unoriginal observation but the three major north american sports (football, baseball, hockey) are all designed with pausing and LOTS of downtime so that they can make 1-1.5 hrs of gameplay into a 3-6hr broadcast with ads

imagine if spells required an attack roll and 3 failed saves before they actually did anything (well, you sort of don't have to imagine, because Petrify exists...)

These abilities need to be waaay more frontloaded in their effects, or designed with virulent or other failsafes

Folks i have been playing pf2e for 5 years, 7 if you count the playtest. I think I can count on my fingers the number of times I've seen a stage 3 poison, because a creature has to hit, and then a player has to fail THREE consecutive fort saves

there's definitely some challenges to writing them, I imagine.

-"Sandbox" campaigns are famously difficuly to write and run
-You don't really get to use a lot of the established lore
-it's tough to do with overt colonialist themes

But I still want more than just Kingmaker and QftFF to pull from

If you've had rent frozen since 2017, that's probably the reality. Everything goes up like crazy 💀

*sorry, not IDENTICAL spell list, because Cleric learns all of theirs for free, while a Divine Witch has to go buy spells and eat scrolls

every time you remember that Bard or Cleric exist, i want you to imagine being an Occult or Divine Witch instead and how you have identical spell slots and spell list, but your OP af abilities are replaced with a familiar :^)

it's pretty S-tier, and the crazy part is *it's not even the only S-tier focus spell Bard gets at level 1*!!!!!

even in PF2, giving someone a +1 for one roll is.......... pretty mid. It's an effect that only changes 2 die outcomes, i.e. it only does something 10% of the time when you use it.

by now I'm pretty firmly of the camp that a lot of the +1s in the game could be +2s and it'd be completely fine

+1s feel great when they're AoE and reasonable to apply. but some stuff that's like "single target, 1 roll" should absolutely note be a +1 lol

i actually had a REALLY good, professional-looking pair of slacks. but they were grey instead of black. so now they get black jeans lmao.