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I love PF2e archetypes, I usually play with three players and Free Archetypes helps to give them an extra little power boost to help balance things, as well as some more cool options for character building. Also they can be used to add story too, in my Rise of the Runelords campaign, one character became Runescarred when they were caught in the magic of an exploding runewell.
Are we ignoring the fangs on this man!
I'd like to play with Free Archetype, unfortunately I only play PFS, and it's not available.
Honestly they are pretty fun, I played an investigator with the eldritch researcher archetype, absolute madness issues
Honestly I respectfully disagree with almost every point you and Blaine's video make. At the end of the day, most 'detractors' have just moved on from Wotc/Hasbro as a company not d&d as a game or concept. Alot of them use clickbait titles but if you actually watch these 'detractors' videos you can tell they love tabletop and they still want it to be great. Still interesting discussion to watch.
Still haven't had a chance to play a game of Pathfinder yet because I haven't found Anyone in my area who actually plays The Game. But I've been having all kinds of fun making up characters using the cell phone app. I really like adding that second class and using architects to make up some pretty interesting combinations of characters. My current obsession trying to make Benders from Avatar in Pathfinder using the new Kineticist and the monk.
Someone took juggler?
Free archetype can be taken off direct levelling and treated as a roleplaying reward too. Though some will work better than others and it should be something the player wants rather than the GM just deciding on one for them. For instance, a player may seek an NPC out or train up a relationship to gain the sniping duo there and then without waiting for their next level up (so long as they are high enough level). And it gains feats when it is narratively right rather than by level (or loses them if narratively right, such as abusing a relationship core to it or a celebrity going into hiding for too long, and so long as it's an agreed style of play).
@18:15 DnD is definable, it has an essence. It'd be like saying "I am swimming" when you are not in a body of water and then claiming "its still swimming if you want it to be, theres no set way to swim."
I always homebrew, and i love to come out with different mechanics based on the character and the player. So, to help my narrative impaired brawler that always go "i throw a punch" and make him have fun with just throwing dice, i made a round-based fight without damage, just a dice battle where the first to get 10 points wins, the thing is that this turned into a personal immersive heavy decision-making and punishing fight kinda like The Raid, where he was incentivised to use his brain, gaining automatic advantages with coherent actions and automatic losses with morronic decisions, so much so that he decided to thrust his metal arm in the enemy mouth, and this was an instakill before the battle reached 10, and he said "wow, so i can tell exactly what i want to do and win the fight?!" and i was like "yep, i hate dices, but i want to empower you.". Sadly he died in the same session. Now, i'm a player in a D&D campaign, and the pace is so different it hurts, the constant dice throwing to everything, the high dependency on mathematics and the ammount of effort i have to make so the decisions of my character reflect the rules of D&D is kinda..... boring. I feel constrained.
We had a Redeemer Champ in our AV game - massive power house of damage mitigation - since then I've always considered them A tier, really looking forward to August for the remaster :)
re: heal animal on a beastkin. Hell no. That is clearly not RAI.
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Is it just me or do I keep seeing water drops in the foreground? Is your roof leaking? Lol
His archetype is leaky talker
I was just running Sky King's Tomb and a perfect use of the archetype system came up. At a certain point in SKT, the party runs into an animated doll type construct. It is pictured in the art as holding a teddy bear, though that doesn't appear in the stats. But I flavored it as instead of a fists attack, it was swinging the teddy bear loaded with iron filling (nearby source of iron). One of my players was very annoyed by this, killed the doll, and rescued the teddy. Used the stuffing from a nearby sofa to fix it, and rolled really well on the Crafting check. So I offered them the choice to replace their current archetype (they were level 3 in a Free Archetype campaign) with the Familiar Master archetype, and I haven't seen a player that excited in years :)
(They hadn't really used their original archetype and had really only picked one because nothing really jumped out to them)
Free Archetypes?!?!? In THIS economy!?!?
