Pathbuilder 2e: pathbuilder2e.com/

@jadenleatham3408

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! I’m gonna look at this to look at potential builds and the like. This is gonna be a lot easier then doing the math then forgetting something 😂

@bobsterclause342

Жыл бұрын

can't stop laughing. Pact tactics doing pathfinder. Oh man Wizards really messed up. It;s just funny though

This is your DnDBeyond, yes, but it is absolutely 100% free and no having to pay for character options, it has everything right out of the gate!

@backcountry164

Жыл бұрын

Including options I don't actually own, apparently. Kinda hard to support a new game when you're not actually supporting the game...

@canhaoambulante9329

Жыл бұрын

@@backcountry164 I don't get the point. Having the options isn't something good? You can always buy the books if you want to support it

@waifusmith4043

Жыл бұрын

@@backcountry164 The class and ancestry options are all free via archives of nethys (which is officially endorsed by Paizo), as well as everything mechanics wise. What isn't free is the lore books and adventures, which is how they make their money . Note I'm fairly new to Pathfinder myself but like the change of pace. People will still buy pdfs or books due to preference, but it's nice to know we have access to most recent stuff for free without pirating. Neat thing about path builder is that unless you're a build that uses familiars or pets you only need the free version, the paid is a one-time $5 or $6 depending on the platform (mobile or PC respectively). Have learned a lot just messing with pathbuilder Anyone more versed in PF please correct any mistakes I've made, going into my first game this week.

@szadec9264

Жыл бұрын

@@backcountry164 yes, you can actually buy the books to support them. I can't see the problem.

@XanderHarris1023

Жыл бұрын

It’s not quite 100% free but is if you are making a basic character and not using certain variant rules. Building an animal companion or an Eidolon for your character is behind a paywall for example.

Notes: First, for optimizing remember that instead of the ancestry ability boosts and flaws you can now opt to take two ability boosts in the stats of your choice. Its core as of the 4th printing and your dreams of making a str/con kobold barbarian are realized. -Alignment is very important to champions and clerics and many classes have class based obligations called anathema . Beast barbarians have issues with weapons for example. -Sorcerers are wild because they pull from different spell lists depending on their bloodline. A Devil sorcerer pulls from the divine list, while a hag sorcerer pulls from the occult list.

@Erik_Dz

Жыл бұрын

in addition, alignments are also damage types in certain situations. Some enemies may deal 'Chaotic damage' which will deal damage to lawful characters for example. These are niche to non-existent in some campaign, or common in others.

@Colouroutofspace4

Жыл бұрын

You could already do that with the previous optional flaw system. I'm not a fan of the new one as it is a straight nerf to the two ability boost ancestries.

@fabioviti7384

Жыл бұрын

It's not correlated to what you said but also another note; when you play a fighter have fun, the dm will surely not (It's a running joke at my table because my party's fighter always gets good rolls, and things explode)

Pro tip - once you're done, you can export your character into the default PF2e character sheet pdf format! So this is useful even at traditional pen-and-paper tables.

@evrypixelcounts

Жыл бұрын

This, and you can export as a statblock pdf as an action reference sheet aswell! (but that might be a paid feature i don't remember)

Gator: But Kobold, you don't get pact tactics. Kobold: Proceeds to become a pokemon instead.

@deutschesinferno3078

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps we don't need a Pack Tactics feature. Sometimes the Pack Tactics is the friends we make along the way.

@canhaoambulante9329

Жыл бұрын

@@deutschesinferno3078 Flanking goes brrrrrr

@CyberBlastoise

Жыл бұрын

You can get Pack Tactics if you take the Beastkin Heritage, which is a Rare Heritage but every Ancestry can use it with GM's permission.

@XanderHarris1023

Жыл бұрын

A lot of classes get reactions that go off when your allies do something.

@felixcohen1247

Жыл бұрын

Aside from the beastkin that was mentioned, you can also get the effect of pack tacticts by becoming a 6th level rogue and taking the gang up feat.

