I just found this community today and figured I’d kick off some discussion about what people are playing!
As for me, I’m running a cosmic horror campaign with some homebrew insanity rules. The players are stuck in an area with multidimensional beings, and a murderer who’s killing those trying to help the players escape.
Normally I run PFS at our local lodge, so not that interesting.
I am working on getting Foundry set up to run Beginner Box -> Troubles in Otari -> The Slithering, with some quests and bounties thrown in randomly with an old group that all moved to different regions. I want to follow that up with Abomination Vaults (new characters), and then possibly do something homebrew. I’m starting a masters program in the fall, so pre-built stuff, rather than homebrew is probably what I have to stick with while I juggle school and work.
I want to use the official adventures to work on my improve, storytelling, voices, etc., so that when I do have the bandwidth to build a homebrew campaign, I’m already well practiced at those skills.
Originally this campaign started off as a DnD 5e campaign, but due to WotC’s kneejerk I had a look at pf2e rules and was completely blown away by its cohesiveness and completeness.
But… Tyranny Of Dragons, where the heroes need to battle the cult of the dragon in order to stop them to summon Tiamat. We’re almost half way and having a blast!
About to start a new gm-less co-op campaign with the spouse. It takes place in a setting we’ve been building for years. Basically a gothic horror/steampunk world where the goddess of the sun and healing has died, so there’s no sun and healing/resurrections don’t work as expected. As a result of all the failed resurrections, there’s all sorts of phantoms and abominations roaming the darkness in between the remaining cities. So lots of tension and horror, our favorite thematic elements.
I love the idea of doing a GM-less co-op campaign with your spouse! How did you go about worldbuilding together? Do you guys have a shared space with notes or something, or is it less formal than that?
Shared worldbuilding is something I absolutely love the idea of but haven’t really tried except in the context of trying to get my players to add to my homebrew world.
Pathfinder 2e didn’t work out well in my main group, so Ive started running Abomination Vaults for my kids. It’s a lot of fun but the younger ones drop in and out, so my oldest ends up running all 3 sometimes.
I’m a player in an Extinction Curse AP campaign, where we are just shy of level 7, having cleared out the first level of a dungeon. So far I’m enjoying it, playing an Animal Instinct (Snake) Barbarian with Wrestler archetype (the strong-girl of the circus, even came up with my own trick where I use Athletics and the barbarian feat Bashing Charge to burst through large walls set up in the circus for entertainment).
New to pf2e too, and animal instinct Barb using unarmed strikes was my first attempted build. Didn’t know much about archetypes though, this works way better!
Normally I’m the forever GM and ran 2 and a bit 1E APs; but I’m playing in a Kingmaker game atm. We barely started and just leveled up to L2, but it’s already great fun. Last combat encounter, a small bandit camp, my Swashbuckler/Wrestler just had the most incredible luck and basically 1-hit killed everything he touched. Sentry up a tree? Just athletics up the tree and dropkick the bandits sternum through his spine. Another 3 bandits met similarly brutal demises.
I’ve been playing a trouble under otari + abomination vaults campaign for about two years now!
I play a level 4 baba yaga witch (familiar master dedication), and my familiar is a button-eyed doll with master’s form. Pronouns are they/them, which is especially easy for me because they’re never apart. They’re the party’s utility character- they can fly, pick locks, manipulate distant objects, and their pack has 2 of every mundane/alchemical item in the game. They deal very little damage with the occult spell list but they get into the funniest high jinks.
Insanity rules sound neat! Do you have them written down anywhere?
