The Hive Is REALLY Alive!

[Angel Tarragon]

So anyone else looking forward to checking out the Pathfinder RPG Beta out today?

Or is everyone pretty much 3.5 or 4e?

I'm waiting for amazon to fulfill my campaign setting and rulebook order for Pathfinder.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Update on my progress with FFVII. Just before entering Wutai I was able to get Aeris' final limit break. Never done that before and for the first time in my half-a-dozen playthroughs, I'm sad that Aeris is gone. Her Final Limit is too cool.

Now at 20 & 1/2 hours I'm through Disc 1. On my way to the northern crater...

That was a beautiful moment in the game, handled really well.

Though it did leave me wondering why someone didn't just get some scuba gear and go after the damn White Mana...

 

[Relique du Madde]

That was a beautiful moment in the game, handled really well.

Though it did leave me wondering why someone didn't just get some scuba gear and go after the damn White Mana...

Because that would have been too convenient not to mention how much of a railroading rat bastard the Game's GM was at that scene. Did anyone try using a cure Materia to stop Cloud from being hypnotised? Nope. Did cloud get tackled when he was trying to attack Aerith? Nope. Did someone try to push Aerith out of the way when they say Sepiroth falling down towards her for like 30 seconds? Nope. Did anyopne try to mess Sepiroth up immediately after the sword went through Aerith and right before he pulled it out of her corpse? Nope. Instead they were forced to watch a conversation between him and Cloud which lasted long enough for Sepiroth cast Fly and summon a Jenovah monster.

Thats not even mentioning the fact that they decided NOT to use a pheonix down on her like every other time she died as a result of violence.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

So anyone else looking forward to checking out the Pathfinder RPG Beta out today?

Or is everyone pretty much 3.5 or 4e?

I am sticking with 4e and don't really see the point in a company suddenly deciding to go their own way on this. I think by not sticking to either 3e or 4e they'll just end up with a dwindling fan-base and eventually go bust - no matter how good their product is.

4e is an excellent game, IMO, and instead of trying to compete with it they'd have been better off joining the group of companies lobbying for the changes to the GSL.

 

[Mycanid]

*sigh*

gonna be a LOONNNGGGG day ...

 

[Dog Moon]

I am sticking with 4e and don't really see the point in a company suddenly deciding to go their own way on this. I think by not sticking to either 3e or 4e they'll just end up with a dwindling fan-base and eventually go bust - no matter how good their product is.

4e is an excellent game, IMO, and instead of trying to compete with it they'd have been better off joining the group of companies lobbying for the changes to the GSL.

I assume that if Paizo realized that their Pathfinder RPG system was going to bomb, they would either do something to fix it or simply switch over to 4e. Enough people talk about the quality of Paizo that if PRPG was gonna fail and they did switch to 4e, I believe there'd be enough money for them to survive well.

Although I'm apparently one of those silly people that is subscribed to the Adventure Paths even though we no longer run 3x. Good storyline and good art/maps go along with. With Asmor's monster programs, I'm finding that conversions are fairly simple, though it'll take me a few more game sessions to figure out what appropriate damage should be.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I am sticking with 4e and don't really see the point in a company suddenly deciding to go their own way on this. I think by not sticking to either 3e or 4e they'll just end up with a dwindling fan-base and eventually go bust - no matter how good their product is.

4e is an excellent game, IMO, and instead of trying to compete with it they'd have been better off joining the group of companies lobbying for the changes to the GSL.

3.X was a renaissance. 4e is baroque.

The game industry needs a pathfinder-esque product that is jointly created/supported by the fans and multiple game companies.

 

[Dog Moon]

One of my friends and I are working on combining what we think are the best parts of 3e and 4e. We figure Pathfinder could give us some additional ideas.

 

[Ginnel]

hmm a few beers drank and a few more to drink, what to do what to do?

In terms of pathfinder, I'll probably look at my friends copy seeing as he has every single WotC 3.5 book going (probably 3.0 too) and all the paizo adventure paths.
He got slightly Narked when we were in his adventure on Wednesday he's running an old desert one about a powerful Efreet locked up and a powerful Djinn with an oasis of the white palm in it, we were at a ruined temple and instead of trying to walk past the pillar of zappy beams we walked around and hopped up over the wall.

erm that went slightly off topic, anywho the friend above is running two campaigns, The aforementioned one which I think is Mystara but in 3.5 12th-13th level there and, Rise of the Runelords 3rd Level there, also one there is a 4th edition game running where we are 3rd level too. (If it was up to me I'd be playing 4th edition in all 3 campaigns although I'm trying to make combat more interesting by jumping off nearly everything I can find and onto the bad guys, Playing a monk/drunken master and a rogue in the aforementioned 3.5 games)

 

[Ginnel]

For something to do, my twin bro and me are playing D&D online stormreach, for the free 10 day trial while we both have a week off work, tis alright not great but it whiles away a fun few hours and doesn't cost a penny.