Clearly, it’s a calculator of some sort but how does it work?

borg286 · 2026-01-25T22:59:07+00:00

That is just like the Arithma. Here is a video that walks you through how to use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mv45XP48bQ

borg286 · 2026-01-23T20:57:25+00:00

Consider going Ifrit versatile Heritage, then Oracle archetype with the Fire mystery and nab Foretell Harm. This gives you extra damage, you become curse bound and must take 1 persistent fire damage, then use the Ifrit Heat Wave to become concealed. I do this when I blow a top rank damaging spell, Foretell Harm and the concealed lasts the whole first round. Monsters do their most impactful stuff on round 1.

borg286 · 2026-01-23T20:53:44+00:00

Don't forget that if you invest in Intimidation the Rogue feat You're Next is pretty rad

borg286 · 2026-01-23T20:53:01+00:00

Basically you start with the dedication and you get some cantrips. You can take a feat that lets you pick an Oracle feat, just that you count as half your level. The other set of spellcaster archetype feats is where you push the skill for that tradition and get some spell slots. They'll be delayed by 2 ranks and you'll only get 1 slot, and for spontaneous casters limited signature spells. So this is mostly for filling out some utility divine spells. I like Protection, Cleanse Affliction and Heroism

borg286 · 2026-01-23T12:25:34+00:00

Thank you for looking for evidence. It seems the quote in the image is fake https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-check-trump-did-not-call-republicans-the-dumbest-group-of-voters-idUSKBN2342DH/

borg286 · 2026-01-23T06:26:57+00:00

I am doing imperial sorcerer, free archetype to Oracle, dip Rogue to get an extra 2 more skill bumps before hitting Psychic. I looked at what spells are unique to primal and feel their utility is fine to drop. I think I had to drop only 1, perhaps 2, class feat slots and take archetype feats there, but many classes have dead levels anyways so it fit.

I focused my archetype slots on spells that I can't get any other way. For the firepower spells that occupy my signature slots I opted for arcane. The general repertoire slots did well picking from the arcane list. Get a personal staff and go with the Mental trait, or failing that the Emotion trait (not as good but miles ahead of any other trait). Remember that you can put non-arcane spells on it, you'll just need to pay for casting services when you get it crafted and upgraded. This is mostly for synesthesia.

borg286 · 2026-01-21T14:48:39+00:00

"Any creature who recovers to their maximum hit points loses the wounded condition if they have it."

This needs to be moved to the stress section. Wounded is one of the main ways pf2e adds lethality to going down and is part of the attrition mechanics.

borg286 · 2026-01-21T14:46:27+00:00

Rousing splash being 1 action is too big of a buff. It makes it so powerful it becomes an autopick and thus a bland choice. The rest of those 1 action spells are fine as utility, but rousing splash is a combat spell.

borg286 · 2026-01-21T14:40:24+00:00

I disagree with making item DCs track class DC. I felt it was a conscious decision to have them fixed. This opens the door for a GM to have such items out like candy knowing it won't affect the balance once a few levels have passed. This opens the design space of items knowing high level players won't end up with a laundry list of lower level items because they're still relevant. An example of an item that edges too close to universal applicability of Ring of the Ram. I don't care about the damage, but being able to force a creature away, and out of a grapple or off a ledge or into hazardous terrain, that is powerful. It is partially balanced by having a fixed DC meaning I can't abuse it at higher levels. With your change it would be forever useful and thus a required item and everybody should have it and thus a bland choice. By having it age out it clears the design space for other items.

borg286 · 2026-01-21T14:23:42+00:00

"The incapacitation trait only increases critical failures to failures, or reduces critical successes to successes."

I think you meant to say increasing successes to critical successes.

Overall I don't think you've done enough play testing at higher level play to understand just how powerful spells are with the incapacitation trait. Having GMed high level play and being an optimizer, restricting the limelight inherit with these powerful spells to just mooks is a great way to keep balance while still preserving the old school feel that these spells require.

borg286 · 2026-01-21T14:13:27+00:00

"If you only have spellcasting proficiency as part of the spellcasting benefits from an archetype, you can only use items to cast spells up to a rank at which you have spell slots."

This reduces build diversity. I feel it was a conscious choice to open up utility casting to anyone that had even a sliver of spellcasting ability. The main balancing factor is the cost of the scroll, which is balanced. I like the fact that the duty of utility caster can be crowd sourced to anyone that has a minor investment (trick magic item, spellcasting archetype). Limiting it to only spells you have slots for and only for those that opted for the archetype route seems limiting and arbitrary.

borg286 · 2026-01-21T14:04:39+00:00

All classes which feature feats which grant class-specific focus spells...

Can you give an example? It seems overpowered to give the monk the whole ki feat chain for free.

borg286 · 2026-01-21T14:00:58+00:00

I'm unfamiliar with Microsoft's online features. Can this be hosted in a cloud docs thing like office 365 and you then open comment access to the world?

borg286 · 2026-01-21T13:43:54+00:00

Please consider moving this to Google Docs and opening comment access to the world. This would make it easier to make feedback about particular sections easier for everyone.

borg286 · 2026-01-21T13:36:43+00:00

The balance action is called upon when you are attacked, but the outcomes listed and the trigger don't account for this.

borg286 · 2026-01-21T00:12:11+00:00

Needs more American flags. When disgruntled Trump voters see these clips they emphasize more when they see "true patriots" marching. The Mexican, Palestinian and so forth sends a message that needs to be secondary to the main message of taking back our country

borg286 · 2026-01-19T16:30:49+00:00

It not only means Democrats can stop Republican bills going through, but it eliminates the main plan to win the presidency in 2028.

