Always love hearing when I changed an opinion on some option!

The other day someone on a Discord said they’ve started assigning Skill Proficiencies differently because of me and that compliment went straight into my veins.

view of how the game runs. It teaches players to stick to rotations they perceive as “safe” rather than thinking about individual situations and tactics, and it teaches players to fear every closed door because whatever’s behind it will one-shot you if you don’t one-shot it first. 2/2

My main gripe is that if levels 1-2 need to exist to make the new player learning experience smoother, they shouldn’t also be some of the deadliest levels of the game. Not only is it extra frustrating for newbies to have slight mistakes cause instant death, it also teaches players a very warped 1/2

I would never!

Frankly, the current level 1-2 experience should’ve been an optional level 0 for people who love the meat grinder, and the game should’ve started at current level 3.

Truly, it’s kind of hilarious if you look at the original design goals of bounded accuracy. You’ll note that almost NONE were hit by the final design of D&D 5E, and even less so by 5.5E. It’s just a buzzword that people use to defend bad decisions in 5E’s math because they like their broken toys.

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Mythic PF2E levels of in-fiction power. 3/3

70 damage at level 5 in a single crit Strike while a 4E character wouldn’t, ignoring that the latter’s damage doesn’t come from singularly big Strikes at all.

In-fiction, both are doing very similar things a lot of the times, at least until the very high levels where 4E kind of overtakes even 2/3

I feel like this happens all the time when folks describe 4E martial to me. They’re usually describing one specific daily or encounter power that just… has a lot of text going on, and then trying to compare it apples to oranges against a PF2E martial. It’d be like if I said the PF2E Fighter does 1/3

additional Reactions. This means that if you have a Reddit-optimal martial who hates coordinating and just wants to smash, they’re almost certainly gonna refuse and say they wanna Reactive Strike and that you should just not AoE because it’s suboptimal anyways… 2/2

Yeah, Gather to Me! is an INCREDIBLE tactic since its only constraint is ending inside your banner aura. There’s no “toward” or “away” wording, and in fact you can even reposition yourself to give an ally more spaces to end their Stride in.

Of course, unlike a real Commander you don’t hand out 1/2

my allies, while I too can protect them, and ganging up on my foes to make life hard for them. 2/2

I want a 5E Shepherd Druid’s THEMATIC equivalent. Not a mechanical one, to be clear, because controlling dozens of statblocks at a time is terrible. I want something like a Necromancer class but instead of undead minions exploding in body horror, I want little animal friends protecting me and 1/2

*one more spell slots per rank than it says on their table.

have 4/3/3/3/3/2/2/1/1 slots. The PF2E one would have 4/4/4/4/4/4/4/4/4/1 slots at a baseline.

And the level 20 Wizard wouldn’t actually be casting four 1st rank spells either. Between their staff, their Thesis, their Feats, their scrolls, their other items, etc they’ll probably have way more. 2/2

You’re missing the School spell slots feature though. The Wizard isn’t casting 3 spells per rank, they’re casting 4. Every Wizard gets access to one more spell slots than it says on their table.

4 slots per rank is WAY higher than other editions. For comparison, a 5E Wizard at level 20 would 1/X

can directly add spell slots (or equivalent) at various mid/high levels. 2/2