ADDITIONS: -The first minute is tongue in cheek, of course. I'll do what I want! >:( -Some comments say the song tanked because it didn't have practical value to most PF2 players. Did you not see my Rogue "12 Rounds of Combat" guide? Naw, that song was actionable information! Y'all just like it dry. And rough. -Your sanctification choice can limit what Cause you can take. Your deity limits what focus spell you can take. So it might be possible to be an unholy champion and take Lay On Hands! (The holy/unholy divide is different from the vitality/void divide) -@shweppy observes that the new focus spell is similar to how D&D 4e paladins marked their foes! (Which was radiant damage as a consequence of attacking the paladin's allies) Another 4e mechanic that they've borrowed!
Personally, you being “dry” is one of the things I like most about your videos. So many content creators seem to feel the need to be over the top or incredibly spastic that they’re hard to watch.
"This class has seen a huge number of other changes we think will make it more satisfying to play, but we don’t want to keep you here all day with one blog post. So here’s the short version!" Please take my whole day with the full detail version, Paizo. I'd like to start overhauling my champion before she levels up, please.
We have to wait until... like August 1st, I think! It's kind of holding up me putting another group together as well. I don't want to have to teach players one version of a class then in a few weeks say "Okay, this is how your class works now!". I guess finding enough people interested in playing something that's NOT D&D is probably the first issue. Waiting on this book is a VERY close second though!
Especially with so many other classes being able to heal. Heck, they probably have a feat to take more than one option. If they don't, you can always pick up lay on hands through Blessed One.
Well, I just want you to know, of course, that I loved your song! Also, check out the Pathfinder Remaster panel that they put out during Paizocon 2024, it's been migrated over here to youtube. They answer some of your questions in that panel, like how indeed, ANY champion can take the new devotion spell.
Honestly, a lot of tabletop content on RU-vid sits somewhere on a scale between mellow / laid back / straightforward, to energetic / bombastic / excited. You definitely fall on the prior part of the scale, but I'm more partial to that end of things to be honest. For me it makes it easier to parse information, and I don't get disappointed by someone hyping up their brand new original method of running something in a game only to find that it's once again just adapting PF2's rules into their own system.
I honestly like the almost laid back presentation style you have. Too many creators try to make videos unnecessarily energetic, draining my focus before the video has even properly started. So please keep being yourself 🙂 I do like the jokes though, please keep those coming.
Thank you for the short and sweet analysis. I think such variation really benefits us all. Dont get me wrong I'm a fan of many of your longer videos as well!
I normally read these posts as they drop, but still enjoy reading your insights on things like this. I appreciate that you make an effort to not just read it word for word. Good video.
I damn near spit out my coffee at the 'Dry f*ck Daddy' Wow. Your videos are my absolute go-to videos when it comes to Pf2e. Your vids are what got me into the game, and what made me excited about running higher level stuff in the system. I don't need fireworks and 'You WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT' clickbait stuff. I want to hear formed opinions on the game, classes, etc.
The Shields of the Spirit thing may not give you the SAME bonus those in your aura get, but you still Raise a Shield, so you're still getting your ac bonus from your shield.
Thanks for this update. Very interesting changes...they got rid of the alignment system, but almost kept a quasi-alignment system still for champion. I also signed up for dry, so I like dry. But your dry jokes are also very welcome :)
I guess I can see why that person said your content is dry, but I think that's a very uncharitable interpretation. You're unapologetically a rules lawyer, and you're my first stop when I want to understand Pathfinder mechanics and get a feel for classes, spells etc. While the content I've seen here doesn't have the storytelling aspect of someone like @TheMythKeeper (an excellent PF lore channel) I don't think that's a) always necessary or b) what I, at least, expect and appreciate from this channel. I say keep doing what you're good at and re: "moist" videos - have fun when you want to!
Disney Girl was so rad of a song. That's sad... I do love most of your "dry" content, "Dryness" was never a problem in any way to me. Have a good day, Ronald the Daddy.
