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prepared spells is a big limitation; the sorcerer should be balanced with less spells per day but isn't. It is instead limited by less spells known, which to a careful planner is less of a limitation than it sounds. In Dnd 5e 2024 they removed even this limitation making wizard basically a worse sorcerer in most situations.

Fireworks pollute the air less than a constant camp fire. Or burning bodies, which if you don't do, will grossly pollute everything in the area. Land, air and water... Logistics of pollution in fantasy settings are weak.

Didn't touch on Sanctification. It can help Clerics do extra damage in situations.

I was wondering, if I have a Kineticist of Metal and Wood, and I use Metal Carapace and Timber Sentinel. When the tree dies, let's suppose it takes 15 damage (it has 10 life), the remaining 5 damage would hit me. Can I use the Shield Block action to avoid taking that damage? The steel shield has a hardness of 5. What do you guys think?

What is your feeling about using gouging claw with spell strike? The spell indicates that you morph an appendage into a claw. Can that be ignored to deliver the spell through a weapon with the Magus?

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+Tower shield +Ork or Dwarf Barb. + Skill Treat Wounds / Battle Med specialist

One thing that I would definitely add would be someone with a Tower Shield, using Raise Shield consistently. Perhaps the champion Perhaps the barbarian. The benefits of the tower shield, just raised, Alone grant the rest of the party improved COVER AC (+2 circumstance) Free, if the that ally gains cover from that tower shield. Automatic and free upgrade. But if the ally spends an action to take cover, behind the Tower Shield ally... They gain a +4 cover. That's a pretty major boost in a game where people are hunting for a +1 that matters...

Alternatively, I think there is a tanky resilient Dwarf line that could benefit a Barbarian greatly. And obviously can lean deeply into the Hammer and Axes

What Ancestry would I add. I think your barbarian would do well with the Hold Scarred Ork. The option to just ignore one time that they would get dropped to Dying. Add in the increased Dying level 5, and the improved stability recovery checks (lower DC) Ork and Barbarian also both have good or great HP right? Add in. Is it Toughness? And it just might be a fairly resilient start for the Barb. Hood Scarred Ork also seems like a great starting narrative for the Spirit Barb... As they clearly have some ancient trauma to channel. Haha.

6:17 Love the alchemist. Excited to see it PC2 in action. The champion can bring a lay on hands. But I'd like to see a battle medicine specialist, treat Wounds specialist. That's the rogue medic or the medic investigator. But I wouldn't replace your Sorc with that... So. Where to fit the medic... Alchemist can do some of it. And medic dedication gives access to Doctors visitation. Swashbuckler is so mobile, it might be a neat class the grab medics and Dr's visitation.

5:04 Skip Sorc. Grab Kineticist.

2:46 Don't AT me.... When I look at your Swashbuckler... I see an awesome rogue. Hahaha. I know. But she's ready to Bluff and Intimidate with that light armour and flashy Cape... But it has stealthy dark layers outside to Cloak in shadows and stealth out... And I'm seeing rapier, daggers.... Finesse type weapons. And one could still lean into a Ruffian. IF STR is preferred, or weapon selection.

For ancestries: Sorcerer human, because of natural ambition and level 1 reach or widen spell, champion and swashbuckler elf, because of the speed bonus, and to ensure that champion will not slow down they should go to live with dwarfs to learn their ways with armors (so that they can take adopt ancestry [dwarf] at level 3 and then learn unburdened iron at level 5, so that their full plate does not slow them and they get deduct 5 from all the other effects that would give them movement penalties, like removing -5 feet penalty from tower shield or halving -10 penalty from fortress shield). For Babarian , human (natural ambition -> two barbarian feats at level 1 without needed to pick fury barbarian), orc (orc ferocity -> continuing fight after going to 0 hp is just perfect fit for the barbarian) and minotaur (large -> being large makes barbarian even better front line smasher) are all good options. For alchemist, either human (natural ambition -> soothing vials and alchemist familiar at level 1) or halfling (Distracting Shadows - hide behind team mates and halfling luck free reroll every day for skill checks and saving throws is always good option)

Ancestry recommendation: Humans. Just a five man party of humans. Do it. I bet you won't.

Can attest to the Racal Swashbuckler being good. Just had a blast last week playing a Ratfolk Rascal pantsing baddies before smacking the crap out of them.

Not losing AC on rage is huge too!

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17:04 Hmmm... I think Alchemist, actually had the biggest improvement. And, perhaps, moved from one of the 'worst classes' (struggled the most) To a very respectable balanced class in the system. I'm not certain, if they moved up to top 3. But they certainly are not bottom, anymore. Swashbuckler, was middle and unremarkable, A mediocre Rogue alternative which, did not function well, despite some cool narratives trying to distract us from mediocre mechanics. Now, swashbuckler seems to function. But again, they weren't really a worst class, just a mediocre middle. So you wanted to try something different from, the Fighter or the Rogue. So you got excited by the narrative salespitch for the Swashbuckler. Then, you ordered it, opened the box, and found that the Swashbuckler may not function exactly as described in the infomercial. And it just kinda did almost everything less effectively. Now, I suspect we'll see more Swashbucklers, perhaps we'll hear... "Do I want to play a Monk, or a Swashbuckler?" Is it THAT GOOD now? But. Alchemist. We might hear, do I want to play a Ranger? Or an Alchemist? Not certain we'll hear. Do I want to play an alchemist instead of a Rogue , quite as often, but. All told, quite exciting changes.

