Well, bless their hearts!
Thanks for the feedback!
My intent was to bring spell damage (especially cantrips) in line with melee attacks. These are the reasons that I feel that melee attacks are more effective than spells at low levels:
- They cost one action vs two
- They get Strength damage bonus
- Assurance with Athletics lets them circumvent MAP and trip is so effective
- There are many class feats that discount or eliminate the cost of a stride when you also attack.
My alternative was to nerf Electric Arc because other cantrips pale in comparison, but that didn't feel like it would give players more options.
My own biggest critique of these house rules is that they make Clerics even better and they sure don't need the help.
Character Creation Extra Ability Skill Bonus Choose one ability. All trained skills based on that ability receive a minimum ability bonus of +4 regardless of your actual ability score. Note that in order for skills to qualify for this bonus, they must be a core part of your character concept and ...
There are a few mechanics in PF2E that I feel are either unbalanced or not fun and I've come up with band-aids for them. Would love to hear what others think about these ideas and other ways to approach them.
># Character Creation >## Extra Ability Skill Bonus >Choose one ability. All trained skills based on that ability receive a minimum ability bonus of +4 regardless of your actual ability score. Note that in order for skills to qualify for this bonus, they must be a core part of your character concept and background. The motivation for this is to allow character concepts that are too MAD (e.g. the Warpriest who can deliver a compelling sermon or the Dwarven Barbarian who is a skilled blacksmith). ># Combat >## Increased spell damage >All damaging spells add the caster’s key ability to damage for one of the targets (chosen by the caster). This effect occurs only when all targets of the spell are within half of the spell’s range. This is intended to: >* Increase the viability of many underutilized spells and cantrips >* Improve caster damage at low levels >* Introduce an additional tactical trade-off (do I get with 3 hexes of the ogre in order to do more damage to it). >## Increased ranged weapon damage >All ranged attacks add half of the attacker’s Dexterity to damage as long as all targets are within half of the weapon’s range increment. This does not stack with the Propulsive trait. ># Spell balance >## Daze >You push into the target's mind and daze it with a mental jolt. The jolt deals 1 mental damage, with a basic Will save. If the target fails the save, it is also stunned 1. It is stunned 2 if it critically fails. Heightened (+1) The damage increases by 1. ># Feats >## Assurance >Fortune, General, Skill >Prerequisites: trained in at least one skill >Even in the worst circumstances, you can perform basic tasks. Choose a skill you’re trained in. Once per ten minutes you can roll two dice and use the higher roll (do not apply any other bonuses, penalties, or modifiers). Special: You can select this feat multiple times. Each time, choose a different skill and gain the benefits for that skill.
Local vcs let's you decouple saving progress (commit) from publishing your change (push).
This is a huge improvement over exclusive locks (old visual source safe) and shared server (like perforce).
There are many other improvements, but that is the one that had the most impact on my daily workflow.
de nada
Spanish phrase
de na·da dā-ˈnä-t͟hä
: of nothing : you're welcome
I sound even more southern than I am because I say "y'all" frequently to avoid gendered pronouns. People, you, and we are often good. I think my favorite is "you folks".
I'm having trouble figuring out the math for this. My assumptions lead me to divide $30b by 8b people, which is about $4/person. I'm not confident that people can eat on $4 for a year.
What am I getting wrong?
I agree, but this is the worst Haiku I've ever read.
I'm assuming that you have never lived in the rural South. The people who disproportionately suffer from the impact of the Civil War and reconstruction are poor and black.
I'm with you on hanging traitors, but a more devastated South would not have been good for anyone.
I don't think that unions will help the game industry to the same degree that they help others.
There's an endless supply of young people who are excited to make games. Oversupply means that the demand-side (employers) have the power advantage.
I left the game industry in 2010 (after 18 years) and it was the best career decision I've ever made.
I still get to work with amazing people on interesting problems AND I work sustainable hours and am compensated better.