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phanlix@lemmy.zip Well, PF1 is. I’m not sure why so many people refuse to acknowledge PF2. It’s been out for like 7 years now.

It’s like refusing to acknowledge anything past AD&D exists.

deadmartyr@lemmy.zip Why you wanna be fighting low level enemies at high level?

scmstr@lemmy.blahaj.zone If only. He seemed to have no idea that it was a inappropriate.

I had only found out about the history between the GM and the player after the previous session, where I noticed the GM being kind of weird towards this player. It turns out, he was being weird because he had just learned that she started dating this other guy at our table.

I got brought up to speed after that session – including the fact that the player had asked others to not intervene, and to just let her handle it – and then got the front seat experience for the… well, the thing.

The campaign did not survive long after that session.

Echedelle (she/her) Uhh, no? I didn’t say anything about anyone involved being monogamous. I have no idea if anyone involved was monogamous or not.

Not everyone wants to get with just anybody else. Some folks just have standards.

dalekcaan@feddit.nl You know what was super fun about it all?

Most of us were co-workers, including the GM and his… target. We all got to see each other 6 days a week.

I promise you, there were no gods to be found that day.

blurntout@lemmy.ca Oh, no, that is… not the kind of cringe I’m talking about.

The GM was infatuated with one of the players, and forced a romantic/sexual encounter on them, in front of their partner. It was super uncomfortable.

Nope, nope, nope. I’ve witnessed the inverse of this, and it was not good. Absolutely deadly levels of cringe.

INeedMana Mastodon continues to not play nice with other platforms. I’ve heard they’re going try to support more message types in the future, but who knows what they mean by that, or when that will be.

I also get inconsistent results and formatting from my NodeBB server.

From where I’m sitting, the link preview shows what the post is about, and the “clickbait” nature of the title is Mastodon’s fault and problem. Anyone who’s interested will click through and probably not notice the awkward title. Those who aren’t might put up a weird stink, but they’re not the audience for the post anyway, so *shrug*.

nocturne@slrpnk.net Anything’s compatible with enough time and effort! I’m definitely getting my hands on the bestiary PDF when this comes out.

Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary Paizo has absolutelly shit international distribution, and primarily relies on licensing deals for translations (which means there are limited translations). So it’s both incredibly expensive to get the books outside of North America, and to get it in yout language you have to wait months to years.

Even here in Canada it can be a pain in the ass sometimes.

The wizard should have been doing that while the Warlock was arguing with the GM about the number of spell slots they had left.

Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary There are games specifically designed for that, though. Though, I guess I do love a good Doom II run with cheat codes enabled, so I shouldn’t be throwing too many stones in that direction.

HubertManne I started rolling for my table during our last session. It was, truly, an overwhelming experience, and I need to figure out a better system for managing it, but my players were beyond thrilled with the setup. It worked beyond even the most hopeful player’s dreams. For them, at least. I’ll figure out what I need to make it viable on my end.

I backed the PF2e and SF2e cRPG games on Kickstarter last year. They’re both smaller projects that won’t live up even to the Owlcat games, I’m sure, but I have hopes for them being good and interesting.

Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary Yeah, I really don’t get it. I honestly think people are playing games wrong, and I don’t understand why.

iamthetot

I think at a time where the TTRPG scene is getting a little weirder, PF2e finds itself in this space as being the “traditional modern D&D game”, which is both an interesting and a boring place to sit, depending on what one is looking for. It’s not old school – it’s rooted in 3e, the first modern D&D edition – but it’s also not interesting in breaking conventions, either.

And, while it’s an incredibly flexible system if you let it be, most of the audience that has grown around it are more rigid than diamond.

HubertManne Yes, but what’s become very obvious from hanging out in that space is that many, many players don’t want to actually play these games. They just want to win them. And those are very different things. Many players are just looking for a pre-programmed turn rotation which… I mean, I’m not sure why they’re playing a TTRPG at that point.

Courtney (she/her/they)

But have you considered how awesome they’d look in that weird store in the mall that sells knockoff anime swords?

INeedMana This all reflects the constant handwringing I see on the PF2e subreddit over that game. All discussion is optimization discussion, and all discussion is complaining about the direct effects of optimization. Or – because bonus inflation is highly controlled in that system – they’re complaining about how it’s so unfair that the game doesn’t let you just break it, the way 3.x, 5.x, or PF1e does.

Players want to break the game, but then find the results of that confusing and angry making.

RedFrank24 This is why media literacy is important.

Of course she’s selfish in the bedroom. She’s evil. She’s a pillow queen.