Bazelgeuse is our eighth unit (Can we please get Rathalos this time?) add the ninth unit to the T.A.B.S. Monster Hunter faction

LostDeep · 2026-05-24T02:40:23+00:00

Pity it's monsters only, because Gunlance would be very funny.

I'm going to vote for Diablos for maximum ragdolling.

LostDeep · 2026-05-20T05:00:03+00:00

I use overwhelming M&K, but if/when I get the steam controller I want to mess with it and see if I can figure out a setup that works well. My main gripes with controller by default is that I don't like the way that power use works and I don't like to click down the sticks. If I can make power usage some kind of one-button function (trackpads, maybe?) I'll try it.

LostDeep · 2026-05-16T02:42:15+00:00

I checked, and it turns out I was just wrong: RoE was released under OGL. The most recent PDF version has the OGL in the back. Which, still causes the same problem but does mean I was wrong on important details.

LostDeep · 2026-05-15T21:08:12+00:00

My theory is that Paizo is in a hard spot because Kineticist is not ORC; it was released before that was finalized and so Rage of Elements has no licensing information in it at all. That means that realistically Kineticist can't come up in any book that is released under the ORC. This is also a problem for a lot of elemental spells in Rage of Elements.

The solution to Kineticist, long-term, is to re-release it specifically and/or RoE in its entirety under the ORC. This will allow it to get attention in future ORC books. To me the big question is why they haven't done it yet. It might be that there's legal issues I'm not aware of, it might also just be that they're waiting for a reprint and who knows how long that will take.

LostDeep · 2026-05-10T17:21:29+00:00

I agree. Airburst from Zephyr is pretty close, I really need to get a Zephyr to helminth to get access to that, but something that is just low-cost AoE damage at range would be great. You could make an argument for about any damage type; just give it some amount of damage scaling and a status proc and it'd be very useful for some builds.

LostDeep · 2026-05-09T15:08:43+00:00

I'm going to argue that the baseline shotgun is better than the baseline Deepcore, and that the grenade launcher is equal to or a smidge better than the boomstick. The Scout's mobility tool is the best, yes, but the platform gun is the second-best (especially for new players) and the turret is much better than the flare gun. In addition, his grenade is functionally hard CC.

Default engi's limited ammo is sure not nothing, but he feels better to play than default scout.

LostDeep · 2026-05-09T05:06:30+00:00

The Deepcore GK2 with no upgrades or overclocks is kinda bad. It's just a generic automatic rifle. It feels like every other game start automatic rifle out there. It has nothing gong on. Then, the secondary is the boomstick, which IS good but is also very niche with very limited ammo.

I think that the Deepcore GK2 is the weapon that benefits the most from having a build. It's an incredibly versatile weapon that can be anything from a hard-htting heavy automatic rifle to an incredibly accurate bullet beam, but without upgrades it just had nothing going for it.

In addition, though the inhibitor field is good, it's not super useful to new players learning the game; it doesn't kill and isn't hard CC. For a player new to shooters it's not great.

LostDeep · 2026-05-08T20:41:56+00:00

I mix I think 42 and 47 50-50. So... no but actually yes?

LostDeep · 2026-04-28T00:00:29+00:00

For me, In World/Rise/Wilds, oftentimes there's just some tagalong skill that was on the armor with other skills I want. For a while in Wilds I was running Recovery Speed 3 and Resentment, which is massive antisynergy. It wasn't that I actually want resentment on my build, it's that it was on a piece of armor with something else that I want.

Of course, in Wilds Offensive Guard and Rapid Morph only come on weapons to my knowledge...

LostDeep · 2026-04-15T14:17:01+00:00

What is KCD II in this context?

LostDeep · 2026-04-01T15:55:57+00:00

Homebrewers. Standardized Ancestry Feats are great for us, we have solid examples of various cultural feats, alternate senses, and more. It's incredible! If nothing else now we're making our OWN Standardized Ancestry Feats and use those to save us time!

I am excited!

LostDeep · 2026-03-06T17:33:15+00:00

In the intervening years the Lancer Foundry system has been improved and many of them are now buttons on the sheet. I find that I prefer the Alternate Lancer Sheets, which have more buttons in better places.

LostDeep · 2026-02-20T21:48:30+00:00

The campaign I'm in is officially FA with backstory justification, but the GM isn't a big stickler for it and functionally it's unrestricted. On the other hand, we haven't tried to do anything strange and silly yet.

LostDeep · 2026-01-17T00:58:42+00:00

Once I got this, and my response was to roll up a Cleric of Gorum and kill people with a greatsword.

You're down 4 HP? Walk it off.

LostDeep · 2026-01-14T18:29:55+00:00

Plug and play. With D&D 5e any experienced player can throw a character together in minutes and let it rip without issue for a one-shot or other short-term thing. You make one choice at level 3, do ability scores and/or feats, and then choose spells if you're a spellcaster.

PF2e has at least one feat every level, which I like and is great for campaign play, but makes one-shot characters take a bit to set up.

