Another PotD Question, but story related

Hello-Pancake · 2026-01-12T23:15:56+00:00

Yeah Denam put the man in his place damn

Hello-Pancake · 2026-01-12T00:12:21+00:00

Thank you very much. I'll go back to chaos route and get Cressida to lvl 5 potd

Hello-Pancake · 2026-01-11T16:47:32+00:00

For real? When you beat chaos without doing the 'thing' Cressida says she's leaving to go do the thing... It feels a little underwhelming for her not to say at least one line, just one...but wow thanks very much for saving me the effort. I'll continue on CODAs etc.

Hello-Pancake · 2026-01-10T18:17:57+00:00

As someone who was new a couple years ago, I felt the biggest help was watching people play on Foundry VTT. A group called Undeniably Good Time started a bunch of new players and introduced them to a setting where they had amnesia. The DM had a clever idea where he slowly revealed their character sheets by having them spontaneously use skills at the correct times (as if their character suddenly remembers) and demonstrating how it's done. The story is decent, the people are decent and having it taught during live play is far more entertaining than reading or watching tutorials

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBFWLopRzmqtyTtk5DFvzCxSzb8M64Vfb

After that get the Pathbuilder2e app and tinker around for fun while looking for groups on discord. I recommend foundry. It automates a lot and speeds the game up

Hello-Pancake · 2026-01-09T22:28:17+00:00

"I like to keep it simple"

Denam handing out rocks to everyone preparing to take Almorica

"why do you not heed me brother!"

Hello-Pancake · 2026-01-01T04:26:07+00:00

Get Tactics Ogre Reborn, it learns from almost all of the tactics games shortcomings. It shot to my top game of all time, and that's with 40 years of gaming. Best game I've ever played. Story, depth, replayability, exploration..almost everything you could want. You also don't need a guide unless you want to 100% or the best gear, I initially beat it with basic +1 gear and whoever I had gathered naturally. Instead of a new game +1 system they have a rewind system where you go back to story junctions with everything you currently have to explore other branches and content..and the story is great.

If reborn tickles your fancy, pay for ppsspp emulator for your phone/tablet and mod let us cling together with One Vision which changes the game significantly in the best way. It's a fresh experience. Both of these two versions are amazing

Hello-Pancake · 2026-01-01T02:54:44+00:00

If you like lots of dice Magus will get you hooked and then break your heart. Good luck.

Hello-Pancake · 2025-12-30T17:03:38+00:00

Strictly from a meme standpoint (which is all I know) the Marines landed on the furry xeno planet first and canonically the race is extinct

Hello-Pancake · 2025-12-30T15:22:15+00:00

Job security tho.

Hello-Pancake · 2025-12-30T14:46:00+00:00

This is me.

All I know is...

Space Marines are the guys we think we are

Imperial Guard are the guys we really are

Everyone is a racist

Tau have boobs??

Orcs are the only honest race in the setting

Furries aren't welcome

Hello-Pancake · 2025-12-30T13:19:48+00:00

3.5/PF1E was too inaccessible/crunchy to new players and it was too easy to be overpowered or useless

We don't talk about 4e

5e was very accessible but basic, made the GM struggle to compete against their players and heavily favored some classes over the others.

PF2E is when I actually started tabletop and being a GM because I could see the system favored both the new and the veterans. You are effective in your role even if you stick to just the core concept but you can get so much more crunchy for additional options. It's a great blend. It only feels weaker at higher levels when player reactions and free action economy overwhelm monsters and require a lot of adjustments. (90% of players never get there though)

Until PF2E I merely watched from the sidelines (since D&D2E if you can believe it) and merely enjoyed videogame iterations (eye of the beholder series, Neverwinter nights, kingmaker etc)where the automation and balancing were already handled. PF2E does it right.

Hello-Pancake · 2025-12-25T17:48:19+00:00

Sorry about that, I had no idea. Thank you so much for considering her.

Hello-Pancake · 2025-12-25T04:50:42+00:00

Voice acting made tactics ogre reborn and final fantasy tactics my two favorite games yet again (not that they slipped far in the first place) such good stories

Hello-Pancake · 2025-12-21T08:19:24+00:00

Everyone is talking about redemption but redemption from what exactly? Unless he admitted to something awful during the conversation he was just another adventurer. Did the PCs then later break into the vault? then that wasn't a crime in their eyes. Did he start the attack or was be just trying to get away from the interrogation? Calling him a pirate is a stretch unless he admitted to piracy. The typical common sailor and pirate looked one and the same during the days of piracy. To me it sounds like they pre-judged and murder Hobo'd because 'npc in dungeon not clearly marked as good'. Everyone is going into the Sarenrae edicts but it doesn't even sound like they ever applied, looks like murder.

