Hello, for the last 3 years I’ve been running a Dnd 5e campaign, due to recent events with wotc we’ve decided to stop supporting them and switch to of 2e. Are there any good resources for switching? I’m under the impressions that some systems are similar while others are completely different.
Does something like a switching guide exist or is it best to just start from scratch and learn as we go?
Pf2e actually does have a dedicated disease mechanic, which is essentially to structure the affliction as a set of stages with defined lengths. At the end of each stage’s length, you make a new save against it, and reduce the stage by 1 if you succeed or increase it by 1 if you fail (2 if you critically fail). Here’s the existing diseases you could copy from, including for example malaria). In most cases pf2e’s DCs are scaled to the level of a creature or effect, meaning that a level 1 character has about the same chance of beating a level 1 DC as a level 10 character has at beating a level 10 DC. What that means though is that +1 and -1 bonuses are pretty strong, and inflicting the kinds of penalties 5e’s exhaustion has would probably quickly lead to a TPK. Hope that helps!