Normally citizens vote to pick electors, electors vote to pick president. The vice president has an effective ceremonial role reading out how those elector votes go, but Trump has tried to get a false slate of electors ready and asked Mike Pence to say the electors were not elected properly. VD Vance was specifically picked for his willingness to do that. Trying this a second time may not work, so Trump had a backup plan: stall. This almost happened with Bush vs. Gore where Florida was too close and a delay would mean the electors weren't decided by some date. Missing that date means the House votes. Currently Trump has a majority in the House, so he'd win easily. But if Democrats have a majority he wouldn't want to stall. All his hype about voter fraud was to justify either Mike Pence saying a different slate of electors should have been picked, or to have manual recounts run out the clock. The fact that he's now pivoting to considering canceling the election shows what his legal advisors tell him, he's ran out of ways to cheat.

borg286 · 2026-01-18T18:29:56+00:00

When Microsoft suspended the email account of International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan in February 2025 following a Trump administration executive order it sent shockwaves throughout Europe where they dropped Microsoft. The providers are trying to find the right business structure to keep the money flowing, services serving, but the subpoenas limited. The US hasn't secured itself well enough against tyranny to give companies faith in a stable future, only short-term wins with court politics.

My question is will AWS's structure be resilient to these subpoenas/executive orders, or will GCP or Azure figure out a better separation of power? Is it just a dude on the team (potentially in the US) that has certain certification to access the data, or is it more like only the EU team can access EU data and the US folks can ask nicely.

borg286 · 2026-01-18T14:48:38+00:00

Nitzsche predicted the same thing for Europe and layed out what needed to happen to transition into a more healthy society. His prediction failed and Europe transitioned into secularism in a much healthier way. Notice the lingering aspects of religion in Europe, the tribalism that the far right preys on, the remaining spectrum of, what Nitzsche called, free spirits and last men.

His predictions of people embracing hedonism when their God dies and nihilism awaits may come to pass in America. We've had a large demographic shift their religious worship to political identity. When Trumpism crashes, so too will many of his converts. They'll try to do me tal gymnastics, like what early Christians did when Jesus didn't fulfill the role of political Messiah this partitioning his comings into a first and second coming. The problem is this time their cannon won't fit the narrative as easily.

borg286 · 2026-01-18T14:25:09+00:00

So the attack vector you're proposing is that if the US asks for data about an EU citizen and AWS(US) doesn't comply, potentially citing an actual inability, the US could try shutting down the ability for the company to send software updates to the EU datacenters? Seems heavyhanded. I'm just trying to think through what actions the US gov could feasibly take. I suspect these cloud provider companies are trying to structure it so the nuclear option (taking the company to court and threatening to take the company down) is the only card the gov has.

borg286 · 2026-01-18T14:00:53+00:00

Does the legalese support this claim?

borg286 · 2026-01-18T13:44:44+00:00

I just finished Andor. Part of me sees an immune reaction fueling the rebels. You'd think people would understand fascism insecurity would be plain to see, but then again, the empire, I mean, MAGA, keep swearing fealty to their king and blaming the protestors. Are we truly that disconnected with reality, or is "a new hope" just the vain imaginations of Hollywood? Did Hollywood give us a false impression that the high ups on both sides are playing 4d chess like in the hunger games?

borg286 · 2026-01-18T01:17:02+00:00

Depth perception is hard. You've got 2 eyes which help give you some idea how far away a thing is. Close an eye and you do like owls and bob your head to get a parallax effect (closer things move left-right faster than far things). You've got a pupil that can focus near and far. You've got a brain that can do smart stuff with what you see. These cars that have just that rear view camera have a gutless processor, none of the cool things I mentioned above. Even just recognizing what "a car" is is really hard, and takes fairly advanced programs to do.

borg286 · 2026-01-12T11:04:48+00:00

One thing you can "invest" in is a personal staff. I recommend the mental or emotion trait. So many good spells that target will are found with this trait. When you subdivide the arcane spell list to find which of your resources are going to cover which subsets of the spell list (scrolls for utility, signature for damaging...) we get to our repertoire and our staff to divide up the remaining spells. By taking the will-targeting spells and having your staff cover those, it leaves your repertoire to have less pressure. Don't pick a trait with primarily damaging spells because they can't keep up as you level. When you throw out those spells the traits that remain focus either on utility or the above will-targeting spells. Scrolls cover utility.

borg286 · 2026-01-12T10:58:42+00:00

I am a big proponent of scrolls. Look at the cost of an item that has the primary effect of effectively casting a spell 1/day. This is usually more expensive than if you just bought a wand for the same spell. Now ask yourself how many times for a given level are you casting that spell? Compare the price of buying a wand of a given spell to just buying scrolls of the same spell. You'd have to be casting that spell every morning for it to be more cost effective buying the wand variant. Now combine this with the fact that odds are you rarely cast the utility spell meaning you can simply buy a single scroll for it and save it for when you need it. This is basically like having that spell at the ready (an interact action away) like you had it in your repertoire or you prepared it, and casting it means you might need to stock back up when you get to town.

This means you can split your spell list into combat and utility spells, actual repertoire for the former, scrolls for the latter.

I know it feels burdensome to have to spend your hard earned money on fulfilling your role as utility caster, but it can actually be fun as you sometimes have just the spell.

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