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I recommend this video to look more into OSR philosophy regarding the rules: https://www.youtube.com/live/bCxZ3TivVUM?si=aZ-y2U_AVjn9a6Ua

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[-] Nerorero@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago

??? Have you ever played 2e? That shit is perfectly balanced. Just because fights are designed around having full hp doesn't mean the players always are.

In pf1 you can ruin a character with an uninformed choice, in pf2 you can't. The gap between minmaxxed or not has become reasonable in my opinion.

[-] Skabb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You definitely can screw yourself a lot with uninformed choices, but they are less impactful per choice, and the base kit of classes are good enough that bad feat picks won't make you useless.

The biggest exception here is spell selection, shit spell selection can feel really bad, and there are a decent amount of "trap" spells (not that the spells are bad, but it's easy to misunderstand the intended purpose).

[-] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

in pf2 you can’t.

I run pf2e and love it, but I really gotta call this out as bullshit. It's actually one of the worst things new people can read about the game, imho. I read this a lot as I was learning the system and parroted it to my players. We're all experienced with TTRPGs, for the record. Despite all the chat from pf2e players that you supposedly cannot ruin a character with bad choices, I assure you it is possible.

[-] Nerorero@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

It happened to me once, and only because a player wanted to do some stupid shit. It was still an okayish character. The others played what sounded cool to them and had no issues. Relative to pf1 it's night and day

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