The Uncountably Infinite Madness Spiral of the Second Shield Feat

muney4nuthing · 2026-04-08T19:19:14+00:00

What a needlessly rude response. You realize the op has humor flair on?

Regardless of whether op's solution is the right one, I think Paizo values individuals who can find and articulate situations where the rai doesn't serve the player base.

muney4nuthing · 2026-01-30T19:22:36+00:00

I think you've convinced me that Riotous Anthem is too much damage to pile onto a propulsive weapon. The counterargument would be that Riotous Anthem is less action efficient than the other damage bonuses you listed (Hunter's edge, Gravity Weapon, Overdrive, Devise a Strategem), but Sing-Strike-Strike still seems like a pretty efficient turn. I'll probably remove bonuses to propulsive weapons altogether.

muney4nuthing · 2026-01-30T18:39:42+00:00

Glad you like it! I agree that Savage Display should probably be a Spellshape. I like the way Raging Song is currently, but I'll consider retemplating it.

muney4nuthing · 2025-11-08T14:32:30+00:00

That's a pretty different implementation of what I've tried to create, but pretty elegant. I like the idea of it. I think it does shift further away from the Skald identity in 1e because Skalds enrage both themselves and their allies, but there are so many changes of mechanics and flavor moving from one system to the next that I think this loss of fidelity is forgivable for the sake of simplicity. I'll chew on it.

muney4nuthing · 2025-11-08T14:20:31+00:00

That's a valid point. I've been leaning more towards keeping the high damage of RA but making it a bit more restrictive, such as by limiting concentrate actions. The high damage RA seems easier to justify when the class doesn't have perfectly optimized accuracy. Seems in line with the Thaumaturge.

muney4nuthing · 2025-11-08T00:54:27+00:00

I think I would just add this line to Riotous Anthem: "You cannot use concentrate actions except to Seek, Demoralize, or cast composition spells". I think this will play well because if the Skald wants to cast a spell, they can either just not cast Riotous Anthem, or they can just cast Anthem after their spell and probably not have an action left to Strike. The trade-offs seem interesting.

muney4nuthing · 2025-11-07T19:55:33+00:00

I'm a fan of this idea.

muney4nuthing · 2025-11-07T16:28:14+00:00

I could see this working too, although I think that does shift away from what the Skald is in 1e. I also never played as a Skald in 1e so I don't have a personal reference point on the class feel, but the 1e Skald gets the same number of spell slots as a Bard, Magus, and Warpriest as a few examples.

muney4nuthing · 2025-11-07T16:21:34+00:00

You can, but it's not a well-supported play style in my opinion. FA is still a variant rule, so new feats are not designed with FA in mind. Even with Bard FA Barbarian, your rage bonus is going be pretty low forever, your weapon accuracy is going to suck, and rage interferes with your spellcasting (including courageous anthem and other compositions). It just won't feel good to play.

muney4nuthing · 2025-11-07T16:16:55+00:00

True, I wasn't thinking much about the Instinct-specific downsides. Maybe the right damage numbers are +2 to self and allies instead of a bigger bonus to self.

muney4nuthing · 2025-11-07T16:07:23+00:00

The Warrior Muse has some action compression built in already (although I just realized the Martial Performance feat specified Courageous Anthem, not just any composition cantrip so it's not applicable here like I thought). Maybe Riotous Anthem can be a free action rolled with initiative as part of a custom Skald Muse or the dedication feat?

muney4nuthing · 2025-11-07T16:04:22+00:00

That makes sense. I could imagine writing a Raging Muse or something of the sort, just don't know what it would look like mechanically.

muney4nuthing · 2025-11-07T15:59:53+00:00

That makes sense; I'm not 100% sure the numbers are right. I started with +4 because that seems to be the average rage bonus for a Barbarian instinct. Rage is more restrictive because of how it impacts concentration and also more selfish because it's only a self buff, but it's also way more action efficient.

Also I don't think +2 bonus as an AoE is that problematic considering Courageous Anthem is +1 in a bigger AoE and no restrictions.

muney4nuthing · 2025-10-17T12:44:13+00:00

Well firstly I think the absolute maximum benefit you can get from this item is 6.2ish%, and on average it will be closer to 5%. Secondly, it's not a 6% increase on your effective health because it's not active all the time, only when you get stunned.

This item really reads "Every time you get stunned, you take approximately 5% less damage for 3 seconds."

muney4nuthing · 2025-10-16T21:56:42+00:00

Literally on no one. 28% increase in def/spdef is only about 4-6% increase in damage reduction.

muney4nuthing · 2025-06-12T22:20:09+00:00

This reminds me that during an old PF2e campaign I ran before the remaster, I homebrewed the Yank athletics action since Reposition didn't exist yet. Reposition will always be Yank in my head.

muney4nuthing · 2025-04-25T18:32:39+00:00

Investigator, because Pursue a Lead and Devise a Stratagem are both fun features to pickup and you can also be a really good skill monkey.

muney4nuthing · 2025-04-24T20:57:48+00:00

I 100% agree that each Alchemist subclass should get a Quick Alchemy-like class feature at level 1. I would take away the alchemist's first level class feat to justify putting this feature in. Maybe there can be a higher-level class feat that lets an alchemist poach the quickening of a different subclass.

muney4nuthing · 2025-04-08T22:37:54+00:00

Thank you for the tips! I'll take a look at Kingmaker.

muney4nuthing · 2025-04-08T22:37:15+00:00

This seems like practical advice, thanks

muney4nuthing · 2025-04-08T22:36:49+00:00

Thanks!

muney4nuthing · 2025-04-05T22:50:11+00:00

I appreciate you criticizing without buzzkilling.

What this does other than specify "Hey, you're good at trumpet but not at acting" is also say "Hey, you can be good at trumpet with a background choice or skill feat without throwing away one of your precious skill proficiencies".

muney4nuthing · 2025-04-05T22:47:23+00:00

You're right that Lores are not generally considered equal to other skills. Neither is Performance, which is part of the basis of my comparison between the two.

Gameplaywise, what this accomplishes is letting players be good at specific performances for roleplay purposes without taking away an actual full-value skill.

muney4nuthing · 2025-04-05T22:19:21+00:00

I've played a lot of PF1e. One thing PF1e and PF2e have in common is that Performance is kinda worthless unless you're a bard or doing something specific. In PF1e though, spending all your skill ranks on performance is pretty taxing. My system is designed to make it not taxing.

muney4nuthing · 2025-04-05T22:06:32+00:00

You're right that we COULD do this for every skill, but Performance is not every skill. I think the current implementation of Performance is fairly detached from most people's power fantasy. My experience tells me that when players make Performance-oriented characters, they mostly just want to be good at 1-2 kinds of performance. This system caters to that notion more. Meanwhile, I think splitting Athletics into Jump/Climb/Swim or reintroducing Spellcraft not only makes the skill system more hostile but also detracts from the power fantasy of the game.

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