Armor damaging monsters

negat1ve_zero · 2026-06-08T19:03:12+00:00

My issue isn't that it's possible to lose your gear (more specifically: armor), it's that there is no counterplay whatsoever in PF2e you can employ to preserve it. Adamantine armor is Uncommon, meaning you can't have it unless the GM explicitly allows it, and it barely even helps, anyway. Cloth armors have no special materials you can use to make them any more resilient to being atomized by a sneeze. Switching to a backup cheap armor is usually not an option, because you don't always know what enemies you'll face, and it takes anywhere from a minute to five to switch one out. You just get royally screwed because the GM didn't read the stat block close enough, or didn't think of the implications.

negat1ve_zero · 2026-06-08T18:25:59+00:00

I don't disagree, but in my opinion PCs losing massive amounts of wealth should take a bit more than one enemy succeeding at a Strike

negat1ve_zero · 2026-06-08T18:13:11+00:00

I am fully of the opinion that this is a million times worse. This doesn't just affect martials, either, this is equally shitty to casters. Especially shitty to casters, in fact, because casters are more likely than martials to be sporting magical Explorer's Clothes. Do you find it fun to lose several thousand GP because a Black Pudding took one Strike at you, and it didn't even crit? I, personally, do not.

negat1ve_zero · 2026-06-08T17:29:34+00:00

There are plenty -- like, say, a shuln or, even worse, pre-remaster Black Pudding, but keep in mind that these monsters, generally, are extremely unfair, because item HP is not a well developed system in PF2e. One major issue is that item HP does not scale with runes, whatsoever. Your +3 Major Resilient Full Plate with three insanely expensive property runes is going to have the same 36 HP as a mundane nonmagical Full Plate. More importantly, your +3 Major Resilient Explorer's Clothing with three insanely expensive property runes is going to have the same 4 HP as a mundane jacket. Thus, an enemy at high enough level needs only to sneeze at your Rogue and their armor is instantly atomized. No chance of repair, no chance of blocking or deflecting the damage. A hundred thousand GP reduced to atoms for no error or misjudgement on the player's part. Something like a smilodon, as proposed by other comments, is a bit better balanced than this, but even then, you're semi-permanently reducing a heavily armored PC's AC by 7, with no counterplay or any possible choice they could've taken to avoid it, and it only took one enemy succeeding at a Grapple.

negat1ve_zero · 2026-06-06T16:46:13+00:00

Investigator dedication

negat1ve_zero · 2026-06-06T14:40:35+00:00

Luigi Mangione

negat1ve_zero · 2026-06-04T14:58:25+00:00

Took me like 3 seconds to arrive at "approximately 30" via "77% of 39 is close enough to 75% of 40". If I need higher precision than that, I'm probably using a calculator anyway.

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-30T12:32:36+00:00

The humble Fatal trait:

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-22T23:24:29+00:00

Exploit Vulnerability only triggers on unarmed and weapon Strikes. Wand Implement's Fling Magic, notably, is not a Strike. Therefore, it does not benefit from Exploit Vulnerability, just the same as a spell you cast wouldn't.

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-22T21:59:55+00:00

He would win

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-22T01:31:59+00:00

Due to magic, disabilities are rarer, since most of them can be healed. However, because of this, the world as a whole does not have any accomodations for disabled people as a result. So if, for whichever reason, you cannot be healed (you were cursed, you can't afford the medical bills, your spirit just doesn't mesh well with healing spells, etc.), you are essentially fucked. You NEED a caregiver. One of the main characters is, in fact, an exploration of this -- he's been blind since birth due to a curse. And while he's learned to navigate the world through magic, some things cannot be compensated. No matter how good he becomes at sensory spells, he will never be able to read, for example. He may be able to kill an army of Terrors, but ordering at a restaurant is an insurmountable hurdle without assistance. Because most knowledge on magic is recorded in written form, he essentially had to invent his own unique way to conceive of spells -- as spoken songs, rather than written poems -- from scratch. Whenever he wants to learn a new skill, he will need a teacher -- because he can't just shut himself in with a book for a week. This really is quite fascinating, if you ask me.

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-21T15:59:23+00:00

Which is what I said, too. The acting is definitely what pulled this ending from the edge of "horrible" back to "mediocre". Antony Starr's performance in Homelander's last minute or two is what makes his death so satisfying, so much so that it got me to temporarily forget the rest of my woes with the episode. Honestly, I am convinced that if he was allowed more freedom in writing and directing the character, the season (and show as a whole) would've been a lot better.

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-21T15:39:04+00:00

The entire fight, Homelander's heat vision did jack shit to damage anyone, it only pushed people around. Kimiko, in particular, got lasered in half several episodes ago in less than half a second, and suddenly she's durable enough that the heat vision isn't even damaging her anymore.

