Lemdee

Most situations requiring you to stealth aren’t going to have time for you to get out of your armor

That goes double for heavy armors like plate which takes upwards of twenty minutes to remove depending on the system you’re using.

Crit fails/successes are built into Pathfinder2e, so yeah we use em’

Some of the best stories in all my RPG experiences have come from a crit fails!

*it’s not fun in 5e

Bulk/weight/encumbrance in other systems is handled well and makes it so equipment choices matter more and the players choices have more impact on the game, while not being terribly designed so it feels like a chore (aka 5e)

Yup. When I used to run 5e I made my own homebrew encumbrance system that worked way better then read PF2 rules and got annoyed because this character concept is viable in PF2 and it has an encumbrance system that actually works.

There’s held items, stored items, and worn items. Held and worn can be easily accessed but count against your bulk limit. Stored items (in your backpack) count against your bulk less so you can carry more but take longer to access in battle. So if you’re strong enough you can literally wear your entire weapon arsenal just like this meme since there’s no limit to worn items as long as it’s not above your max bulk lol

(Bulk is an abstracted form of weight that makes encumbrance easier to track)

Alright, PF2 rant done. Seeing your frustrations with 5e bulk reminded me of my own when I still ran that system lol

I’m telling you, just play Pathfinder 2e already. They have great dying rules that prevents up/down abuse with the wounded condition building on the dying condition to stop the up/down cheese seen in 5e.

I used to run 5e for years and also use to make all kinds of house rules and systems just like this to get it to run how I wanted it to because it doesn’t do much outside of combat out of the box. I read through the PF2e rulebook and kicked myself for not switching sooner because they have a rule for damn near everything I would want to run and super balanced at the same time.

Yeah an hour and a few gold isn’t really a penalty at all in 5e with how easy it is to get money. Even at low levels imo. I’ve been doing this gag since level two (we’re now level fourteen) and the cost was a joke then too.

Because 5e has no mechanical incentive to keep familiars alive I made it a running joke to repeatedly kill my familiar with my AOE spells. It dies every combat session and normally to my own fireballs or lightning bolts. My familiar hates my wizard but is contractually obligated (magically bound) to obey my orders. When it glares at me I’ll yell “you don’t have a union!” made the GM laugh and the Ranger gasp the first time lol

But I think the GM is making a familiar union will my owl familiar as the founder.

I wouldn’t hold your breath, they didn’t even want to remove the Nazi instance in their AMA.

Edit: To the responses, great, it’s gone. Removing that pedo content shows that they’re not too overworked to purge content like that from join-lemmy. So there’s no reason for them not to remove the Nazi instances being advertised on the front page of join-lemmy. We’ll just look the other way on that one I guess.

So if I’m understanding right, based on their recommendations this will all be addressed as more moderation and QOL tools are introduced as we move further down the development roadmap?

How could three people downvote this important technology news?!

The truly sad thing is this is before I standardized my email and username for gaming so there’s no telling what email I used in order to be able to recover my account. My golden Drake with over 2000 magic power is forever lost ✊😞

As a non-furry artist seeing how much the furry community supports small artists is really making me consider doing furry art lol

Yeah, that’s part of the learning curve when moving from 5e to PF2. High AC in PF2 isn’t about avoiding the hit, but avoiding the crit. If you’re in melee you’re getting hit lol

Savage Worlds might be more what you’re looking for. A bit more crunch than PbtA but not as much crunch as 5e or PF2, also there would be less work to convert the setting you’re creating.

What if I want to take you on a magical journey that breaks you?