Pathfinder is sooooooo freakinggggggg tedious. It's so dense, rules for every minute thing, hell no
I usually build Characters of six level with free archetypes, cause it gives me a very good glimpse of what it will become, I recommend to try it and see wonderful deep customization even at early levels.
am so scared about using free archetype since some characters I have built will be so much more stupid I made a Mummy Dragon Sorcerer who uses moister to become humanoid to enter political areas an ruin naughty people an the idea of using a second archetype on top of mummy is haunting
Acrobat Swashbuckler for the win! You can't keep me down! Crawling everywhere, popping up, and tripping ya baddies! (kip up is so much fun especially on such a mobile character)
Swashbuckler Centaur without free archetype is already busted lol a fifty feet movement speed WTF
Looking forward to trying a Monk Wrestler in our upcoming pirate campaign. This is only my second PF character and I'm loving the variety of options compared to that other game.
I like giving the Free Archetype and Ancestry Paragon options. It works really well for small parties too.
I gave my life oracle the cleric and hallowed necromancer archetypes. It fits really well for her :)
Free archetype is the best thing ever. ^_^
I'd suggest talking about Ancestral Paragon as well for a variant choice. Granted it's not in GM Core, but it's another really cool option for fleshing out characters that like FA, doesn't completely throw out the balance of gameplay (although humans being able to take just about every major General/Skill feat might be seen as problematic to some lol).
I don't see any point in playing PF2e without Free Archetype enabled. (well, OK, overstatement, but seriously, they're such a boon to any table, why wouldn't you play with them?)
4:28 Thanks for the shower.
I like Untamed Druids with the Beastmaster Dedication. It's basically playing a second order without having to choose for which one you want to spent you class feats for. You just go down the full animal path. Also, combining your Battle Forms and your Companion(s) makes it absolutely possible to play a melee druid with zero strength, at least on lower levels. This makes it possible to spent some points on Charisma and getting more out of your capability to talk with animals or druid feats regarding demoralize. So it's also a great bonus out of combat with a lot of roleplay potential.
As someone who only gets to play Pathfinder when playing PFS, no free archetypes for me.
I've played exactly one session (not campaign, just one session) without free Archetype. My group is never going back!
Next time i get to play will be in a Super Mario inspired campaign and i'm gonna play a Kong Barbarian (orc/awaken animal barbarian) with the Wrestler archetype. He's going to 🍍 Ananas 🍍 Slama 🍍 some fools!
i swear this is your second video on free archetype. and i tried so hard to get my GM to do free archetype when we started his campaign. really wish he had listened to me as i am struggling within the coinstraints of the game to have my telekinetic sorceress. good thing my bloodline feats suck.
I believe it is but with the Remaster hopefully bringing in more people it was a nice video to have again! We'll also be getting... I think it's 40 archetypes in Player Core 2(Unsure if this includes the 8 from the classes that we're getting).
Crusader and Thaumaturge really dont need free archetype as they have so many bad feat levels. But doubling up with them is cool. Especially with the Marshal archetype..
11:07 Not that I've seen and I have DUG DEEP into archetypes! There are ones that people argue about not actually being archetypes feats because they are also skill feats(this is NOT true, people are just stupid)! Now you aren't, R.A.W. at least, allowed to take a Skill feat from an archetype with your class feats(or your FA feats I assume) but that seems like a stupid rule so I don't use it, even on the Feats that are odd leveled. If a player wants to hold a feat or use a higher one to take the lower level feat seems fine to me. I'll find out eventually as I'm running a game currently!
Paizo and wotc both released cash grab products within a year of one another. Both are scum. Luckily free league is available which is just objectively better than either paizo or wotc.
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SoT goes a little more specific and it allows Wizard and Druid! I think there's a lore reason given in the SoT Player's Guide. However, if I ever actually run it, I think I will just use Free Archetype without restriction because some people may not want to have magic(I'll want reasons why they are at a magic school of course) and others might START as a spellcaster to begin with thus wanting to add something else to their character rather than MORE spellcasting.
