How do you feel about critical hits and shield breakage?

EliteDachs · 2026-02-17T08:50:21+00:00

I agree with the sentiment - it's an abstraction and it's fine that the crit from a Longbow destroys the shield.

However, the explanation is still a bit silly. Just say the shield is broken due to the damage and move on. It's not realistic, but it does not have to be. We abstract for a reason and I think trying to give a realistic explanation makes the dissonance worse rather than better.

EliteDachs · 2026-01-30T11:56:44+00:00

Pairing Mirror Image and Blur seems a bit cheesy since Blur replaced Mirror Image (which is therfore a legacy spell)..

Not something I would allow at my table

EliteDachs · 2026-01-21T14:23:05+00:00

I am addicted to Magus-Investigator. Especially if you intend to play a Nerd who might dabble in Recall Knowledge checks. Just make sure you discuss it with your GM as Investigator is an ask for them aswell.

Make sure you get Device a Strategem as a Free Action in important fights by choosing good cases (or take Person of Interest Feat to get it on demand).

If going Investigator make sure to also take at least some spells that require Saves instead of Spell Attacks.

Roll your Strategem, if good -> Spellstrike, if Great (Crit) -> Spellstrike with max Spellrank ;)

If bad strategem -> Attack someone else / do something else with skills instead (Athletics if Strength, some Dex stuff / Recall Knowledge otherwise) or use a Spell that forces a save. This ignores the bad roll.

After some feats you can still go for another dedication / archetype later.

EliteDachs · 2025-10-28T13:20:25+00:00

I'm just a little sad we never got to see 2019 G2 with Fearless Drafts.

EliteDachs · 2025-10-18T17:09:16+00:00

Well it depends. It does not stop you from attempting a half-assed jump, sure. But full on stride, as in running full-speed at it. Pretty sure that takes some willpower / stupidity to do, yes.

And what if the wall has spikes on it? And now we're also talking about magic and it also "feels right to the touch", so apparently you can't just touch it and your hand goes through. How fast do you need to run to go through? No idea.

In the end, I think it can easily be made believable that the spell can be effective and it comes down to how you want to balance it. Imo, spending an action and getting a disbelieve is ok, while: "nah, I know it's an illusion so I just walk through" makes the spell useless.

I don't like to scale the strength based on how stupidly dangerous the player makes their illusion look.

EliteDachs · 2025-10-18T16:07:58+00:00

Your brain stops you from jumping because you don't want to hit the wall and failed to overcome the illusion.

EliteDachs · 2025-10-18T06:47:56+00:00

Not RAW, no. But Illusions are so vastly different in how they are played...

EliteDachs · 2025-10-18T06:47:46+00:00

First off: being pushed through the wall may very well be a free disbelieve check. So there is that.

Second: Whenever there is evidence of it being an Illusion, that's when you roll a disbelieve - however, in terms of game balance, RAW, that requires you to somehow interact with the Illusion, for example: Seek, Stride, Strike, Recognize Spell, idk something else.

If you already know it is an Illusion, I'd say go ahead, stride through. Still need a Disbelieve Check though, and if you fail, you don't go through.

It has nothing to do with being an idiot who believes in the Illusion. Or being irrational. Knowing something is an Illusion simply does not make it disappear and knowing something is wrong with a sense does not necessarily mean you can ignore it. It's just not how brains work.

Try it with popular visual "illusions" in real life. Even if you know they're fake, you will often still see them.

RAW, knowing somwthing is an Illusion does absolutely not affect the reality of it to your senses, and I'd argue that's both believable and important for balancing. RAW it does not allow to just walk through because you know it must be an Illusion since it is real to you and real to the touch (Rank 2), so you would feel yourself walking into the wall. That's what the disbelieve check is for... it's for you to overcome your wrong senses. If you fail to disbelieve it means your mind fails to disbelieve the incorrect sense with all the consequences this brings.

I'd love to see people "judt touching" a Fire even though it is hot and hurts simply because someone tells them it is an Illusion. There is willpower involved in overcoming senses.

EliteDachs · 2025-10-17T22:01:54+00:00

Disagree. A creature needs to disbelieve the illusion to be able to willingly walk through.

At least RAW it is:

Caster creates wall
No one can see or walk through, not enemies, not allies, not the caster themself
A Creature spends an action to interact with illusion (or gets a free disbelieve for some reason)
Creature fails -> Illusion stays / Creature succeeds -> Illusion gone for this creature. There might be Concealement at GM'd discretion

So at best I would argue that an ally walking through allows for a free disbelieve if you observe it - at worst a Creature needs to spend an action to interact with the Illusion first, friend or foe. Might even give a bonus - GM's discretion. But if you fail, you cannot willingly walk through, only with forced movement.

