ohh youve already swapped? how youve been liking it? lmk if you need any tips, we've been playing it since 2e came out. and we bought like almost all the products for 2e after they became a union shop, we know some of the people who work at paizo personally too.
and when i say ive been trying to break the system for years, i mean it. i do almost daily research of pf2e for my games. its such a well designed system.
honestly really cannot recommend pf2e enough. its codified, not just vibes based or an unspoken rule. if you arent setting up to help allies and do some teamwork, youre gonna fail, and theres more options to metagame jerking your buddy off so that he gets big crits than anything else. also ive dmed it some times, and the amount of work for the dm is drastically reduced, to the point that adlibbing with minimal planning is trivial to do, the monsters are mathed out and actually make sense for their levels. no guesswork involved.
if you havent tried it, id recommend the beginners box, best ttrpg product ive ever gotten. basically a prebuilt boardgame worth of stuff but its a ttrpg.
i must admit that im kinda this sort of player. but thats also why we play pf2e, i have been incessantly trying to break the system for years yet i have not been able to. the strongest thing i was able to devise was one action magic missile spamming a single target extreme encounter boss with a psychic. but even this damage is accounted for in the system, and this is so bursty and dangerous to do for a caster.
play games that have good math! research is fun for a lot of people, including myself, i just cant help myself around forbidden knowledge so i always play 'optimally'. but it should also be noted that i enjoy rp too
if someone says sitch one more fucking time, im gonna have a sitch in my pants
please dont bring your fetish oc to the table, im begging you
incredibly boring game. you keep feeling like maybe itll get deeper and more interesting but it never does. cyberpunk and baldurs gate at least create vibes and have a somewhat fun storyline to follow.
its a great fucking value, unionization gets the goods (paizo is the first ttrpg company to unionize)
get the beginner box for pathfinder 2e! i strongly recommend it, best ttrpg product ive ever fucking bought, EVER. and ive played a lot of systems. the rub of it is its basically like a board game, but for dnd, and its easy as fuck to bring to family gatherings and such and hand out characters for them to play. the materials are very high quality and it comes with pawns and maps and a prewritten adventure and is probably the best intro to a system ive ever played. 10/10 no notes
im personally a big fan of the x series, i totally recommend it. its basically like if you merged morrowind and eve online. its silly, janky, and i love having my giant carrier shit on people with a flotilla of 100 frigates while i purge capitalism from my sector
have you tried x4 foundations out?
man, i wish the X series (re: x4 foundations) actually got funding that shit like starfield gets. it has so many good ideas but the implementation just isnt there for a variety of reasons
yeah when i recently played baldurs gate i actually had the opposite problem. mostly i was just shocked how i put up with 5e for so long