I play an Orc Dragonblooded sorcerer with the wrestler free archetype. He's also got his orc ferocity and his warmask. Is it optimal to charge into melee and grapple things... no. Is it absolutely a blast to play for him to refer to himself as a dragon while carrying on like a pro wrestler? Yes. And in a different game, I have a wizard who's a Loremaster and an Eldritch Researcher, which just doubles down on that classic bookworm stereotype but is also a lot of fun to just lean so heavily into.
SUPLEX THE TRAIN!!!!!
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What the hell is vein·kuh·type?!
"You can ignore the 'special' text once. This is generally accepted." literally never heard of this lmao
I haven't heard this either! There are a couple that remove it in special circumstances. Though I HAVE thought about allowing people to take different archetypes with their class feats than they are taking with their FA feats if they want to.
@@JacksonOwex Yeah this is how I've seen it run. I did notice Pathbuilder has an option for removing "feat restrictions" (the special text), which is the only hint I've seen that people might play this way.
This heatwave is godawful. Stay hydrated and get a heatpump!
I feel lucky and happy that I never got into 5e, and am still playing 3.5e happily with my friends. =^___^= I'd love to get into Pathfinder. I also would like to take 3.5e and modify it, homebrew, for a steampunk world instead of fantasy.
Barb would struggle with message cantrip as it has concentrate
Lol, I don't play. I just build characters to slow of to my kids that I built a better character then they did😂
I love running free archetype, and I wish my first PF2 character could have one, I picked an archetype feat basically any time I could. She's a Gnome Druid with the Monk Dedication. So I gave her elemental Ki Strikes and use buff spells for high speed and damage on unarmed attacks, but she can also retreat quickly and still blast stuff with strong primal spells. Will this work out on high levels? Mabe not, but free Archetype would probably make it easier.
For me, its my half leshy, half automaton Alchemist with an archetype into Kineticist, basically a leshy who cannot photosynthesis naturally, so it built a suit from its connection to the plane of metal to survive. He starts to outgrow the suit and is unable to expand the suit fast enough, but he grows around the armor to use its systems to keep himself alive, turning him into a half machine, half natural being. (He is also a Leshy who becomes Large thanks to the Automoton feat, so thats cool!)
@@hellfrozenphoenix13 so big armor bursting at the seems by way of plant Seems to be typical day in the wilderness
If I remember right, Gatewalkers introduced a similar thing like free archetype with their deviant abilities, essentially adding a little extra flavour into the AP. I've never played flat out with the Free Archetype variant rules, but I think it would definetely work well with certain campaigns, if your players are gearing up to join the hellknights, attempting to become wandering cavaliers or just interested in fleshing themselves out more. Up till now I've been letting my players access archetype feats as a free feat if they involve some downtime or ingame engagement, but just letting them have it is something I'm interested in trying out!
Deviant Abilities are USED in Gatewalkers but they were INTRODUCED in Dark Archives!
I would not have recognized you. You look like a Hollander in my opinion (Holland).
My DM personally homebrewed the restriction on Magic archetype for SoT by altering it to: You have to EITHER Half a Class, OR Archetype that grants Spellcasting. If you choose a Martial primary, you must pick a Spellcasting archetype.....But, if you pick a Spellcasting Primary class, any archetype is fine
The hell is "Half a class" mean?
I've got a Kitsune Psychic Dandy/Time Wizard. He's great with people and also great at erasing mistakes. I thought Delay Consequence from Time Wizard would be just a fun little party trick. Turns out I use it ALL THE TIME. You can delay someone from being swallowed, then have the party nuke the thing that had tried to swallow it before the turn is up. Also great for preventing a character from going down. He also has Lose The Path, Wooden Double, and even Distracting Flattery. He's basically there to prevent anything bad from happening.
I really love Herbalist and Talisman Dabbler, for a kind of "cottage magic" style of character.