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I'm very surprised that this poll is favoring Foundry as of my typing this on March 1st, 2025 by a margin of ~16% over the next entry. While there aren't that many votes, this forum has always seemed to be extremely pro-DnD and semi-hostile to other games. Every Pathfinder thread for example...

That depends on the tRPG you're looking to join. It's pretty bad for RPGs that mostly exist on other VTTs; which should be somewhat obvious as it'd be kind of weird to post an ad on roll20 for a game you're running on a competitor. For Pathfinder folks, Discord is the key to finding groups...

Gygax was everywhere, everywhen. ;)

Sims 4. Otherwise I most avoid them. Not because I don't like them, but because too many of them trigger addictive behavior and that's a large reason why for 20 years I stopped doing tRPGs, stopping reading, and stopped writing. It's way to easy to spend 8 hours after work picking herbs in WoW...

They have stated, as each book sells out and comes up for a reprint, that it is errata and will get PDF updates and that if you already own it, what's coming out in the reprint is just errata. That's been stated each time this has occurred - which thus far is only twice. Changes seen for GnG...

That's just not true.

Those aren't remasters. They're errata. Anyone who owns the old PDFs got them updated free. They're putting remaster sticker on them - which I feel is a bad move. But the contents are errata which is in free PDF updates AND on the website's FAQ. I actually stated that above. Several times. So...

That actually works to your favor in the Pathfinder world. The character maker that almost everyone uses is PC and Android only. I like Android in concept, but prefer Apple in practice due to one single reason: privacy. Everything else is better in Android - but the cost of 'being the product'...

They have stated this several times and they are... kind of... sticking to it. They ONLY planned to remaster what has already been remastered: The core rulebook, the advanced players guide, and bestiary, and the Gamemastery guide. These all got rewritten as new core books. In a sense the last...

This is a reason for consumers to make the move to PDF. With Paizo, when there is an errata level change you get it in a PDF update. That includes the Guns and Gears book. But it did not include Player Core's 1 & 2, GM Core, and other books being labeled as 'Core'. The books that are 'soft...

In one set of places I read that DnD often skips level 1-2 and starts at 3. I think I even saw that recommended in the new 5.5 player book. In other places I read that games rarely go past level 10. That means you're all getting a very cropped down experience. How is that at all tolerated? If...

Yes. Inventors start with one of 3 different 'innovations'. They either get special armor, a special weapon, or a construct - a mech ally. Note what's missing here is probably what you want: armor that can switch to being an ally. You get either or.

Not on that one no. But the Core remasters were more like a new edition. Just like with DnD 2024 - WotC and Paizo both are now 'scared' of the edition word. Technically these are D&D 5.5 and Pathfinder 2.5 - but don't tell the folks in marketing or the C-suite that. Over on the DnD side, I've...

It kind of is. If you already owned the PDF of the book pre-remaster, you got a new remaster copy when this came out. I do NOT like that they're labeling errata level changes as a remaster. I do get why they're updating. From Paizo's POV the most important change in the book is on page 237, the...

I've started playing an Alchemist in a Pathfinder 2E Tian Xia game and yeah; gotta blaze up with the herb. ;) I love describing her alchemical concoctions as if they were herbal Chinese medicine remedies. Used to hang out with a bunch of Suwon University students of Chinese medicine back when...

Yeah this is a major point not just for an IP jealous company like GW. But any small house wanting to ensure it doesn't lose control of it's IP to someone else's server farm and content policies. As companies change their policies or try to change contracts - that can be an issue for a publisher...

I pay nothing for the rules in Foundry with Pathfinder 2E. The only thing I'd have to pay for is if I buy their kit for a published adventure. But I've also imported published adventures they didn't have a kit for on my own, and it wasn't all that hard - just a time issue. I have bought the VTT...

That's probably about right and roughly sums up why I dislike rules light and prefer crunchier more defined systems. You've given a fairly honest evaluation of the side of the table that is not yours, which is a good thing to see. I've played both rules light and rules heavy systems and for...