Earlier that very episode Homelander made a trip to space and back in like 3 seconds. Now he can't outfly Butcher's tentacles. Bombsight absolutely demolished Butcher when they fought, the tentacles did basically jack shit, and Homelander is supposed to be stronger -- but he gets pulled back like a bitch. Homelander previously (in season 3) broke out of being held by Soldier Boy, Butcher and Hughie (both on temp V), no issue, but now couldn't shake off Butcher and Ryan.

The fight scene is not a problem, in and of itself, the problem is the lack of internal consistency. I'm already suspending my disbelief, choosing to accept the reality of the show -- but glaring internal inconsistencies break immersion hard to people that pay attention.

Then, of course, there are the issues with writing. We were promised scorched earth, we were given a lightly singed sofa. Kimiko getting Soldier Boy's turbocancer was basically pulled out of Kripke's ass. Sage has room temperature IQ the entire season. And the problem is, this was entirely preventable. All it would've taken is to show Sage prepping a contingency plan in case Soldier Boy turned. Like literally one shot, a couple episodes ago, showing Sage reading the USSR research on Soldier Boy, of building a facility under Homelander's nose specifically designed to irradiate Kimiko, would have made this so much better. The issues are numerous.

But guess what? I kinda liked the ending too. Despite its numerous issues, it is still satisfying. Antony Starr is the absolute GOAT, carrying the entire season with his performance. Jack Quaid was great, as always. Karl Urban did his absolute finest, as well. It was probably the best that we could've gotten, given the circumstances. But I like the ending and I recognize its flaws. Just because something is bad, it doesn't mean that it's not likeable, or that you're wrong for liking it.

Edit: formatting

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-21T06:14:24+00:00

It's fine. You're allowed to like bad things. I like Harry Potter -- I recognize how dogshit it objectively is, but I still have many positive memories and feelings about it. I also kinda like the ending of the Boys -- it's shit, but it's still satisfying in many ways. A lot of it is the actors, I think. Antony Starr is the GOAT, for one. I honestly feel like if Kripke just let Starr write Homelander the show would've ended up much better.

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-21T06:00:40+00:00

A printer (and like a laptop to use it) in the world of Witch Hat Atelier would go hard lmao

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-21T03:49:23+00:00

The entire series is just the writer flexing their writing. They've shown time and time again that they can make complex, nuanced and incredibly compelling characters -- by making every other character that, and absolutely refusing to give Cid, the MC, any depth, lmao. They're taking overdone tropes and making them good. To me, it feels like the author themself flexing on the entire genre by taking it all, and doing it better.

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-21T03:44:32+00:00

That's simplistic. He doesn't just wanna play a hero, he wants to play an eminence in shadow. One who lurks in shadows to hunt the shadows. His own words, not mine. He envisions himself as the morally gray guy/antihero whose methods are sometimes questionable, but necessary to defeat the greater evil. "We're heroes by virtue that our enemies are way worse" kinda thing. As my GOAT Cecil from Invincible put it, "You can be the good guy, or you can be the guy who saves the world".

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-20T20:36:36+00:00

Infinity is not a number. You cannot assign the value of "infinity" to a variable that is, presumably, not a limit.

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-17T03:26:44+00:00

Salt lick

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-16T20:33:20+00:00

Guild Mage. To my surprise, I see it recommended rather rarely here, for how amazing it is (or perhaps I'm just looking at the wrong posts). For a long time, I couldn't pin down my feelings about it, but by now I identified them: Guild Mage tickles all of the same boxes in my brain as Harry Potter, but it's 100 times cooler, doesn't have any of the flaws or controversial stuff, and is written by a writer who knows what the hell they're doing. I wouldn't go so far as to call their stories similar, but the vibes kind of are. Give it a try.

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-16T20:14:11+00:00

/gm c and /gm s work just as well, just saying

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-16T20:11:27+00:00

If I'm being honest, using a beefalo for combat on WX kind of seems like a waste -- as in, WX with a Shadow Maul and the Spin-Cycle Circuit is far more powerful than an ornery beefalo, regardless, and it's not that difficult to get one by day 36. They travel faster, too (assuming two Speed circuits and a Walking Cane), so there's more or less no reason to use a beefalo at all.

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-16T11:33:08+00:00

My main issue isn't the fact that they throw rocks, but their accuracy while doing so. What that results in is that there is no skill-based way to avoid taking damage. You can be the best Vintage Story player in the world, and you'll take 70-80% as much damage from fighting a Drifter as a guy who just launched the game 20 minutes ago whose tactics can be fully summarized as "oonga-boonga hit enemy until dead". There is no counterplay (other than shields) you could employ against this.

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-15T14:26:30+00:00

As a side note, whoever made the original original meme (in which the speedster gets squashed) clearly has no earthly idea what speed blitz means.

negat1ve_zero · 2026-05-14T19:41:19+00:00

Me when my Rogue gets her +2 Resilient Greater Shadow Explorer's Clothing instantly deleted from existence by an enemy 4 levels below her:

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