PF 1 had a book called “Kobolds of Golarion” if you’re interested in subtleties of Kobold Lore

I get the feeling the river bit's going to be a running joke in all the Pathfinder videos.

@GilboPaints

Жыл бұрын

As long as we only ever cross half the distance, we’ll never run out of river

@PackTactics

Жыл бұрын

Riverfinder

@canhaoambulante9329

Жыл бұрын

@@GilboPaints ah yes, the infinite river exploit. Always useful

@GorgoPrimus

Жыл бұрын

All you need to do is take two actions to cross the river fully if you don’t crit. *shrug*

@patrickkelly8098

Жыл бұрын

Kobold's Paradox

I didn't understand archetypes and multiclassing at first but experimenting in path builder was really instrumental in helping me learn the class feat system. I was honestly not thrilled with the classes seeming pretty streamlined at first but now I have a build I'm excited to try out.

@XanderHarris1023

Жыл бұрын

Have you heard about the Free Archetype variant rule?

Mini Dragon yay!

The advantage fighters have is that they have +2 more to hit with weapons than all other martials, so they have a higher chance to hit and to crit from level 1-20. They start as experts in all weapons, while every other martial is only trained. And fighters are the only martials to become legendary in all weapons, most martials can only reach master proficiency in weapons. I think this also applies to armor, so they should have a constant +2 more AC than all other characters. EDIT: Correction, Armor legendary is with champion.

@wereowl9369

Жыл бұрын

No armour is champion, fighter only gets the increase to hit.

@wereowl9369

Жыл бұрын

Actually to add on to that. Champion having more AC doesn't only make them harder to hit, it also makes it more likely for enemies to hit ohter perty members which allows the champion to use their special reaction.

@fullmetalpotato1258

Жыл бұрын

@@wereowl9369 thanks, I added a correction

@zachariahmerry2396

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, whilst it's an easy thing to miss / gloss over, calling something "better fighter" is really powerful as it's often considered the most powerful class in the game.

@fabioviti7384

Жыл бұрын

@@zachariahmerry2396 if something is a better fighter i think the whole manual has to just cry and shiver in fear for that thing

Thaumaturge is one of the most complicated class but it's really powerful , since the class as so many features it works best with archetypes

Extra note for those using Foundry: There is already a module in the works to import characters from pathbuilder into Foundry's PF2e system. Made by the same dev that did the excellent DnDBeyond importer for 5e!

@gacrazy65

Жыл бұрын

I heard you couldn't do that, so I must ask where this is as to spare my players pain. We love Pathbuilder and are just now trying Foundry (like it so far), and our only gripe is the pathbuilder integration

"And eventually I'll evolve into Charizard" And exactly as him you'll never be a true dragon. T.T

@RamblinPhoenix

Жыл бұрын

Low blow...true...but still a low blow. Lol.

@Colouroutofspace4

Жыл бұрын

Dragon Disciplle Dedication disagrees with you. At the capstone you can cast Dragon form as an inate spell hightened ro 9th level once per hour. To emphasize that A FREE 9TH LEVEL SPELL SLOT EVERY HOUR. I don't think any other feat comes close to that level of strength

@Pack Tactics So glad to see you making PF2 content. I have been a Pack fan for a long time yet I don't even know how to play 5e. I just enjoy the videos. I play PF1 and I have the book for PF2. I will probably play PF2 later this year. So it is nice to actually learn something while being entertained.

PF2e player here, the big difference from thaumaturge to fighter is threefold; survivability (how), damage options, and tactics. Thaumaturge is overall squishier, but can take the time to cherrypick spells for defense, or use the mirror and laugh at combat for their entire existance. They tend to deal in damage weaknesses, or create them, and are overall less tectically broad (from a tossling standpoint of melee). Fighter is THE crit machine beatstick of 2e. Its got your normal heavy armor and starts with and ends with better weapon proficiencies then anyone, its damage is from crits, buffs from allies, and often enough *tactical maneuvers*. The Fighter genuinely shines out as the highest DPS Class in pathfinder 2e and that's kind of its place in the system.

