Hey guys. I was hoping for two players who are rapidly able to go through the new playtest characters that will drop on the 29th. One to play Guardian, and one to play Commander.
I'll be choosing people who can hopefully post once or twice per day on weekdays to try and get a good feel for the classes. I'm thinking we can go through concept and character creation together on discord once we get the actual playtest classes and then... either keep playing there or come here on the boards. I've got a character creation system I've been working on that I hope will be fun and discord tends to go faster than forum posts for that part.
It'll be a mechanics focused game of course... not coming up with a major backstory or anything like that. It'll be more of a hub structure than a dungeon crawl though.
Maps will be used, either google slides or I'll figure out owlbear rodeo or something.
Since these both are martials, I'm up for suggestions on how to create a well rounded party that can play the 'standard' Cleric/Fighter/Rogue/Wizard expectation of the game.
One thing that's worked well for me is to come up with passive personality GMPCs that will follow direction and we can decide on what they are to fit the two PCs. I know GMPCs can be terrible so maybe we can come up with another solution but I'm confident in my ability to keep them NPCs.
Level 1. But might level rapidly.
@GM Stargin: I’d be happy to play a Guardian. Was thinking a Hold-Scarred Orc with high-Con and the heaviest armor to push the stress-test of HP, defense and movement. I’m also looking forward to synergising with a Commander throwing around extra Actions…if that happens at 1st level…
Discord character creation sounds ok.
I don’t mind GMPCs at all.
Will we be using Free Archetype or Ancestral Paragon?
Just a couple thoughts:
In favor of: Ancestral Paragon
In favor of: Gradual Ability Boost
Not in favor of: Free Archetype
For me, anything in a playtest that dilutes or augments the primary class dilutes the playtest. Free Archetype is multi-classing, it's Guardian/X or Commander/Y after 2nd level AND let's remember, once there's an Archetype, Class Feat slots can be used for either Class Feats OR Archetype Feats. Just would not be the direction I would go if I were looking to really eval the new classes.
Would love to see the GMPCs restricted to actively remastered classes only btw, again mostly to keep the evaluation as strongly entrenched in Remastered 2E as possible.
Would be happy to play the "Intelligent & Clever" Commander
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@Evindyl: Re: FA - that is fair, however the ubiquity of games that allow Free Archetype leads me to think it would be useful. Archteypes are going to happen at 2nd level for some characters even without Free Archetype.
For example, how broken *is* a Hold-Scarred Orc Guardian with a Giant Instinct Barbarian Archetype? If I take the Raging Thrower feat, can I hold my ground and then, while raging with a Commander’s extra action, use a Large Harpoon to throw/retrieve/throw/retrieve for crazy damage all while standing in the one place? Granted, that would take a few levels, but I feel those are the kinds of interactions the devs are looking for.
Then again, that’s the limit of my theorycrafting and I’m not much of a min-maxer - I was merely trying to find the parameters!
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Ok, you know, I'm good with calling this recruitment closed with
Evindyl: Intelligent & Clever Commander
OceanshieldwolPF 2.5: Hold Scarred Orc Guardian.
I'll setup a discord and send you both an invite... aiming for early next week though let's see how it goes.
That sound good to you both?
I will add on Ancestral Paragon and Gradual Ability Boost optional rules.
Free Archetype is a bit too much. I know it's the '20 point buy' of PF2e, but I'd like to learn about and focus on the core class in the playtest.
Sounds good to me, thanks for the headsup GM…
Invites are out!