• Thistlewick@lemmynsfw.com
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    23 hours ago

    As a DM, once initiative is rolled, I do not keep track of player AC, or any number on their sheet for that matter. I have a vague idea of their hit points, but I have a lot more going on on this side of the screen. Remembering if the fighter is holding their shield, or if someone has some special modifier applied to them is taking up unnecessary bandwidth. So I can take a guess that 29 hits your AC, but I always want to make sure.

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      10 hours ago

      Same. All I know about my party’s AC is that one of them is tickling 20 right now, and I have no Idea which it is. Granted, I run PF2E, so even if it’s a sure hit, I still need to know if it crits

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    1 day ago

    Well that’s a crit then, besides cover and other temporary bonuses could influence the AC.

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      Depends on your system. I’ve not actually played a TTRPG where that’s how crits worked. I believe that’s how it works in PF2E, though, which I really wanna try. Just can’t manage to convince the nerds I play with.

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        10 hours ago

        PF2E’s pretty fun. The Remaster makes things a pain to look things up, but that’s more on WotC and should be largely fixed in a year when Archives of Nethys finally gets caught up

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        Pathfinder. For people that play D&D and think “I wish this had more complicated rules…”

        But yes, that’s how crits work in Pathfinder - if you beat the target number by 10, that’s a crit success. Conversely, if you miss the target number by 10, that’s a crit fail.

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          For people that play D&D and think “I wish this had more complicated rules…”

          2e generally has rules that are on par with 5e, or even simpler in many cases, just written in a way that makes them sound like a software development reference text. The number of times I’ve been “Ohhhh, they mean X! Why didn’t they just say so?!?!?”

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            23 hours ago

            I could try and get into a semantic argument about the difference between “more complicated” and “more complex”, but I won’t 😉

            Full disclosure: I play Pathfinder. I haven’t touched D&D in years…

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          I started with PF1E, so 5E kinda feels… overly simple at times lol

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        24 hours ago

        Works similar in kids on brooms/bikes, except it’s beating it by 5, though you usually aren’t rolling a d20