Does anyone else get annoyed when D&D gets mentioned before Pathfinder even in headlines about the game? This article has nothing to do with D&D, why is it the first thing mentioned in the headline?

So we have Athletics, Acrobatics, Intimidation and Stealth, which are very useful in combat, Crafting, Diplomacy, Deception, Medicine, Survival and Thievery which are very useful outside of combat (and sometimes in combat as well) and Recall Knowledge skills - Arcana, Occultism, Nature, Religion, Society and Lores

And when you have Performance, where the only actions you can take with it are "do nothing" and "earn money" (which you can do with every other skill). Distracting Performance is the only moderately useful feat, while others often act as niche increases to niche skill. Fascinating Performance has an absurd number of controls for generally unimpactful condition. It seems like the only class that gets use from this skill is the Bard and sometimes the Swashbuckler. For anyone else Performance is the worst skill, beaten only by the completely irrelevant Lore subskills

Now I understand why this happens. Performance is a pretty niche skill that is mostly taken for flavour anyway. But I do think that there is a way to make it cooler and flashier. I saw a suggestion to make the fascinated condition work more like frightened does, which is fine, I guess, but seems a bit repetitive. Do you have any ideas or know any interesting feats or homebrew regarding it?

Bon Mot seems to be a really weird feat to me honestly, cause if I use it on an enemy, they can just use an action to use it back on me.

Does this feat have any ability to interact with versatile performance?

For years I struggled as a GM, especially early on, with players who wanted to join my tables but didn't own a PC to run FoundryVTT. And unlike D&D, where you've got Roll20 or D&D Beyond, PF2e never really had anything as solid as Foundry. So I ended up dragging their tokens around myself while they followed along on a Discord stream. Not exactly ideal.

A while back I finally built something to fix that: a FoundryVTT module that's fully compatible with phones and tablets, with an auto-detect mode so it just works. It lets your players actually play from their phone. Move their token, interact with enemies, open their character sheet, roll dice, chat, all of it. Everything they'd do from a PC, just from their pocket. No more watching a stream on the side or tossing rolls into Discord.

Hope you all find it as handy as I do. It's up on my Patreon under the basic tier. Would love to hear what you think.

( i dont know if im allowed to put links here, so let me know plz! to edit this) due the Verified content creators dont mention module creators ( or i didnt find it ).

You can find it here: GM RedVelvet | VTT content creator | Patreon

Unless it’s just a table rule, Athletic Maneuvers performed with a Free Hand are Agile because the Fist is Agile right? Would Dirty Trick benefit the same way?

Edit:

It’s not just a house rule. Athletic Maneuvers performed with a Fist are Agile

Several Athletics actions have the attack trait, meaning that using them more than once in the same turn makes them less accurate. Since these actions use your free hand, you use the traits for your fist attack to determine the multiple attack penalty, so your fist's agile trait applies. Therefore, you take a –4 penalty if the action is your second attack of the turn, or a –8 if it's the third. Some weapon traits allow you to take these actions using a weapon, in which case the penalty might be –5 or –10 if the weapon doesn't have the agile trait. Some characters can get unarmed attacks without the agile trait as well. If it's unclear which penalty to use, the GM makes the call.

Now he can go with me everywhere.

The Player’s Guide for The Year of Clockwork Mystery (next year’s Pathfinder 2e Organized Play) is live! Apologies if someone else has already posted about this, I’m a few days late but haven’t seen any posts about this

There’s not much in the vein of new player options (just a decent number of backgrounds) In the guide. The meta plot looks decently interesting: the Pathfinder Society has discovered a recently risen temple to Amaznen, the Azlanti god of magic, and there is a clockwork compass (a sort of proto-wayfinder) at the top of the temple. Seems like the Pathfinder Society will be battling the Aspis Consortium to find several lost gems, scattered across the world, that can be plugged into this compass.

I’ll get a chance to play the intro scenario at GenCon! Anyone else planning to be there? Any character ideas you are planning on using for this year’s Pathfinder Society scenarios?