@PlatonicLiquid

Жыл бұрын

Barbarians (especially giant instinct) do generally do more damage than fighters except at higher levels against two weapon fighting builds, which is good because they trade a significant amount of defense for it. But yeah, the biggest drawback to Thaumaturge dpr is key ability Charisma and that damage from weakness isn't multiplied on a crit Edit: Oh, and max d8 weapon damage because of 1-handed requirements, which is offset by Implements Empowerment putting it equal to a d12 weapon in terms of average damage.

Id like to note that the thaumaturge is definitely not just a better fighter, fighter infact is commonly considered to be the best class in the game, this is due to a few reasons. A fighter will always have a higher proficiency in a weapon of their choice than any other character in the party, they start with expert proficiency in all weapons, gain master in a group of their choice at 5, legendary at 13. This means you have a +2 to hit over anyone else, and a +2 to crit. In addition fighters have accsess to 2 handed weapons, unlike the thaumaturge who is restricted to one handers. FIghter class feats are infinite use combat manuvers that often give good effects, such as combat grab where you make a strike, and if you hit you deal damage and grab the opponent in one action. There are more examples i could use but that should show the point im trying to make. Thaumaturges have immense utility and single target damage, they are by no means worse than the fighter, but battlefield control and critting more than you miss is the fighters whole thing.

For alignment it probably is mostly referring to spells like protection from good/evil/law/chaos and smite for example.

@Colouroutofspace4

Жыл бұрын

There's also good, evil, chaotic, and lawful damage. So neutral alignment is kind of optimal (and for most adventures evil is optimal defensively and good id optimal offensively) but certain deities are locked to certain alignments and if you are a cleric or champion athiest isn't an option. And there are no neutral champions.

@janneswilmink487

Жыл бұрын

@@Colouroutofspace4 I am aware, just mentioned the things I did as an example, not saying that is all there is to it.

Honestly if the ogl drama did anything it highlighed the awesomeness that is pf2e. I really don't see myself exclusively playing dnd ever again now.

@kelly4187

Ай бұрын

It's been over a year since the ogl issue and I gotta say, only about 20% of my games are now dnd. I've moved on. I admit I like 5e but my real love was always a more crunchy system, and pf2e scratches that itch, as well as being owned by companies that AREN'T assholes.

I love all the choices!

About the aligment thing, funnily being neutral is optimal. There is aligment damage which is made by creatures of different planes, like devil making evil damage or Monitors dealing lawful damage. Usually is only a very little bit, being 1d6 extra damage at most (the only creature that i have see that has above that is a level 20 devil which had 2d6 evil damage). This damage type hurt you if you are the opposite aligment, but not if you are neutral or of that aligment, so being a true neutral makes you inmune to all aligment damage has long as you doesn't gain a weakness for any reason (like using spells to transform yourself in a demon). About items, usually the only times when there is a restriction is for items that lets you to do aligment damage, since it penalize you if you hold the item being of the opposite aligment (like for example if you have a holy rune in your weapon you become enfebleed 2 if your aligment is evil), and some divine spells uses your aligment or the aligment of your deity to determine is damage type. This all most of the time is fluff, but can have a little mechanical importance if you fight creatures of other planes. The Gamemaster guide has some optional rules about what to do if you think you don't want aligment to be in games and how to approach things like aligment damage in that case

@malkyn9998

Жыл бұрын

So glad for those variant rules. Hate that True Neutral is suddenly mechanically optimal; some mechanics around alignment is fine, but immunity while still getting to deal alignment damage is a bit much. Also RIP Clerics of Neutral deities. I use the Moral Intentions variant for my games these days. Narrative support for character roleplaying, allows Clerics of Neutral deities to not be locked from half their class feats or spells, and removes cynical use of alignment. Would recommend. Edit: forgot to mention what the alignment system does to Clerics.

