Do Hero Points need fixing in Pathfinder 2e? (Rules Lawyer)
Added 2024-03-24 23:16:20 +0000 UTC0:00 Intro
3:08 Reasons for default rule
4:43 Criticisms
6:41 Removing Heroic Recovery?
10:09 Buffs to Hero Points?
12:59 One proposal
Comments
I've allowed my player groups to use hero points to force enemy rerolls on saves against spells for about a year and a half now. The behavior that I have noticed from this change is that spellcasters have no longer hoarded their hero points, and instead are likely to use it only when an enemy gets a critical success. I think this is because when players are fighting higher level enemies, saves are still greatly in the enemy's favor. When an enemy rolls a success, they don't want to tempt fate and accidentally escalate it into a critical success. Additionally, it has caused an inverse of the hero point guarantee where of course when an enemy needs to reroll, the second roll is always usually better.
Duncan
2024-03-25 11:16:13 +0000 UTCI agree with that. One thing ive been thinking about doing is maybe do the increase by one (unless you rolled a nat 20, you cant increase by 2), for 2 hero points.
Matthew MacGibbon
2024-03-25 01:20:40 +0000 UTC