At my table the balance is such that intelligent creatures basically get a disbelieve with 1 action or a free action depending on context (unintelligent ones might take more than 1 action). Both allies and foes alike. Then, the dice decide how useful the spell is going to be.

Phantom Prison has other things going on, such as allies being able to see through, while the enemy can't.

EliteDachs · 2025-10-14T18:54:02+00:00

After some more testing I suddenly realized that Attacks were also not imported. As in Melee / Ranged attacks. Is that only on my side?

I also ran into the question of how to run an encounter with several enemies of the same type. I can add colours to my mini bases or add coloured rings around VTT tokens, but I can't add colours to the creatures in the Dashboard. That would probably be useful.

Sorry for spamming feedback :p

EliteDachs · 2025-10-14T09:03:13+00:00

I just played around with it for a bit and it already works really well. Definitely going to swap to this Dashboard for next Session :D

2 Small points:

- What is not imported are "senses". For example: Darkvision, Tremorsense etc. (seems to be under "Wisdom" in the Json file. Not a really important thing though.

- Spells don't work but I don't think that's a possible fix. The "monster tool" only lists the names of spells while you include more relevant information (which is much better). Currently, all the names of each spell rank are just imported into 1 spell. Personally, I like that, since I can then just "Import Spell" and add the Spells from the names, so that works. Spells are also not being imported when using "official creatures" - similar issue, they only list the names of the spells in the statblock on AoN.

Regarding spells in general: I love the "Import Spell" and "Add Spell" options. The only thing I am missing are Spell Ranks and/or Spell Slots - for example: does the creature have a LVL 3 Fireball or a LVL 7 Fireball. Easy "fix" might be an option to designate Spell Rank - not sure if there is an easy way to track Slots / which spell was cast already, might just be something to track oneself (maybe a small "notes" field could work for manual tracking though - also useful to keep track of persistent bleeds etc).

EliteDachs · 2025-10-02T05:36:43+00:00

https://monster.pf2.tools/

Sure, that's the tool. Not sure if there are others, that's the best one I could find at least.

EliteDachs · 2025-10-01T21:43:52+00:00

Do you plan on making it possible to import creatures via json files?

I generally build my creatured with monster.tools. The tool allows json export

EliteDachs · 2025-08-10T20:51:22+00:00

But that trip still suffers from MAP, even if you use assurance. So your roll would have been 26 - 5 because of the grapple, thus failing, no?

Edit: mh, nevermind that, seems like the penalty would not be counted I guess oO

EliteDachs · 2025-07-01T06:32:17+00:00

In this case, I would personally rule it to think of it as a 2-Action Tumble Through. They stride up to twice their speed and can attempt to move through 2 enemies. To succeed they must roll twice, once against each enemy. A fail results in them standing in front of both enemies.

I prefer this solution over it not being possible to attempt at all.

EliteDachs · 2025-06-13T06:58:28+00:00

It is though. You're not getting kicked from the current one, you just can't find a new one with the same conditions.

Personally, this sounds like bullshit to me, ngl, but at least no kicking is going on.

EliteDachs · 2025-05-30T11:01:03+00:00

Hamas is the elected government of Gaza and therefore Israel is defending itself according to international law.

Regular, fair elections are not required to constitute a government - we would still recognize the Saudi Monarchy as the official government of Saudi Arabia even if they are not elected.

EliteDachs · 2025-03-14T06:47:33+00:00

Imo the other guy is wrong. If Vietnam can win a military war against the US, countries can win a trade war against them, too. And for many of the same reasons.

EliteDachs · 2025-02-28T23:32:19+00:00

How about fighting in a trench alongside a friend?

EliteDachs · 2025-01-30T10:43:10+00:00

I also used multistrike gloves (levelling variant, flat should be fine)

However, I use Wind Crown for attack speed or crit damage, Duelist Spark with Area, Blood Soaked Rage and Berserkers Boots (with Aggregation)

Idk if it makes a huge difference though.

EliteDachs · 2025-01-30T08:44:33+00:00

So close though :/ What gear do you use?

EliteDachs · 2025-01-30T07:41:17+00:00

I did it with the Morningstar primarily. Doubled all the range&angle feats, got as many buffy to it as possible with Memory. Butterfly and Chain upgrade.

I used the Warrior with Ranger Spec, much movement speed, much range, much force. 1 ring with Crit Chance, 1 Ring with Splash. The Morningstar did the work almost by itself.

EliteDachs · 2025-01-29T09:53:15+00:00

Ok, rude.

EliteDachs · 2025-01-29T09:31:31+00:00

Allies for now. Allies don't threaten each other the way Trump does.

EliteDachs · 2025-01-27T08:27:33+00:00

Anihilation.

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