@robm6321

Жыл бұрын

Just want to tack on 2 more instance of alignment making a mechanical impact: 1) The cantrip divine lance is limited if the deity you get your magic from is partially neutral and doesn't work at all if it is fully neutral. 2) Champions MUST be good or evil and so are vulnerable to at least one of those damage types. I think this is significant because champions are designed to be the most defensive class, so them not having access to the optimal defensive alignment is probably good for balance.

@dis977

Жыл бұрын

@@malkyn9998 Iirc there are some items that are stronger on the proper alignment that neutral players cant use. Like a goblet that is random effects if you aren't chaotic.

@woomod2445

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@@robm6321 All the divine attacks don't work if your deity is true neutral. Also the best part of being a cleric is reaching lvl7 and getting "greater detect alignment" i mean er "divine wrath" which DOES work on filthy centrists i mean neutrals, one save category up still pings as deserving wrath.

It's wild seeing all of my favorite optimizers making 2e content, a most optimal choice IMO

This website looks so neat! Thanks for sharing with us!

I do love that alignment has mechanical weight. "Roleplaying mechanics in my roleplaying games!? Absurd!"

@ahorseofcourse7283

Жыл бұрын

"Oh, you wanna be a chaotic evil Champion? You have to hurt yourself and be objectively worse than every other variation of your class." Yeah, that shit is getting homebrewed out first opportunity. Having your your abilities directly dictate your characterization is lame.

One thing worth mention is each class has a "kit" basically a list of the bare bone items a member of that class will want. Defiantly worth 1st timers picking those up with starting gold.

AFAIK the difference between Fighter and Thaumaturge is how often you get critical hits for attacks. A single Fighter has a substantial to-hit boost that crits come much more easily, and your successive attacks hit more often.

@dis977

Жыл бұрын

Fighter is the ultimate well... fighter. In terms of raw single target damage potential I don't think anyone can beat it in melee. Thaumaturge sacrifices that for other utility and functions (Like exploit weakness).

Thanks, these have been clutch!

This is such a useful series.

Love your shirts, Kobold

Fighters have a +2 to hit over every other martial (and to crit, fighters have like a 20-25% chance to crit wih no bonuses), arent restricted to a single one handed weapon and have more powerful combat focused feats along with not needing to exploit vulnerability for damage. All of this leads to fighters having more action economy for more consistent hits and crits leading to arguably the most conistently high DPR in the game, even if they dont benefit from the thaumaturge's exploit vulnerability. But do keep in mind, one of the most powerful thaumaturge feats allows them to *share the weakness from exploit vulnerability.* which works amazingly if you have a fighter that hits multiple times without combining damage for weakness, who benefits from it even more than you due to their higher accuracy, like a triple shot fighter using a bow. You optimize for teamwork in 5e too, but it really goes a lot further than putting down control spells in pf2e. No character should be thought of in a vacuum.

Fails to cross river, uses hero point, critically fails to cross river. This was great! I personally prefer wander's guide but they're both awesome free character creation tools!

@BN-sf2xj

Жыл бұрын

I was looking to see if someone else preferred Wanderer’s Guide too! I like how much content it has to offer, and I prefer its user interface over Pathbuilder’s. The 3 character limit (without paying anything) is a bit discouraging, but to have all that for free at all is, in my opinion, totally worth the restriction!

Thanks kobold!

Sorcerer is a spontaneous spellcaster, which means they cast spells more similarly to 5e spellcasting. You know all your spells, you can cast them with whatever slot you have available. What's different is that you need to know a spell at each level you want to upcast it at. For example, I have three first level slots, I know magic missile and burning hands. I can cast either of those spells in whatever quantity or order I wish, where a wizard or cleric would have to prepare two level 1 magic missiles and one level 1 burning hands. However, if I want to cast a 2nd level magic missile, I have to learn magic missile as a 2nd level spell first. Sorcerer does also get signature spells though, which is one spell you pick per slot level that you can freely upcast (or downcast if you choose your 3rd level magic missile to be your signature for that level.) As for alignment, it is genuinely important for certain things, particularly for some classes but also because some effects only work on certain alignments. For example, there is good damage that can only harm evil creatures, or chaotic damage that can only harm lawful creatures

I love pathbuilder 2e. I've been using the one for 1e for years. Definitely recommend it! Thanks for spotlighting it!

wanderers guide is also really good and has a campaign grouping in the gm tools button at the top, giving the gm access to the players sheets AND roll for secret checks

I love pathbuilder so much!

