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Update on our "D&D refugee" status. Last month, our group -- the Berkshire-Taconic D&D TRPG Club -- started to convert to A5E on my recommendation. We printed off A5E character sheets, had a character conversion session, and have run several adventures using a mixture of Freeform/Narrative + A5E. We gained four new players too!
But two of the members (including one of the new ones) have voiced a desire to try out and consider PF2. Here are some reasons which came up:
But two of the members (including one of the new ones) have voiced a desire to try out and consider PF2. Here are some reasons which came up:
- There aren't many A5E instructional videos. It wasn't an issue for me, since I don't watch much Youtube. But a couple of the players do watch a lot. And they saw all the awesome PF2 videos.
- There's not as much A5E 3PP support as there is for PF2. We have a lot of oddball PCs.
- It was hard for some players to know where 5E ended and A5E began, for example in re-creating their existing characters. Or in remembering which rules changed, and which stayed the same.
- Folks wanted to make more of a clean break from the "WOTC-adjacent" 5E culture. PF2 is more of a distanced break from that.
- When I bought the A5E books, I wanted to support ENPublishing, as I had good feelings about being a participant in ENWorld since 1999. I liked those guys. But the ENW community has become darker, more snarky, more of mean-spirited undercurrent, more dinosaur-like. And I associate that with the game. It's not a cultural milieu I want to support.
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