If you trust the system and try the system in good faith, you can't break it. The guardrails work, and everything stays on track.

But not everyone does that. In the past 13 months, we've seen a bunch of people look into or be introduced to the game who don't really want to try it, but feel some sort of internal moral pressure or external social pressure to abandon 5e, who then either want to beat it back into a 5e-like shape (use a separate and splitable movement pool, expand mis/fortune rules to better emulate dis/advantage, give monsters legendary buklshit, try to actually use proficiency without level, etc), or who are so used to these games being non-functional out of the box that they insist on implementing homebrew originally crafted with broken character builds or boring, HP sack monsters in mind, and then end up finding the game both boring, and unfairly deadly.

Plenty of people break the game. Breaking it is a lot more than just trying to win in character creation.

Ok, but swap out A5e instead of pfe2. 🤌🏼

i'll note it was liberally stolen from !linuxmemes!linuxmemes@lemmy.world when i saw it on there just recently.

My GM's currently running one with just the foundry module and some skimming of the pdf just before each session. I have no idea how he does it.

For $50 and a bit of self-hosting effort, you can purchase a license for Foundry Virtual Table Top and get free lifetime updates. The community-built PF2e module is nigh fucking perfect. It's already incorporated the remaster rules.

Just wondering what programs you're using. I'm always looking to improve my work flow.

reasonably sure it's a reference to D&D beyond and buying the books on there.

How do you prefer to track things? Other than trying to track things entirely mentally.

I'm still trying to learn how to take orderly notes as a GM, but I find just scratching things down in my notebook as conditions and the like crop up effective. And when tracking in combat, I use a grid to track rounds, with HP in the cell, and sub-scripts and super-scripts to track negative and positive status bonuses, respectively.

Things end up looking like the periodic table.

Though, really, it's the players responsibility to actually keep track of their buffs and debuffs. I just track to remind myself to ask them.

I also haven't bothered to give a damn about any of the remastered rules yet. I print off spell lists from pf2easy, and players are responsible for knowing how their abilities work. I'm just there to determine whether they apply in the given situation.

Also, what things can you get away with just not tracking? I dropped most secret checks right away, because my table didn't like them, and it gave them something else to burn heron points on. It takes away the element of being unsure if you've been spotted or not, but there are other ways to inject that back into the game.

Try a Pathfinder 2e character builder like Pathbuilder. The character generator on Demiplane is also very nice and has all the automation bells & whistles, but you need to buy the books for most options like in D&D Beyond.

it has its origins working for D&D iirc, then they split off and made their own D&D with blackjack and hookers when everyone got mad at 4e

I always assumed it was just an official setting for continued 3.5 games. I only learned early last year that it was from a different company.

But Pathfinder 1 was basically just 3.5 in a different setting.

Pathfinder 2's it's own thing, like if the designers of 4e had a chance to try again. Because, uh, that's a lot of what is actually is.