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What you need is a fighter with recharging/regenerating resources. I have said many times that the way to do resources for martials is to steal the Grit mechanic that Matt Mercer stole from PF1 for his port of the Gunslinger: it's simple, the basic idea of regenerating on a kill/crit is solid...

Sure, but I see that as basic combat stuff. I never really saw wasted rages, even with new players, tbh. Their resistance pales to the Bear and to use their power they basically have to hamstring themselves a fairly substantial amount of time. I get the idea of exhaustion for attacks, but it's...

I mean, for a barb? If we want to go with that, unarmed attack, halved to 1-2 damage? I find the easier way is to continue attacking most of the time, which is typically when the rage is needed the most because it means you're stuck in. But again, the big reason when you rage is a consideration...

But that's just every rage. There's nothing more complicated to frenzy other than the consequences of failing to continue rage, which is one of the easiest things to continue in a combat. I have yet to see a barb have a problem continuing a rage when necessary. Admittedly I haven't seen a...

I mean, yeah, absolutely. When I was looking at redoing the fighter with Martial dailies, I basically started looking at doing dailies for all the martial classes because, well, why not go all in? But that was around the point that I found out about PF2 and that it simply started with that...

I didn't realize that spells had a monopoly on "disposable resources" and "lists". Again, this is confining vision down to only allowing one thing to have access to more complexity than "add a rider and a die". Is that like a 5.24 thing, because my PHB says it's just "You take exhaustion at...

Adjudicating spells can be incredibly complex, largely because effects are built from the ground up for each spell. "Rulings, not rules" all that. But adjudicating a berserker barbarian? That's pretty damn easy. Extra attack, toss some exhaustion.

Serious answer: They're not because they're not magical. The problem with design in 5E is that anything more complicated that "Attack plus a minor effect rider" can only be a spell is an incredibly confining design principle. The better question to ask is "Why is anything that is slightly...

When I was making the Warlord, I made it a subclass, but I was also basically reworking the Fighter to be an ala carte class where you could choose a variety of powers. Really, the Fighter chassis is one of the worst out there when it comes to construction. Just incredibly limiting given the...

I mean, Kingmaker and Abomination Vaults are sort of more open than most APs, aren't they? One is closer to a classic multi-delve dungeon crawl and the other is a kingdom-building AP. They get more topics because there's just a lot more ways they can go, so there are more questions to ask.

Playtest is out!

Starfinder going to Paizo 2E mechanics might get me to look more thoroughly at those books. As someone who cut his teeth on WotC Star Wars I was kind of done with 3.X space stuff, but this might perk my interest. It'd have to be really good, though, get me away from Genesys/FFG SW.

Warlord time, baby~! Also apparently the Guardian is going to be the new tankiest tank and the Crusader is taking a slight tankiness nerf with a damage increase? At least that's what someone told me... roughly 15 minutes ago, but I do not know where they got that.

PF2 seems to be doing quite well. Books are coming out at a good pace with good quality, the line consistently charts at the second place in the ICv2 ranks and in this last report they said that they were a place where D&D people (particularly older players) were migrating to. They won't take...

It's a much cleaner game. System-wise it's more balanced, it does retain a lot of the complexity but in different ways that are generally easier to interact with. You still have a bunch of axes of customizability, but overall they've made it so there aren't really "trap choices" and long...

We are starting to get to the point where 3D printing might be able to make up that ground. It's always been a difficult game trying to catch up with D&D-style bestiaries (especially once you get past the common monsters from the first ones), but with print-on-demand maybe it'll make it a bit...

But closer to the topic, I think a lot of those things ("Drawing takes an action", etc) are key to the system and forcing the players to make choices, as well as making things simpler on the GM (No need to hash whether something is a Full Action or a Bonus Action, etc, since you can just say...

I mean, you might want to combine feats into certain packages, so there is less choice but still the same amount of things to do. I would say if you want to capture PF2, the things you want are: 3-Action Economy Robust class skeleton which handles the numerical growth of things. Feats which...

I mean, we'll see how many it needs. It definitely seems more effective than those posts indicate, so I would not be as confident as they are that it's "dead" given that it's only just hit the scene.

As with a lot of AI people, they're probably a bit premature in that: Seems like the limited dataset makes actually knowing difficult to figure out how bad it can be, especially at this juncture.