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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e?.The difference is, even the best tricks aren't the best tricks all the time. You learn them because they're good a fair bit of the... -
Thomas Shey reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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The relative importance of a character is not a matter of process sim. It might be a matter of genre sim, but honestly I see that as a... -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..There's been an ongoing argument whether process simulation and genre simulation are even close to the same thing for quite some time.
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e?.If you've never seen a situation where the things Retreater describes are not optimal, someone is missing something at one end of the...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e?.That was one of my points. That's a really bad tactic and in most cases is a case of people carrying over habits from PF1e or D&D 3e...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e?.Except, as I said, that mode of play when used without thought is not optimal. That's the point. The "swing, swing, swing" thing may...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.The problem is, even if you manage to get the horizontal options all theoretically even in value, the number of players who will see it...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e?.Most of those are sound as defaults, but show a low-energy/not-thought-through approach if done relentlessly. In particular, your #4...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e?.Though PF2e is one of the few D&D-adjacent I like, this is pretty much true at least at upper levels. With some of the classes its not...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.I suspect the number of people who find starting from "nothing" isn't as large as you imply here. Though in matter of degree not...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Eric V's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
You are, though one could understand why you might be a little unsure: People have, almost 2 decades later, found a new way to criticize...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This seems like a pretty standard 4eism to me, and a general extension of the idea that monster and NPC stats exist entirely to govern...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Staffan's post in the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again. with Like.
Right, I've been getting a lot of mileage out of slow and to a lesser degree fear on my primal sorcerer. But it feels wrong that when...
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I know a bunch of people who immerse easily and deeply into Starfinder’s style of science fantasy. And plenty who don’t. Immersion is a...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Starfinder Player Core Review.Though its understandable why games with the degree of both gamist focus and exception based design as is typical in the D&D-adjacent...