why I can never go back to 5e & why I love pathfinder2e & things I hope come in the future


Pathfinder Second Edition General Discussion


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my rpg experience with tt fantasy rpgs started with 5e & at first I loved it I thought I can bring my stories to life but as the years went by I started noticing serious cracks in the system & company

1 cr system never seemed to work right lvl 7 parties killing adult dragons the tarrasque being a joke to monsters not having something that makes em unique so 6-7 years of play

from my experience in pathfinder 2e 1 year I think

the cr system Actually freaking works !!! thank you paizo if it says extreme it means extreme! as in potential tpk

also almost every monster has something really unique from the ravener/ dracolitch soul ward & soul steal. to krampus being able to de age your characters back into children so cool!

2 character options/ campaign setting potential

5e from standard to in 2e stuff like balanced vampire and werewolfs to a proper alchemist to upcoming official gunslinger & inventer!

between this and the monsters thiers so many campaign possibilities !

vampire pc party going against werewolf packs & the divine angels while being manipulated by a ravener

a norse inspired campaign going against linnorms & fafnhier (December he gets stats) to gain enough power to challenge the norns!

an entire underwater campaign

a sprite/changing fey campaign to challenge the tane &Treerazer

so many unique campaigns that don't require hombrew

3 magic items

so many that I feel 5e desperately needs !

from being able to make your own with materials & property runes

from unique stuff like the philosopher stone to itself. all the useful poisons to staffs so much more variety

4 the company itself.

paizo

interacts with customer & fans regularly on forums & other places online

puts out more & better quality material with a diverse themes (imo) than wizards from steampunk & technology with guns & gears to a book all about magic with new mechanics from a book about how to use gods in your setting to just a magic items book! to a book kingmaker 2e that let's u have kingdom building mechanics!

ACTUALLY LISTENS TO PLAYERS FEEDBACK ON PLAYTEST!!!

(thank you paizo for being a company that listens to what it's customers want! )

5 rules

rules for environmental stuff like volcanos earthquake ect. to having monsters be weak stuff that makes sense (red dragons being weak to cold)

to armor & weapons being able to be destroyed

easy xp system 1000 each lvl easy simple. dying wounded rules resting rules. stuff like stupefied messing with spellcasters drained bieng bad persistent bleeding to simple stuff a knight rating a shield. different tiers of locks. bashing doors in

6 stuff id like to see

lvl 20/mythic rules

a alchemy handbook

large/ half giant or half troll heritage or ancestry

I know some of these were 1e adventures but never played it so would love new 2e version

a new pirate adventure

a first world adventure

a osirion/ egypt adventure

a undead adventure

a technology focused adventure in the mana waste

a rouge/ criminal organization theme adventure

evil pc adventure. (sometimes being evil is fun! )

prehistoric/ dinosaur adventure

underwater /Atlantis themed adventure

boneyard adventure

thanks pathfinder & paizo for reinvigorating my fantasy rpg passion! keep doing what you do :)

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