StashAugustine posted:

Out of curiosity how appropriate is Pathfinder for running am Eberron game? It seems like an interesting system but idk how easy it'd be to reflavor to some of the specifics of the setting, especially Artificers

The Slack Lagoon posted:

I've always found that website to be so slow

Eastmabl posted:

So before I buy it, Mwangi Expanse isn't "Paizo does a racism duct-taped to a bigotry", right?

Toshimo posted:

Yeah, but should that compete against class features like crafting alchemy items or scribing spells?

Chevy Slyme posted:

Syrinxx posted:

The Ghoran ancestry is pretty rad thematically and I am a sucker for cool unarmed attacks. Now I just need to find a game I can play one in

https://2e.aonprd.com/Ancestries.aspx?ID=52


e: I never played PF1 but I assume they were in it since there seems to be a lot of info about them already

Zurai posted:

Anyone who thinks CR is scripted clearly hasn't tried to sit through a shopping episode. And it's not like there aren't plenty of Actual Plays that are just actual recordings of actual people actually playing their actual real-life tabletop games, even if you're so self-absorbed that you think the professional actors are out to pervert the purity of your players. Foaming at the mouth about Actual Plays just makes you sound like a rabid stoneage grognard.

Kyrosiris posted:

Honestly it seems like he's trying to do thirty seven different things at once and sucking at all of them.

Blockhouse posted:

The thing I'd want from a samurai archetype that the pf1 version didn't really deliver on is iaijutsu poo poo

make me as anime as possible please

Zarick posted:

Every table I've played at enjoys the "crit fail gives you obviously false and hopefully amusing misinformation". Basically makes it the same as a regular fail but with a joke attached.

Like you're fighting a wolf and you tell them "pretty sure that's a cat".

Chevy Slyme posted:

The biggest trap I’ve seen people playing a thaum fall into is forgetting that at the end of the day, you’re still a striker and you need to invest in being good at attacking.

Pick one of high Str or high Dex and set that stat to 16 at character creation. (Str is way way way way better, unless you’re doing a very specific kind of ranged build), or you’re going to have a bad time. I’ll reiterate a strong recommendation for melee for a new player because dealing with reloading is fiddly and ammunition thaumaturgy is a feat tax on top of that. (Regular bows don’t work for thaumaturge because the class is fairly specific about what is in your hands at all times, etc etc)

So a thaum will generally look something like 16/12/12/10/10/18 or 10/16/12/10/12/18.

gurragadon posted:

You're in a good position with fighter, they are awesome and a lot of fun to play in PF2e. I'd recommend trying to get flanking with the barbarian and inventor if they are melee. The -2 to enemy AC really helps with hitting, and you will crit more because of the +10-crit rule. Because your using the pick and it has the fatal d10 modifier you will really do a ton of damage on crits. I would still raise my shield as a third action pretty frequently even with reactive shield because fighters get attack of opportunity, and I would hate to miss a chance to use it.

boxen posted:

I'm confused here... You need a shield raised to use shield block, and if you're using reactive shield, you didn't have a shield raised. I don't see a case (at least at low levels, I think later feats change things) where you have to pick between using your reaction to shield block or use it to raise the shield.

It seems like reactive shield is useful in a case where you didn't have an action to raise the shield, and while you won't get to use shield block you'll at least have the higher AC. And you don't HAVE to use the reaction to reactive shield, you could just take the hit and still use an AoO or whatever if the opportunity comes up.

Chevy Slyme posted:

This is mostly just Level 1 Problems.

As soon as you can get expert proficiency and a couple of the key skill feats, it goes away.

ZZT the Fifth posted:

There isn't another healer in the party (yet, we're at level 1), unfortunately, and I'm kinda pulling double duty as the tank and medic.

Piell posted:

Leshy seems like a weird ancestry to make core considering they all have to be individually created by druids

Dexo posted:

Define pretty modern, because uh, "Others" have been discriminated against/forced to assimilate in various societies, for a pretty large chunk of human history lol.

This is not me saying it should be in a game, because fantasy racism is like not something I want to experience in a game and I would bounce if a GM took that path to deal with a character I created.

gurragadon posted:

I hate darkvision so much on PC's. Any ancestry that see's the sun ever shouldn't have anything above low-light vision. Going to the surface should just burn anyone's eyes with darkvision. I kind of want to remove it from my games but that's just a blatant weakening of a bunch of ancestries in the game and I wouldn't know how to compensate for it.

Dexo posted:

Hmmm. This would be a fun mechanic for like a dungeon or area made by a group of humans who loving hated elves or some other creature/ancestry with dark/low light vision.

I am going to steal the poo poo out of this.

Usually to gently caress with darkvision in the rare rare time when I want to have stuff be actually dark I just make the darkness generated by a macguffin of magical darkness. Once they find what is generating it in the area it can be turned off.