I imported the JSON files from the Foundry VTT module into a Pandas dataframe in Python and randomly select from there, using the party’s casting rank +1 as an upper limit.

I hope we’re more chill here about the, uh, familial relationship between games than they are on Reddit.

Yeah, uh, so, I used to be a galactic warlord…

I’m a simple man. I see a KingOogaTonTon video, I watch and upvote.

Dragon’s Demand is a 1E adventure module, so it is a licensed game. The game itself features a bunch of the Pathfinder Iconics.

Worse than that, smart melee strikers are spending actions to get into and then back out of range, or into range and raising a shield, or doing some kind of proactive defense.

That melee strike should cost 3 actions.

To paraphrase Thurston Hillman, GM of Rotgrind and Associate Publisher at Paizo:

If your party needs to do their daily preparations, but it doesn’t make sense narrarively for them to take a 9+ hour break, let them refresh their abilities anyway!

FWIW, it’s not a starter set, it’s a playtest. It’s stress testing things, and leaning on Pathfinder assets. You’re not missing out on the full meal deal right now.

LO is Lost Omens, which is the Pathfinder setting.

I don’t know, this is starting to sound like a separate discussion with separate issues, and as a result it feels like goalpost moving.

The issue with women’s fantasy armour has long been that it exists for the Male Gaze, as a trope that is propagated by men for the purpose of titilizing men. It’s objectifying the female form, and doing so in a way that does not include women in the discussion at all.

The second image, instead of being a continuation of that, just feels like fashion, and complaints about it land as “no one has ever cared about aesthetics in a suit of armour” which is a totally false take and indefensible platform.

They just called the 5e charactersheet “overwhelming” wuth its, like, 8 numbers on it, and suggested players don’t need to know pesky things like “rules”, but you’re going off on dice?

Pathbuilder doesn’t enforce most restrictions. It doesn’t know what your GM is being flexible about, and it doesn’t want to get in the way of how people play the game at their tables.

It’s entirely campaign dependent. If you’re in a campaign where the challenges are overwhelmingly PL-1 or greater enemies on standard flat, dry surfaces, there’s no reason to play with niche gear.

But the rule books are big toolboxes, meant to provide the tools necessary to run any kind of campaign you want. One that involves hanging out on a lot of ledges? Squeezing through narrow passageways? Dealing with geographical Hazards during combat (note to self: run more combats on ice)? Fleeing from enemies regularly? Then yeah, having that extra DEX on your skill rolls might be more valuable to you.

Yeah, GM Core was a downgrade from the GMG, dropping NPCs and some variant rules (such as stamina). The NPC Core book will be great, I’m sure, but it doesn’t make up for the fact that that some of that content was available for the price of the GMG.

It’s hard for me to be too upset, though, when AoN and pf2easy have that content. But it is still pretty disappointing.

That said, having tokens you paid for revoked is a complete and total outrage.

That creative endeavor: A 5e clone with Blades’ progress clocks slapped on top of it.

Ronald does tend to mix in his “flamebait” bit with actual pointed content, which isn’t always welcome, but there’s something to be said for actually spotlighting the kinds of things people say to content creators.

Sunlight and disinfectant and all that.

Excited to have backed. Congratulations on a successful Kickstarter!

I mean, they are religious defenders. Knights Templar and all that. That’s the core concept and fantasy they’re aiming for.

Guardian Sorcerer or Guardian Oracle or something probably fits other concepts better.

“Roll acrobatics, I guess.”

“Natural 20!”

"Ok… You contort your body in ways that no humanoid creature should be able to, and successfully fit inside the jar.

"Can I get everyone else to make a Wisdom saving throw, please?

"Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh.

“Ok, everybody else now thinks you’re a djinni.”

There are good tools for limiting your view to only what spells are relevant, too. I like the spellbook over at pf2easy.com for this.