Source (Bluesky)
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:
To be clear, a level 80 creature would be over one trillion times stronger than a level 20 character
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.
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.
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!
I know just enough about Pathfinder to think “yeah, that sounds like the kind of beautiful nonsense I should expect for Pathfinder”
nonsense? it makes perfect sense!
The boar being level 83 is a typo in an old manual, but people have leaned into it for fun.