The 10 Pathfinder 2e Remaster Essentials 

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I was (and kind of still am) a huge fan of 5e. DnD podcasts really helped me through the apocalypse and I’m sad to see what they have become. People will say P2E is just as “modern” and that may be true but no executive has come out with open racist statements. Pathfinder is such a blast to play and my daughters and I love it very much. Welcome to a new path my friend.

Honestly.. I can’t reccomend it enough. Did the change myself about a year ago. Nearly cried when I opened their world guide books, they had so much quality content there. Wotc would bring us 2 sentences and a ”do it yourself” and charge the same.

I haven't given Hasbro a cent since the OGL fiasco. Literally no regrets, no plans to ever give them any cents ever again. Just not even worth it when we have way better products coming from elsewhere.

@monasteri1162 That's one of the big failures to me from WOTC and one of the huge successes of Paizo.... setting support. For the 5th edition, WOTC hasn't released anything I'd consider a full setting, just regional parts of larger settings. Third edition era D&D did so much to expand and elaborate on Forgotten Realms. And that all really went away with 4th and seemed to be forgotten entirely by the time 5th rolled out. A great setting and support for it will keep me playing a system I'm not extremely thrilled with.

Thank you! Robert worked really hard on the editing!

🤯 We never even thought of this LOL But how do you craft a scroll, you don't know the spell of? I would have to flavor this as research rather than crafting for my own head Canon.

@@goblinsalvagerites Also depending on campaign, or where you are on Golarion, you can pay some other spellcaster some money to provide the spellcasting 😏😏

Thak you! We're trying to make our short videos as concise as possible to make up for the rambling we do on the podcast lol.

Awesome! We're glad it helped! Without understanding some of the context of why it happened, it seems like a pretty ridiculous change.

Absolutely! But there's a big difference between being able to hold a shield and being any good at it, we were specifically talking to classes that have feats and abilities based on using a shield to its fullest potential.

@goblinsalvagerites given how much a +1 impacts the combat system and especially reducing the chance of getting hit by a critical success, any casters I play will be using a buckler. 😂 As useful as it is to have that damage reduction when you're a squishy class, spending a feat for Shield Block is well worth it for any Caster that expects to see combat regularly. And it's a General Feat. In a setting, flavor wise, I could see "wand and buckler" being a common style taught to war casters.

If Wizards want a shield though they should just take the cantrip, save the feat slot for something much more useful!

@JacksonOwex if you use the Shield Block ability of Shield spell, then you can't cast Shield at all for 10 minutes. The Shield Block feat is still well worth it for casters, especially with special materials buckler that have higher than usual. And when you have the lowest hit points in the game, once per round damage reductions of 5 or more IS useful

Glad you enjoyed!

Heck yeah! It feels overwhelming sometimes. But the OGL died and we are paying for it's sins 😂

@@goblinsalvagerites But the OGL DIDN'T die, people just don't feel safe using it anymore. I can't blame them for that! Long live the ORC!!!

You have the books, the no reason to "MEMORIZE" them! You just want to try and remember how to find things in a quick fashion!

Positive Reply!

Reply that's so badly worded that nobody knows if it's meant to be positive or negative

It won't necessarily slow the game down if the GM has planned for it... And every GM knows what feeds their players have and plan for them... Right? Right? 🤣

Yeah, we've never really liked what they did with the Oracle, hoping it changes for the better. But it's likely not going to change too dramatically.

That sounds very plausible lmao

Yay, more timestamps!

Probably our favorite part of the change to wizards is the ability to homebrew your own wizard schools!

Thank you! Link is incoming, Robert posted the video before he finished the document 😬 Well respond and let you know when it's been updated.

Link to the quick reference doc for remaster nomenclature changes: pricey-algebra-b31.notion.site/PF2R-Nomenclature-f162628d428a452d97859e5f7ced3557

Yea that's a really good way to think of it.

Lol yea your right! We like including outtakes when we can.

Absolutely!

Thank you, it's much appreciated!

Thank you! After we wrote the script we thought people wouldn't like it cuz it was still 30 minutes long after all the cutting we did LOL.

