Pathfinder 2E: WHAT SHOULD I BUY? Rules Lawyer's GUIDE to all books and resources!

UPDATE: The Remaster will make you want to have these books for the core rules instead: Core Rulebook: PLAYER CORE, and GM CORE for GM rules and magic items Advanced Player's Guide: will be "replaced" by PLAYER CORE 2, which fills out the remaining classes not in Player Core Bestiary: MONSTER CORE (coming in March 2024) ADDITIONS/CORRECTIONS: 1. If you walked away from this concluding you needed to get "everything" I either did a terrible or an awesome job! I approached this as "why you might want something" so you could make an informed decision. You don't HAVE to have any one thing here to play Pathfinder, since the rules are free online. Ask yourself if what in this video is essential for YOU to have in physical or PDF form, AFTER you see what is available online! 2. You can find lore on the awesome Age of Lost Omens PF2 campaign setting at pathfinderwiki.com/ ! (However it is written like a Wiki using the books and adventures as sources... it doesn't reproduce the lore and artwork verbatim that you'd find in these books)

Let's just hope they don't start running out of PDF's.

Just want to say the presentation in these recent videos is such a glowup from the early ones. Well done, Ronald.

This is important stuff you’re doing! There simply isn’t enough Pathfinder 2e content on YouTube, so thank you!

I've been running Pathfinder for about a year now, and I'm really looking forward to the caster video. Casters aren't the most difficult to play but I think the 3rd action problem is really pertinent to them.

Thank Ronald. I became a fan and subscriber to your channel last year after seeing your video on how Pathfinder 2E had resolved many of the problems with 5E and decided to seek P2E concepts into my 5E games to make them more challenging. But after the OGL debacle, and insights from channels like yours Roll for Combat and NoNat1s, I decided to switch to Pathfinder 2E. I was not able to play in the Beginner's Box weekend event but I am committed to playing and eventually GMing Pathfinder games. This new series is a welcome addition to your wonderful video series. I will be tuning in for the next installment.

The main selling point I have for PF2 would be a direct reply to the discourse going around about the lack of game masters in the hobby: This is not an issue with the hobby a.k.a. ttrpgs in general, but an issue that's specific to 5E both because it was poorly design but also because the longer the edition goes on and more material it accrues, the more these problems are exhacerbated. And the best example of this issue is in the form of a question: How many 5E GMs do you know that both advocate and reliably use Challenge Rating to design encounters? The answer is almost always none: not even the designers that wrote 5E themselves use CR because it's simply a useless number that means nothing once the mryad of ever expanding, front loaded player options grow. In Pathfinder 2E I would say that even with it's problems, that's the one thing that actually works: You can actually trust levels to know they work as intended and be used as a tool to design encounters or quickly and easily alter them on the fly. Going back to the main point is that because of this, and as somebody who has ran both 5E and PF2 tables, I can comfortably say that PF2 is better for me as a GM and if more people knew they don't actually NEED to prep or do very extensive testing as a player and GM to know how to balance an encounter and you can actually do things like improvise, RNG encounters or just skim through an adventure you're planning on running without actually needing to worry about if it makes sense, if you thought about the party composition and how that works vs the encounters in the adventure, all of this work 5E GMs need to do and that basically keeps so many away from actually running their own games.

The beginner Box is the best place to start. Our table loved it

Highly recommend the dyslexic character sheets for p2e. It’s SO pretty and easy to read. Foundry’s built in sheet is also so so so amazing

Lucky for me I was able to hunt down many of the physical pathfinder books including the core rules. Spent around 450 in total on books.

What a fantastic guide. Well structured, well presented. Just NICE! Thank you!

Thank you Ronald! Great video as always

Wow, amazing work putting all this into digestable format. PF product line is sooo overwhelming!

Wow, this was such a coherent, cohesive, helpful video! Im so happy to find it.. aswell as your channel in general! Very exciting, thank you so much.

Currently running beginner box with a follow-up mixture of troubles in Otari and abomination vaults. My group is hooked on the system. Your videos have been incredible for giving me information.

Really well done video. Thanks Ronald!

Thank you for the video. Very helpful. I recently started, and just finished reading the CRB and the GMG and writing a guide for the players and GMs in my group to help ease the transition Now that I was done with that I was curious on what books to buy next as I love physical collections (and need to fizzle out my dnd stuff). This already gives me some ideas I wasn’t expecting! Definitely gonna get that Grand Bazaar book and yoink those stores for my own setting, for example

This is a great video. I’m surprised no one else has made a video like this before now. Thanks Ronald! 👍

Thank you so much for recommending Organized Play! I have been playing (and organizing) Organized Play games since 2014. It's a great community of passionate players and GMs!

I'm getting ready to switch the game I'm running to pf2e from 5e because of the recent shenanigans. These videos are insanely helpful!