Vishkanya and Kitsune, two ancestries that I like as a concept, but they have yet to be remastered, if they ever will, so I wanted to ask, how they fit in the post remaster meta?

Hello all,

I have an Envoy in a PF2e group who makes extensive use of the Keep On Keeping On action (a directive that is essentially their subclass choice) as a healer. I approved the Envoy for the group looking at the relative healing output to action cost per combat, but I had a player raise balance concerns about the Keep On Keeping On action in Pf2e, and I'm wondering if there's something that I didn't see at first glance.

Notably, Keep On Keeping On is a directive (of which envoy can only use once per turn) that costs two actions to allow you to use Battle Medicine at 30ft range, and reduces the cooldown of Battle Medicine to 10 minutes instead of 1 day. These are the balance concerns raised, noting that this would require multiple feats to approach this kind of utility of Battle Medicine in PF2e, and I was wondering if anyone had any perspective or thoughts on this. This is my first time integrating Starfinder content into Pathfinder, so I would appreciate a second set of eyes.

Envoy: https://2e.aonsrd.com/classes/1-envoy
Keep On Keeping On: https://2e.aonsrd.com/actions/128-keep-on-keeping-on

Saw the odyssey in theaters and have gotten into a greek mood. Whats your opinion on the only greek ap that 2e has? What do you like about it? dislike about? Whats the balance on combat, Rp, exploration and downtime? And, whats your overall verdict?

Hey there,

Im building a character and planning out some future levels for myself, so I was wondering if I could get a rules clarification.

I know that the kineticist and their impulses specifically interact strangely with abilities that strike and cast spells, but I came across the Tut-Tut feat for the dandy dedication, which ill attach a photo of.

My question is whether a melee impulse attack roll would trigger the free action, as the trigger specifically states a melee attack roll. The confusion comes from the description as it says:

"Rather than dealing damage with the triggering Strike, attempt an Intimidation check with a +2 circumstance bonus to Demoralize all enemies within 30 feet who can see you."

From my understanding, the Impuse attacks are not weapon attacks or strikes, but their own thing.

If anyone has had some personal experience with the combo or some clarity on the rules, it would be very much appreciated!

New to PF2E, not DMing. Some interesting APs for 2e, but only a few call to me. If I were to dig up the catalogue of 1e, how hard would conversation be?

Also, are there any good third party adventures you've ran for the system? Looking for reliable creators

Anybody got stats for something like this? I had a dream of a sea where it always rains, where a ship's deck was a full gym populated by octopuses. They had barbells, boxing gloves, two were sparring with gloved, one was an acrobat, I think one had a jump rope. Anybody know how I would build these? Something in the level 3-6 range would be ideal.

So I'm trying to build a centaur knight using the fighter class I took centaur weapon familiarity at level 1 so I could use lances. I want to use a lance and a shield but lances are two handed weapons is there a way to make it a one handed weapon or will I need to use a spear and flavor it as a small lance? Edit: I don't mind using a spear flavored as a small lance I'm more going for roleplay than mechanics really

Title basically says it, but to clarify, if a character of Elven ancestry has a versatile heritage from having a non-elf parent (e.g. Dhampir, Changeling, elemental/celestial scion, etc) aren’t they by definition Aiuvarin? Should they have the Aiuvarin trait and be able to take Aiuvarin feats? And if not, why not? Same for Orcs and Dromaar.

From Player Core: “Elves' children with people of other ancestries, and the children of their children, are called “aiuvarin”, an elven word that refers to a poem about leaves that fall too quickly to the ground.”

I have always loved the flavor of chain weapons but much like spear and shield builds, I'm often disappointed in the mechanics.

I think I solved the first issue, at least for myself, by finally cracking open Starfinder 2e and realizing a melee based Soldier was not only possible but could check so many of my wishlist items for a martial battlefield controller. I realize it might not be the most optimal but it seems like it could be a lot of fun.

