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Interested in seeing some reviews of this one. Anyone read through this yet?

You might also consider having the Rogue take the Medic Archetype. Among other things, the Medic provides level 2 expertise in Medicine, which allows access to key skill feats like Continual Recovery and Ward Medic, which a Rogue can start picking up at level 2. That would give you enough...

It's true that for relatively optimal play (which the encounter guidelines assume), casters should be doing stuff to support martials. If they don't, encounters are going to be tougher. But it's also true that for relatively optimal play, martials should be doing stuff to support martials. If...

That's interesting. It's the opposite of how I think PF2 is often received; with GMs being more likely to praise the game (gushing about how much less prep-time and work PF2 ends up taking, how much more fun it is to play monsters, how much less homebrewing they're required to do, etc), and...

During the playtest the developers floated the idea of making something like Automatic Bonus Progression rules the default rules, but they found a large majority of playtesters preferred going the other way. Personally, I share your dislike for mandatory magic items (and I can't imagine playing...

JThursby's answer to this question is pretty much a perfect answer, IMO. Building on that, two further comments: 1. If you want to avoid the headache of tracking this, you can just use the (very popular) Automatic Bonus Progression optional rules in the Gamemastery Guide. This is, IMO, a big...

Here's another open letter on change.org, that is still working, and has even more signatures: OGL Letter EDIT: Or perhaps this should be posted at the top of its own thread, to maximize visibility?

FWIW, they've also added bi-monthly stand-alone Starfinder adventure releases. So they're still releasing a Starfinder adventure each month, it just alternates between an AP release and a stand-alone adventure.

Given Mark Seifter's remarks on the financial state of the industry, it's not clear this is true: Mark states he heard this second hand, so we shouldn't take this as gospel. But my impression is that pretty much everyone at Paizo is making considerably less than their counterparts at WotC.

Sean K Reynolds has posted a detailed description of his experiences at Paizo.

Relevant to this discussion is Mark Seifter’s long tweet about the economics of the industry: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1439296955088179201.html In it he touches on how much the owners of Paizo make from Paizo. And the answer is not much. And this isn’t because Paizo isn’t doing well...

A brief follow-up: In theory, it's not completely hopeless to make such comparisons. One can use Amazon sales estimators for both categories, and then use those to work out what the "toys & games" rank would correspond to if the product were put back into the "books" category. But the Amazon...

Amazon seems to have moved the PF2 core rulebook from the "books" main category into the "toys & games" main category. Likewise, the websites tracking Amazon rankings I've been using now list the PF2 book in the "toys & games" category. I'm not sure when this happened, but I suspect it was...

I take it from your comment here that you're mainly concerned with the differences between 5e and Starfinder. Two preliminary remarks. First, you can find all of the published Starfinder content online for free on the Archives of Nethys. Second, there's now a free online Starfinder character...

The online version of Pathbuilder 2e, the popular Pathfinder 2e character creation app, just went live here. It’s in the beta stage, and the developer is taking feedback here.

Yeah, I agree that the best way to assess a subreddit's growth is via metrics like posts/day and comments/day. Your post inspired me to take a look at this data more carefully. Using the raw data for the pathfinder2e subreddit from subreddit stats, here's a graph of the 7-day average of...

And here’s an interesting post from this morning by Erik Mona, Paizo’s CCO: “Folks, the game is doing well. It'd be doing better if we weren't in the middle of a worldwide pandemic, but we've sold a TON of books and continue to do so. More importantly, we believe the current game provides a...

Here’s an interesting quote on this topic yesterday from a Paizo employee: “Paizo never has and never will surpass D&D when WotC is actually trying. Even the window during which Pathfinder was the #1 RPG on icv2 happened during the timeframe where WotC had already announced 5E, was winding down...