• KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      As someone who doesn’t particularly like Pathfinder (it’s too D&D for my tastes), even I’ll say that Pathfinder 2e is the best version of D&D there has ever been, taking literally every single good idea D&D has ever had and refining it, while doing as much as possible to fix and paper over every bad idea that anything trying to be D&D is stuck with for legacy reasons. I don’t understand how anyone can just be like “nah I’ll stick with D&D” when they have an alternative that’s literally just D&D but actually functional and decent.

      • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        I feel like it’s mostly brand recognition. Are there any media tie-ins for pathfinder? I assume critical role and others like it are still D&D.

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            Wrath of the Righteous is one of the best CRPGs ever. It’s better than Baldurs Gate 3 in so many ways and worse in some and honestly the ability to use Level 10 spells alone makes the combat far better.

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              Hate that BG3 doesn’t even let you get into the somewhat interesting later level abilities and spells, that’s a fundamental 5e leveling problem though. Now WotR on the other hand lets you become a horrific avatar of decay and spread plagues across the land…

              Love the characters and presentation of BG3 and all, but I really want that ttrpg freedom and room for growth.

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          It’s 100% a brand recognition thing, but D&D has 50 years of being the face of all TTRPGs to Paizo’s not even 20 of being the second most famous D&D-like TTRPG. Even in the TTRPG community plenty of people say “D&D” to refer to anything from Call of Cthulhu to Shadowrun.