• groet@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    have done something that broke everything

    When talking about dnd5e -> pf2e, I STRONGLY disagree. Pf2e is a much, much more stable and balanced system than DND and waaaay harder to break.

    With pf1e I agree. That system has so many busted builds.

    On the other hand the analogy is very good, as DND/windows is only considered to be “stable” and “intuitive” because it is the “Default” and usually the first thing people get in contact with. From an objective, unbiased perspective they can be very unintuitive.

    … And yes I play pf2e and use Linux how could you tell.

    • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
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      8 months ago

      If you trust the system and try the system in good faith, you can’t break it. The guardrails work, and everything stays on track.

      But not everyone does that. In the past 13 months, we’ve seen a bunch of people look into or be introduced to the game who don’t really want to try it, but feel some sort of internal moral pressure or external social pressure to abandon 5e, who then either want to beat it back into a 5e-like shape (use a separate and splitable movement pool, expand mis/fortune rules to better emulate dis/advantage, give monsters legendary buklshit, try to actually use proficiency without level, etc), or who are so used to these games being non-functional out of the box that they insist on implementing homebrew originally crafted with broken character builds or boring, HP sack monsters in mind, and then end up finding the game both boring, and unfairly deadly.

      Plenty of people break the game. Breaking it is a lot more than just trying to win in character creation.

  • 3ntranced@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    As someone who has never been able to get into DnD I never realized that pathfinder is different. I always assumed it was a sub-company for wotc.

    • HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone
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      8 months ago

      it has its origins working for D&D iirc, then they split off and made their own D&D with blackjack and hookers when everyone got mad at 4e