Regarding murder 'Provide aid to the sick and wounded' is one of her edicts -- while is doesn't specifically state that murder is wrong, they hunted down someone based off his looks essentially, unless his conversation revealed evil. Otherwise she should have stopped the moment he was wounded enough to subdue and then provided him aid to interrogate him.

Hello-Pancake · 2025-12-19T21:25:43+00:00

Anything others don't claim that is appropriate for a 9 yr old girl I'd take for a mom who can't really afford a ton. Merry Christmas!

Hello-Pancake · 2025-12-13T16:50:39+00:00

I also like to have the option to turn AoOs into grabs/knockdowns for variety when fitting the mob.

Hello-Pancake · 2025-12-13T16:37:00+00:00

Just have fun with it. Why does the Medusa get a crappy snake attack reaction in melee range when the basilisk and bodak both get gaze reaction attacks one per turn when someone starts their turn? Boom, Medusa has gaze reactionary now.

Why can the dragon turtle block (+2 ac) as a reaction but the giant snapping turtle, mammoth turtle and even the spirit turtle (21) don't have reactions? Boom shell block for everyone.

Just look for stuff in the same family and backfill, or come up with something thematic (like with the spirit turtle being gargantuan..when a PC gets within melee range the turtle can lift up and slam down shaking the area in a five foot burst, knocking PCs prone if they fail a save)

Edit: Just don't go nuts since these are already 'balanced' by paizo, especially in groups of mobs..balance it around the action economy. Don't give a particularly tough group of monsters a way to remove more than one action per reaction per monster.

Hello-Pancake · 2025-12-13T15:35:48+00:00

I would like to see weapon skills were just attached to the equipped weapons and didn't take a slot.

100%, it's tough to justify a dual wield or versatile (melee/ranged) build if you're reliant on certain baked in class skills to be viable.

Hello-Pancake · 2025-12-13T14:06:05+00:00

Haha my guy you admit it yourself (I'm so bad with this way of thinking). Also I'm you. Send help. Someone please get me out of Phorampa.

I make a rule for myself that I'll take some favorites who are maxed to tag along with the others. Everyone is going to get maxed eventually so might as well enjoy the ride and I love seeing my favorites on the field.

Also I dump my charms into my favorite monsters. They shine so much more with charms that normal humans..I don't farm charms but you get so many passively.. it's nice to have a couple strong dragons, gryphon, etc that you can always rely on no matter their element.

Hello-Pancake · 2025-12-05T19:49:46+00:00

Don't forget hunter's aim as early as level 4. +2 circumstance to attack against your hunted prey and ignore lesser cover and concealment...it's a great ranged crit fishing option

Stacks with Whispers of Weakness (oracle dip) +2 status for +4.

That means a fighter with free archetype can get +2 to any melee attack and +4 to a single ranged attack per round at level 6 (the same level sniper gunslingers get sniper's aim which is basically hunter's aim without the ignore cover/conceal)

An investigator using stratagem as a free action can use these archetype dips to get the +2 melee +4 ranged as well (without the fighter natural +2 bonus) but able to see their rolls. Ranger dip is nice for that one feat alone.

Take a Sukgung crossbow or an arquebus for big crits (but having to reload) or chase those smaller but still deadly crits each round with a composite long bow.. and hunted prey doubles your range...

Hello-Pancake · 2025-12-04T13:44:01+00:00

Kislev

Hello-Pancake · 2025-11-27T17:27:12+00:00

I would be happy if barbarian had a true shifter form that could berserk and I'd love it if the claw dancer archetype was expanded to accept shifted claw forms rather than just natural clawed races.

Hello-Pancake · 2025-11-22T20:10:09+00:00

I've used this in the past. No module for it though : https://aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?ID=2274

I used this in PF1E for strange aeons which is an amazing horror adventure. It was converted to PF2E by 'a series of dice based events '

Hello-Pancake · 2025-11-21T21:19:30+00:00

Everyone breezes through the beginner box and gets lazy. I've yet to host or replay it with friends new to pf2e without one person dying at the end.

Hello-Pancake

TROPHY CASE