@@TheRulesLawyerRPG i wasn't sure, I'm somewhat dense when it comes to sensing sarcasm and etc... Thanks for clarification, Ronald! Have a good day and Goodluck.
@@TheRulesLawyerRPG no, i don't think it's part of specifically of "dry" theme. All the other humour usually work wonders on me in your videos, no matter of it's "dryness". I think
I love how simple your format is. Detailed information paired with concise opinions of said information. But I am always down for some more silly and fun content.
Thank you so much for keeping your videos informative and dry. Thankfully I do not have ADHD and need anything else to keep my attention to the video, as they are the best on what you're here for. But I know some content creators that I couldn't stand watching a single video after they started putting random "funny" sounds buzzing on my ears every now and then. Keep it up!
1:57 - I am completely onboard with this change. Immanuel Kant would argue that you should never lie under any circumstance. Even if you were a single person hiding an innocent person fleeing from an angry mob, and the angry mob knocked on your door and asked you if you were hiding them, Kant would say that you should answer honestly but deny the mob entry. But, obviously, that's really fucking stupid, because the mob will just gang up and beat the shit out of you, and then kill the person you were trying to protect.
I'm generally here for something that's going to help me GM, or some knowledge I can point my players to as a reference for building, playing and enjoying their class better. The Rogue's 12 Rounds of Combat is fantastic, as a source I often refer to, so no, you don't have to give up song. Certainly something that's a hot community topic is going to draw in more views, if that's your goal. Good luck with your workload, and looking forward to your continued takes on the remastered content.
@@TheRulesLawyerRPG Maybe you should make a second channel for Dungeon Daddy content? I'd subscribe to that for a dollar! Though if you do use the other term, you might go with "Dreifick Daddy".
Please don't change, your videos are great as they are. Yes they are more analytical, but that is good, you do that well, so go on and don't get disheartened by ranters 🙂
Your channel s fantasti. You are very good at communicating. And I don’t have to endure the overly loud content that many other channels produce in order to keep the attention of todays young
Your content is fine. That guy on Reddit doesn't know what he's talking about. You bring a ton of experience and thought to the system, but you stay focused on the topic. Some people have such short attention spans that if you don't have some sort of gag every minute, you're "dry". That's on them.
You should do the moist stuff as surprise bits in what look like dry videos. Reel in the clicks with rules lawyering, then hold them captive to sit through your ART.
I'm especially interested in the obedience cause. I loved the idea of the Tyrant cause from before the remaster- the idea that you can bully someone into aborting an attack just sounded so fun - especially when paired with the "Scare to Death" feat
hi your content is the best. especially because you are methodical and analytical. I dont like the style of some other pf2e creators that are quite superficial, excentric and i a way to loud and hyper. thx for the good and reliable content!!
I do kind of wish they would have changed the class name back to paladin. I was fine with the name champion since they made paladin a subclass, but now there's not really a reason for it other than some lingering old views that paladins are required to be lawful good that not many people actually feel anymore (maybe some OGL reasons too, I dunno). It's not that big of a deal where I'll get all up in arms about it, but I just think paladin is a more interesting name than champion.
You know reading over this stuff, I was kind of hoping they would do something where they at least put in writing "a champion without a deity" and some thoughts on that. Cuz I was talking about Paladins historically in d&d and I had my players point out that in 3rd edition and 5th edition they don't necessarily need a god. And I don't know why I thought that was even the case back in third edition or Pathfinder first edition, but I was honestly shook to learn that Paladins didn't need a deity. I do get why that It might be the case that piezo chooses that a Paladin needs a deity, it might not make sense for an honor bound warrior to just be getting their powers simply for being a good boy, but I think it's worth considering.
i will admit i haven't watched the recent jokey video, not because they are jokey, but because im not very interested in videos about ancestries. I already have so many i want to play one day, no need to add to the waiting room.
The spirit damage on attacking allies is basically the same as the 4e paladin's mark. It seems like they are really trying to borrow the 4e tanking mechanics, which I am a huge fan of. It's not "Attack me because I insulted your mother!". It's more, "If you attack my friends, there will be consequences". The decision is still up to the GM, but it adds more factors for them to think about.