Sorry Robert, couldn't help myself lol

Lmaooooo yes. I'm still not over that 😒

Because skeleton has not yet been updated for the Remaster, we don't know exactly how this works. However, it is highly unlikely that the skeleton ancestry would have the unholy trait by default. Even if it did, here's what the book has to say on the matter: "If you gain the opposing [sanctification] trait in some way, you lose the previous trait." In other words, you'd just gain the holy trait as normal, and would lose the unholy trait you had for being a skeleton. But again, it's very unlikely that the skeleton PCs will have the unholy trait imposed upon them because they are a special form of undead that is not devoted to "victimizing others, inflicting harm, and battling celestial powers", as the book describes the unholy trait.

Yeah as others have said it's kind of hard to tell right now, but if you have GM buy-in anything is possible.

The reality is you still don't get completely disarmed until a critical failure. So it's not that much more powerful, we think it might bring it from "no one uses this" to "people actually build around it". But you never really know until you play games with it. If you get the chance to test it out, let us know how it goes!

Reactive Strikes are not as common in PF2 as they are in D&D or PF1. I don't think it's going to change too much.

Me too friend. 🫠

@@goblinsalvagerites *Nods*

Lmao you're right!

Yea, changing that would have been a MUCH greater change.

Huh?

Thank you!

Sheer force of will. 😎

Link is incoming Robert posted the video before he finished the document 😬 Well respond and let you know when it's been updated. 🫣

Link to the quick reference doc for remaster nomenclature changes: pricey-algebra-b31.notion.site/PF2R-Nomenclature-f162628d428a452d97859e5f7ced3557

YOU ARE SPEED

Link is incoming Robert posted the video before he finished the document 😬 Well respond and let you know when it's been updated. 🫣

Link to the quick reference doc for remaster nomenclature changes: pricey-algebra-b31.notion.site/PF2R-Nomenclature-f162628d428a452d97859e5f7ced3557

😜 We always leave Easter eggs for our fans!

That whole slide is actually backwards, but he still explains it correctly.. whoops!!

I’m getting the sense you like alignments

Possible in one hand and Probable in the other…see which one fills up faster.

Because proactive GM’s know the difference and make both options punishing at different times.

Thanks for engaging and, since you asked, I’ll throw down some thoughts. 1) If by bad habits you mean players bringing strategies that work in 5e to a PF2e table and wondering why it doesn’t work…still no. I think it would be unfair to judge a turtle for his performance in a bunny race. 2) As one of the whining little bitches, I’ll continue to argue that alignment promotes homogeneity of behaviors cultivating wooden experiences. Line up 100 CG characters against the wall and tell me you know their individual values. You can’t because CG isn’t specific it’s general. Now take those same 100 characters and give each a specific E & A then run the same exercise. Now you have 100 distinct “CG” personalities and moral/ethical codes with wildly different approaches to them. 3) Video-games are an excellent gateway experience for ttrps…as it was for this goblin! I was there when Final Fantasy I was released in ‘87 andIV in ‘91 and they made me feel like I was “playing in a novel” which is my evergreen goal for any ttrpg i play. With the patience and grace of some D&D friends (who never once called me a whiny little bitch) helped my to learn the new medium and its expectations. I was terrible at it…but I learned.

4) Watching a person “doing it wrong” and recognizing it is a wonderful moment! It means you’re internalizing the ruleset. If viewers aren’t questioning the quality and factual validity of what they are consuming…well, McContent will always be in demand. We get stuff wrong on GSR quite a bit and when its called out we acknowledge it and try to do better going forward. All this is to say that playing PF like it’s 5e with three action economy is not an invalid way to play the game. It’s non-optimal for sure, but it gets you across the finish line at any rate. It’s like an Italian & Spanish speakers having a chat in their native tongues. The roots are the same so they understand enough to participate and get through the experience together.

@@goblinsalvagerites DND is cutting off Portuguese...a rapidly growing section in the world. I just get pissed when I see official games do it. Not knowing how darkeness works or concealment. Or even the free percetion roll every turn.l Yeah I have run pathfinder 2 for over 4 years now. :) it's wierd since march 2020

That Portuguese maneuver was yet another revealing moment where the mask slipped a bit revealing the monster inside. Yay for short term profits I guess.

@@goblinsalvagerites well if you watch official pathfinder on twitch you will sit and scream pull out your hair. It's theater of the mind time and really DND rules.