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[dr-archeville]

Please email me any scoops or tidbits to [email protected], or post a reply below. This is a compilation of links to all known information about Pathfinder 2nd Edition.

Please email me any scoops or tidbits to [email protected], or post a reply below.  This is a compilation of links to all known information about Pathfinder 2nd Edition.

On March 6th, 2018, Paizo announced that the 2nd Edition of its ten-year-old Pathfinder Roleplaying Game was coming, and would be entering a public playtest phase.  Here is Paizo's summary of the main differences:

"At its core, the story of both games is essentially the same.  You still build your own character, venturing off on daring adventures, risking your life for a chance at fame and glory, defeating deadly foes that threaten your friends, your family, and perhaps the very world itself.  Beyond the narrative, there are many things that have changed, but mostly in the details of how the game works.  You still pick a race, even though it is now called your ancestry.  You still decide on your class — the rulebook includes all of the core classes from the First Edition Core Rulebook, plus the alchemist.  You still select feats, but these now come from a greater variety of sources, such as your ancestry, your class, and your skills.

Where the changes really shine through is in how the game is played.  Gone are the confusing action types like move, standard, swift, and immediate, instead replaced with a simple system of three actions and one reaction each round.  All of the varied systems and formulas for determining your character's bonuses and statistics, like saving throws, attack bonuses, and skills, have been unified in a single, easy-to-use proficiency system based on your choices and your character's level.  You no longer need to collect a specific set of magic items to be a balanced character, relying on specific magical statistic bonuses.   Instead, you get all of the bonuses you need from your regular armor and weapons, allowing the rest of your items to be truly wondrous." 

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[dr-archeville]

EN World got a new preview of the Starfinder RPG Core Rulebook, along with an intro from James L. Sutter.  “This preview is a couple of spreads from the upcoming core book.  It gives us a look at what the layout of the book will look like, and some clues about will be in the book as well.“

From Sutter:

Here we’ve got the opening spread for the mystic class, as well as an example of one of our core race entries.

For the shirren racial spread, you can see that we’ve got all of the mechanical racial abilities on the left, as well as a quick overview of the race and illustrations of two sample individuals (generally male and female, when such distinctions are common in a culture).  On the right-hand page, we’ve got a bunch of information about the race’s physiology and culture, plus sample names to help get players creating characters.  Probably the most exciting element of Starfinder racial entries for me — learning from something we did in Pathfinder’s Inner Sea Races — is that “Playing a _____” sidebar, which gives players not just an idea of how characters of that race might act or see themselves, but how other races might see them as well.

For the mystic spread, I should note that this is not the full text of the class, just the first two pages to show off some of the key design elements.  You can, however, see all of the mystic’s abilities listed on the class table — while mystic abilities often revolve around their spells and connection powers, thus making them fairly straightforward, many of the classes have a wide variety of different abilities that come into play at different levels.  You can also see from this table that, unlike Pathfinder where spells go up to 9th level, Starfinder spells max out at 6th.  At the moment, all spellcasting classes in Starfinder are spontaneous casters (similar to Pathfinder’s sorcerer), meaning they don’t have to prepare their spells in advance. 

[excitement intensifies]

[gmortschaotica]

Some RPG news from En World...

http://gmortschaotica.blogspot.com/2018/08/en-world-rpg-newsletter.html

[gmortschaotica]

Various RPG news from a variety of different systems...

http://gmortschaotica.blogspot.com/2018/07/en-world-rpg-news.html

[gmortschaotica]

Some RPG news from En World...

http://gmortschaotica.blogspot.com/2018/06/en-world-rpg-newsletter.html

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