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The sheer number of options is the best thing about Pathfinder. It's also the worst. (infosec.pub)

submitted 5 days ago by Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

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[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

the fun thing is, you could literally just do everything completely randomly and your build will still be good

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn't know

I make all my choices based on sheer Rule of Cool-ness -- I start with a vibe and build for that.

BUT. None of my GMs are tryhards, so maybe if I brought my characters to a tryhard session they'd get wiped.

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

honestly choosing the coolest thing every time is probably the best way to build a character

maybe, but for tryhard games you'd make a tryhard character anyway

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

maybe, but for tryhard games you’d make a tryhard character anyway

That's the thing though

I have no idea how.

Since PF2 came out I got by just fine on making unique and fun but entirely unoptimised characters. So I never bothered learning what synergises with what to make a tryhard character.

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

oh well you'd just have to play a bunch of characters and see what is strongest

or watch videos about optimizing characters. there are a bunch of those (a couple of youtube channels i'd recommend for that are swingripper and mathfinder)

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Eh, there's at least 1 exception: toxicologist alchemist. Especially if you're about to play Abomination vaults

[–] orenj@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago

Toxicology got some buffs in the remaster that let them morph poison damage to acid if its favorable, iirc

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

hmm why is that?

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Lots of creature types are immune to poison, such as undead and automatons. And there's a lot of undead in the Abomination Vaults campaign.

Plus, there's a lot of poisons that are very underwhelming. Especially ones that have an onset period; those are essentially useless in combat