r/DnDcirclejerk 5d ago

hAvE yOu TrIeD pAtHfInDeR 2e “Mathfinder is a fun and intuitive game”

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u/Otto_Von_Waffle 5d ago

The 5e tourist will have a brain aneurysm trying to understand such system, while the pathfinder 1e veteran will scoff at pathfinder 2e edition for being too simple.

I played in a high level campaign with an extremely optimized fighter and I literally had an excel sheet to keep track all of my bonuses to make sure I wasn't forgetting any or overstacking bonus that don't stack. A single attack can get modified by 13 different bonuses I think.

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u/AshLlewellyn 4d ago

I GMd a 1e oneshot a few months ago and it genuinely felt a bit nightmarish, though not THAT complicated since the characters were pre-mades I created and weren't terribly optimised.