Man I have a lot of opinions about these changes. The Paladin has probably been one of if not my favorite class since he was introduced into the game way back in the day. There is the issue of Paizo having to protect themselves againt WotC/Hasbro lawsuits and thus I see changes to the game that really have no real benefit to the customers. A lot of the class seems to fall into that category. In my opinion it is actually a step backward for us players, but I understand it. I do not agree at all with removing alignment, but luckily for me I can and will keep it in my games. So now lets get back to what I would want to see for the default Champion (Paladin) in this game. Right now the largest issue I see is that the Champion can and is ignored by smart monsters. They are hard to hit, but can't really do a ton of damage. This needs to change and to me again this would have worked great with alignment. A Champion should get smite as a reaction at level 1. This should auto scale and be a reaction, so the Paladin has a choice to either mitigate damage or REALLY hurt the enemy. This damage should be enough to make a smart monster really think about ignoring the Paladin. The balance would be that it only worked on evil characters. Next up is the damage reduction. The range needs to be increased as 15" is way to small at later levels and the damage reduction should scale a lot better. 2+your level just doesn't cut it. Again it should be enough to make smart monsters really want to target the Paladin. Lastly, there needs to be a lot more choices for Focus points. I would love to see so many good ones that it would a hard choice for the player and allow Paladin's to really be different.
I want to like Champion, but in pf2e I find too many of their abilities are completely focused on certain types of monsters. So if you aren't in a campaign with a lot of those monsters, I don't know what the point of the Champion is.
@@agilemind6241 Oh man I have to house rule quite a bit as a GM for our Champion/Paladin. One was exactly that. I let him choose at the start of the day what his "enemy" is or whatever they call it. I have to do some other things as well but one was to basically give him a Holy (Good) weapon that is really overpowered, If not every smart enemy in the game would ignore him and kill the Cleric, then the Wizard and then the rest. I am just hoping they address some of my concerns for players outside my group. Now I also have a belief the the creators of Pathfinder, have certain political and social leaning (hard leanings) and because of that they struggle with this type of Class. Thus, in my opinion it is a bit of a mess.
The redeemers I've seen play often give a hard choice to strength-based monsters. Though I wish that you got your choice between enfeebled, clumsy or stupefied for the attached debuff, and have it scale in value and time. Half damage would be a better level for the reduction.
I like these changes a lot. Still a little miffed that we didn’t get this in player core 1, considering how many core mechanics to champion were changed. All in all though this seems like a big improvement on what was in my eyes the least cohesive class in the system
I like Shields of the Spirit, but it feels odd spending a focus point *and* Lay On Hands on that. I can only hope there's a way to turn that into a stance later on.
kinda weird that you probably won't be able to gain more then one focus point without taking an archetype, because, if I understand correctly, champion's focus spells (aside from those three that seem to be exclusive to each other) won't be coming in PC2
I'd love to see more mechanics for defensive fighting that des not entail the use of a shield... I got excited thinking the new "Shields of the Spirit" ability was going to be similar to "spirit guardians" with them floating around your character regardless of what you are wielding, but the pigeon holing from Paizo on many fronts continues sadly. Not every two handed weapon (or single-handed weapon) wielding character design should be forced down the barbarian (or rogue/ranger/swashbuckler archetype) paths. Great weapon wielding, divinely protected "Paladins" have been a staple in heroic fantasy forever.
Probably because they didn't perform well to my usual watchers. So RU-vid deprioritized it. That's RU-vid's algorithm pressuring people to put out the same content they put out before
Now, in Remastered edition, if a character learns the Hymn of Healing Bard level 1 feat through the Bard archetype, does he gets a Focus Point too ou just the feat (even though he does not have a Focus Point to use it)?
Reread the new Shield ability. It doesn't say "all allies". It says "while one of your allies". Singular. It's poorly written. That implies it doesn't work at all if 2 allies are in your aura. Likely not intended this way though.
