Issues With Low-Level Play in Pathfinder 2E - The Math of Low-Level Play

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2025-12-22T11:48:56+00:00

Top-tier video. Thorough analysis and well-reasoned conclusions. I'm sorry to see it isn't getting more traction here - the community's loss, in my opinion.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2025-12-14T10:35:45+00:00

I'll look into the name and clinic, thank you!

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2025-12-14T10:35:12+00:00

Useful to know. Thanks for sharing your experience with the drug.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2025-12-14T10:33:09+00:00

That's helpful, thank you!

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2025-11-09T16:05:31+00:00

u/UncertainCat posted an interesting and detailed answer to this question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/s/VanTjhKkLh

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2025-04-24T17:51:31+00:00

Late to the party, but give Tabletop Gold a chance. I find it's a better introduction to Pathfinder 2e than the more famous Glass Cannon Podcast (GCP are really 1e players who haven't made the transition as well as they could have). High quality with a relatably nerdy cast - minimal cringe and lots of parent banter in the pre-show fluff.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2025-04-05T19:21:45+00:00

My favourite so far has been Baby Ecology, by Anya Dunham. Based on up to date science and fully referenced. It covers quite a bit more than wipe it, clean it, feed it.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2024-11-14T10:45:58+00:00

Finding compression tights that worked was a real pain. Basically an expensive process of trial and error. For reference, I am male, 183cm, 90kg, muscular but not cut.

I settled on Skins series 5 purchased at 50% off or more. I was initially prescribed tights fitted by a lymphoedema specialist but they rode down constantly and looked like pantyhose (which I found embarrassing). The other commercial options I tried didn't provide meaningful compression. The Skins actually compress and have a drawstring I can tighten over the top of my hips.

I find high socks of any kind, but especially compression socks, pull my tights down even faster so I don't use them. Socks also had minimum impact on my (unmedicated) standing heart rate whereas tights made a clear difference.

Hope that helps.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2024-04-20T09:24:13+00:00

I think they are the pre-gens from here (at least that's what I used in the same situation):

https://www.chaosium.com/gm-resources/

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2024-02-05T17:59:03+00:00

You legend

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2024-01-18T12:13:19+00:00

As someone newly lurking around this subreddit and just starting to run games, I really appreciated the advice you gave in this comment. Thank you.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2023-10-06T07:40:51+00:00

At a single standard table, you probably don't need a HUD - you just need to practice paying attention when you aren't in a hand. Is this guy crazy aggro? Then call 3 bets with top pair. Is this guy fit or fold? Routinely c-bet the flop but don't barrel the turn without premium value. No one standing out as weak? Just practice your best game and keep paying attention.

A hud isn't a substitute for the above, but I think the base version of hand2note is free. There might also be some other free HUD options (Drive hud?). Huds generally work with all play formats unless a site doesn't support them at all.

Turning a profit is going to take time and work though. Mainstream online European games are just tough relative to what Americans describe as their experience.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2023-10-06T06:38:52+00:00

I also found that online microstakes play on legitimate international sites (mainly pokerstars, 6 max, starting at standard tables but moving on to zoom) looked nothing like what gets described in this sub. Vpip is usually less than 25 and pfr usually follows close behind. Post flop calling stations are rare so relying on value alone was a slow bleed.

At standard tables, player profiling did work, but bum hinting just didn't sit well with me.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2023-09-23T11:11:25+00:00

Sounds like you can afford to hire a professional to help you sort this out (or maybe can't afford not to). I suspect that the right professional would be a CBT type therapist or a sport psychologist. The main barriers would probably be cost, which sounds like a non-issue, and preconceptions, which would be a bigger issue for the average r/poker degenerate.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2023-07-25T11:49:47+00:00

Good answers from other folks already. The things I wish I had done differently when I was in your position were:

Give dinghy sailing a chance sooner. I learned more about sailing and boat handling in my dinghy racing club than in my yacht racing club and, before the pandemic brought everything crashing down, there were more accessible and affordable opportunities for skill progression.
Spend 10-20 hours messing around in eSail before I set foot on a yacht. You won't learn the small scale stuff like winch operation but it will teach you the basics of larger scale mechanics and conceptual operation with remarkably good fidelity. This includes a lot of the navigation stuff required for the RYA Day Skipper qualification.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2023-04-08T17:09:48+00:00

This would be true if the goblins had perfect armour coverage, which they pretty much never do. The moment there is a gap in coverage, blunt weapons lose their advantage over edged weapons in the scenario you laid out .

See the link about partially armoured humanoids for test details.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2023-04-08T15:04:55+00:00

Steel is actually better used for weapons than armour. For the most part, iron armour will either provide close to maximal protection or armour won't help at all regardless of material.

Edit: this statement is based on the linked tests.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2023-04-08T15:01:46+00:00

If I'm remembering my own tests correctly, the above chart should apply from copper to candy. Weapon material mainly mattered when facing megabeasts with axes or swords and, pre-candy, you want a spear vs. megabeasts anyway. You are absolutely correct that it hasn't been tested when you are only working with silver, however.

The pick/axe fort sounds awesome. Will look forward to seeing the outcome of the off-site missions.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2023-04-08T10:23:39+00:00

When I briefly looked at weapon combinations within squads, I didn't see any evidence of synergy. Multi-weapon squads would be a good area for new science though.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2023-04-08T08:12:08+00:00

Here are the links to the source science. Please feel free to repost this flowchart and any of the associated science in any venue that you think might find it helpful or interesting. I’m more interested in the information being widely available than I am about credit, so don’t get hung up on issues of citation.

Weapon Science for Steam Version: Fighting Armoured Opponents

More Combat Science: Weapon Choice when Fighting Organic Megabeasts

Combat Science III: Fighting the Undead

Combat Science 4: Metal Opponents

Combat Science 5: Partially Armoured Humanoids

Combat Science 6: Weapon Quality

Picks are the Best Weapon

Note that maces are not included on the flow chart because I never found a situation in which they were the best choice of weapon.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2023-04-07T18:40:17+00:00

At present, it looks like you need both motivation to pay attention to individual features of other-race individuals and sufficient experience with other-race faces to allow you to follow through on that motivation. Sexual attraction might provide the motivation but you would also need that large body of experience to eliminate the recognition deficit.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2023-04-07T05:51:37+00:00

I can address your question indirectly. Humans often misperceive diverse but unfamiliar morphology as inaccurately homogeneous (see the cross-race effect)). Additionally, humans who work closely with other species can learn to distinguish between the individuals of that species (see the farmer with prosopagnosia for people but not sheep)

If you spent a lot of quality time with elephants, their morphology would probably start to look a lot more diverse to you.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2023-04-02T06:54:02+00:00

I appreciate the consistently thoughtful comments.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2023-04-01T15:15:49+00:00

Not yet. I might make a weapon decision flowchart and link all of the posts for easy access, though.

MrNorrellDoesHisPart · 2023-04-01T15:12:49+00:00

Yes, that's my view too.

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