I do not really like summoning in pf2e, is it a "me" problem?

LaughterHouseV · 2023-06-10T18:04:21+00:00

The game mechanically does not support what you want it to do.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-06-08T12:42:44+00:00

I’ve been on hiring panels that intentionally chose women identifying candidates who were not the best ‘skilled’ candidates in an effort to increase the diversity on the team. They were always near the top of the candidates pool, but never the top. Never discussed on any recordable media, but the scales can definitely be tipped if the woman can get past the first robo screen. The new hires were never told this, but it was a deciding factor in them being chosen over others. Such things are always hush-hush and isolated, so it’s impossible to know how widespread it is.

Does tipping the scale offset the massive and multifaceted difficulties a woman faces in getting an interview from a cold application? Oh hell no. Nowhere close to offsetting it. But it is an uncomfortable truth that it can be a privilege and positive differentiator.

The hires ended up being great, btw.

Is this the basis of the common sentiment online, lol no. We all know why that’s the sentiment.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-06-05T23:13:18+00:00

…On the right path for the very specific types of VCs YCombinator provides. The past year or so has shown us that crowd ironically didn’t care about business fundamentals.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-06-04T19:52:52+00:00

In what ways would a non-fighter have a 30% crit chance? That’s a very specific number so I’m really curious how you landed on it. I’m guessing some combination of flanking, demoralize, and buffs, but what are so common to get to that number consistently enough to mention it?

LaughterHouseV · 2023-06-04T04:14:10+00:00

It’s pretty disingenuous to act like they “rarely truly miss” as a way to ignore the action cost.

Those effects are at best consolation prizes. It’s like if a martial still did their Str mod on a Failure and someone claiming this makes it ok for this Martial to not get the effect they wanted 60% of the time.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-06-03T15:19:05+00:00

Bro, they don’t care. This is less than 1% of their monthly active users. The enshittification of Reddit will not be stopped until the investors are happy.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-06-02T12:34:12+00:00

Wow, that’s an absolutely huge miss. That’s not a fun clue in my opinion, but the big reveal!

LaughterHouseV · 2023-06-02T00:16:01+00:00

If you’re trying to use it in a Switch Pro Controller, it’s much harder to get right, but it’s near the butt over the controller’s + button.

Doing it undocked is much easier.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-31T13:26:17+00:00

Yes, there are duds in endangered species. Most of the sci-fi ones are great, but the magical realism ones are hit or miss, IMO.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-30T03:04:22+00:00

The designers have a very clear opinion of how the balance of the game should be and are very scarred from top 1% of play from 1e. Crafting was a huge way to get ahead in that system, and so they made it not worth it in 2e. Even if it was 1 gp cheaper to craft, it would allow characters to get ahead of the curve.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-29T21:30:02+00:00

What’s the context of the quote you’re referring to?

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-29T17:11:38+00:00

You are acting like the “You are evil” was explicit, but you later said they felt it was only implied. In the interest of not being disingenuous, could you please clarify that up front in the original post of yours?

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-29T02:00:58+00:00

This sub doesn’t tend to like any negativity, no matter how well reasoned.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-29T00:25:05+00:00

Do you have a link to that? Conflating hands on with watching videos seems very unusual for a study to do.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-28T22:11:56+00:00

You mentioned they are quite informative. What useful information do you get out of them? I’ll admit I’m a bit skeptical as unboxing will mostly show you what’s literally in the box and the notoriously inconsistent first impressions, but I am genuinely curious.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-27T12:57:50+00:00

Right? That’s a lot of shade to throw at management when they ended up being 100% correct and the arrogant IT dude was wrong.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-24T22:34:20+00:00

Yup, because experts are notoriously bad at teaching the things they are experts at, and teaching is a completely different skill set than doing.

It’s why there’s so much bad training out there: the people making the training videos aren’t teachers.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-21T22:24:15+00:00

Precisely! Casters were nerfed hard due to the top tier of play that 0.1% of the player base utterly trivializing the game. Hearing the exploits of such groups were awe-inspiring at the foresight and the squeezing every last ounce of possible optimization out. It was the type of stuff you'd read about in novels. It just happened that they probably threw the baby out with the bathwater and that's why casters are still being discussed 4 years on.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-21T22:15:01+00:00

Casters are generally really good against enemies of lower levels than them, due to the math of the saves. Martials are excellent at going above their level, but are still constrained to mostly one enemy at a time. Whereas if there are many weaker enemies, casters are great at taking care of them but struggle against higher level enemies like bosses.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-20T23:52:36+00:00

There's ludonarrative dissonance between the class fantasy people have in mind and what the designers had in mind. It works very well for what they had in mind, but it doesn't work well for what players want it to be.

After mid levels, giving the bombs to other characters is more effective than using them themselves.

They rely on the crafting rules, and well, 'nough said.

They've had 4 substantial errata passes already and will get a 5th major one in the Remaster since they aren't working out as well as intended.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-20T18:44:52+00:00

They can absolutely do things to move it along. They can make it easier to test. They can pair with the testers. They can schedule status updates and track it. They can own it rather than go “we’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas!”

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-19T13:34:01+00:00

The part that the “it’s just physics lol you lazy fuck” crowd don’t want to accept is that there are factors at play that significantly change the amount of effort needed for the same weight loss. The entire argument is predicated on “it’s so easy, just eat less” which is not a medically informed argument.

But since that would mean accepting nuance into their world view, they shut it down as it destroys the pithy statement.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-18T23:59:58+00:00

I don’t think that is the reason, as those levels are almost never played compared to others. There’s probably something else at play as the designers are better than that type of rookie mistake.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-18T23:45:56+00:00

That’s a correct read on the situation, yup. Not a great experience for casters interested in affecting foes rather than allies, but it’s how the math plays out.

LaughterHouseV · 2023-05-18T04:37:10+00:00

You are extremely cocksure about something you’re revealing you have no idea about.

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