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<blockquote data-quote="Chuck Ocenasek" data-source="post: 7189258" data-attributes="member: 6884949">Small bit of gaming history about me. I played 2e back in HS and went to a college and grad school where gaming was not existent so I missed the heyday of 3.0/3.5 I jumped into 4e and then 5e. PFS is really big in my area so I play that because quite frankly RPGing I don't like us better than no RPG at all. What I have noticed is in this edition it is totally possiblevfor a character due to the rules and high DCs to do nothing. Eamplev1. Playing pregen at a con. Got grappled by a ROC,&nbsp; my character only had a 2 handed weapon on the sheet so I could not attack it. Tried to break the grapple, rolled a 20. Even with my raging modifiers it was not enough to break the grapple. I died.Example 2: Playing in a PFS mod with a character made using only the core book. Could not communicate with NPCs because my character could not speak any of the languages listed that were not in the Core Book. Secondly I could make no check because all the skills required I did not have. I guess I am use to 5e where you can at least attempt a check and the DCs rewired are somewhat obtainable untrained.I get that people like thus system and perhaps it requires a bit of mastery than I am willing to put in, but I wanted to share my story.Happy gaming.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chuck Ocenasek, post: 7189258, member: 6884949"] Small bit of gaming history about me. I played 2e back in HS and went to a college and grad school where gaming was not existent so I missed the heyday of 3.0/3.5 I jumped into 4e and then 5e. PFS is really big in my area so I play that because quite frankly RPGing I don't like us better than no RPG at all. What I have noticed is in this edition it is totally possiblevfor a character due to the rules and high DCs to do nothing. Eamplev1. Playing pregen at a con. Got grappled by a ROC, my character only had a 2 handed weapon on the sheet so I could not attack it. Tried to break the grapple, rolled a 20. Even with my raging modifiers it was not enough to break the grapple. I died. Example 2: Playing in a PFS mod with a character made using only the core book. Could not communicate with NPCs because my character could not speak any of the languages listed that were not in the Core Book. Secondly I could make no check because all the skills required I did not have. I guess I am use to 5e where you can at least attempt a check and the DCs rewired are somewhat obtainable untrained. I get that people like thus system and perhaps it requires a bit of mastery than I am willing to put in, but I wanted to share my story. Happy gaming. [/QUOTE]

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