LIVE interview of Pathfinder 2e co-creator Mark Seifter: DEEP DIVE on Fixing High-Level RPG Play
392Join me LIVE for Day 2 of my interrogation of MARK SEIFTER, co-creator of the Pathfinder 2e system and now Roll For Combat's Director of Game Design! We will do a DEEPER DIVE into the decisions and systems (and maybe lessons learned from other rulesets) that have led to Pathfinder 2e staying consistent and fun at the high levels.
0:00 Problems with high-level play in D&D/Pathfinder
5:33 Mark joining Paizo and early planning to address high-level play
11:42 Mark's previous experience with high-level play
15:42 KICKSTARTER HYPE BEGINS, Dragon Ancestry book praise
19:11 Do 3rd party publishers have more freedom to experiment?
25:05 Kickstarter: Year of Monsters
33:37 Kickstarter: Strange & Unusual bestiary
38:46 Kickstarter: Eldamon
44:59 Reveal of the 12th Ancestry!
54:53 HIGH-LEVEL PLAY talk resumes, Mark's experience Pt. 2
57:39 Weakening spellcasting
1:02:06 Keeping "save-or-suck" with 4 Degrees of Success, Incapacitation trait
1:07:41 Adding Level to all stats; and how less "swinginess" HELPS PCs
1:10:23 Three Action System limiting creature actions
1:14:00 5E's Bounded Accuracy warping monster + magic item escalation from Level 1 to 20
1:21:06 Workable encounter-balancing system
1:22:05 Problem posed by powerful abilities and uncontrolled stacking in 5E and other systems
1:26:01 Pre-5E buffing complexity
1:28:05 Removing the assumed adventuring day
1:28:49 Ronald's Random Question #1: do monsters' stats seem higher than PCs'? (Balance discussion)
1:33:36 Adjusting for when players are frustrated by monster stats in PF2e
1:34:57 Ronald's Random Question #2: Why is an enemy spellcaster's spell attack better than its spell DC?
1:42:24 What can RPG designers take-away from PF2's experience designing high-level play?
1:45:42 Rituals
1:47:17 Wrap-Up (begins!)
1:52:43 Kickstarter: Eldamon card game
Also check out:
ARCANE MARK, Mark Seifter's Twitch channel:
https://www.twitch.tv/arcanemark
ROLL FOR COMBAT YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/RollForCombat
... and Podcast:
https://rollforcombat.com/
KICKSTARTER STARTS TUESDAY, JULY 26:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rollforcombat/5e-pf2-monster-training-and-year-of-monsters
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