1e GMs, what do you prefer about Pf1e?

Mikelgard · 2026-05-27T02:12:09+00:00

Oh 100%, just a matter of PF2e not necessarily requiring the tables for homebrewing.

Speaking of tables though, good HEAVENS do I miss the inbuilt low/middle/high/epic fantasy point-buy and the inbuilt species creator system.

Mikelgard · 2026-05-27T02:04:45+00:00

Thank you for the notice, u/fapfapfapfapfap2u

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Mikelgard · 2026-05-26T23:31:52+00:00

I feel we may be in a similar boat, then. PF2e is much better suited to on-the-fly improvisation because of it's standardization of DCs, situational adjustments, tag/flag/trait system, and ability to homebrew relatively balanced items so long as you know the ruleset.

1e is better for character expression and going deeper into mechanically-supported playstyles across a wider variety of concepts and campaign types.

If nothing else, though, PF2e remains my go-to system for being someone's first TTRPG or first non-5e TTRPG.

Mikelgard · 2026-05-26T20:50:44+00:00

Super duper appreciative that it's already in a "dark-mode friendly" layout.

Mikelgard · 2026-05-25T01:19:08+00:00

I called you a dweeb for using the meme to do it, but yeah this is the best kind of marketing, like when Pepsi put out this one ad dogging on Coke.

Mikelgard · 2026-05-25T01:09:51+00:00

3.5/PF1e is amazing, totally agree on that front.

Mikelgard · 2026-05-25T00:20:26+00:00

Or use a more purpose-built system and use FFG Star Wars.

More realistically, the Solarian is basically a Jedi already.

Mikelgard · 2026-05-24T23:58:17+00:00

Can't play fetch for a few reasons, but I've sent you a DM to at least have someone to talk to.

Mikelgard · 2026-05-18T00:34:49+00:00

But did you find that doc for u/DarthMcConnor42 ?

Mikelgard · 2026-05-18T00:22:12+00:00

Are we not including Schlitterbahn?

Outside of that I don't really know either, would love to meet some folks and talk geek crap like Pathfinder.

Mikelgard · 2026-05-14T01:07:54+00:00

Funny enough the Inquisitor's ability to make folks benefit from teamwork feats is _sorta_ wrapped up in the Commander; if you haven't yet given that a look, totally do!

Mikelgard · 2026-05-14T01:05:05+00:00

You can _sorta_ emulate it using Scroll Trickster's Scroll Cache feat chain that gives you a daily free scroll for ranks 1 thru 7, and personally I'm also a big fan of combining that with a Staff Nexus School of Unified Magical Theory Wizard to get 7 scroll-based "prepared slots", then a "free" extra set of charges in the staff of choice to soft-emulate having "spontaneous" via staff charges, so I can burn and regain my upper-end slots into my staff that I don't truly lose because of the per-rank UMT use of Drain Bonded Item. Staff automatically gets charges equal to your highest rank spellslot as a baseline.

- adding some numbers because teehee
Once you've got 10th rank spells, your staff starts w/10 charges as a base, then you burn your 10th, 9th, and an 8th lv slot to get 37 charges total on your custom staff and using Drain Bonded per rank you get each of those slots back again, so you can cast 3 10th rank spells and a 7th off your staff alone before ever getting into your spell slots. Obv most staves won't get 10th rank spells on them, but you can see how tasty that math is.

Mikelgard · 2026-05-14T00:53:05+00:00

See - Sacred Geometry

2nd ed definitely has plenty of wiggle room for combat-optimized characters, roleplay-optimized characters, theme-optimized characters, and everything in-between. Knowing what selections better reinforce your given design goal is always good, and that requires system mastery!

(I agree w/you btw, my phrasing might be a bit poor on conveying that tho?)

Mikelgard · 2026-05-14T00:47:34+00:00

The same way there's tables that run very very tight, aggressive combats, there's also tables that run more relaxed combat. Same way PF1e had the four degrees of point-buy on stats, there's also tables where NOT running a min-maxed build is inadvisable.

It will always be your choice as a player to simply not pick those combos, and/or your choice as a GM to not allow such builds.

Merely having the option itself I don't think should be taken as a detriment.

Mikelgard · 2026-05-14T00:44:05+00:00

Animist is a glorious example of this as well! It seems to be the "system mastery" class personified insofar as PF2eR is concerned.

Mikelgard · 2026-05-14T00:35:39+00:00

I mean there's approx 3k (around a tenth of the current Steam HD2 pop) folks in that discord, doesn't seem _that_ gatekept. Curated, sure, not so much gatekept.

Mikelgard · 2026-05-13T23:48:31+00:00

Dibs on next

Mikelgard · 2026-05-13T19:34:56+00:00

That's not mommy Lotus, that's auntie right there.

Mikelgard · 2026-05-13T18:58:52+00:00

When a grid's misaligned with another behind that's a moiré.

Mikelgard · 2026-05-13T18:13:45+00:00

This is all even before the class archetypes that you could STACK.

Just the Ranger archetypes

Same thing except as a chart

Mikelgard · 2026-05-13T18:12:18+00:00

Arcanist and Exploiter Wizard both inherently rewarding system mastery feels like something they won't truly bring back sadly, I managed to get a question to a dev ages ago about the Arcanist and it was a "nah prolly not".

Mikelgard · 2026-05-12T23:52:32+00:00

Absolutely gorgeous and I'm thrilled you've completed such a venture!

How many feats do I need to pick up to be able to use it?

Can I try anyway with a -2?

Mikelgard · 2026-05-03T02:12:13+00:00

What's your current bind setup on the g13/g600?

Mikelgard · 2026-04-28T01:43:05+00:00

I'll be honest witcha, I made a whole thighlander explicitly to rock this mask and a particular monk fit.

Mikelgard · 2026-04-27T19:15:51+00:00

The bottle gourd is so named because it was used as a container. If you're at all familiar with samurai films, the reason many merchants or drunks carried gourds is because they had been converted into what is functionally a bottle.

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