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The sheer number of options is the best thing about Pathfinder. It's also the worst. (europe.pub)
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A meme screenshot from Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Sabrina is surrounded by people handing her several plates of pancakes, far too many for one person to reasonably eat. Sabrina is labeled, "me making a PF2E character." Each plate of pancakes is labeled one of the following: "spells," "backgrounds," "feats," "subclasses," "class archetypes," and "other archetypes."
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

the fun thing is, you could literally just do everything completely randomly and your build will still be good

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I wouldn't know

    I make all my choices based on sheer Rule of Cool-ness -- I start with a vibe and build for that.

    BUT. None of my GMs are tryhards, so maybe if I brought my characters to a tryhard session they'd get wiped.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    honestly choosing the coolest thing every time is probably the best way to build a character

    maybe, but for tryhard games you'd make a tryhard character anyway

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    maybe, but for tryhard games you’d make a tryhard character anyway

    That's the thing though

    I have no idea how.

    Since PF2 came out I got by just fine on making unique and fun but entirely unoptimised characters. So I never bothered learning what synergises with what to make a tryhard character.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    oh well you'd just have to play a bunch of characters and see what is strongest

    or watch videos about optimizing characters. there are a bunch of those (a couple of youtube channels i'd recommend for that are swingripper and mathfinder)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Eh, there's at least 1 exception: toxicologist alchemist. Especially if you're about to play Abomination vaults

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    hmm why is that?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Lots of creature types are immune to poison, such as undead and automatons. And there's a lot of undead in the Abomination Vaults campaign.

    Plus, there's a lot of poisons that are very underwhelming. Especially ones that have an onset period; those are essentially useless in combat

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