But then you don't know how your gear scales! That's important knowledge! If they were making a less number-crunchy game then I might agree with you but this is kind of just the nature of Pathfinder, honestly. It's a game for numbers nerds and your objective is to stack +68 to your attack rolls or saves via as many different avenues as possible. This isn't really Owlcat's fault I don't think, it's more just a consequence of choosing Pathfinder as the system to run your game in.

Yes, ill bring draino and cesium chips!

I love hearing people talk about it a lot more than I have ever enjoyed playing. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy playing it, certainly I do. But I like the whole thing. You wanna tell me about your epic campaign? Or the ridiculous run? Cool. Those are stories I can consume without effort.

I like live imorov, and dragons, but not math. That's why I'm a bard.

turns out I didn't hate improv or basic math, I just let something convince me that I should dislike things I'm bad at

Music is just math that sounds good when you get it right. Can't help you if you're one of those dancing or fancy-talking bards, though.

Yeah, it's just basic arithmetic with (usually) small numbers, and if you're the min-maxing type you might add probability calculation into it, but the latter is strictly optional and the former is basically the *fun* part about maths. TBH I think probability calculation is fascinating, but it can get a bit cerebral if you want to do it during play.

Math? I don't think that rpg talks about computing an integral or spending 2h arguing on whether we're on a Gilbert space and can compute a scalar product.

Is there any rpg where you need to do so? May be Fatal?

EVE Online taught me speed distance time long before school did. It also helps that it's just intuitively obvious but that didn't stop it taking 2 whole lessons of physics.

What's the mathenatically optimal guitar solo that'll "make them panties drop?"