They're trying to kill Paizo for being too based. Allowing the first unions in our TTRPG market? No fucking way! Don't buy from Wizards ever again you hogs
They're trying to kill Paizo for being too based. Allowing the first unions in our TTRPG market? No fucking way! Don't buy from Wizards ever again you hogs
Just posting to say that Pathfinder is the best DND and Pathfinder 2e is the best Pathfinder. I mean I'm playing 1e now but I really like how 2e handles a lot of things.
I did pick up Pathfinder 2E a while ago, but I never actually played it because when I read it, it felt almost too much like a "Superhero" game; or like how people described 4E working. And it just didn't seem very attractive to me as a D&D alternative.
How does it actually play?
All the feats giving special actions is a little 4e-esque, but it lacks what I saw as the big problem with 4e that all characters basically had the same moves - a fighter could do physical damage, a cleric would do the same thing but with radiant, the wizard with fire, but it all felt the same. Pf2e's action system doesn't make me feel like me and my party are all doing the same thing and everyone has their niche.
Unlike 1e though, the math is very very tight and unoptimized builds suffer for it. If your ancestry doesn't give that extra +1 to your primary stat bonus, you're gonna feel it.
Mostly I really like how simple the action system is. No move, swift, standard. Just three actions. My friends find this much easier.
Outside of combat it actually plays not too different from 1e, except that skill feats make some interesting options and the proficiency system means if you specialize in something you will be better than your teammates, but the gap is less severe than 1e where you can just put everything you got into stealth and be absurdly good at it.
They did actually just change this in a recent errata. You can just choose any 2 boosts on any ancestry. So you could choose to do +3 boosts +1 flaw as normal on an Elf, or you can forgo having a flaw for any two boosts. Makes that issue far easier to handle
Oh wow this opens a lot of doors. I'm sure there are some ancestry feats that were waiting for this chance to be used in other classes.
Yeah I'm personally gonna use the adjustment on elves all the time. The constitution malus is really rough.
Yes! Everyone needs con and an ancestry with a malus to it is terrible no matter what class you play.
How is Starfinder? Been kinda interested in getting into a scifi rpg
It's pretty good for a Star Wars/Mass Effect space opera type story. And Fly Free or Die is a great adventure path where you play a buncha space truckers making friends and running from corpos in your cool stolen spaceship. Very fun theme.
Mechanically, it fits in a weird spot between 1e and 2e. I don't like its big emphasis on constantly upgrading your gear and buying new big flashy weapons, but the game and setting is mostly very fun.
Really like the space working class trucker vibe then (always loved the OG Alien and space western style gritty sci fi), I'll have to check it out then!
I forgot how working class the aesthetic was in the original until I rewatched it during the initial COVID months.