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by Yesterday's Hero
Wed Nov 27, 2019 2:14 am
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: Aspects & Essence
Replies: 11
Views: 7203

It's fun to comment on stuff here, I should go update my own stuff too What kind of non-combat skills do you have We had eight, but we felt very constrained so we moved it up to 12. Academics Esoteric Nature Diplomacy Bluff Intimidate Athletism Acrobatics Skulduggery (In spanish it's called "A...
by Yesterday's Hero
Fri Nov 15, 2019 6:43 pm
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: Aspects & Essence
Replies: 11
Views: 7203

So... it's been a year since the last post and we've been playtesting this quite a lot, moving away from PF2. Te core "combat" part is mostly finished. I have to make some adjustements to the enemies and add some more options for the opposition but nothing herculean on that front. We've ad...
by Yesterday's Hero
Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:16 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder 2e
Replies: 666
Views: 164727

I do something similar, with a twist inspired by MTG, for my skill challenges. Successes net you "Charge Counters" and you need a certain amount to complete the challenge (getting more gives you extra rewards), while failure (sometimes failure by 5 or more, depending on the amount of dange...
by Yesterday's Hero
Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:41 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Balancing 4+ PC's vs 1 Boss Fight in D&D, tech attacks
Replies: 17
Views: 6349

Kinda like the Thanos fight on Titan? I like the sound of that.
by Yesterday's Hero
Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:08 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder 2e
Replies: 666
Views: 164727

Last Saturday was my last time DMing 2e. We played the final session of the first book in the AP and they got TPKed by the final encounter because critical fails on saves vs damage effects making you take double damage and enemy spellcasters that are 1 spell level above the party don't mix no good (...
by Yesterday's Hero
Tue Aug 27, 2019 1:23 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Tell me about your Heartbreaker
Replies: 35
Views: 6340

In my system "Aspects and Essence" you build your class by picking from a "Combat" aspect that gives you a couple of offensive options, a "Style" aspect that gives you a role option (Summoning, DPS, Tanking, etc) and a "Utility" aspect that gives you a mid-bat...
by Yesterday's Hero
Fri Aug 23, 2019 2:43 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder 2e
Replies: 666
Views: 164727

I've read a lot of people on the Paizo forum complain about a lot of things repeatedly. The new proficiency system, for instance, is not fully accepted even by hardcore adopters, as are the alchemy items and the "DCs by level" table. Not so much for the 3 action economy. I don't recall a s...
by Yesterday's Hero
Thu Aug 22, 2019 7:25 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Why did 4E D&D's classplosion fail?
Replies: 35
Views: 7817

Invokers are basically favored souls but moar, IMHO. Divine controllers with battlefield control and multi target damage. I think that the reason 4e’s memetic impact was close to null is because very few people played the game after the PHB (the book that has the warlord) came out. So maybe people w...
by Yesterday's Hero
Mon Aug 19, 2019 7:39 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder 2e
Replies: 666
Views: 164727

Do you seriously want me to explain how pigeonholing 3 sets with 9 objects each is more complex than 3 sets with, respectively, 3, 6, and 9 objects each? Yes, my reasoning was kinda dumb, but what GâtFromKI said holds true. In practice you don't have that much analysis paralysis since the build you...
by Yesterday's Hero
Mon Aug 19, 2019 5:07 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder 2e
Replies: 666
Views: 164727

This was my original statement: Pros: The 3 action economy is nice. In average sworders get an extra swing a level 1 which greatly speeds up play. I don't know where are you getting all the other stuff from. A) 3 equivalent actions: "This is the list of all the things you can do for 3 actions. ...
by Yesterday's Hero
Mon Aug 19, 2019 4:33 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder 2e
Replies: 666
Views: 164727

but who the fuck wanted D&D's action economy more complex? I don't think that it is more complex, it didn't feel that way at the table. "3 equivalent actions instead of 3 actions with diminishing intrinsic power" makes the game more similar to systems like fallout where you get Action...
by Yesterday's Hero
Mon Aug 19, 2019 12:24 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder 2e
Replies: 666
Views: 164727

I heard they've got downtime or legwork mechanics now? Do they have functional (or at least attempts at) minigames like chasing, managing minions/castle? Dumbass Jason Bulmahn has said that we'll get a free update sometime before release of the DMG with mechanics for monster building (no word on NP...
by Yesterday's Hero
Tue Aug 13, 2019 6:12 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder 2e
Replies: 666
Views: 164727

