• Neato
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    379 months ago

    Another row: All of that third party content you use doesn’t work.

    • @Limonene
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      269 months ago

      Pathfinder’s compatibility is based on 3.5e, so DnD 3.5e homebrew stuff is likely to work with Pathfinder. 5e stuff probably will not.

      Old Windows games are more likely to run successfully on Linux than Windows.

      New Windows games supposedly run faster in modern Linux than modern Windows. I can’t verify it, lacking a modern Windows installation, but tomshardware.com said it was true.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        139 months ago

        That only goes for Pathfinder 1. To be fair that still gets played a lot but imo Pathfinder 2 is the best TTRPG created yet.

        • @[email protected]
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          39 months ago

          I would love to try Pathfinder 2e. I bought the core rulebook a while back during the OGL debacle.

          Unfortunately, my player group is quite bad at remembering their own abilities, which is just a complete no-go for an ability-heavy system like PF2e.

          I’m now trying out Savage Pathfinder instead.

          • Cethin
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            19 months ago

            Most things in Pathfinder are more intuitive though, so it could be easier for them. D&D5e is full of contradictions and stipulations that you are forced to remember. P2e is, in comparison, fairly easy to remember how everything works. There may be more things to remember, but those things are simpler so it could end up being less in total.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      89 months ago

      Yeah fair there’s loads of third party content for DnD. There is also for Pathfinder but not quite as much.

      That being said, I’ve found the core system gives you more customization so there is not a constant need for outside content to keep the system interesting.

      • @[email protected]
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        59 months ago

        Yeah, you can make anything from classic knights, to mystery cultists, to fucking magical girls natively in 1e. You don’t need a billion dollars of 3rd party supplements to make whatever you want, it’s just there in Pathfinder.

    • @[email protected]
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      59 months ago

      Hilariously, getting better for both of them. Pathfinder has a lot of third party developers already, and gained some after the big D&D debacle when Wizards tried to update the OGL and kill third-party. Linux is still slow going, especially on the gaming side, but a number of FOSS companies and Valve have done a lot of work to legitimize Linux as a personal computing platform.

  • @StraySojourner
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    169 months ago

    Honestly, breaking away from D&D has been amazing. We’ve learned so many cool new systems and honestly, it’s been a lot of fun. There’s a lot of smaller systems out there that are amazing, don’t just try pf2e!

    • Dwemthy (he/him)
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      59 months ago

      Getting away from d20 systems after a long Pathfinder campaign with my group has been great. All kinds of systems out there making you roll d6s or d10s, spend hp to cast spells, and build characters collaboratively.

    • Grail (capitalised)
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      39 months ago

      Player in My Glitch game used a monkey paw to wish for Half Life 3 to be released. Now the whole world knows he’s the guy who made Half Life 3 suck

  • @[email protected]
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    169 months ago

    “-but you can apparently get a few toxic elitists” APPARENTLY?!? You guys must be in much better behaved circles on the internet than me to word it like that.

    • @[email protected]
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      49 months ago

      IME, you don’t get any more toxic elitists in Linux communities than in any other.

      The internet just kinda sucks.

        • @GrymEdm
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          119 months ago

          I love this. You’re playing a game when you hear one of your traps go off, and you walk into the hallway to see a tall man in a black suit and shades with a homemade harpoon in his chest. “I see you failed your Dex save…”

    • @[email protected]OP
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      99 months ago

      Yeah if you have it go for it, better than letting those old books gather dust!

      What I like about Pathfinder is that it’s all free, so new players don’t need to buy books at all before they can join.

    • @[email protected]
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      79 months ago

      I’m an active Linux user and I can say it is a few, they’re just so fucking annoying. They seem to respond to absolutely everything with a ten foot stick up their ass.

      The rest of us don’t care and don’t really talk about Linux unless you need help or are genuinely curious. Basically you almost never see a comment from the rest of us because most of us are probably introverts.

  • @[email protected]
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    89 months ago

    7: If you mess up one tiny thing, you’re going to end up wiping and spending the rest of the night rerolling it to start fresh.

    • @[email protected]
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      39 months ago

      Or you just ROLL with it! (Nudge,Nudge)

      Get it! Get it!

      Maybe I need to explain it, jokes become funnier when you explain them!

  • @Caesium
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    79 months ago

    lucky for me my experience with TTRPGs in general is very limited so starting with Pathfinder is no issue!!

    • @[email protected]
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      39 months ago

      I’m definitely a Pathfinder evangelist, but it isn’t my favorite genre or the one I’d most highly recommend for a newbie (unless you are just really into the setting). I recommend trying Chronicles of Darkness out if you want a game that is actually both isimple at it’s core and easy to add content to, it’s what i recommend newbies every time.

      The base systems are easy to grasp and mostly applies to every part of the game, the point buy system makes it simpler to follow character advancement (no set growth so you only need to remember what’s on your character sheet), and the setting is incredibly easy to grasp (well, the parts you are supposed to know, it’s just slightly worse earth with vampires and werewolves and mages oh my).