Recent content by zztong

I agree completely. I run as part of a shared game set in Golarion. I had to make my own continent to get a consistent theme. I couldn't "build" next to much of the Paizo material.

Everything you say rings true to me. The kitchen-sink setting is why I never really liked Golarion, but I cannot deny that in casting a wide net it probably has a wider appeal than a setting that I would find more compelling. In the end, a GM can spin their local instance of Golarion to...

This is a tough question to answer. It depends on what I've envisioned for the game. I guess for the survey I'll focus on "typical" though it still isn't easy. Typically, we level when the story calls for it. Time playing isn't a factor. One of my favorite games was for a university club. Your...

It does seem like a good indicator for games that are receiving active development and I'm not suggesting you're wrong. I would point out, however, that those of us in PF1 games cannot buy new PF1 products from Paizo because they aren't being made. One local DM kept his subscription to Paizo...

I forgot about the CoreFinder effort. That group I mentioned above has been playing 5e and some folks are interested in going back to PF1, but we like parts of 5e too. It might be a good time for one of us to read through CoreFinder. I don't suppose there was any automation to go with character...

My guess is it is the players. We had players would could play pretty quickly and those that could not. We're playing a another game now with fewer options and that seems to be faster for them.

We were finding PF2 to be closer to PF1. I think it has been about 9 months since I last played PF2, but I've kind of lost track... There were factors at the time, and at the table, that likely slowed it. Automation for PF1 was better than the automation available to us for PF2 (Hero Lab vs...

As a GM, I run in a region where civilization clings to a number of islands. Boats and shipping is pretty prominent and the PCs own several. As a Player, one game just glosses over overworld travel. The other, it depends on the situation. At some point, teleport and shadow-walk are able to...

Interesting, and hard to say at the moment. I'm in a D&D 5e game that bailed on PF2. I suspect they might just stick with 5e. I'm also in a PF1 game that didn't go to PF2. They might be interested in taking a look at CoreFinder. EDIT: I also suspect that unless CoreFinder ends up with Hero Lab...

About 9 months ago there was a table full of us who had played the entire playtest, a homegrown set of adventures during the gap between the end of the playtest and launch, and then a module I want to call Age of Ashes (or something like that). I want to say it was about 18 months of play with...

Oh, oh. You're correct. Thanks for catching that. Sorry for the error.

Looking at Google Trends on the assumption that there may be some vague relation between searches and sales... 12 Month... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F026q9,%2Fm%2F04dzk1_ There's a slight decrease in searches for Pathfinder (non version specific) while D&D (not...

At this point I think you'll largely get testimonials from those who found it appealing enough to stick with it. You can resurrect the thread, but the conversation will be much different that it was months ago.

I'd be tempted to lay the blame on them jointly, though I'm not sure "blame" is the correct word. It takes two to tango. Paizo owns the material, Roll20 controls the VTT features. They either work together, or not. I will note that in the local D&D 5 game (formerly PF), we transitioned to...

My feelings about Gnomes are weird. I've largely looked at them as goofy and worthy of being an NPC. Yet, when D&D 4 made them monsters, I thought that was dumb and refused to go along with it. There's been a number of memorable Gnome characters over the years. The designer races that are...