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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...

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...

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...

Kinda like the Thanos fight on Titan? I like the sound of that.

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 (...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Those pics remind me of Darkest Dungeon. Is a cool aesthetic.

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...