Welcoem to posts!!
in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
Want to join one my of my private Pathfinder 2e, Starfinder 2e, or D&D 4e campaigns? =D
If you are interested, **fill out this survey by Sunday, Dec. 15** (Filling out this survey indicates interest (NOT a commitment) in at least one of my campaigns for this "block." After collecting surveys, I will reach out to everyone to figure out groups and scheduling and only after I come up with a tentative set of groups and schedules will I ask for commitments. At the point you do commit, I would ask you to pre-pay for the sessions, which unless it says otherwise is 10 sessions between early/mid January and the end of May. Each person's fee is $45/session:
THE SURVEY (fill out by Dec. 15):
forms.gle/igXQL4eNnYnig1yZ6
THE CHOICES:
1. Agents of Edgewatch (now L11, up to L20)
2. Blood Lords (now L7, goes up to L20)
3. Quest for the Frozen Flame (now L8, goes up to L10)
4. Starfinder Playtest/Empires Devoured (Level 10-12 module).
5. D&D 4E/Dungeon Delve. (Using Foundry, now L9, fast progression up to L30)
If you want to see how the sessions have been going, the gameplay is posted on my side channel! Here's a link to playlists of some of the current campaigns (Blood Lords, Quest for the Frozen Flame, D&D 4E/Dungeon Delve): youtube.com/@TheRulesLawyerLivePlay/playlists
Let me know if you have any questions!
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If you want to play Pathfinder 2e and like PDFs, there's an UNBEATABLE Humble Bundle deal right now for the next 21 days! For $30 you can get:
Player Core, GM Core, Beginner Box (Remastered version), Bestiaries 1-3
and 66 other items
The $15 tier gets you 37 items including Player Core and Beginner Box
The $5 tier gets you Player Core plus 7 other items
LINK: www.humblebundle.com/books/pathfinder-second-editi…
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3 DAYS LEFT: Let's get multiclass archetypes and invest in a bright CRPG future for PF2e!
KICKSTARTER for Dragon's Demand, a Pathfinder 2e CRPG!
(I just posted this on the PF2e subreddit with citations and hyperlinks, for that post go to www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/1g8v6nz/ope… )
(Full disclosure: I am "The Rules Lawyer" on YouTube and have done an interview with Ossian Studios on my channel. Outside that, I have no financial connection to them: I just want a PF2e CRPG to succeed! And I want my damn archetypes.)
Dragon's Demand is very likely to hit its $500K CAD goal. But hitting any of the stretch goals, including the $610K CAD ($440K USD) stretch goal to unlock multiclass archetypes, requires a biiiit more than the usual final-days surge.
The Kickstarter ends this Thursday, Oct. 24, at 9am Pacific (UTC -7).
The Kickstarter for Pathfinder: Kingmaker earned about 25% of its funding in its last three days. We can do this!
Those of you who are already interested need little more convincing. (Pledge now if you haven't! If you've already pledged, share the Kickstarter with your friends, and increase your pledge if you can!)
Addressing those who remain on the fence:
-All accounts show that the core PF2e gameplay and usual good-CRPG trappings (open world, story) are the priority in this release. Remember that we're spoiled by Paizo, and that 16 Player Core 1 and 2 classes alone is a HUGE amount of customization and gives this game more replayability!
-By Kickstarting NOW, you can get a lower price than its eventual retail price.
-It's fair to say that a larger-scale/bigger-budget PF2e CRPG will NOT happen if this game doesn't succeed. Unless some major studio decides it wants to publish for a TTRPG ruleset that has a small fraction of D&D's audience (not likely!), the future of PF2e CRPGs is in indie companies who will have to Kickstart in a manner similar to Ossian.
-Similarly, the more funding they get, the more time and effort they can put into making DD a good game at launch (including having archetypes!), which generates positive buzz and gets a LOT more people beyond the PF2e crowd buying the game! Which ensures expansions/DLCs from Ossian and games from other publishers.
