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I mean, the bigger reason to glance back and forth is that Pathfinder 1st edition is simply a copied version of D&D. You haven't "left the D&D fold". You've just jumped to a different creator making the exact same product under a slightly different name. It's not even like switching from Coke...

If it had been radically different from 5e, that would have been nothing but an improvement, so yeah, I'd have at least given it a shot with the hope that maybe it would stop actively crapping on my preferences as a gamer and player, with the hope that maybe this time the big tent would actually...

I've had two groups in my Arabian Nights-flavored Dungeon World game, Jewel of the Desert, that I've intentionally given blue-and-orange morality vibes. One, the Shi (arabicized of the Gaelic pronunciation of sidhe), view the world purely in terms of aesthetics. If something is beautiful, then...

This gets toward the "dark vs bright" and "grim vs noble" dichotomies folks talk about online. No idea if those have any relation whatsoever to proper criticism, but they're widely discussed online. Almost everyone has their own individual definition, but mine would be... Grim: Society is what...

I mean, there are plenty of dichotomies you can use, as long as you recognize that these things are always a spectrum, and there will always be works that simply don't have a spot on the scale because it doesn't apply to them. Consider Apollonian vs Dionysian, or "hard" vs "soft" sci-fi, or...

At least for me, much of my exposure to (as you put it) "Wellsian" worlds is that it has to be a world where real change is genuinely impossible....unless it's bad. Bad change is fine. Good change isn't--and anyone who says otherwise is either idiotic, crazy, or lying. Anything good in the world...

At least for my part, I see psionic and primal as equally distinct things--and I do see primal as quite distinct from the self, because of many of the symbols and rituals involved with it. Primal magic involves a kind of transcendental understanding, it's just not the kind of understanding that...

Ah, see, I was understanding your suggestion as "The Barbarian is perfectly adequate to fulfill this concept", as opposed to what it sounds like here, which is "The Barbarian could be used as one expression of this concept". The former I vehemently disagree with, the latter I think is perfectly...

I absolutely would not consider that a requirement, and would argue that expecting that simply means you think "hope setting" means "really poorly-done black-and-white thinking". Pretty reductive. I run what I would very much consider a hope setting. There isn't a "good kingdom" nor a "bad...

I can see that being one specific specialization of it, sure. I don't see the Barbarian working as the baseline for all of it, is the problem. Like this feels like saying that the Barbarian works for, say, Paladin, because you could view Rage as being a transcendental state of communion with...

I could see others interpeting it so, but I would not do so myself. The primary reason being that the Barbarian--even in 5e--is portrayed as something unthinking. Even if it has moved quite far away from the "wild-eyed madness" type origin, no longer looking quite like Cú Chulainn's...

So when I used "Certainly." above, you then instantly interpret everything else I've ever said as inherently uncertain? When I use "Hopefully", you assume that everything else I've said must have been in the pit of despair? This is--frankly--ridiculous.

So you instantly suspect people have been lying to you if they ever use the word "Honestly..." to begin a sentence? Seriously?

Certainly. "Little white lies" became the de facto standard. They make up the bulk of small talk, which I find terribly tedious much of the time because--as noted--the vast majority of responses are straight-up falsehoods simply spoken so that you can be socially seen as recognizing others. A...

It's a way of expressing earnestness in the statement; it's equivalent to "I'm gonna level with you" or "to be honest". Does the use of adverbs like "honestly" or "frankly" indicate to you that that person would otherwise have lied? Because--frankly--the truth is that yes, a lot of people DO...

"Not gonna lie"

In fairness to Hussar, catharsis is fun for some folks, and not all catharsis is about sadness. The new Doom games, for example, were surprisingly cathartic for me. The gameplay isn't sad in the least. It is over-the-top gory violent. I am, IRL, something of a pacifist, or a weenie if you...

Unfortunately, NGL, for me, if I knew there was no hope like in that former example, I probably would just...waste away. I can't bring myself to be cruel to others, and hedonism has no appeal. I know I'm incapable of any physical fighting (or even much in the way of manual labor), and trying...

It's worth noting, I don't personally see 4e as a "combat game". I see it as a game where the combat has been very well-made--and the non-combat has a reasonably useful structure (Skill Challenges) and otherwise gets the hell out of the way so the group can do it as they like. I'd like more...

I have not, no. Not for lack of interest, per se, but more for lack of opportunity. Haven't been looking for it and haven't met anyone currently running it.