Paizo originally wanted to get rid of ability scores and just use modifiers with 2nd Edition, but they were afraid of a D&D 4th Edition schism happening and didn’t make the change when they were releasing it. Now they have the perfect opportunity to make the shift without angering the playerbase.
What I have heard is that they haven’t quite finished working out how the change from attributes to modifiers will be implemented, but it is something being handled with the official changes of the remaster. What they have said so far is that we will still have the ability to raise ability modifiers above 18, we just don’t know how it will work yet.
Honestly, I think that makes more sense now that Paizo has proposed the adjustment.
In addition to what @LiquorFan@pathfinder.social said, we also have !pf2homebrew@pathfinder.social and !pf2adventure@pathfinder.social that I’m hoping will be more geared towards GMs rather than players.
Normally I run PFS at our local lodge, so not that interesting.
I am working on getting Foundry set up to run Beginner Box -> Troubles in Otari -> The Slithering, with some quests and bounties thrown in randomly with an old group that all moved to different regions. I want to follow that up with Abomination Vaults (new characters), and then possibly do something homebrew. I’m starting a masters program in the fall, so pre-built stuff, rather than homebrew is probably what I have to stick with while I juggle school and work.
I want to use the official adventures to work on my improve, storytelling, voices, etc., so that when I do have the bandwidth to build a homebrew campaign, I’m already well practiced at those skills.
The Pathfinder Society will automatically take care of this for you during your downtime. You can see the rules on it in the Organized Play Guide.
The Pathfinder Society takes care of its members by removing most ongoing nonpermanent negative conditions and repairing agents’ damaged gear to the condition it was in at the start of the scenario.
The following conditions are not automatically removed and must be cleared from the character before the end of the adventure or the character ceases to be available for organized play:
- Death
- Permanent negative effects, including polymorph or petrification
- Curses
Note that repairing damaged gear does not include resupplying consumables such as ammunition, potions, or talismans.
Yeah, fitting into buildings and dungeons was my first thought. Having the extra reach is going to be balanced pretty well with either carrying around shrink potions or always dealing with squeeze mechanics.
I’ve recently started a battle oracle in PFS, but that really seems like the only one that is viable. Ancestor sounds really cool, but the idea of having to roll flat checks every time I do something seems incredibly burdensome to the table. Many of the others also make me feel like they would impact the fun of other players as well.
I actually generally run in person with a hardcopy of the PDF. I was considering making the switch to a tablet of some sort, but wanted something that I could mark up and make notes in the margins. That does make me think that I would probably lose my color-coding highlighting.
I just really hated coming across a cool rogue/thief/assassin-like weapon (like kukris or a kris) on another character and being like “This would be great for my rogue” and then checking and realizing he wasn’t proficient.
Awesome, I appreciate you posting this.
I think the two biggest things for me are the rogue martial weapons (because they should have had that all along) and some of the class revamps. I know Champion is probably getting redone because of the alignment changes, but I felt like it was overall a pretty good class to start with. Oracle and witch, though, really needed some help, so I’m looking forward to those getting some changes.
The progress spinner is a known issue that has been brought up to the Lemmy devs; if you try to log on where an account doesn’t exist, or if you try to create an account with a duplicate email or username, Lemmy doesn’t give any sort of error, or even stop, it just sits there.
@DmMacniel@feddit.de covered the rest of your question; you can create an account on both communities, but it’s really not necessary because of the federation. Hopefully the ActivityPub and fediverse developers make some QoL improvements to this in the future because it is a little clunky coming from something that’s been in development for over a decade.
When I spun this instance of Lemmy up, I think there were only two other communities out there. Most of them were inactive, I think the high number of communities on this instance and the timing of it are what got us the increased visibility. I’m happy to work with admins/mods/users of the other communities on aggregating here, or at least facilitating cross-posting and sharing of resources.
Looking at the Feddit Community browser, I see these communities that aren’t a part of this Lemmy instance, they all look pretty inactive so far:
That’s awesome; I’m running foundry in Nomad on a Raspberry Pi cluster, do you run into any speed/responsiveness issues with it when you get all the players in and the game started?
I just got Foundry running in my homelab last night, so I’m going through your list of modules this evening.
I’ll keep the iPad in mind; I usually eschew Apple Devices just because I don’t need to add another ecosystem to my brain, but I do admire how well they work for things.
I think they’re gearing up for it. I think the Starfinder Remastered is their way of pre-playtest playtesting before they actually announce anything.
That being said, as someone who grew up on 3.5 and PF1e and now plays PF2e, I loathe the ruleset for Starfinder, not because it’s a terrible ruleset (it is), but because I can never keep track of which system the rule I need in the moment is supposed to be from. I love the writing of their PFS scenarios and APs, though, so I’m really hoping for a polished SF2e to be announced soon.
Are you developing the wiki or using a base for it? I use mediawiki for my homelab documentation, but am now thinking that it might be a really good reference tool for players and myself in longer campaigns.
I am working on setting up an online campaign (when I actually get time to work on it between other projects and work), and planning on using Foundry for it, so it’s nice to see some additional tools that can make life easier. Any suggestions on the Foundry modules?
Technological items would be really cool. I don’t want them to necessarily change the rarity of those things, but more exploration into Numeria would be cool.
I would be all over a Firebrands based AP as well.
I think they have alluded to season 5 of PFS having some inter-planar themes. That doesn’t mean that they will put an AP out with the same ideas, but I think that, combined with the themes in Rage of Elements means that we have a high probability of seeing more planar travel in the near future.
I love all of the Shadow Absalom stuff, so I think a change in planes with its own set of rules that adjust gameplay slightly would be awesome to experience.
I’m using Jerboa for Android and liking it so far. It doesn’t have all of the features I’m used too (used Relay, Baconreader, and Sync in the past) but it seems to be going in the right direction.
Mostly flavor, but some mechanical. You won’t be casting wish in combat any more.
From the Ritual entry on AON (emphasis mine to highlight the changes from Wish as a spell):
Considering that Wish is supposed to be the end-all-be-all of spells, it makes sense that it would be a ritual rather than just a quick “wave my hands and say mumbo jumbo” cast as an afterthought. It now takes at least an hour, requires gathering other spell casters, multiple checks, and it fits the description of a ritual in that it can have more powerful effects than a normal spell.
Edit to add: I may have misunderstood your question. The adjustment I was referring too was the change from a spell to a ritual, not that rituals had been adjusted.