Pathfinder 2nd Edition: A Reflection in the Rearview Mirror

 A bit over a year ago, I started a part-critique, part-comedy readthrough of the 2nd edition of Pathfinder, back when it had come out and was a cool new product on the market. Since then, college got more hectic, my job got more hectic, and I ended up playing a lot more of systems I actually was playing online for the most part, Shadowrun, 40k RPGs, 1st edition Pathfinder. Now, with free time to start posting here again, I considered returning to my old task and well...it seems rather pointless at this point. It's been out for over a year, multiple splatbooks are out, and even trying to pretend I haven't read it front to back when I have in fact done so multiple times at this point would be disingenuous. And also I rather doubt anyone is reading these anymore at this point anyway, so shrug. But if I do start posting stuff again, I want to focus on other things instead of 2e, and even if I do posts on that, not in the style of that readthrough. Instead I would rather focus on other aspects of the game itself, there's a pretty massive set of threads about casters in Paizo's own forums indicating there is some things of interest to maybe poke into over there.



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