@mathfinder.bsky.social
(he/him) TTRPG nerd, YouTuber, aspiring game designer, and lover of all things math. YouTube: https://youtube.com/@mathfinder-aaa?si=jZsyEsO71Ka05E-d
Ooooh that’s an interesting point that I had missed!
03.12.2025 16:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ever wanted to play a Large PC? Feeling scared by the online discourse about how they're bad? Worried your GM will make things too hard?
Never fear! Large PCs are great. Quite frankly, I’d say Large PCs are MORE UPSIDE THAN DOWNSIDE!!
#pathfinder2e #dnd #ttrpg
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Draconic Codex looks so good! I don't think I could get through all of these dragons even if I GMed once a week for the next 5 years straight.
#pf2e #ttrpg #pathfinder2e #dragons
Always love hearing when I changed an opinion on some option!
The other day someone on a Discord said they’ve started assigning Skill Proficiencies differently because of me and that compliment went straight into my veins.
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Is Vision of Death a good spell? Does it keep up with Synesthesia? Let's get into it!
#Pathfinder2E #TTRPG
view of how the game runs. It teaches players to stick to rotations they perceive as “safe” rather than thinking about individual situations and tactics, and it teaches players to fear every closed door because whatever’s behind it will one-shot you if you don’t one-shot it first. 2/2
13.11.2025 16:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My main gripe is that if levels 1-2 need to exist to make the new player learning experience smoother, they shouldn’t also be some of the deadliest levels of the game. Not only is it extra frustrating for newbies to have slight mistakes cause instant death, it also teaches players a very warped 1/2
13.11.2025 16:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I would never!
Frankly, the current level 1-2 experience should’ve been an optional level 0 for people who love the meat grinder, and the game should’ve started at current level 3.
Just got done playing my first level 1-20 campaign ever, in any TTRPG!
I guess I’ve peaked…
#pathfinder2e
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Part 3 in my series of converting #Dnd #5e characters to #pathfinder2e!
I also go in-depth into how martials look and feel in both games, and the differences between the two games’ Action economy, resource systems, and level-based fantasies.
Tired of seeing people go “Knock is broken in #DnD5E and not broken in #Pathfinder2E, so utility spells suck”? Here’s a video to throw at ‘em.
(There are of course nuances to this, but I ain’t getting into that in my 58 remaining characters, all that’s in the video.)
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Truly, it’s kind of hilarious if you look at the original design goals of bounded accuracy. You’ll note that almost NONE were hit by the final design of D&D 5E, and even less so by 5.5E. It’s just a buzzword that people use to defend bad decisions in 5E’s math because they like their broken toys.
29.09.2025 21:47 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Make sure to check out @dantalksgames.bsky.social and @tabletopobscura.bsky.social creation: Blackpowder, Magic, and Plot! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
29.09.2025 19:01 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Time for some actual factual Mathfinding folks: youtu.be/0U1oZSc5aK0?...
Been a while since I’ve done a deep dive into #PF2E’s math like this! #TTRPG
Mythic PF2E levels of in-fiction power. 3/3
28.09.2025 03:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 070 damage at level 5 in a single crit Strike while a 4E character wouldn’t, ignoring that the latter’s damage doesn’t come from singularly big Strikes at all.
In-fiction, both are doing very similar things a lot of the times, at least until the very high levels where 4E kind of overtakes even 2/3
I feel like this happens all the time when folks describe 4E martial to me. They’re usually describing one specific daily or encounter power that just… has a lot of text going on, and then trying to compare it apples to oranges against a PF2E martial. It’d be like if I said the PF2E Fighter does 1/3
28.09.2025 03:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0additional Reactions. This means that if you have a Reddit-optimal martial who hates coordinating and just wants to smash, they’re almost certainly gonna refuse and say they wanna Reactive Strike and that you should just not AoE because it’s suboptimal anyways… 2/2
13.09.2025 15:46 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yeah, Gather to Me! is an INCREDIBLE tactic since its only constraint is ending inside your banner aura. There’s no “toward” or “away” wording, and in fact you can even reposition yourself to give an ally more spaces to end their Stride in.
Of course, unlike a real Commander you don’t hand out 1/2
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If you’ve ever been tired of how Vancian (and pseudo-Vancian!) casting works in #Pathfinder2E or #D&D, check out Team+’s newest release: Magic+. Here’s my deep dive into their take on resourceless magic: Essence Casting.
I have amazing #ITeachPhysics and #TTRPG news to share! Adventures with Emmy (AwE), a STEM education tabletop roleplaying game, has been AWARDED FUNDING by the National Science Foundation.
In AwE, mathematician and physicist Emmy Noether invites you to learn science by exploring imaginative worlds.
my allies, while I too can protect them, and ganging up on my foes to make life hard for them. 2/2
27.08.2025 21:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I want a 5E Shepherd Druid’s THEMATIC equivalent. Not a mechanical one, to be clear, because controlling dozens of statblocks at a time is terrible. I want something like a Necromancer class but instead of undead minions exploding in body horror, I want little animal friends protecting me and 1/2
27.08.2025 21:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Here’s my #Pathfinder2E Guardian review y’all!
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This class is CRAZY good. Awesome defender, amazingly thematic Feats, and a great playstyle that’s underexplored on the martial side of things in Pathfinder. Paizo did a banger job.
*one more spell slots per rank than it says on their table.
04.08.2025 05:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0have 4/3/3/3/3/2/2/1/1 slots. The PF2E one would have 4/4/4/4/4/4/4/4/4/1 slots at a baseline.
And the level 20 Wizard wouldn’t actually be casting four 1st rank spells either. Between their staff, their Thesis, their Feats, their scrolls, their other items, etc they’ll probably have way more. 2/2
You’re missing the School spell slots feature though. The Wizard isn’t casting 3 spells per rank, they’re casting 4. Every Wizard gets access to one more spell slots than it says on their table.
4 slots per rank is WAY higher than other editions. For comparison, a 5E Wizard at level 20 would 1/X
can directly add spell slots (or equivalent) at various mid/high levels. 2/2
04.08.2025 05:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hm? Not a lot of spells compared to what? At a baseline, the Wizard gets to cast 4 slotted spells per rank, right up till rank 9, which is a LOT more than they’d get in D&D at least.
Plus wands, scrolls, and your staff (and other items) massively increase the value you can get.
Plus Feats 1/2
#Pathfinder2E folks, make sure to hop on and catch this stream! www.youtube.com/live/Fw-ybaE...
In about 1.5 hours from now (at 9 pm EST), we’ll be having a Bronze Age one shot. @akesslerrpg.bsky.social GMing, with @swingripper.bsky.social, @thrabenu.bsky.social, Time2Dice, and myself playing.
