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I can’t even begin to understand why people prefer D&D 5e when PF2e covers the exact same niche but with more well rounded rules, tighter math, way more character options and at a lower price.
Like, it’s not even a matter of preference. You can literally play the same types of games as D&D, but better.
I don’t understand people
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Worst part is that if you don’t understand DnD but still want to play other TTRPGs with people then you’re SOOL
I managed to get a couple of my friends to try out PF2e and one doesn’t really like it so far. I keep trying to get another friend to try it but he keeps saying he doesn’t want to learn another system :(
Thats rough. Pathfinder is my go to for dnd.
ttrpg is too cumbersome I just say P&P (pen and paper)
Also I’d be content with a monolithic game system I just wish it wasn’t D&D or really any D20 system.
palladium for the win!
ooh, or gurps!
GURPS 4th is my favorite system.
Though I feel like we are due a refresh, and preferably an open source system. Seeing as the owners of GURPS are so finicky about their IP.
paranoia? :D
There was a ttrpg activity every Wednesday in my city. In the 2 years I joined, I’ve discovered several different systems and universes. Some I loved and still keep today, some I really didn’t like (Toons comes to mind).
Thought it was going somewhere else in the first few sentences. For a long time home-console video games were called Mario’s
U wot m8?
Seems like D&D is easiest to get a group started on. I would like a Cyberpunk theme with brutal combat mechanics and an assumption of DM controls on things like the physical weapons scaling (availability restrictions more than price, ie you can set off a 200 d6 pile of c4 if you can get it) Unfortunately, aside from finding a good game, half the people I would play with only want fantasy.
Slides in with an Eclipse Phase recommendation…
idk i think its a bad analogy. Its more like calling all rts games starcraft or something. They can be thematically different and even play very differently but the underlying structure is the same. And its not unreasonable when talking with someone who isnt knowledgable to start with something similar and if they care to hear more to explain the differences and if they dont then the conversation can end
All rts are Dune.
But yeah. Or how anything hack and slash is now “Souls like”
I thought the defining feature of “Souls-like” games was more about the difficulty of said hacking and slashing, and heavy punishment for mistakes.
But it also has to have tight controls. Failure has to be the player’s fault. That’s the defining characteristic.
Failure has to be the player’s fault.
I was going to say “they have to have low random factors” but I realized that’s the same thing. Dying to a random crit in a souls-like would be infuriating
There’s space sex witches in all RTSs? Maybe I should play one.
—Do you like TV series?
—You mean like Games of Thrones?
—Yeah, or any other
—I watched the first season some years ago
—And have you watched any other than GoT?
—What do you mean
—IDK, like Breaking Bad
—That’s like a more crime centered GoT right?
—No, it’s a different one, is not fantasy
—Mmm but it’s still about dragons and stuff, right?
—No, it has nothing to do with GoT, it takes place in current USA actually
—Ok, well I guess people try to adapt magic and fantasy armies to anything now
—No, it’s not about fantas…
—I think I’ll stick to the original one
—Ok 😒
This is really how it feels
…Man that hurt to read
Having played several systems I have no idea why anyone chooses d&d other than it seems like the default.
I’m in a d&d group and every time they’re flipping through the books I want to shake them and show them literally anything else. Even just vibe up your own system on the spot.
I like Risus, its GM guide is 4 pages long and it’s played with plain ol’ d6’s
Im pretty sure that’s the reason why. My group started on d&d because it’s the default and so has a lot of resources available starting out for players and gms alike. We don’t do d&d anymore and migrated to other systems after ending the campaign.
That’s cool, but also I feel I was a little judgy in my comment. If anyone just straight up enjoys d&d for what it is there’s nothing wrong with that.
This was Fallout 4 for me— which is basically Skyrim, but set in a post-apocalyptic future. Same game engine, even.
My settlements were built up into cities. I practically rebuilt the wasteland. Over and over and over. I passed 15,000 hours of playtime sometime during Covid.
Is this something like a nuclear Kenshi?
Maybe? I know that Kenshi is a game, but that is where my knowledge of it ends.
fallout 4 my beloved ❤️ whos your favorite companion? mine is piper 😍
I got a mod where your wife survives and you can find her early on. It was pretty sweet.
i think there was an idea at bethesda to have the spouse be a companion in the base game, that would have been interesting. ill have to see if that mod is on console and try it out sometime
It was a companion from a mod expansion pack, because 1) he was gay, and because 2) he said, just the sweetest things constantly. In fact, that might’ve been my most favorite thing about the game: the fact that you could have same-sex relationships with pretty much any companion you met in the game. (although this dynamic started with fallout 3 and carried on with fallout new Vegas)
Three cheers for Bethesda 🏳️🌈
Who is that crazy guy? Who was the boss of Nuka World? Yeah, had a “relationship” with him too. had a fun time, imagining that voice actor recording all of those lines (“ I never imagined having these thoughts, but it feels so right!”)… yeah, it was fun, making him my husband, lol. So loving. So tender. He cared. 😘😝
Fallout 4 was really about the exploration and discovery of a new world and a new self as much as it was about anything else
Gage is the one youre thinking of, i didnt even know he could be romanced lol gonna have to try that out soon. i just romanced preston garvey on one of my characters and his reaction was priceless, he was so excited 🤣
Yes, it was definitely Gage I was thinking about. He turned out to be deeper and more interesting than one would’ve thought. too bad he wasn’t very well developed.
Romancing Preston Garvey was kind of boring… just like everything else about him. More shallow and less interesting than one would’ve thought. completely 2-dimensional.
Fallout:Skylines
“But why roll 1 d20 when you could be rolling 20 d6?”
Shadowrun player spotted. :D
My experience with cyberpunk is that most actions are “stat+skill+d10” so I really don’t know what you’re on
What they are on is that for some unknown reason people seem to rather try and shoehorn the D&D ruleset, regardless of how frustrating and hopeless the endeavor is, in order to run a campaign that would be better off just learning a new ruleset that isn’t D&D.
“Video games - you mean like Space Invaders?”
TennisForTwo-Likes
I don’t really understand the metaphor in the post, but i really enjoyed Dimension 20 playing Vampire the Masquerade.
I am not looking Viva La Dirt League’s Daggerheart - Beast Feast campaign though. So much focus on ingredients and trade and cooking. I think characters are more fun.
It’s not your fault. It’s an incredibly bad metaphor.
I played so much VtM and werewolf in high school and college. It was way better than 3.5. I even liked playing a human mortal vs vampires. Tricky to do it right, but I could hold my own
VtM absolutely requires a good group in order to have a good game, IMO. You can get by with a mediocre roleplaying group and still have fun playing something like D&D, or Pathfinder or LANCER, I think, but not so with WOD games. Roleplay IS the game.
That kind of group is hard to find, in my experience, unless you manage to hunt down an existing VTM game and convince them to let you join.
100%. We had a dozen or so folks shifting in and out, but a core group of grey beards who would take responsibility for DMing