-From my interview of them, they strike me as having a handle on project management: they've seen pitfalls from their prior experience and know not to aim too high, and meanwhile they also have revenue from their Neverwinter Nights mods to help them. (Pathfinder: Kingmaker promised a Level 1-20 campaign with full character animation, raised $910K USD, and vastly underestimated the project, leading to releasing it early in a buggy state to fund its completion.)
-When the hack-and-slash action RPG Abomination Vaults was announced in this subreddit, the #1 comment was "I wish we got a CRPG that used PF2e's rules." That Kickstarter earned $460K CAD. This has already surpassed that, but we all know that a Kickstarter for an actual PF2e CRPG should get quite a bit more!
Dragon's Demand on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ossianstudios/pathfin…
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Join us LIVE as we playtest the 2ND EDITION of STARFINDER, Paizo's science-fantasy RPG!
We start the playtest module Cosmic Birthday this THURSDAY, Sep. 19, 6:00pm Pacific time!
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UPDATE: Wizards of the Coast has BACKED DOWN from their plan to eliminate people's 2014/5e spells and magic items from the D&D Beyond Character Builder! Contradicting their own claim from just a few days ago that allowing people to use stuff from both editions was logistically difficult/impossible, they announced over the WEEKEND that it is possible (and clearly not that hard to implement): www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1806-2024-d-d-beyond-rules…
Congrats to the community who spoke out loud and clear! WOTC had tried to pressure people to switch to the new edition with this move, even people who were still in the middle of 5e campaigns. In response to this move, many people announced they were boycotting and/or cancelling their DDB subscriptions.
It is extremely embarrassing for Hasbro/WOTC to go through this right now: this is their most fragile time when they need everyone to invest the money and time involved with taking up the new edition. While the OGL scandal showed they were willing to pull the rug out from under third-party creators, this new move showed they were willing to pull the rug out from under players and DMs who bought their digital products. Given that they see the future of D&D as a digital game with a "recurrent spending environment," this scandal happening right now is exactly what they did NOT want, and why they felt they had to back down so quickly.
I've seen some relief that they backed down, from some people who are going forward with D&D. First, I'll just kindly remind folks that WOTC is on its BEST behavior right now due to the edition change, and this is how they're acting!
Much of the damage is done. Many people who said they were canceling their subscriptions this past week said they were leaving for good. It's one thing to continue playing the game you're used to, but investing hundreds of dollars into the next iteration of the game when the writing is on the wall that they don't respect customers? That's another thing entirely.
On the one hand, I hope that the buzz around the new D&D edition brings a lot of new players into the hobby. On the other hand, I think it's positive that the people in the hobby trust the leading company less and that the newcomers are more likely to hear about other alternatives. It's not a good thing for one company to have a near-monopoly on the hearts and minds and wallets of the community. And that's changing.
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**UPDATE**
The old survey link is defunct, as I've just found out I must spend $300 to see all responses past the 40th response. This is the first time this has happened! Please fill out the survey by Thursday, Aug. 22 at its new location, at forms.gle/VQbMNe3ZU2iPDr6o9 .
If you filled it out at the old SurveyMonkey link, I cannot guarantee that I will see your response. On my Discord server under #announcements, I have listed everyone whose response I CAN see in SurveyMonkey. If you are not on that list and you applied on SurveyMonkey, please fill it out again at the new link. I'm sorry for the inconvenience!
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Want to join one of The Rules Lawyer's private Pathfinder 2E, Starfinder 2E, or D&D 4E campaigns?
