Jeff Wilder

It could do more damage ...

... if properly optimized.

... solely to those players.)

Without the fun of playing PFS together, my friends (from different parts of the country) stopped attending GenCon. Without my friends, I've likely stopped attending GenCon. (I've attended 35 GenCons, BTW.)

The "build a tank and roll over everything" HURTS THE GAME.

... my friends and I simply could not have fun in PF1E any longer. EVERYTHING was about the "build." Roleplaying was a "waste of time." Every player-player interaction was "you should take (or have taken) these feats, because they're better."

(And this wasn't limited to players. PFS GMs catered ...

Yes, that seems to have become the goal in PF1E, exemplified in my experience with PF Society games.

I played PFS solely at GenCon, which meant my PCs only got 3-5 adventures per year. At first, for the first five or seven years, PFS was GREAT. Then the "builds" started showing up. By 2018 ...

Young Guns: "Didjoo see the size of that chicken?!"

I recently quit an in-person game because I was the only one -- including the GM! -- trying to keep it going. I've learned that people have to consider TTRPGs a real social commitment like any other; if they don't, they cancel with the flimsiest of excuses, and usually with extreme late notice.

anti=privacy and anti-consumer changes from amazon what i can't believe no way

Those are fantastic.

Gonna depend on if you're looking for an online game or a face-to-face game.

For the former, I dunno. I had a lot of success on old social media before I dropped it, but effectively none so far on Bluesky.

For in-person games, a physical note on game store bulletin boards still works great.

I'm looking to GM or play in a Pathfinder 2E game in the SF Bay Area on Sundays. (If I GM, it would almost certainly be the Season of Ghosts AP.) I have a great large playing space in my Daly City home, or can travel to play. Please feel free to reply or message for details.

#pathfinder2E #pf2e

Hello! I'm guessing this is an in-person group, but figured I'd ask. I GM PF2E, but haven't yet had the chance to play it.

Great luck filling your game!

(Apropos of nothing, Houston has a new professional volleyball team (LOVB Houston ... not the most creative name), and they are incredible.)

Zagnuts (and 5th Avenues) are so underrated. Love them, when I can find them. I'll even eat them from dusty-ass vending machines.

We've been playing Pathfinder for 19 years and we still call it D&D.

:-)

40% humans! That's unpossible!

The two most amazing things are:

(1) How much more expensive it's gotten to attend. (Part of that is my relocation to California; another part is that my friends gradually fell off from attending.)

(2) The changing crowd. In 1985, it was easily 95% men. It's been fantastic seeing that change.

I've been to 35 GenCons (starting in 1985, most recently in 2023). It changes a little from year to year, but in general I run a game or two, play in a few games -- say three or four -- and surf the Exhibit Hall (for buying, demos, or chats with designers) during any time not doing those things.

I'm not well-versed enough yet with PF2E to opine on this from a balance perspective, but from a flavor perspective, a returning weapon not returning when thrown would be *terrible*.

Think about it: a PC isn't in combat, but wants to demonstrate the returning property. They can't do that? Yuck.

Hear me out:

Conan O'Brien vs. Pippi Longstockings.

Art should be either Maleev or Sienkiewicz. (Obviously.)

Smart. I didn't know about the cut-lines!

(I'd probably keep trying if my campaign were based in hexcrawling, though.)

I looked at HexTML because I've pulled in the Isle of Dread in my homebrew for a very specific quest. My opinion, after trying to figure it out for a few hours, is that it's GREAT if you know how to use it. But the learning curve is steep, inconsistent tutorials notwithstanding, and it defeated me.

FYI, there's a product called Gaming Paper that unfortunately sank without making it big. It's absolutely perfect for stuff like this. (Coincidentally, I just used it for a huge map in my PF2E game, also.) You may be able to find folks willing to sell some pretty inexpensively.

Map looks great!

He was. And he was fabulous.

But Mephisto erased that timeline.

Whet appetites with your thesis?

I think there's not as much "ready to get it" audience as there is for fantasy. Kinda weird to say, given the MCU, but I think there's a massive disparity between how many potential RPG gamers (whatever genre) are in the audience for superheroes and for fantasy.

(BTW, "ephemera" would also work, but using the adjective form of it might help distinguish it from "plain English" in play. Is what I was thinking.)

"Gossamer"? "Oneira"? (That one's probably both too specific and too esoteric.) "Matrix"?

An "ephemeral"? A "wisp"? A "dainty"?

I think you might be misunderstanding what "every +1 matters" means. (It's certainly not a guarantee of success.) An example:

The DC is 20. Your modifier is +10. If you get another bonus +1, what effect does this have on your chances of outcomes?

Same question, but the DC is 20.

Every +1 matters.

" ... I also drink."

Conversely, though, PF2E also beautifully provides DCs for tasks that DON'T need superb training (but that also aren't so routine that an untrained person shouldn't roll).

For example, a cliff with handholds might use the Simple (Trained) DC of 15. (This doesn't mean that Trained is necessary!)