Starting a Pathfinder2E Game? Advice for GMs!

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Published 2020-02-17

We wanted to make a video for those starting a game in Pathfinder 2E, whether you are coming from 1E, D&D5E, or another TTRPG system or if you are brand new to the game all together!

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All Comments (21)

@Hughes81 2 years ago

One thing I love about PF2 is we had a party of all 5 Human Fighters and we were a viable team.
@RAYBURN99 1 year ago

You had me at "healing barbarian". I had always wanted to make a medical healer that 5e never really supported. Good stuff, liked your examples showcasing customization and feats.
@samuelturner3081 1 year ago

as someone who's only gmed dnd 5e before and is starting to gm a longform pathfinder 2e campaign in a few weeks this is very useful! thank you :)
@theenchantedzombiebrothers791 11 months ago

I love that the dog just suddenly comes into camara view like ''I also want to be in the video'' xD
@jeremylaviguer4648 2 years ago

I appreciated the information without the "this is good" or "you're going to hate this", a lot of time this kind of video is more of an opinion piece rather than a run down of solid facts about the game. I just converted to pathfinder 2e after running D&D 5e and this gave me a good general rundown of the rules that I needed to know, as well as some of the pitfalls I would want to avoid. This was by far the best video I've seen compared to stuff offered by Mat Colville or the dude from taking 20. As a humble critique from someone who watches a lot of these kinds of video's, keep practicing at eliminating those "ahhh" and "ummm"s. Thanks for putting this together for us!
@johnharrison2086 4 years ago

Good review. The three action system and archetypes are really good. I like the cameo from your doggie as well!
@coolio3267 3 years ago

I think the main reason that pathfinder monsters are accurate to their level is cuz they add their entire level to most things
@TazztheEvil 1 year ago

This video aged like wine. Thanks❤
@TheMapleTable 4 years ago

Thanks for the tips on Pathfinder 2E since its one system I'm still on the fence about getting. I have been really happy with Starfinder thus far.
@makeshiftkitchen 3 years ago

Super glad I found your channel! I’m late to the party but have been looking at pathfinder for years. Think I’m finally gonna pick it up and try to get a game together, especially since it’s cheap on humble bundle right now! Loved the video, great work
@mattmoening8495 3 years ago

Good to see some PF2 content keep it up man
@academic0chris 4 years ago

Thanks for this, this answered a lot of questions I had about bonus archetypes and feats
@myrojyn 5 months ago

Thank you! Looking to start a Pathfinder 2e campaign
@ElementalShogun 1 year ago

Wonderful video!
@travisbaggett2813 3 months ago

I love all Collective Arcana videos!
@gabrielfabri2707 1 year ago

very cool video keep it up man! you seem to be a really nice person
@joelat4674 2 years ago

Good stuff.
@austinhadley6086 3 years ago

Excellent video. Subscribed and shared in a pf2e discord server. Hope to see this channel grow
@Rslick96 4 years ago

First off thanks for uploading GM tips i definitely gonna give this a couple of watches. That said I needed this video a few days earlier because I almost TPKed my 3 person party 😂.
@ren_dhark 3 years ago

One free feet I give away is the lineage feet of the versatile heritages, otherwise you end up with a tiefling that has to decide between having a lineage or having a horn tail. I don't like the idea of having "generic" versatile heritages, if a tiefling is neither pitborn, hellspawn or grimspawn (or other 1st edition lineages like Rakasta etc.) what is he then?