The site is quite useful!

Fun fact Re: Alignment there are a few items in the game that can effectively only be used by certain alignments, but usually it only precludes the opposite alignment, like the holy rune which gives a penalty if an evil character attempts to wield a weapon with it. Additionally, Alignment damage only deals damage to creatures with the opposite alignment, so good damage only works on evil creatures, and chaotic damage (yes, that's a thing) only works on lawful creatures. These aren't particularly common outside of, like, devils, but it does mean that the "optimal" alignment is generally True Neutral, which is a little weird if I'm being honest.

2:20 oh yeah, good old thaumaturge and his special ability: *wall of text*

@webbowser8834

Жыл бұрын

Thaumaturge is one of the more complicated classes, to be sure. Most other classes spread out their complexity a little bit more evenly among their features. Except Druid, to this day I'm still trying to figure out how tf Wild Shape works.

I bought mine last night. I’m having a lot of trouble figuring out the custom features (how do I make things like feats automatic) and learning how to utilize campaigns so all our characters are in one place.

Really starting to wanta play pathfinder 2e .. Kobold psychic! *throws stuff at gnomes with telekinetic projectile*

Alignment can affect in type of damage you do like Chaotic, Evil, Good

Pathbuilder for life! Fantastic tool

Alignment should be picked based on the character you want to play, not based on optimization. That said, true neutral is optimal for most characters, since the most prominent thing that interacts with alignment is alignment damage. Alignment damage only affects creatures with an opposite alignment, so true neutral characters are immune. If you get powers from a deity, those options will be more likely to decide what alignment is optimal.

As for alignment, Pathfinder has alignment based damage. Lawful damage hurts chaotic creatures, chaotic hurts lawful, good hurts evil, and evil hurts good. Because of this, the spell "Divine Lance" has earned a bit of a nickname among the Pathfinder community: "Vibe Check." Basically, if you have that spell and a good-aligned deity, it is reasonable for you to cast it on every NPC you come across, and if it hurts them, immediately begin interrogating them on why they are evil.

I love how crossing the river halfway has become a recurring joke

@captanblue

Жыл бұрын

What IS the joke anyway?

Alignment mostly matters when fighting very alignment based entities. Demons for example are strong vs Good a lot of the time since they deal evil damage. Meanwhile celestials do the reverse. Being neutral in these situations means while they do less to you, you prob do less to them as well. Item wise I don't remember to many alignment restricted items. I do remember a goblet that if you're not chaotic is random in its effects while a chaotic person can pick its effects.

Excellent

For alignment, the neutral alignments are better defensively, while the corner alignments are better offensively (but only for divine casters). This is because of the presence of alignment damage, a damage type that only harms people of the opposite alignment. If you're chaotic good, you can take evil damage and lawful damage, while a true neutral character takes none. Meanwhile, many divine spells deal alignment damage based on either your or your deity's alignment, and if you have two choices of damage you get to pick when you cast the spell. Because alignment damage is valuable for exploiting weaknesses, which can present a solid chunk of damage, it's good to have the versatility of multiple options for more enemies. (Also, some classes and subclasses can have alignment restrictions. Champion Tenets are the premier example.)

