u/ursa_noctua

I've been looking at the new points charts, and it looks like the bottom end of local tournaments gives an unreasonable number of points.

To help see it, I created a chart of the points values for local senior events. I excluded unlikely and impossible fencer counts.

https://preview.redd.it/b3yo24m4pykh1.png?width=851&format=png&auto=webp&s=e94718541a5e26572c3df2e8d093d62933f16e80

The example that really gets me is the A1. Let's say we have a fencer who shows up for their first tournament. They don't score a single touch and come in 24th place. That fencer will earn 39 points. If they are a junior fencer, they will have a tournament worth 39 points on their Junior points list.

If we add one more fencer to that tournament, it is now an A2. Our hypothetical new fencer now places 25th and earns 42 points. Their performance didn't improve, but they earned more points.

Now let's look at a fencer attending the Junior Men's Epee event today (8/22/26) at the Trick or Retreat regional, which has 107 fencers. If a fencer comes in 32nd, they will earn 35.2 points. This fencer placed above 2/3 of a tough field and earns fewer points than someone DFLing at an A1. While I fully support making locals more important and earn real points, this outcome feels wrong.

How do we fix it?

I don't have a full recommendation, but I feel like the points earned need to take into account the field size in some way. Maybe the bottom 20% don't earn points. Or they earn a much smaller number of points.

Maybe the points should scale similar youth regional points: ((# entries – place + 1) / # entries)

Another option is to change how the the scaling. Right now regional points reduce by 80% each level down the bracket you are (T2 points = T1 points * 0.8, and so on). For locals, they scale down 90%. Since many locals aren't as big as regionals, perhaps 70% or 75% would be better.

Just solved the puzzle, but things went weird. The guess entry with the target never showed up. I also can't get the purple buttons for sharing or stats to show up. Is it only me?

I use firefox on ios

After I did yesterday's puzzle (1579), I had 72 day streak. I just finished 1580 and now have a 1 day streak.

Has anyone seen this? Any idea how to fix it?

Hello, all! I'm a longtime pf2e player that is about to make the plunge into sf2e.

One of the things I really like to have in a character is access to some kind of resourceless/every 10 minutes healing. My group is going to start a new level-1 campaign soon with no pf2e sources allowed, so I'm trying to figure out my options.

So far, the only thing I've found is the Mystic's Transfer Vitality. (I'm discounting Treat Wounds since Continual Recovery isn't available at first level.) Are there any other options out there that I've missed?

Fox the exterminator battle goal (kill one monster of each type), do bosses count as a monster type? In other words, do you need to be the one to kill the boss in order to claim the battle goal?

This is a PSA about something I just learned. My apologies if this was already known.

When using x-haven assistant, you shouldn't apply the standard rules for shield/retaliate stacking on monsters.

After playing several scenarios with guards, I thought something was wrong where an elite guard would start with 2 shield, draw the 'Parry and Thrust' card, which specifies shield 3. First time it happened, I double checked the rules and say that shield stacks.. meaning the elite guard has 5 shield and is almost untouchable.

Today, I finally checked and found the base monster card is really just shield + 1/retaliate + 1. Meaning the elite guard only has shield 3 after its turn, not shield 5

You can verify this by enabling the 'No Calculations' setting, which will show you the base card.

Does anyone know of any good written Mindthief guides? The only one I found assumes you're playing at high levels.

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