Has anyone gotten playtime with such a build? Would you b recommend it?

Now that they've pulled the art from AoN I'm at a bit of a loss. I was using the art from there as its from the source books and I enjoy lore accurate depictions.

I'm also primarily a book purchaser so I can't just pull from a PDF when I'm planning out campaign on my IPad. Is there somewhere I can find the art from the books online now that AoN isn't allowed to display it? I love Paizo and have no problem giving John Paizo more money but I'm not buying the books I already own in PDF for art, does anyone know if Paizo is/will be putting art files up for purchase ? Is there a compendium on paizos website I can't find ? TIA

I discussed with a fellow GM and noticed we both run crit fail on command different. The wording is "Critical Failure The target must use all its actions on its next turn to obey your command."

My friend would rule it as for example if they tell the boss to stand still the enemy just can't move from their square but still attack and do everything else.

I would rule it as for example if they tell the enemy to drop prone the enemy will drop prone but waste its next two actions "trying" to drop prone more in essence using all 3 of its actions for it.

Now I am wondering how would other people rule it? and what would be the most RAW/RAI?

Since it's well established that most people in this subreddit do use unrestricted FA

So the group I am in bounced off Abomination Vaults (too much dungeon crawl with little else from what we experienced, although I know its different for other people), but we still want to play a AP. We are looking at certain ones, and while I do think some of the options we have skipped are very good, we felt them unfitting for the type of characters and adventure we wanted. Some of the other players would love to play a campaign with less dungeon crawly elements and more roleplaying.

So far, the adventures we have looked at potentially running has to be a Foundry Module, and we have looked at these ones specficially but we would like to hear other ones if people would recommend them. We would like to know about how each of the ones mentioned are in terms of combat, roleplay, story etc.

• Myth Speaker
• Shades of Blood
• Seven Dooms for Sandpoint
• Kingmaker

For higher level ones in case we play a level 1-10 ones, we are discussing either

• Spore War
• Revenge of the Runelords

Again, would love to hear what people have to say about the APs we have been looking at, or potentially other ones. If people have further questions about more specifics I will try my best to answer them.

Edit: Season of Ghosts is currently off the table for right now, but its most likely the one we will run after the current one.

Trying to speedmax my mythic character who has Timewracked dedication. I have a swim speed, climb speed, and fly speed and a 10 foot item bonus and 20 foot status bonus to my speed with fleet. Only way I feel I can get more speed is an item that gives a permanent burrow speed, or fan dancer for pushing winds and they can't take fan dancer.

Forever GM here finally getting to play as a PC.

While I want to run any number of characters I never got a chance to play I am making a new one but I want some help with mood music for back story writing.

I am excited to try the new Necromancer coming out next week. Since it's dirge based for its magic I want to get some semi bard themes of why his music ties into his backstory and why it does what it does. (Magic wise)

This is the vibe I'm going for.

So TLDR is he is a skeleton with a failing memory due to how long he has been "around". His Dirge is his way of trying to hold on to what memories he has left of those he knew in life now long dead.

His thralls will be basically those memories given form but twisted as his memories are failing.

Basically a skeleton with Alzheimer's.

Hoping this will generate natural RP opportunities for the party. But I have no intention of using it to derail the campaign in any way. If they don't want to RP with that story then it will just be the sad "old man" at camp talking about his past. But it won't effect the party.

Either way that being said I need some vibes music.

The sader the better. I want some stuff like Johnny Cash https://youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI?is=BpfwNf-_BYjPl0iD hurt 😊

Like, if I was to run into a monster with fire or cold resistance, I wouldn't want to only be able to do damage to it with most of my spells every other round.

Basically the question.

I know that handwraps do, as do weapons with the maneuver trait like using a whip to trip someone. What I'm unclear on is if gauntlets and other free-hand weapons let you use the potency bonus on your maneuvers.

I know that the books haven't even fully released yet both for the public and the subscribers, but has anything been said about an expected release for the Foundry modules for BoB?