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SenseiRat 13 points 3 years ago

Mostly flavor, but some mechanical. You won't be casting wish in combat any more.

From the Ritual entry on AON (emphasis mine to highlight the changes from Wish as a spell):

A ritual is an esoteric and complex spell that anyone can cast. It takes much longer to cast a ritual than a normal spell, but rituals can have more powerful effects.

When you take charge of a ritual, you are its primary caster, and others assisting you are secondary casters. You can be a primary caster for a ritual even if you can’t cast spells. You must know the ritual, and the ritual’s spell level can be no higher than half your level rounded up. You must also have the required proficiency rank in the skill used for the ritual’s primary check (see Checks below), and as the primary caster, you must attempt this skill check to determine the ritual’s effects. The primary skill check determines the tradition. Rituals do not require spell slots to cast. You can heighten a ritual up to half your level rounded up, decided when the ritual is initiated. A ritual always takes at least 1 hour to perform, and often longer. While a ritual is a downtime activity, it’s possible—albeit risky—to perform a ritual during exploration with enough uninterrupted time. A ritual’s casting time is usually listed in days. Each day of casting requires 8 hours of participation in the ritual from all casters, with breaks during multiday rituals to allow rest. One caster can continue a multiday ritual, usually with some light chanting or meditation, while the other casters rest. All rituals require material, somatic, and verbal components throughout their casting time.

Considering that Wish is supposed to be the end-all-be-all of spells, it makes sense that it would be a ritual rather than just a quick "wave my hands and say mumbo jumbo" cast as an afterthought. It now takes at least an hour, requires gathering other spell casters, multiple checks, and it fits the description of a ritual in that it can have more powerful effects than a normal spell.

Edit to add: I may have misunderstood your question. The adjustment I was referring too was the change from a spell to a ritual, not that rituals had been adjusted.

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SenseiRat 13 points 3 years ago

When I spun this instance of Lemmy up, I think there were only two other communities out there. Most of them were inactive, I think the high number of communities on this instance and the timing of it are what got us the increased visibility. I'm happy to work with admins/mods/users of the other communities on aggregating here, or at least facilitating cross-posting and sharing of resources.

Looking at the Feddit Community browser, I see these communities that aren't a part of this Lemmy instance, they all look pretty inactive so far:

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SenseiRat 11 points 3 years ago

Awesome, I appreciate you posting this.

I think the two biggest things for me are the rogue martial weapons (because they should have had that all along) and some of the class revamps. I know Champion is probably getting redone because of the alignment changes, but I felt like it was overall a pretty good class to start with. Oracle and witch, though, really needed some help, so I'm looking forward to those getting some changes.

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SenseiRat 9 points 3 years ago

Yeah, fitting into buildings and dungeons was my first thought. Having the extra reach is going to be balanced pretty well with either carrying around shrink potions or always dealing with squeeze mechanics.

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SenseiRat 9 points 3 years ago

Normally I run PFS at our local lodge, so not that interesting.

I am working on getting Foundry set up to run Beginner Box -> Troubles in Otari -> The Slithering, with some quests and bounties thrown in randomly with an old group that all moved to different regions. I want to follow that up with Abomination Vaults (new characters), and then possibly do something homebrew. I'm starting a masters program in the fall, so pre-built stuff, rather than homebrew is probably what I have to stick with while I juggle school and work.

I want to use the official adventures to work on my improve, storytelling, voices, etc., so that when I do have the bandwidth to build a homebrew campaign, I'm already well practiced at those skills.

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SenseiRat 8 points 3 years ago

Paizo originally wanted to get rid of ability scores and just use modifiers with 2nd Edition, but they were afraid of a D&D 4th Edition schism happening and didn't make the change when they were releasing it. Now they have the perfect opportunity to make the shift without angering the playerbase.

What I have heard is that they haven't quite finished working out how the change from attributes to modifiers will be implemented, but it is something being handled with the official changes of the remaster. What they have said so far is that we will still have the ability to raise ability modifiers above 18, we just don't know how it will work yet.

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SenseiRat 8 points 3 years ago

I just really hated coming across a cool rogue/thief/assassin-like weapon (like kukris or a kris) on another character and being like "This would be great for my rogue" and then checking and realizing he wasn't proficient.

