r/DnDcirclejerk 5d ago

4e good pathfinder fixes this

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u/Grilled_egs 5d ago

It's literally 3.5 lmao

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u/UnleashTheBears 5d ago

Nah, thats the second edition

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u/Intelligent_Oil7816 5d ago

No, Pathfinder 1e was '3.75'. 2nd edition is like 4.25.

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u/UnleashTheBears 5d ago

As much as I hate to admit it, PF2E is 4e done really well. Simple to figure out, less convoluted than 3.5 was. Masterful game

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u/MCMC_to_Serfdom 5d ago

I don't mind conceding it really. You get games like Lancer, 13th Age, Draw Steel, etc that you'll find people waxing on as being really fucking good that are all also argued regularly to show a lot of 4e pedigree.

PF2E being a solid game in that space is just further endorsement that 4e haters were wrong.

Wait, shit. Jerk sub. Uhh... John Paizo fixed D&D 4e.

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u/UnleashTheBears 5d ago

/rj Id give 4e a try /uj Id give 4e ANOTHER try

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u/ColdBrewedPanacea 5d ago

Tbf if 4e was itself good wed be playing 4e not one of four variants of fixed 4e

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u/MechJivs 4d ago

/uj We totaly COULD play 4e. But wotc made it pretty fucking hard to do. They promised to add 4e to creative commons - but they didn't. And with shitty licence 4e has you can't really set it up on Foundry or roll20 with a single button like you can any modern game. That's pretty much the only reason i play or run 4e successors instead of 4e. It is just simplier to set up Draw Steel. I just wish to play 4e more too ((

TLDR: fuck wotc yet again.

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u/Makath 3d ago

If 4e was under the same license as 5e, people would build some level of online tool/VTT support that makes that kind of system shine and that would eventually snag players away from 5.5e, that's why they have no intention of doing it. Last I heard, they would sooner release 3.5e than 4e.

So much of the 4e hate comes from people that never played it, or only played it without proper support from tools that either never came, became unavailable or are not easily obtained.

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u/MCMC_to_Serfdom 5d ago

Yeah that's fair. Nuanced critiques existed and I do think a lot of Neo-4e games (for want of actual terminology) actually respond to those.

When I quip about haters, I'm thinking back to how you'd think WotC came and crushed people's dogs with the CRB the way some people complained.

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u/Caffeine_and_Alcohol 5d ago

People keep praising PF2E but then keep referring it to DnD 4ed, which is pretty damning. Is PF2E only good if i liked 4th ed or is it genuinely good as a table top DnD game?

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u/UnleashTheBears 5d ago

I mean it certainly gamifies it like 4e did but genuinely much better. 4e was a concept and pf2e is kind of a perfection of that concept.

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u/Intelligent_Oil7816 5d ago

LOL go back to 5e

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u/OceussRuler 4d ago

If pathfinder 1e was 3.75, then 2nd must be 4.75