Remastered Champion (without alignment!) in Pathfinder 2e (Rules Lawyer)

"EXPLANATION of what replaces ALIGNMENT in the Pathfinder 2e Remaster!" (Rules Lawyer)

For the remastered Champion feats see "All Changes to Champion in Pathfinder 2e Remaster's Player Core 2" (BadLuckGamer)

Old Champion archetype discussed in "Free Archetype has ISSUES. We Need to Talk." (SwingRipper)

0:00 Intro
1:33 Class features
10:05 Causes
19:01 Archetype

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[TheRulesLawyerRPG]

ADDITIONS/ERRATA:
-I used to have a comment here saying that Blessed Shield worked immediately on any replacement shield you pick up, but the Level 20 Shield Paragon feat makes clear that this isn't true. (This capstone feat says you can designate a new Blessed Shield after 1 minute of focusing.) Currently, Blessed Shield as written can be read either way and I think its text needs to be clarified.

[Eddrian]

Liberator of Asmodeus: "Oh I wouldn't say saved, more like under new management"

[viktorwik]

Perhaps worth pointing out - It appears the Champion Dedication does not gain an Aura like the actual class does, which by RAW means your Champion's Reaction is worthless since all of them reference your Aura. Pretty clearly an oversight by the designers and almost certainly not intended, but who knows what the actual intent is. A 15ft aura that has no effect other than enabling reactions perhaps?

[brianlane]

12:00 A nice change to Glimpse of Redemption is that those options have been given names, so that follow-up feats or features can refer to them.

[brianlane]

[camera zooms in] "He's making a point!"

[LightningRaven]

I think the Shield Change is definitely a buff. If before you would gravitate towards only Sturdy Shield and had very little reason to try out specific shields. Now, you can grab the strongest specific shield available AND still slap a rune on that to keep it as close to a sturdy shield as possible. The loss of 50%HP stings, but being able to grab shields with strong effects definitely offsets it. You can also simply by an indestructible shield and not cry about the 50%HP at higher levels (when presumably the extra HP might make a difference).

Overall, I think this makes options other than Sturdy much more attractive.

EDIT: The shield change is even better than I imagined. You don't need to swap the shield each day. The benefit just says "On your hands [...] the shield gains the reinforced property rune]". This changes EVERYTHING.

[ogun]

I'm glad to see you shouting out bad luck gamer. One thing I've really liked from his coverage of PC2 is to encourage people to like and comment any pathfinder content they see, to try to bring pathfinder content up the whole algorithm

[davidhigdon]

Don't have time right now to double check, but with the new focus spell I'm pretty sure attack refers to making an attack roll. This is reinforced by the language "even if it misses." Spells that cause saves don't miss. Thank you for your coverage!

[erikclayton]

Something I realized about the new shield blessing is that it would work with the kineticist impluses that give you a shield. So if you architype into that you can get an entirely expendable sturdy shield that is replaced with one action that gets a little more hardness as you level. If you destructive block using the old bastion archetype (dunno if its in remaster) then you can block some huge damage with no worry for your shield.

[sheldonlarmond]

1/2 level weakness is crazy, the feat may as well read "Oh you done ***fucked*** up now."

Flurry ranger + paladin + agile weapon thaumaturge is gonna go crazy as a combo

[Buffalo]

I think that the prerequisite for Blessed Counterstrike should just be errata'ed out entirely. Needing the enemy to have triggered your champion's reaction is, IMO, enough of a requirement that any of the champions should be able to use this. I think in my games I will be ignoring the prerequisite regardless.

[ocecena]

I'm starting the Kingmaker campaign in a couple of weeks, and one of my players is pretty excited about playing as a Champion. I think he'll love the changes!

[brianlane]

I love how desecration has no anathema.

[rainmceachern]

fun fact for all the people wondering if you can take one of the agnostic/neutral subclasses if you're sanctified!
the champion iconic (Seelah) is sanctified with a neutral subclass. her deity, Iomedae, requires her clerics and champions to sanctify as holy, and she is a champion of justice, a neutral/agnostic (flexible?) cause

[geraldstacy]

Grandeur Champion captain of the guard. All of the guardsmen must look immaculate at all times and thus the thieves guild knows all they have to do to get away is duck into the nearest manhole and they won't be followed.

[AlejandroMonteagudo]

Liberstor of Asmodeus: You have been liberated and are free to worship Asmodeus and embrace his glorious rule...or you are free to chose death.

[flatwoodscryptid]

I'm really excited to get to try out Grandeur champion. I have an idea for a former cultist of Urgathoa who was redeemed, and I feel like that's a good cause to still enjoy some of the more hedonistic teachings from her upbringing, even now that she's swapped sides

[blukitten]

Champion is definitely my favorite class and it definitely sucks not being able to get 2 of the 1st level devotion spells, shields of the spirit is exactly what I want to do when playing champion but I love lay on hands too.

[docaheal]

Yeah, shield ally giving 1 hardness really seems to be pretty useless. When the enemy start making 20+ dmg everytime, it isnt a 1 reduction of dmg when using an action AND a reaction to raise shield and shield block that will change much. At this point, that little +5ft speed with fleet can make your tank running fast toward those small mages or archer that keep shooting his allies.

[AlwaysAMageMain]

Curious about your ruling on something. Grandeur says "under the effects of revealing light for 1 round." does that go away at the start of your champions turn or the start of the turn of the creature that triggered it? Cause that could mean the non concealment and off guard (if you take the lvl 1 feat) may not actually apply at all if the triggering creature is the turn before your champion.