waiting for more results over more levels for Resonance, not simply basing things off the first round. I would imagine that part of the survey results is just to track peoples view of resonance as players play increasingly higher characters, to get a baseline of where resonance might be dropping off for instance.
So consider those questions for level one to be more about establishing a baseline than anything else.
Filling out the survey after running chapter 1, the questions about running out of Resonance felt like a bad joke. Unless you have an alchemist, there's very little opportunity to have enough items to use Resonance on - how exactly am I supposed to run out?
Exactly. Resonance isn't even on the old pregen sheets either and the updated ones haven't been released. How are you supposed to run out if there is nothing to spend it on and you don't even know about it?
Every level 1 alchemist in my playtests have run out of resonance, but mostly making bombs.
Guaranteed that you'll run out every scenario as soon as PCs have something to spend it on.