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SenseiRat 8 points 3 years ago

The progress spinner is a known issue that has been brought up to the Lemmy devs; if you try to log on where an account doesn't exist, or if you try to create an account with a duplicate email or username, Lemmy doesn't give any sort of error, or even stop, it just sits there.

@DmMacniel@feddit.de covered the rest of your question; you can create an account on both communities, but it's really not necessary because of the federation. Hopefully the ActivityPub and fediverse developers make some QoL improvements to this in the future because it is a little clunky coming from something that's been in development for over a decade.

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SenseiRat 7 points 3 years ago

Honestly, I think that makes more sense now that Paizo has proposed the adjustment.

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SenseiRat 7 points 3 years ago

I think they have alluded to season 5 of PFS having some inter-planar themes. That doesn't mean that they will put an AP out with the same ideas, but I think that, combined with the themes in Rage of Elements means that we have a high probability of seeing more planar travel in the near future.

I love all of the Shadow Absalom stuff, so I think a change in planes with its own set of rules that adjust gameplay slightly would be awesome to experience.

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SenseiRat 6 points 3 years ago

Technological items would be really cool. I don't want them to necessarily change the rarity of those things, but more exploration into Numeria would be cool.

I would be all over a Firebrands based AP as well.

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SenseiRat 6 points 3 years ago

The Pathfinder Society will automatically take care of this for you during your downtime. You can see the rules on it in the Organized Play Guide.

The Pathfinder Society takes care of its members by removing most ongoing nonpermanent negative conditions and repairing agents’ damaged gear to the condition it was in at the start of the scenario.

The following conditions are not automatically removed and must be cleared from the character before the end of the adventure or the character ceases to be available for organized play:

  • Death
  • Permanent negative effects, including polymorph or petrification
  • Curses

Note that repairing damaged gear does not include resupplying consumables such as ammunition, potions, or talismans.

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SenseiRat 6 points 3 years ago

I think the closest thing that exists currently in PF2e official APs would be Blood Lords. I haven't played it, so I don't know how close to gothic horror it is, but it's the only really undead-themed one out right now.

There is also Malevolence and Night of the Grey Death, which are both horror themed. Based on the descriptions, Malevolence is more haunted house themed and Grey Death is more culty-themed. I haven't played either of these as well.

You might also look at the case files in Dark Archives; while not a full blown adventure path, they do hit on more of that Cthulu-esque dark fantasy.

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SenseiRat 5 points 3 years ago

I'm using Jerboa for Android and liking it so far. It doesn't have all of the features I'm used too (used Relay, Baconreader, and Sync in the past) but it seems to be going in the right direction.

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SenseiRat 5 points 3 years ago

While I'd love some new content APs, I also missed a big chunk of the PF1 APs and wouldn't mind them officially converting them to 2e, in the same way that they did Kingmaker.

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SenseiRat 5 points 3 years ago

Are you developing the wiki or using a base for it? I use mediawiki for my homelab documentation, but am now thinking that it might be a really good reference tool for players and myself in longer campaigns.

I am working on setting up an online campaign (when I actually get time to work on it between other projects and work), and planning on using Foundry for it, so it's nice to see some additional tools that can make life easier. Any suggestions on the Foundry modules?

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SenseiRat 5 points 3 years ago

I played on Foundry for the first time at PaizoCon this year and was blown away by how polished I thought it was. The next day I ended up playing a game on Roll 20 and it was just nowhere in the league as the PF2e offering from Foundry, so I'm excited to get started using it. I finally got that part of my homelab spun up last night, so now I can finally start building out the short campaign I want to run for some old friends that have split up across the country.

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SenseiRat 5 points 3 years ago

I am now. I need to set up a feed that lets me know when new releases come out.

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SenseiRat 4 points 3 years ago

Normally I would say that it would be up to the community and make a post about it (I'm not trying to be a dictator) to let the people who use this community decide.

However, in reviewing the modlogs and talking to a couple of other admins/mods that I know, the behavior of at least a portion of their members does not fit the rules of this community, nor does it align with the views of Paizo, so it is blocked moving forward.

I am happy and available to discuss this decision if anyone has comments, questions, concerns, or complaints.

ETA: I did review the reports and another mod had resolved them before I saw them; just wanted to make it known that I am watching those, even if I can't be around to handle them all the time (shameless plug for looking for mods advertisement).

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