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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again..Yeah, Crafting could be clearer (for random reasons I've had a lot of characters that use Crafting for one reason or another, and I... -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again..Honestly, the most common case of people seeming to have real problems here usually involves tracking conditions. I personally feel...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread The D&D 4th edition Rennaissaince: A look into the history of the edition, its flaws and its merits.Like any bookbinding problem, there are always going to be outliers, but the problem David is referencing was very common.
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Thomas Shey reacted to dbolack's post in the thread The D&D 4th edition Rennaissaince: A look into the history of the edition, its flaws and its merits with
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Okay. I guess a joke about how bad the BBB glue was is a little... stale.. -
Thomas Shey reacted to GrimCo's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
At the end of the day, it's about player buy in. You can be very restrictive and not be accused of railroading if you are open and...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again..While I can kind of see that, I think his second point was important: a lot of the tags are there to tell you how to resolve special...
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Thomas Shey reacted to bloodtide's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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The problem here is what about the great many tyrant players that are writing their own novel? The DM says the character gets... -
Thomas Shey reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Not necessarily. While it is true that one of the more common railroading techniques is "Small World", where the only thing interesting...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again..A lot of the things that help is that for all people losing their minds about the total number of feats in the game, they're mostly...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again..I can't say that's generally been my experience; I played two 1-20 campaign, and by the time I hit the upper quarter of those I was...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again..I think people long settled in the D&D-adjacent sphere have no idea how much more one-off the spell system usually included is to even...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again.."Grasp", sure; D&D style spells are, in some ways, stupidly simple in that they act like having a bag full of grenades. But the fact...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Velderan'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.
Despite us having played PF2e for a couple years now, the concentrate trait still confuses people I play with since we played 5e before...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Reynard's post in the thread The D&D 4th edition Rennaissaince: A look into the history of the edition, its flaws and its merits with Haha.
I think we can all agree that 4E is the best edition of Champions.
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again..This is a really weird critique. I've seen plenty of people learn relatively complex system by doing, just like any number of other...