billd91
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...there's a good chance I will run two campaigns, one 5e, the other PF2.
Sounds like a win-win situation.
...there's a good chance I will run two campaigns, one 5e, the other PF2.
I am curious whether there is a worrisome demographic to this day composed of people who refuse to play D&D 5E because they didn't like the playtest document back in 2014 or whenever it was. I suspect... the playtest document really won't be a thing anybody remembers in a couple of months' time. But hey, I might be wrong. Those 2014 diehard D&D Next playtest doc haters might still be out there harbouring their grudges about a game that never existed!
They released level 1 monk "how to build a character" article yesterday. Got me excited to try it out. Lots of fun character options. I just hope skill feats don't put me to sleep like they did during the playtest.
I'm in that demographic.
This seems pointless. The product isn't even out yet. Most of us have only the playtest material to go on, which Paizo has suggested was radically different from the final product. Anyone with any real substantial exposure and experience with the finalized product cannot openly discuss it. But let's go ahead and discuss how terrible it is already not knowing anything except how to speculate wildly and form opinions for everyone else so we won't need to come up with our own ideas. Heavens forbid!
Also, I hear a lot of people actually like it. They're just not usually as vocal or emotional about it. Or bound by NDAs.
The fact that Paizo is selling expensive print copies and deluxe print copies of books and adventures for the 2E playtest probably goes a long way to increasing criticism of the system.
You have a lot of fans/hopeful fans putting a good chunk of change out for something that ended up being very different than the PF1E playtest. At some point afterwards, you (Paizo) talk about how intentionally very different/radical it was from what would be the finished product. Either you are doing some PR Damage Control, or you were not very honest with your playtest group who cracked open their wallets. Unless I am a collector, I would be super pissed off with Paizo if it is the latter.
That said, I will give it another look when it arrives.