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beccaelizabeth) wrote2024-02-02 10:42 am
beccaelizabeth) wrote2024-02-02 10:42 am
DnD 5e reading the PHB
So far I like Pathfinder better
it feels like its got more twiddly bits and options and settings and so forth
like DnD has a similar climbing frame but with the top taken off.
Just from reading the character creation rules.
Also the spell description for Wish. It's more boring when it goes 'this spell can do anything! but anything looks like all the other spells.' Like I quite like it that the GM gets to monkey it if you color outside the lines, but, there's a difference between 'this can do anything, but watch out!' and 'this can do anything the other spells can do... and some other stuff, I guess'. And as for maybe screwing up ever being able to cast it again, that's just dumb. Boring boring boring. What's the point of getting Wish if you don't get to use it? Boo.
I know Pathfinder 2e makes Wish more boring too, but still, this is the most boring version yet.
Also, there's so many gods, and so little about the gods, it feels weird. And so few domains, which work so different. Also the disclaimer that they've DnDed them doesnt make me agree at all with how they've written up Greek and Norse gods.
Mostly I'm reading and finding the same words used for slightly different things and feeling less like I'm discovering a game and more like someone moved the furniture.
Change, I like it not.
Ah well.
it feels like its got more twiddly bits and options and settings and so forth
like DnD has a similar climbing frame but with the top taken off.
Just from reading the character creation rules.
Also the spell description for Wish. It's more boring when it goes 'this spell can do anything! but anything looks like all the other spells.' Like I quite like it that the GM gets to monkey it if you color outside the lines, but, there's a difference between 'this can do anything, but watch out!' and 'this can do anything the other spells can do... and some other stuff, I guess'. And as for maybe screwing up ever being able to cast it again, that's just dumb. Boring boring boring. What's the point of getting Wish if you don't get to use it? Boo.
I know Pathfinder 2e makes Wish more boring too, but still, this is the most boring version yet.
Also, there's so many gods, and so little about the gods, it feels weird. And so few domains, which work so different. Also the disclaimer that they've DnDed them doesnt make me agree at all with how they've written up Greek and Norse gods.
Mostly I'm reading and finding the same words used for slightly different things and feeling less like I'm discovering a game and more like someone moved the furniture.
Change, I like it not.
Ah well.