17:00 I... Think that one thing might be the best part of the adjustment to Panache. Look at maybe Demoralize. Its still a one time thing versus a specific enemy. We generally cannot Demoralize an enemy, more than once, (per PC) But. Can the swashbuckler use Demoralize on them again, even though they have temp immunity? And gain temp panache, for a turn? Allowing you to use repeated, non stop, JibberJabber, griefing the enemy in a stream of Yo Mama jokes... To sustain your panache basically non stop. Excellent.

14:32 The Barbarian might be less of a damage sponge now? With the adjustment of 'losing the AC penalty during rage'? Are you thinking that enemies won't be aggroed by the raging savage in their midst, smashing their priest repeatedly in the face?

Is advanced alchemy affected by research field in any way?

I have a Gnome Water Elemental Sorcerer that I used in Age of Ashes. With a Dragon Scholar background, I used my blood magic intimidation boost often as my character oozed water-power after spells. Fun

the loss of the Ancestry Oracle’s extra level 1 ancestry feat makes me sad. It was the only way I could come up with to build a Nephilim character with Bestial Manifestation and a Lineage - and that d6 finesse unarmed attack was useful when your curse called for a strike.

i never understood why people didnt like the alchemist. right from the start of 2e, the damage it did was on par with casters but you had to have the right bomb to hit weaknesses, which means lore rolls and preparation. if your party was co-operative for example the fighter did things like group up enemies, the alchemist was likely to be the top damage dealer. On top of all this, it could hand out buffs. Mathermatically the numbers seemed right but i guyess this one of the cases where it has to be mathematically overpowered to make up for random parties.

About Swashies.. I saw a lot of people saying the Rascal sucks, that Dirty Trick is awful cuz it has the Attack trait. What do you guys think?

I am a Fighter / Wrestler currently and probably switching to Swashbuckler / Wrestler so I will get panache from doing what I am already doing, so yes.

Can't believe anyone would pick 2E over 1E.

It’s a small change, but I like that Monk gets critical specialization automatically at level 5 instead of making it a level 2 feat. Sure, you don’t get it as early, but it leaves room to pick other neat feats like stunning strikes or elemental fist.

Shields of the Spirit seems awesome, i want to try out someday but i'm nervous about not having in-combat healing when our only healer a is a ranger medic.

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I once ran a short campaign for some friends that was a riff on the storm kings thunder campaign. A friend came with a sorcerer who was supposed to be a reincarnation of a long dead lesser deity of winter so all their spells were cold and weather themed. In the first session this wasn't a problem but since the rest of the campaign was about fighting Ice Giants on frozen tundra and mountain peaks we came up with a (character) lore friendly work around which has become a staple magic item in my campaigns. Spontaneous casters can find a magic spell tome that allows them to; once per day, replace a spell in their repertoire with one from the spell book as well as store their previously known spell in the book. The book can only store 10 spells and can only store spells up to 5th level. Over the next 3 sessions that player had replaced almost every spell they initial had and sometimes swapped back and forth for some utility during exploration and was happy to return to theme when the next campaign moved south for some island hopping Piracy. They still have the book but I'm pretty sure they don't have a single spell it originally contained in it anymore.

I think you kind of missed talking about the way that Pursue A Lead now being based around answering a question rather than pursuing one specific creature makes it MASSIVELY easier to use Devise A Strategem as a free action. For example, I'm playing one in my current game and our group is fighting our way through a thieves' den right now. Old investigator would have been pursuing a lead related to the crime boss we're trying to stop, but now my investigation questions are "who is leading this thieves' guild?" and "why have they suddenly started attacking city watch patrols?" So now it's much easier to use the free action version of DaS in encounters throughout the den as we explore it because we're fighting thugs that I believe will get me closer to solving my investigations. It's a subtle but very significant improvement to the class.

5:33 An INT based class also. Ight have some extra skill points available,. To help justify being proficient in the social skills.

2:43 Quite an improvement. Not gamebreaking. But. Good. Playable. Functional. Good.

Why would I skip panache when it's so easy to get? I call my enemy a smelly poopoohead, get panache, stab them for extra damage. Run away.

My friend in the Sky King's table i'm playing in is already enjoying the new way Devise a Stratagem works.

Lots of good feat upgrades for sure, Person of Interest makes using devise a strategem easier in combat for one

I'm pretty excited with what they did to strategic assessment. I'm tempted to make a ranged investigator for my next character!

Why do I feel like this guy is running for the Senate.

Ran a fire/metal kineticist in an epic level three-shot. Skill junctions are definitely no joke, especially fire. I was adding +38 to intimidate checks. Scare to death was getting kills. Never underestimate the power of adding a status bonus to skills. It often puts you above and beyond skill thresholds of your level.

11:03 Also similar to a Kineticist picking up a splash of a different element.

9:32 Guaranteed... Sortof... If this but not that... But... Better... Kinda.Haha.

8:08 Yeah... Definitely not 'A-Bear-Ant' Owl bears, good, Bear Ants bad. Though most ants are relatively naked, so quite bare... Think A Burr Rent Think cold burrrr icy chilly+ rent And just soften it Like your over it. Aburrent No big deal.

4:49 Say aberrant... Like grabber, with a kinda soft subtle b sound... Like your over it. AbberAnt Kinda like... ABBA Rent... If you whispered Abba, so you might get away with speaking their name, without people hearing you. Hahaha