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How was your last game? (lemmy.zip)
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Mine was a battle against a rival gang (we are working with them for backstory reasons), they had a manticore and we are level 3 so it was intense. Most of us finished with 2 or so hp! But looking forward to finally be level 4 after a year.

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Honestly I think I'm done with DND. The whole session was nominally a fight, but almost all of it was the bad guys running away and us dashing to keep up. And then setting off like 5 lightning bolt traps in a row with no way to detect them really in a narrow hallway. (Apparently I should have tried dispel magic on the glyph, but how was I supposed to know it was a non-standard glyph of warding that keeps firing??)

And our wizard.. mixed bag. He'd split off from the party and, to his credit, figured out an alternate route that put him ahead of the baddies. But he wasn't able to stop them. Couple rounds of action and they got past him and escaped.

Though to the wizard's credit the main baddie happened to have legendary resistance so the wizard's portent + polymorph did nothing. Which sucks. Legendary resistance sucks.

So it wasn't great. Two hours of "I dash" and the baddies got away.

But even aside from that I've reached a point where like every piece of DND has something that annoys me. Time to find a new system. One that's not a close relative. If I never see another d20 or traditional six stats in a game, I might be okay with that.

[–] pjnick@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Assuming you're being hyperbolic at the end there - the samey, no-actual-options feeling of DND is what drove me to Pathfinder 2e. And all the rules are officially free here.

But if you weren't being hyperbolic and want something in the same fantasy-action genre: Genesys is pretty awesome.

If you want something really real off-the-wall and different, try the one-shot friendly slapstick-comedy The Sorcerer Supreme (also free).

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

I've thought about Pathfinder 2e. I really intensely disliked pathfinder 1e so I didn't even consider it for a long time. It sounds like they changed a lot though.

If I go back to a fantasy dnd-like it might have to be Pathfinder, but I worry about how so many players can barely learn a simple game trying a complicated one. And unleashing my inner power gamer I tried to banish after college.

I really want to try Fate, but finding non DND players is hard.

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