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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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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

I have a new player in my group who plays a rogue and tbh she still struggles a lot with all the different ways to get enemies off-guard. But it's her first TTRPG overall and Pathfinder is not the best choice for that. Unfortunately for her no one in the group wanted to go back to Hasbro.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Try explaining things to her in more intuitive terms. She gets to do more damage when her opponent has significant trouble defending themselves. That happens when they have to split their attention across a wide distance (flanked), when they're on the ground (prone), when they can't see where they're being attacked from (hidden), or when you fake them out (feint).

    Old hats tend to boil away the actual roleplay from combat, but the rules usually directly support a roleplay-based view of battle. Presenting the game this way had my then-9-year-old picking the game up really quickly.

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