If you are interested, fill out this survey by Thursday, Aug. 22. (Filling out this survey indicates interest (NOT a commitment) in at least one of my campaigns for this "block." After collecting surveys, I will reach out to everyone to figure out groups and scheduling and only after I come up with a tentative set of groups and schedules will I ask for commitments. At the point you do commit, I would ask you to pre-pay for the sessions, which unless it says otherwise is 7 sessions between the third week of September and December 23, 2024. Inflation is a b----, and after having the same fee for two years it now goes up to $45 per session per person:
THE SURVEY's NEW/CURRENT LOCATION:
forms.gle/VQbMNe3ZU2iPDr6o9
THE CHOICES
1. Agents of Edgewatch (now L9, up to L20)
2. Blood Lords (now L6, goes up to L20)
3. Quest for the Frozen Flame (now L7, goes up to L10)
4. Rusthenge followed by Seven Dooms of Sandpoint (almost L3, goes up to L11)
5. Starfinder Playtest! Because the playtest surveys close Dec. 31, we might meet more often than the usual twice a month. (We'll talk as a group and figure out what makes the most sense. Cosmic Birthday is Level 1-3, and we might jump to Empires Devoured which is Level 10-12.
6. D&D 4E/Dungeon Delve. (Using Foundry, now L5 or L6, goes up to L30)
If you want to see how the sessions have been going, the gameplay is posted on my side channel! Here's a link to playlists of some of the current campaigns (Blood Lords, Quest for the Frozen Flame, D&D 4E/Dungeon Delve): youtube.com/@TheRulesLawyerLivePlay/playlists
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@SwingRipper and I gave a thorough overview of the Starfinder 2e playtest today! Here's the link again, complete with timestamps!
0:00 Intros and awkwardness (technical difficulties)
3:26 Gen Con news
6:25 Starfinder 2e and playtest overview
13:20 Playtest PDF coverage begins
14:46 Overview of 6 classes
17:24 Ancestries, backgrounds
27:01 New skills Computers, Piloting
32:57 Feats
37:50 Equipment
49:35 Spells
53:06 Additional rules (including deities)
57:34 Envoy
1:07:24 Mystic
1:16:54 Operative
1:30:04 Solarian
1:40:35 Soldier
1:49:09 Witchwarper
1:56:48 Wrap-up
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The STARFINDER 2E PLAYTEST drops Thursday! Join me and @SwingRipper LIVE THURSDAY at 5pm Pacific (GMT -8) as we react to and analyze the revision of Paizo's science fantasy cousin to Pathfinder, which promises to be fully compatible with Pathfinder 2e!
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("Frustrating for Dungeon Masters" is a direct quote from a WOTC article about one player ability in the new edition.)
Sly Flourish (author of "The Lazy Dungeon Master") shares my concerns that D&D 5.5e doesn't have DMs in mind, and also says that the new PC abilities will tend to slow down play. He also talks extensively about Tales of the Valiant and Level Up: Advanced 5e. His comments also remind me of the theory that WOTC is not supporting DMs because they think DMs are obsolete, that they care more about their VTT running games for players?
At 21:35 "Three instances in the last week alone: (1) [saying] 'Frustrating for dungeon masters but fantastic for your party,' (2) 'Hey, which one of these different golf clubs will I use to knock down this monster?', (3) 'Monsters are gonna hate when they're at disadvantage to attack the Warlock but they're at disadvantage to attack that isn't the Warlock.' Those are all instances where a DM advocate could be like, "What do DMs feel about this? Is that what we want?"
23:38 "This is the thing that really set me off: "Frustrating for dungeon masters..." If this were any other game, I'd be like yeah I'm not be gonna be reading anything else. I'm not gonna look at anything else you're doing. I'm done. Right? If you ever tell me that something is in the game that's gonna be frustrating for dungeon masters, I don't know who you're aiming it for. 'Cause I'm the one that runs the games..."
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JOIN US LIVE this Saturday as I run D&D 4th Edition!
Pathfinder 2e taking inspiration from D&D 4e has always made me want to play and learn more from this system. We are running through 4e's very straightforward Dungeon Delve "campaign," which was designed to be a series of thirty one-shots, one for each level of play.
The players in my private campaign have been gracious enough to have their play livestreamed. They met me through my (mostly PF2e-focused) YouTube channel, and have varying levels of experience with D&D 4e. (Most have not actually played it before.) This will be a joint journey of discovery!
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