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Heroic Variant is out now! Cinematic Combos, Epic Hero Points, Dramatic Defeats, and Menacing Minions for your PF2e games.

After a lot of iteration, feedback, and playtest, the final, most polished, and ORC-licensed version of Heroic Variant is out! This preview on the project page provides a solid overview of the contents.

The purchase also includes a 3-page pdf of player reference which can be handed out to your players.

The inspiration for this set of variants came from different sources: my desire to have occasional but cinematic inter-player combos, RPG design discussions on the MCDM youtube channel, the varieties of defeat narratives found in other RPGs like FATE and Fantasy Age, and a desire to make PF2e spellcasters standout more in the early game.

You can get the free companion module for Foundry v11 here: Link to the manifest. If you are on foundry v11 and it asks you to update your PF2e system, you can do that by installing this update to PF2e while still staying on foundry v11.

Update for Foundry v12 should be out in a couple of weeks, though no GM I know has fully switched over to it yet.

If you have any further feedback, you can bring it to the discord server in which this variant rule set was discussed and playtested: https://discord.gg/sqM8ASsg9e

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Making PF2e more heroic, increasing player agency, reducing frustration, all without making things harder for the GM.