4:12 Alignment isn't as drastic a thing as in Curse of Strahd, but there are some items that care what alignment you are and alignment damage can only hurt you if you are the opposite one. So being neutral is good for not taking evil damage. Which isn't really as huge a deal as it's memed to be. Especially given how terrible being neutral can be for offense if you are a Divine caster. Offensively it can be drastically better for divine casters and their party members to be good as many great damage options for the divine list are Good damage AoEs, which wouldn't hurt non-evil allies. Plus some spells buff good and might hurt non-good (Radiant Heart of Devotion for example slightly buffs good in a large radius and anything else gets some debuffs, especially evil). Lots of good spell options like the Divine Lance cantrip and some aligned leveled spells are hard if not impossible to use if you are neutral.

Pathbuilder's creator also recently created a beta encounter builder. It's not perfect, it lacks creatures from the Gamemastery Guide and I've run into a few interface bugs, but once it's all cleaned up it'll be great to have everything in one place.

100% agree, Pathbuilder is great!

In PF2e alignment is much more important. There are certain types of alignment damage that certain spells and creatures do that deal damage only to creatures of opposite alignments. On top of that some feats are restricted by alignment, deity worshipped (or lack thereof) or background. This is especially prevalent with clerics and champions who must be of certain alignments to get certain features or get their powers from specific deities.

"Thaumaturge seemed like a better fighter to me at first glance." No class is better than fighter. Fighter gets an additional +2 to all attacks above everyone else but the gunslinger, and the gunslinger only gets that with guns and crossbows. There is no competition. Honestly, the only class that I could argue to be a "better fighter" is the Swashbuckler, which is actually kinda more better rogue, but Confident Finisher's ability to deal half damage on a missed (but not critically missed) attack essentially means that they can deal at least half of 2d6 nearly every round. they effectively get a +8 to hit above a fighter with a d6 weapon.

2:33 "It (Thaumaturge) seemed like a better Fighter to me at first glance. I have no idea if that's true." I've built both in the past few days. Fighter is king of damage at level 1 because they *start* with Expert martial weapon proficiency instead of Trained, giving them +2 to hit over everyone else. With Power Attack they can spend two actions with a maul to do +9 to hit and 17 average damage at level 1. Thaumaturge has lower base DPS but annihilates anything with a weakness.

Note that Pathbuilder locks familiars, animal companions, and optional rules behind a pay wall while wanderers guide does not.

out of curiosity when was the last time/how often has anyone ever made a pf2e character using a physical character sheet

@canhaoambulante9329

Жыл бұрын

I have been playing pf2e for 3 years now. I did it once, before I discovered that pathbuilder was a thing [edit] Just to clarify, I play mostly online. So pathbuilder helps a lot, because I can just send my character to someone else. Maybe people who play in person prefer the paper

@jltheking3

Жыл бұрын

My group plays weekly with a physical character sheet. Nothing beats the tactile nature of real paper.

@backcountry164

Жыл бұрын

I'd assume most people do. Looking at the site, Pathbuilder seems as buggy as DnD Beyond.

"It seemed like a better fighter to me at first glance" OHHH, sweet summer child, you're gonna feel what pathfinder did to make fighters finally good. That +2, that lil plus two will make the world explode

Pathbuilder really feeds my character creation fixation lol

I pictured you would make an alchemist really. They can get tricky for what I read

Kobolds in Pathfinder are pretty rad, btw...

We need more PF2e

Hahaha..... Nothing is a better fighter than a fighter. They are just that good.

I love Pathbuilder, It's great. But when I play longer campaigns I prefer to have a physical sheet as well

Thaumaturge is a "better fighter" when it comes to doing anything that isn't fighting, sure... but when it comes to actually giving out the hurt there's few classes that can get up there with the fighter, they get the best weapon proficiencies (aside from gunslingers using guns and crossbows, which are on par with fighters), going up to legendary, which is +2/+4 above every other class; and that's very significant as it increases their hit and crit rate (and thus DPR) by a significant amount. They also have a lot of feats that let them increase their DPR and just generally do cool (and effective!) stuff in combat. That's not to say Thaumaturge can't do the same, but fighter is one of the most efficient classes at it.

