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Kichae

@ kichae @wanderingadventure.party

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Data scientist, video game analyst, astronomer, and Pathfinder 2e player/GM from Halifax, Nova Scotia.

  • Flirting in the Forgotten Realms

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  • If you pick feats in a vacuum, based on how impactful you expect them to be in the mean average of all sessions across all tables, sure.

    But you probably shouldn't pick feats that way. They should either be an expression of your character concept, or a reaction to the campaign you're currently playing.

  • Come on guys...

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip I interviewed someone for a jr data analyst roll once, and one of the questions I asked was to explain the Monty Hall problem.

    They told me the odds were 50:50, so I rolled out the 100 door version.

    They told me the odds were 50:50.

    Management decided to hire him, anyway.

  • Come on guys...

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  • brian@lemmy.ca The die doesn't know it just rolled a 1. History doesn't matter to it.

  • This is what alignment does to your brain [Dungeons & Dragons/Pathfinder]

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  • Ok, that's it, for my next character I'm going to play as a Lepton Ranger.

  • Full plate be like

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  • No, it's also better if you want an internally consistent system built on top of sensible principles. Or a system with reliable baseline for power scaling. Or if you want to invite an optimizer or a newbie to your table.

    It's not a "tactical combat RPG". That's a wild misconception propagated by both tactical combat fans and people who have looked over the hedge and been scared away by somethings being different. It is, instead, a well crafted systemic RPG, designed with reliability at its centre.

    Reliability enables tactical combat, which is why TC fans flocked to the system, but it enables a hell of a lot more, too.

    It's also better if you want a steady stream of new content without paying Hasbro or relying on randos.

  • Full plate be like

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  • See, I don't think that 20 does make up for that 1, any more than your 20 on an attack roll lets me roll damage on my 1.

    The party isn't some cohesive, singular unit that catches or avoids attention based on some average of the total behaviour. It's instead a cloud of actors that are only as strong as its weakest member.

    Like, if they were 4 kids sneaking cookies from the cookie jar, and the youngest knocked the jar off the counter, it really doesn't matter how quiet the other 3 were, the shattering of the jar is going to get them all caught.

  • Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes

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  • So many family recipes are documented this way, though, so it's a significant problem when these are handed down.

    "I just skip grandma's chili because she didn't record it using volume or weight for everything" isn't a thing people say or do.

  • Skill checks

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  • Pathfinder fixes th... Wait, which forum was this again?

  • Am I the only person who likes removal of evil races?

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  • No, you're not alone. There has been much ink spelled in defense of the removal of geneaological morality from the game, and from Pathfinder before it. It's just that most of that ink has been in replies to people being cranky about the removal in the first place.

    Good and evil being a racial trait is just something that about 1/3 of society seems to take for granted. It's a belief they may not even know they have until someone does something that stops reinforcing that belief. These silent, often unnoticed beliefs are often the corner stones of ideologies, and people don't like having their ideologies questioned or challenged. Or even highlighted, in many cases.

    So, people who have an ideological belief that good and evil are simple concepts, that good and evil are inherent qualities of a person, and that good and evil are tied to heritage are going to be primed to be giant whiny babies about racial alignment being removed, and to put up a giant stink,while those who see it as a commom sense move are not going to be front and centre making headlines about it. They'll be in the comments, getting down-voted by the tilted reactionaries who like their simplistic, black-and-white world.

  • No, really, I just care about hygiene

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  • It's only a TTRPG if you can win it in character creation. Everything else is just sparkling video game.

  • Two Actions [Pathfinder 2e]

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  • Aye. And there are things the player can do that lets them take 2 attacks for one action, but you get a normal Multiple-Attack-Penalty progression between each attack, and there are things that let them take 2 attacks for 2 actions -- as would be normal -- but which do not progress the MAP until after the second attack is done. And there are a lot of each. Or rather, there's functionally 1 of each, but it's often named different things for different classes.

    The single-action variety can be seen, in-world, as being very fast, taking multiple individual attacks in very quick succession, like with Flurry of Blows. The two-action variety can be seen as hitting someone with two different weapons at the same time, as with Double Slice.

    It does bother me that both let/make you pool your damage for dealing with resistances/weaknesses. Given the choice, I'd probably have the two-action varieties pool damage, and the single-action ones count as multiple instances. But nobody asked me.

  • The sheer number of options is the best thing about Pathfinder. It's also the worst.

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  • There's a Pathbuilder 1e, but I think it might only be for Android. I haven't seen a web-based version.

  • The sheer number of options is the best thing about Pathfinder. It's also the worst.

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  • Try explaining things to her in more intuitive terms. She gets to do more damage when her opponent has significant trouble defending themselves. That happens when they have to split their attention across a wide distance (flanked), when they're on the ground (prone), when they can't see where they're being attacked from (hidden), or when you fake them out (feint).

    Old hats tend to boil away the actual roleplay from combat, but the rules usually directly support a roleplay-based view of battle. Presenting the game this way had my then-9-year-old picking the game up really quickly.

  • The sheer number of options is the best thing about Pathfinder. It's also the worst.

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  • It's not available yet on iOS (though an iOS port is in development). You can find it on the web at pathbuilder2e.com. Mobile and web apps don't sync, though. The paid versions allow you to save characters to Google Drive, which you can use to sync them.

  • The sheer number of options is the best thing about Pathfinder. It's also the worst.

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  • No, archetypes are not subclasses. They're a whole system of character modifications, most of which can be taken by any character as long as they meet the prerequisites. They usually modify some base element of your class (eg the Flexible Spellcaster archetype changes how casters select their spells, use their spell slots, and how many spells they get). There are a subset of archetypes (Class Archetypes) which are locked to specific classes, and which more deeply alter the class's base abilities. The changes can be quite significant. This is where the presteige classes are rearing their heads.

  • I basically had to unfollow everyone on the latter platform

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  • No one complains more about a product than long-time fans of the product. They're the ones who have had the time to feel betrayed by something, be it minor design choices, or things the owners have done, and who also feel a deep sense of ownership over the product.

    Haters are just fans that feel alienated somehow, and can't move past it.

  • 13 skeletons

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  • The baker's dozen is 13, because one of them is sacrificial.

  • Hot take: Strongest creatures in the setting shouldn't just be clowned by PCs with no resistance.

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  • Win if you can, lose if you must, but always TPK.

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  • Bingo. Especially when what they've done to trigger the comments telllimf them to "play something else" is ask how to extend the thing they already like, or to replace some subsystem that is so clealy not core to the game.

    But with 5e, there are also just so many third party releases that you can also replace core systems, like magic, with little difficulty, and people know it.

    They don't want to play something else. They're not ready to try something else. They want to keep their dragon ampersand and their dis/advantage rolls, and telling them they're doing something wrong by holding on to that isn't convincing. It just communicates that other games are played by fucking assholes with boundary issues.

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  • Ok, but these discussions aren't happening at you're table. "Well, fuck them then" isn't exactly helpful.