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[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 80 points 2 weeks ago (30 children)

When it come to more traditional RPGs, I really like Pathfinder 2E for the following reasons:

  • It scales very well from level 1-20. The math just works
  • Encounter design and balancing is easy for the busy GM
  • All of the classes are good, there aren't any trap classes
  • Teamwork is highly encouraged through class and ability design
  • Degrees of success/failure
  • Easy, free access to the rules
  • The ORC license
  • https://pathbuilder2e.com/
  • Pathfinder Society Organized play is very well done and well supported by Paizo
  • Women wear reasonable armor
  • The rune system for magic weapons/armor
  • And so many more
[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Plus, I don't know any other system that lets me pull my intestines out of my abdomen and use them like a lasso to climb a cliff when I forgot my rope at home.

The biggest "con" to PF2 is that it is decidedly not 5e, and people expecting it to work like 5e will have a bad time. AC generally hangs within 1 or 2 points for the entire party at a specific level, same for enemies. It is rarely a good idea to just walk up to the enemy and face tank them. Moving around is big for survivability. Synergy with other party members can be huge too. Sometimes that thing you can do doesn't sound like a big buff or debuff, but if several party members are doing complementary buffs/debuffs it can turn the tide.

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The synergy part is so huge. PF2 is very strongly based around making your party as awesome as possible instead of just making your character individually powerful, which I think trips up a lot of people coming from other systems or video games.

[–] kichae@wanderingadventure.party 7 points 2 weeks ago

It definitely trips up people who usually just look at RPGBot to build their characters out from levels 1 - 20 before the first session. That's how I made my build choices, and it was a pretty significant stumbling block for me when I made the switch.

The blue options aren't always the best options, because the best options depend on what everyone else is doing.

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