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Context: There was a typo on Archives of Nethys where the Bristle Boar was marked as level 83, and if you know anything about Pathfinder's scaling you know exactly why that is hilarious.

What makes it even better is that it was Paizo's offical account that posted it:

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

To be clear, a level 80 creature would be over one trillion times stronger than a level 20 character

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It wouldn't even roll dice. With a weighted die to roll all natural 1's, all results would still be decided by modifiers alone, and the results would be death.

The best case scenario is that the creature acts as the immortal snail, and your character spends the rest of their life on the run.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

A natural 1 on an attack roll is an automatic miss in Pathfinder, isn't it? Your modifiers don't matter if you keep rolling automatic misses.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Not in Pathfinder 2E!

There are four possible results to a roll:

  • Critical failure
  • failure
  • success
  • critical success

Natural 1's and 20's are not automatic misses or hits, they only move you down or up a step in the result.

if your modifier for a statistic is so high that adding it to a 1 from your d20 roll exceeds the DC by 10 or more, you can succeed even if you roll a natural 1!

https://2e.aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?ID=2287

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I know just enough about Pathfinder to think "yeah, that sounds like the kind of beautiful nonsense I should expect for Pathfinder"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

nonsense? it makes perfect sense!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The boar being level 83 is a typo in an old manual, but people have leaned into it for fun.

The boar is actually level 3.

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