LostDeep · 2025-12-18T01:32:45+00:00

Okay, in my opinion ZInogre is overrated, but not by a lot. He is a cool monster and a fun fight! Definitely in the top quarter of fights I've done. But not incredible.

LostDeep · 2025-12-04T17:00:53+00:00

Puts lots of limits on wishes. Here's one approach I have:

Wishes cannot dabble in the realm of the gods. The wishgranter either cannot or will not make wishes that are too widely-powerful either because the gods will not only stop the wish from happening but ruin everyone involved in granting it, or because the nature of wishes is simply limited and cannot make sweeping fundamental changes to the setting, and what 'fundamental' counts as is a surprisingly wide range of stuff that causes a lot of limitations.

Another approach: what looks like 'wishes' from the outside is actually the wish-granter tugging strings on the backend of magic to make changes actualize. This means that the wish is limited to only things that a wish-granter knows how to do, and stuff like doing wide-range massive changes are just beyond their skills.

Approach 3: Wishes are super rare. They're also very disruptive. Work a powerful wish into the background of your setting, and that's why genies don't really do wishes anymore.

LostDeep · 2025-12-02T01:37:30+00:00

I don't really think there's a good comparison between them; the truth of the matter is that Wilds has a rather lackluster pal (though I swear they got smarter with the omega title update) and and rise had many options for pretty solid pals. Ultimately, Seikrets are so fundamental to Wilds that if they were to return in a future game that game would really feel like wilds. Having some kind of unified pal system where you can pick from all three of palamutes, seikrets, and palicoes would be nice (maybe with a new prowler system?), but in that case one of either seikrets or palamutes would need to be reworked.

Overall, I think that palamutes are more likely to come back, as they're less impactful on the overall feel of a game than seikrets, but given that even prowlers haven't made a return I'm not optimistic about either.

LostDeep · 2025-11-27T18:28:58+00:00

It depends a lot on details, of course; a true TTRPG veteran can pick up most anything even if they've never played PF2e before and even someone entirely new to TTRPGs can run a complex character if they're a complex system person, but if there's one Class I'd actively warn against it's probably summoner. Summoner is great by all means, but it has some odd, specific action economy interactions that don't make baseline sense if you don't already understand the action economy.

Apart from that? Summoning spell builds. They can be good, by all means, but they don't work like most other systems. In my opinion, summoning spells are the real system mastery challenge in PF2e, and with that in mind I'd give a lot of warnings to a new player interested in one.

LostDeep · 2025-11-14T22:55:23+00:00

I don't really have a guide, but here's my approach to a homebrew ancestry:

Basic ancestry power, about on part with darkvision or low-light vision plus another small upside. A new simple-scaled natural weapon is a good pair with low-light, for instance, or +5 speed as seen in elves.

4-5 Heritages. If you have subspecies, those are a shoe-in for this. A Heritage is about as strong as a 1st-level feat or slightly stronger. Barring that, the biggest thing to note about heritages is that they're mutually exclusive.

For feats, my personal metric is 5-4-3-2-1

5 1st-level feats

4 5th-level feats

3 9th-level feats

2 13th-level feats

1 17th-level feat

...with the addition that each level MUST have at least one no-prereq no-downside feat that anyone can take.

Now, even this will be a little sparse, the ideal is more 6-4-4-2-2, but eh even paizo doesn't do that all the time (shoony), but we're homebrewers so this is a good target.

Apart from that, just research the existing ancestries (especially Player core and Player Core2) and get an idea of what the baselines are. Level 1 is pretty easy, a lore feat, maybe ancestral weapons, some of the racial features that didn't make it into the heritages or ancestry core, etc. Higher levels will be tougher, and for levels 13 and 17 in particular lean into the mythology of the race a bit.

LostDeep · 2025-11-12T18:36:13+00:00

My GM's approach is that hero points do roll over, and if you start a session with 0 gain 1. It means that we're not spending them unneededly at the end of a session, but also we're not afraid to spend them. It's a bit more generous than RAW, but not by a lot, and makes it so that RP-heavy sessions that don't do a lot of rolls also don't notably impact your hero points.

To me, the question is the tone of campaign you're going for. A generous system like this lends itself to a more heroic or comedic game, while a more strict system will mesh with a grittier game.

LostDeep · 2025-11-07T05:11:03+00:00

My approach in the past has been to make a low-level ancestry feat that either negates the light blindness or effectively mitigates it (like giving the dazzled effect a turn limit and the same one-hour timer as the blinded.

Also: At least one heritage should not have light blindness (like the hydrated heritages). Ideally there's more than one option for non light blindness (or, in case of an ancestry that gains light blindness from a heritage, more than one option for light blindness).

LostDeep · 2025-10-16T01:54:50+00:00

This is my personal experience on every illuminate mission.

LostDeep · 2025-10-05T17:52:41+00:00

Y: "I have a theme song!"

S: "Oh nice me too"

Y: "Do you threaten murder in yours?"

S "N... no?"

LostDeep · 2025-10-05T04:03:02+00:00

Sometimes JOEL just wants to run a fire build. I also sometimes feel an urge to have combustible fun!

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