I feel this. My group is 3 players, and 2 are 11. There may as well be 30 of them

Champion update came out in July

By the way, the spell does not allow for divorce - it’s strictly “till death do us part”.

Which has… consequences

Yeah, uh, so, I used to be a galactic warlord…

FWIW, it’s not a starter set, it’s a playtest. It’s stress testing things, and leaning on Pathfinder assets. You’re not missing out on the full meal deal right now.

I don’t know, this is starting to sound like a separate discussion with separate issues, and as a result it feels like goalpost moving.

The issue with women’s fantasy armour has long been that it exists for the Male Gaze, as a trope that is propagated by men for the purpose of titilizing men. It’s objectifying the female form, and doing so in a way that does not include women in the discussion at all.

The second image, instead of being a continuation of that, just feels like fashion, and complaints about it land as “no one has ever cared about aesthetics in a suit of armour” which is a totally false take and indefensible platform.

They just called the 5e charactersheet “overwhelming” wuth its, like, 8 numbers on it, and suggested players don’t need to know pesky things like “rules”, but you’re going off on dice?

That creative endeavor: A 5e clone with Blades’ progress clocks slapped on top of it.

Ronald does tend to mix in his “flamebait” bit with actual pointed content, which isn’t always welcome, but there’s something to be said for actually spotlighting the kinds of things people say to content creators.

Sunlight and disinfectant and all that.

“Roll acrobatics, I guess.”

“Natural 20!”

"Ok… You contort your body in ways that no humanoid creature should be able to, and successfully fit inside the jar.

"Can I get everyone else to make a Wisdom saving throw, please?

"Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh.

“Ok, everybody else now thinks you’re a djinni.”

There are good tools for limiting your view to only what spells are relevant, too. I like the spellbook over at pf2easy.com for this.

If your party needs a heal bot, they need better tactics (which isn’t a slight – tactics are hard), and a non-magical healer to use battle medicine.

But no, Cleric’s whole gimmick is extra dedicated heal slots so they can use their regular spell slots to do other fun things. They can be very flexible, and we’re hoping for a significant expansion of the Divine spell list in the fall with War of the Immortals coming out.

Look into a battle cleric in particular. They’re very versatile.

The most beginner friendly support classes are the Bard and the Cleric. The Cleric is a very powerful healer, with their Healing Font feature granting them a number of free extra heal spells per day, and it comes in 2 flavours: The Cloistered Cleric, that wears robes and casts spells, and stays at the back of the party, and the Battle Cleric, that wears armor, uses a shield, and works as a front line class.

Both can do a fair bit of buffing and debuffing with their non-font spell slots.

The Bard is the gold standard support caster in the game, with less focus on healing, and a wider variety of support options.

Clerics have access to the Divine spell list, and are Prepared Casters, while Bards use the Occult spell list, and are Spontaneous Casters. Take a look at those lists, and what those casting types mean, at the Archives of Nethys

“None that you can see” is a fun response. Especially on a high roll, if you’re rolling knowledge and perception checks in the open. Gets 'em good and weirded out.

I’m assuming there’s a translation issue here. Those are mechanics that you don’t enjoy, which, yeah, can be seen as disagreeing with the designers on their pholosophy of game design.

But Paizo has taken rather firm choices around inclusion which has casued some people to call out the company for being “woke”, so saying you “disagree with their philosophy” might raise some eyebrows and have people searching for your red cap.

They don’t control the ORC. They can’t even LARP revoking it, unlike the OGL.

Is it really a replacement when you’re just republishing them in a slightly different font?

The system is clean. The books?.. They could explain the system a little more clearly in some places.

It’s probably better to just search the Archives of Nethys. That should have links to most of the buried rules sitting beneath whatever you’re looking for.

It’s been so frustrating seeing people on YouTube and wherever who have spent the past 18 months “spotlighting” and “advocating for playing” other systems climb all over each other to praise this move. A move that does nothing but tell 3rd party publishers that they can safely go back to ignoring Shadowrun, Pathfinder, and OSR games.