As a DM / GM , i don't ban anything. But require people to talk to me about Uncommon & Rare tagged Ancestries , Backgrounds , classes & equipment. Edit 1 : Alignment is actually really important in Pathfinder 2e as some classes are strongly defined by aliment & some sub-classes are limited to a alignment.

Nice, another one. Let's see what needs a remark: 0:25 Totally agreed on using Pathbuilder. I feel like we are outright pampered with all those goods tools. The limits only apply in rare cases. 1:20 Charizard is bigger then Ash, I would say at it should be large. Kobold Giant Instinct Barbarian maybe? 1:32 Just in case you wondered _where_ the One DnD Background design came from, you know they stole from the best! :) 2:02 Actually, "Standard Ability Score" toggle replaces your Ancestry Boost+Flaws with 2 Free Boosts of choice, like human. This is _not_ a optional rule, this is a core rule. Removing it would be the house rule. Just added last month with the 4th Errata/Reprint of the CRB. A bit hidden 4th CRB 26, in the sidebar. 2:33 Thaumatruge: Standard Martial Proficiencies, but with the Key stat not being on a Accuracy Stat will be 1 behind to hit half the levels. Specialties is finding Weaknesses in enemy, exploiting weaknesses in enemies and potentially make a personal one. Varies wildly by those implements. Favor 1-handed weapons, no shield, lots of attacks - so a bit hard to use in ranged combat. Fighter has both better Proficiencies then other Martials (only Gunslingers are as good) and a lot of feats for every fighting style except unarmed. But you can usually blend in other Fighting Styles with Archetypes. 3:40 You should cross rivers like Romans - don't swim or use boats. Make a Bridge and walk! 4:12 Neutral is the Optimal Alignment. Alignment Damage only works against the opposite Alignment. Good only hurts Evil. So neutral is immune to it all of them. But they also are usually only a side-dish on other attacks, so rarely worth worrying about. But there is a variant where anything but the exact same alignment takes damage. Good works against anything but good. It is nice for Clerics and Paladins, bad for everyone else :) Items with a Alignment restrictions like the Holy Avenger also work mostly against the opposite (Enfeebled 2 vs Evil)

@Talenel

Жыл бұрын

Charizard is canonically only 5 foot 7 inches. Sure, that's bigger than Ash, but he's a 10 year old Japanese boy. That's not a very high bar.

@christopherg2347

Жыл бұрын

@@Talenel Fair point. But still would need to get the Kobold medium sized at least.

Messing in pathbuilder is fun

Cool beans.

"Thaumaturge seemed like a better fighter at first glance" Thaumaturge is for sure a good class and has some interesting things to do, but the Fighter is probably straight up the best basic martial full stop. They get experts in almost all weapons at level 1. That's a +2 to pretty much every attack compared to other martials, and their progression keeps them ahead of the pack as when others get to be experts in those same weapons, Fighters become Masters. Essentially Fighters just hit better than pretty much everyone else.

It's not a better fighter But it does do things fighters cannot do. So it depends what you want from your character. They are very good out of the box Witcher, Van Helsing flavored class

> seems like a better fighter But Kobold! Fighter is the best class!

Where is my picture of lvl20 kobold as a charizard?

Surprised how you didn't mention that you can plan your build going forward and can switch between levels without rebuilding your character.

Part 2 when?

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im starting to feel like dnd and pathfinder are almost like windows and linux, with the latter having so many customization and are free

"You need it just in case there's a river you need to cross." (Hehehe.)

@captanblue

Жыл бұрын

I feel like I missed a funny inside joke :(

@patrickkelly8098

Жыл бұрын

@@captanblue Check out Kobold's first video on Pathfinder rules and all shall be clear. :) The link below is to the relevant timestamp in the video, but the whole thing is worth a watch! kzread.info/dash/bejne/qp55rqWje5q1cqg.html

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For Alignment your right about it being a requirement for certain items, it also determines if you are affected by Good or Evil damage, a requirement for some spells and my favorite detrimes what Champion subclass you take and if you are a Good or Evil Champion. Same thing goes for Lawful and Chaotic.

