WoTC has hired John Hight, formerly of Blizzard, as President of Wizards of the Coast. Professor DM analyzes the potential impact on D&D. (Ep. 404)PROFESSOR ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
never been a better time to switch to pathfinder
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.
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.
Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous are a couple of the most well regarded CRPGs in the past several years.
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.
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.
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.
There’s so many cool indie TTRPGs out there, too. Games in all sorts of genres and stuff!