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I guess I'll copy/paste what I wrote on their forum: I can't even figure how point 1 and point 4 could be achieved at the same time. Point 1: "rules that reward those who take the time to master them"; so I guess the reward is "being more efficient"? Be it because the character i...

What if no one wants to invest in medicine? Treat wound become harder and harder if you don't increase the skill at every possible occasion (yes, the rules are stupid at that point). There are 16 skills (not counting lore) and each character can increase a grand total of 3 skills to the max. What if...

That is.... incredibly stupid. "I can't imagine magical fucking powers healing people to full. I can however imagine that bandages instantly heal broken bones and bloodloss." Please read what I said. Omegonthesane did. I'm not saying that I can't imagine magical powers healing people. I'm...

So they created resonance to limit the use of CLW wands because BADWRONGFUN. In the last update, they added a new use of medicine to heal each character to full HP for free between each combat. Wait; what? I'm not trying to disagree with the overall thrust of your argument. But I think that this is...

So they created resonance to limit the use of CLW wands because BADWRONGFUN. In the last update, they added a new use of medicine to heal each character to full HP for free between each combat. Wait; what? ... I don't think they have an actual vision of how the game should play. They are just runnin...

Then someone lied to me about that success rate to make himself look better. I'll go have a talk with them later. Can you quadruple check the idea that a level 16 Rogue with Wall Jump, Powerful Leap, and Legendary Survivalist (meaning a Legendary Survival and Athletics Skill) could scale the Planes...

That's not how the Path 2 works. At level 15 your max intimidation is 24+~3 (15 level +3 legendary +6 Cha + you can dive into items to find some +Intimidate item). If Cha isn't one of your main stats, you won't have 22 Cha (I don't think a martial can afford for more than 18 with his needs in Str an...

Well, the +1 to hit is great, all things considered, but is the material obtainable by the players? Because if so you should just get the weapon as magical in that material. Errr... 1/ Short answer: i don't think so. If I remember correctly, the special material is only usable on a master-quality w...

There's a new Pathfinder Society scenario, for level 5 Path 2 characters. It begins with a small investigation and a warm-up fight against a level 7 monster. There are two reports of this adventure. In both, they investigates, they get false informations when they crit fail the rolls (which are damn...

You realize that one regular den member is actually offering quite positive review of the 2nd adventure , right? The adventure went fine for the most part, with the PCs pretty readily waltzing through most of the encounters with minimal resource expenditures The game plays smoothly for the most par...

I realize he has the same opinion as me on Path 2: Optimization Hell isn't fun. Playable, but not fun.

Now I've seen one non-negative review of the second second adventure. i have yet to see a positive review.

Design wise, D&D4, D&D5 and Path2 share the same issue: there was absolutely no compelling reason to modify the core system, and the new core systems they use aren't as mechanically robust and don't offer as much gameplay space as 3.x. There is one reason to modify the core system: D&D ...

I wonder, is D&D 5 actually terrible? I mean, if I sort the iteration of D&D I know by quality, it's something like this: D&D3/3.5 >= Path 1 > D&D 5 > AD&D 2 > D&D 4 > Path 2 playtest digression: I'm not really sure I prefer D&D 3.5 or Path 1. The main quality of Path 1 i...

Right now the "usable feedbacks" are "we played the second adventure of the playtest, it was too hard and not fun, no player want to continue, kkthxbye". (I haven't seen 1 positive review of the second adventure - even among people who won it) I've seen 1 review of the 5th advent...

There's an errata! Bag of holding doesn't cost resonance anymore! Of course, resonance is still a pile of shit, a lot of fun/marginal items still cost resonance (eg immovable rod), a lot of item cost resonance and have a per day limitation at the same time for no reason (eg Knapsack of halfling), bu...

You could make the players always be the active roller, and the GM is always passive. You have to make a decision about what happens in PC-vs-PC actions. Do those situations have double the RNG? Also, NPC vs NPC actions, which in this situation might be interpreted as no RNG (That's how the Buffy R...

OgreBattle wrote:I feel lifestyle works best when the currency used for being a normal person is not the currency you use for magic swords, illegal guns

^ this

Or lifestyle should give bonus the same way a magic sword do.

My group is going to play it this Saturday. Let's see what they come up with, so far they field a druid, a barbarian, a ranger and... another ranger. Maybe they do will have the ranged firepower to combat the manticore. But I fear healing will be a big problem to their survival, since not having a ...

Right now the messageboard is down (since saturday); you can read, but no one can post. There's a GitP poster who explain that a skilled website programer is a ROLLplayer but Paizo hires only ROLEplayers. It seems opinion goes both ways: some people say it was fun, some people say it's too hard. ......

OK, I stand corrected on the Ettin: his independent brains ability has a strange effect on his Damage Per Round. Anyway, I'm still not very convinced. Let look at the average DPR against the "standard PC AC at level 6". A level 6 PC has an AC of 24: 10 + 6 (trained proficiency) + 7 (armor ...

The lower end of the math is where things matter. In the sense that if anyone tries to play this piece of junk, that is where they will start. And also in the sense that people will play at these levels for some non-zero amount of time before they start getting non-standard story-related powerups t...

the goblin war chanters accompanying the marilith Goblin War Chanter. CR 1. Ref +5. HP 18. Level 3 fireball scroll, cost ~0gp. But you know what, fine, you shifted the goal posts, now you want a CR 11, was it? Oh, that's right, you didn't say, you want a nubulous anything monster to be defeated by ...

You were fun for a while, Gat. I though they were spamming Heroism and Synesthesia at every trivial encounter. Now they have area damages spells memorized? Casters have a lot of spell slots by 17th level, on top of a lot more spells sitting in items if they need them. There's no particular reason t...

when you're hitting on 7+ or 5+ without it You're not. if you notice, the fighter is something like triple the weaker character's damage per hit without even trying He's not. #points others: if there's more monsters, the fighter's damage goes up It doesn't. Because holy shit maybe someone has a dam...

You'd think so. But again, math. The average Fighter vs the Average solo, it's a coin flip as to if using a shield or d12 weapon is better. The marilith isn't an "average solo" against a level 17 party. It's a trivial encounter. It's an "average solo" against a level 15 party (a...