@robot1g598

Жыл бұрын

It’s not a requirement anymore. It has been erratad so evil trait things just might make a good aligned character more evil over time

He doesn't know that Fighters are the only class to get boosted accuracy. He doesn't know.

I have heard that the characters consist mainly of feats

@mj1mj3

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Yeah feats basically replace subclasses in this game. There are still subclasses, but those mostly just decide what feats your allowed to take.

@aurtosebaelheim5942

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It's more that PF2e doesn't linguistically distinguish between Feats, Class Features and Racial Traits. For example, a 5e Ranger can choose between default feature X and Tasha's alternate feature Y. In PF2e terms, that Ranger would get a Ranger Feat at that level and those 2 options would be the only ones available at that level (though you may be able to go back and grab the other one later when you get another Ranger Feat and none of the new options appeal to you).

@elsanto2401

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class critical stuff is still part of the class, so barbarians always rage, but a lot of important things are in your class feats and skill feats. You get about 10-11 class feats and 10-11 skill feats. Its like a "build your own subclass". You use the class feats for picking up the equivalent of multiclassing, here called archtypes.

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I dont know if ill ever go to pathfinder, ive been playing D&D since 1992.

this isn't planar binding

WHY CANT I BE A BUGBEAR?!?!?!?!?!

no fighter is the strongest martial, if not the strongest class. idk why they made them so strong

2:05 you do not ever roll for ability scores. Everything starts at 10 and you apply boosts where you want them. The options for ability scores are a recent addition that let's you change your ancestry's boosts to 2 free boosts, where alot of the time it's 3 boosts and 1 flaw.

You had me at racials that get better as you level up. That was one of the things that annoyed me the most in 5e. It makes Pathfinder sympathetic to me.

I just read the pack tactics beastkin heritage feat and came here to comment that its not good Im so sad

Can we pass river of his river jokes?

Any pro here ? I just wanna build a goblin sorcerer (or any other caster if sorcerer sucks too much) with fireball.

@devils_kin0449

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The sorcerer is great, this isn't 5e so all classes are great. just depends on your campaign. if you want fireball you'd want a sorcerer with acess to primal or arcane spells. I can help with your character if you have any questions

@PyroGobbo

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@@devils_kin0449 What's best between primal and arcane ? All I really know is that I saw the Burn It ancestry feat and went fireball yes.

Shadowrun would be 300% better if it had a equivalent of pathbuilder Sure it has some tools but they are all incomplete because there are so many books

When kobold say that thaumaturge are better fighters 😂🤣 No

You could also just... do it by the book. It's not that hard if you're willing to put in the time.

"Thaumaturge seemed like better fighter" Correction: Nothing is better than Fighter. No joke, fighter is one of the top tier classes in the game. All other classes exist to make the fighter do their job better.

I would never ever ever recommend making your first pathfinder character in pathbuilder.

"I think they're just better fighters" Eh. Thaumaturge has a lot of skills and knowledge about the thing their fighting. Fighter is just better at hitting and more stuff happens when they crit.

Alignment is ridiculous and any GM that takes it seriously should not be allowed to GM. Like, who dictates Order versus Chaos? Who dictates Good versus Evil? If a party is fighting a foe who surrenders and begs for mercy, and one of those is a Champion that worships Torag, he HAS to kill that foe, regardless of the other party members' wishes. If he doesn't, PBBBLT! He loses his powers! You can't gamify morality!

Well, it seems this series is abandoned...

The fact that you need an app for character creation, kinda says that it might be a bit too damn complicated.

@PackTactics

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I have the book. Its just to follow the steps but like why would I do that when I can just use this easily?

@yoh1914

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@@PackTactics Don't get me wrong, it's a good thing these apps exist, as anything that lowers the barrier for new players a good thing. I just find it rather curious that this a frequent recommendation when it comes to PF2e.