I hope you enjoy them! May want to check out the Level 20 combat which was relatively easy to balance compared to 5e.

Have you tried PF2? How do you find it to play compared to 5e?

Goblins can do anything in PF2E, so Goblin Master Race FTW! 😂

That's a great idea! Yes you can have workable characters with a bunch of dice rolls in PF2 and it won't be underperform, and still be interesting!!

Yeah unfortunately my production skills aren't enough that I know how to fix that. It does return to normal at around the 14 min mark however.

I checked Hero Lab just now. Did you go to Build --> Character Settings --> scroll down to Other Character Options? There is a checkbox to allow for Voluntary Flaws Not sure which link was broken? I see there is a link to Hero Lab Online which still works, and the links to the character sheets I tested and they seem to work, too.

@@TheRulesLawyerRPG Ah, it's in "House Rules". I didn't look there. Now I can make it work. The "download Poog" link gives me a "Page not found" error with the message that the file I'm looking for doesn't exist. In both Safari and Firefox. I dunno, maybe I'm just getting senile. Anyway, I'm gonna go back to watching part 4 of your beginner box walk-through. 🙂 The three character sheet links work fine.

I dont know if that's what i said exactly, but my view now is it helps to use your slots in the situations best suited for them. Targeting different saves while preparing is useful. In general tho there is a higher floor for playing a caster "well" i would say, while at the same time i think that's what many who choose to be a caster are looking for. In the first few levels they are definitely more challenging, but that changes as you get more slots and start facing mooks much lower level than you, and the more dramatic spells do come at higher levels

only 50? damn

So tracking your level choices can take up way more then 1 little line!

Unfortunately not with the official rules as written. But one could easily pattern a "half-halfling" heritage using the examples provided by Half-Elf and Half-Orc as your basis: give low-light vision and open up the Halfling feats.

Not sure what you're asking: 9 Light Bulk is treated as 0. But if you get a 10th Light item it is now +1 Bulk -4 is 10 less than +6 (Also, even your 4th attack if you somehow get one, is going to have the same -4 modifier, the MAP doesn't get any bigger from there)

The main difference is not having to worry about optimization nearly as much - pick what you want! Feats are silo'd into categories. Pathbuilder and Wanderer's Guide makes this easier. If you stick to Core Rulebook only, only need to choose from 4-8 class feats at Level 1. Other differences: Ability scores are not rolled Ancestries (formerly Race) : choose an Ancestry Feat as well Choose a Background

Thanks for pointing it out. They should work now

What's in the Backpack is its own special case, where you get to disregard up to 2 Bulk of items in it. (It looks the caltrops belong in the backpack, the formatting makes it look like it isn't)

dude he took half an hour to make a 1st level with mostly pre-chosen options. He does not have time to edit down to a 50 year video (with guaranteed 0% retention).

Honestly, multi-classing in this system is one of the easiest, and probably most balanced I've seen. It's all done through class feats. So when you would normally take a class feat that would improve aspects of your starting class, you instead pick a dedication feat that unlocks class features from a different class. Inevitably this makes it so that you are not as good at that class' thing as if you were fully focused on it, but it does make it to where you could, for example, have both the full arcane and full divine tradition spell list on one caster. There are some features that you cannot get just from a dedication feat, such as an oracle's curse, but most features seem to be available through dedication feats.

Im a day or two late, but assuming you haven't learnt this yet, it's very important. You and the enemies both scale similarly, its better to look at it as a percentage, based on 5%'s. These aren't accurate numbers AT ALL, but they can display the logic. (im too lazy to be accurate) You are a barbarian with 16 str, your chance to hit a enemy thats weaker than you in a 1v1 is lets say 70%, your crit chance is 15%, if your str was 18, it would be 75% and 20% chance to crit. an enemy of your level of cr, at 16 str, hit chance would instead be like 45% with a 10% crit, with 18 str it'd be 50%, and 15% crit Against a boss encounter, which is higher level than you. at 16 str your hit chance will be 30%, while crit would be lets say 5%, with 18 str itd instead be 35% and 10%. The jumps are small, but the more powerful the enemy, the more relevant the 5% becomes, since it is a higher percent of your current accuracy. Against a strong enemy having +2 str could easily double your chance to crit, which is huge. These bonuses then stack with Ac debuffs and your own hit chance being buffed, lets say by a spell caster and you can go from needing a nat 20 to crit, to only a 15+ against a strong enemy, it's completely doable to play with 16 in your main attribute, but the math is designed around you actively trying to increase your odds of hitting/critting. One of the bonuses to these chances being absent is fine, but the most reliable one is from your stats, and since enemies scale with your attack increases, your chance to hit being lower will be notable, and can easily make you quite a bit weaker in your worst case scenario in a meaningful way.

One boost adds two to the score. So long as the end result is 18 or lower, you will have increased the modifier by one.

Ability boosts give +2 until you reach 18 in the score. Additional ability boosts to that stat give +1 each, so you can get a stat to 18 at level 1 but it takes until level 16 (I think) to go from 18 to 22 by taking boosts at level 4, 8, 12, 16.

I think Dispel Magic, and some abilities that can counteract polymorph effects...?

Yes, Charisma gives you daily uses of your Divine Font. But if you're a cleric who is attacking with your spells regularly (including Heal) you increase your spell attacks and DCs with Wisdom. Both have their reasons. (I tried to stick to safe, more universal beginner advice for this vid.)

WRONG, Charisma is a secondary/tertiary attribute, it should be prioritized after your CON or your STR (If you are planning on using a melee weapon)

@@AyameAkito He's not wrong. Charisma is far more important for a Cloistered Cleric (which Poog is) than STR or even CON. For a healing cleric I usually try to get both CHR and WIS to 16 if possible (which it usually is). STR is a dump stat, pure and simple.. Even for a war priest I wouldn't totally ignore CHR. Healing is still nice.

@@jasonweible2834 More than WIS? Which is what OP asserts, CHA>WIS for a Cleric. Why?

@@Geallach83 Because the Divine Font ability is so powerful and is the keystone ability for a cleric. Other than role playing reasons, there is no other reason to play a cleric over a druid. Their domain spells are horrible and neither doctrine is all that great. An animal companion trumps anything that clerics get other than Divine Font. IMHO. The sole benefit of wisdom is increasing spell attacks and DCs. Charisma gives you extra heal/harm spells automatically maximized to your highest spell level. Getting an extra +1 to hit for heal undead/harm is nice but getting 1 extra attempt is even better. In pathfinder 2e, even 1 extra 32 hp heal at 7th level can make or break a fight. Clerics (and spellcasters in general) don't get as many spells as they used to so each one is more precious, especially if they are of your highest spell level. At 5th level going from 2 3rd level spells to 7 3rd level spells is super powerful. CHA is definitely more than a secondary/tertiary attribute which is more my point, especially for a cloistered cleric who will want to stay out of combat range as much as possible with no armor. Hitting things with weapons is silly so STR is of no importance whatsoever. For a heal/buff bot, CHA is definitely the way to go. For the balanced build TRL said he was going for, I'd give both of them equal priority which is why I suggested 16/16 but if you had to go 18, I'd still choose CHA over WIS (I know you can't with CHA being a class key ability but I would if I could) . Divine spells are just not great for attacking. If I weren't going for heals/buffs (cloistered's strength) then I'd probably either choose a war priest or druid. Actually, I'd choose a war priest over cloistered every time.