The three action economy doesn't really solve any problems and doesn't scale. So I guess it's history lesson time. Ok, well, I didn't say that it solved all the problems. I said that it worked pretty well. The thing is that "Actions" is not the same as attacks. Actions can be any number o...
by Yesterday's Hero
Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:49 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder 2e
Replies: 666
Views: 164727

There are no rules for modifying or creating monsters as promised in the Bestiary either. You pretty much can't run your own game right now, only the one AP. The only thing you can do to enemies, as far as I know (having read both rule books and the AP) is to apply a sort of template that increases...
by Yesterday's Hero
Mon Aug 12, 2019 12:40 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder 2e
Replies: 666
Views: 164727

I DMed on Saturday and I must say it was ok. It had all these problems you are mentioning, yes, but the combats felt faster than on PF1. We played the ULTRA shitty AP, chapters 1 and 2. There was an ULTRA shitty skill challenge like... thing at the beginning that stretched out to 2 pages and was exc...
by Yesterday's Hero
Wed Aug 07, 2019 12:45 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder 2e
Replies: 666
Views: 164727

So do they have archetype or spec type stuff? I’m curious as to what they wrote fighters rogues to be good at... in intention Once you pick a class you have to stick with it. You may use some of your class feats to pick up multiclass feats. You get these feats on even levels and they give you your ...
by Yesterday's Hero
Mon Jul 08, 2019 1:27 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Fixing racism in D&D (/rpgs in general)
Replies: 103
Views: 19098

I think you can dance a bit around Int penalties/bonuses so that you can keep them in your game if you need them but also avoid the racism by not giving them to humanoid races, like orcs or whatever. That way the race of crystal beings from the beyond reality get an Int bonus and the insect people h...
by Yesterday's Hero
Tue Jun 25, 2019 1:48 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: The Spire ?
Replies: 8
Views: 2387

Those pics remind me of Darkest Dungeon. Is a cool aesthetic.
by Yesterday's Hero
Wed May 29, 2019 4:52 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
Replies: 272
Views: 34810

What if there are "Alliances" that hold territory and are themselves composed of multiple clans (whose members can transit peacefully among its lands). That way the Green Dawn Alliance occupies a coastal province and is composed of the Rabbit Clan, the Tortoise clan, the Stork Clan and 3 o...
by Yesterday's Hero
Wed May 29, 2019 12:43 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Religion is use
Replies: 49
Views: 8647

On Pillars of Eternity you had a priest, Durance, who hated her goddess' GUTS and still received divine powers because in the setting "Divine" power came from one's soul (or one's belief or whatever). He was quite an interesting character and his unusual background, abrasive personality an...
by Yesterday's Hero
Mon May 27, 2019 2:41 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Religion is use
Replies: 49
Views: 8647

"Evil cultists of the dark god" as antagonists is such an iconic, useful and expected trope of fantasy RPGs that that alone justifies the inclusion of religion on the setting. Ironically it's the neutral gods and the gods that can potentially be on the PCs side that pose the more problemat...
by Yesterday's Hero
Fri May 10, 2019 1:30 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: How's your approach to game design/play changed in years?
Replies: 19
Views: 3538

I know this is old news for most people, but actually taking the dive and implementing the methodology properly took me a while. Could you point to any resources or lessons learned the hard way for implementing that methodology? I can think of 3 moments that led me down that path. I'll list them in...
by Yesterday's Hero
Wed May 08, 2019 12:44 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: How's your approach to game design/play changed in years?
Replies: 19
Views: 3538

Something that I've learned in these past years is that if you, as a DM, make the outcome of failure as compelling as the outcome of success you'll be much less likely to fudge dice rolls, you'll have a much richer narrative and, in turn, a much better response from your players when they fail. &quo...
by Yesterday's Hero
Thu Mar 14, 2019 5:31 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Moe to sexy girls 'color' wheel
Replies: 161
Views: 22598

Addressing the issue of there being too many times you can play a fast effect is as simple as removing some of them. I don't think you need to be able to take actions during the Draw Step, for example. Similarly, you don't need to be able to take actions between First Strike Combat Damage and Regul...
by Yesterday's Hero
Thu Mar 14, 2019 4:32 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Moe to sexy girls 'color' wheel
Replies: 161
Views: 22598

From a Draft standpoint, the better you make the literal "Basic Land" the better you have to make the Lands that appear in actual packs. Because the Common lands still take a draft pick to get and the Basic Lands still don't . That means that the non-Basic lands do have to be better than ...