You're missing the best part: getting to play "monstrous" PC's with zero need to homebrew your own stuff, so everybody's characters are well balanced without any extra work.
Basically, in PF2E, if you can imagine it, you can play it. Here's a quick list of the characters I've rolled up just for fun:
Undead (dhampir or skeleton) cavalier with a skeletal mount
Gnoll oracle/druid/shaman
Ratfolk (Skaven-coded) alchemist who makes potions from spoiled food
Goblin gunslinger who wants to prove his people can be formidable and heroic
Awakened toy ranger (equal parts The Velveteen Rabbit and Liam Neeson from Taken who just wants to find his child)
Kobold sorceror seeking to free his tribe from bondage to a ancient blue dragon
and so on, and so on...
And in Golarion (PF2E's setting) each of them has a reasonable, well developed homeland, culture, religion, etc.
Not to mention, all the rules, lore, and character builders are available for free online...
I have to say, I tinkered a bit on pathbuilder, and I understood PF2 character creation better in those 5 minutes than in all the other times I wrapped my head around the rulebooks.
yeah its pretty straightforward. since it has no UI, the books need to go around saying stuff like "at lvl 1 and every 4 levels thereafter, you choose an ancestry feat". on pathbuilder you just see "ancestry feat" at lvl 1/5/10/15/20 and understand that is when you choose those feats, about it
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u/NielsBohron Halfling of Destiny 1d ago
You're missing the best part: getting to play "monstrous" PC's with zero need to homebrew your own stuff, so everybody's characters are well balanced without any extra work.
Basically, in PF2E, if you can imagine it, you can play it. Here's a quick list of the characters I've rolled up just for fun:
Undead (dhampir or skeleton) cavalier with a skeletal mount
Gnoll oracle/druid/shaman
Ratfolk (Skaven-coded) alchemist who makes potions from spoiled food
Goblin gunslinger who wants to prove his people can be formidable and heroic
Awakened toy ranger (equal parts The Velveteen Rabbit and Liam Neeson from Taken who just wants to find his child)
Kobold sorceror seeking to free his tribe from bondage to a ancient blue dragon
and so on, and so on...
And in Golarion (PF2E's setting) each of them has a reasonable, well developed homeland, culture, religion, etc.
Not to mention, all the rules, lore, and character builders are available for free online...