After many months of pondering and reflecting upon the whole OGL debacle, WotC going the AI-generated routes, and mass firing employees, I’ve decided to make a transition of at least 50% to a different Fantasy TTRPG system.
Having played the original Pathfinder/3.5e extensively (in fact it was my first real foray into TTRPG), and since those days missing the beautiful setting of Golarion attached to it, I decided to pick up all the core books with the most recent remaster of Pathfinder 2nd edition instead of any re-investment towards 5e 2024. So far - 0 disappointments - the system spells everything out for you, and overall, once learning the core concepts, feels much more sensical & systemic than anything I’ve ever seen in 5e.
In order to get experience for it for home games and homebrew stuff, I’ll be running hand-picked “Pathfinder Society” pre-written scenarios, but with the storyline not being tied to the Pathfinder Society within the role + no credit towards PFS organized play (nor VALUE). The purpose would be to get more into the rules & not focus on having to create the storyline so much (but still have an enjoyable one as the prewritten adventures by Paizo are overwhelmingly good), both for you as the players & me as the DM.
I had in mind to run only T1 (Level 1-4) in the beginning, using the remastered “Core book” system, weekly at Die Requisite, starting 27.09. You would have the following 3 character creation options:
Send me your character you create at home at least 6 hours before session start with whatever remastered content available for free & in full on Archives of Nethys
Roll up at 18:30 with a good idea of what you want to play, from the Player Core book ancestries & classes, and we create your character together with sheets provided by me
You choose from a pool of pregenerated characters with solid back stories & builds if you roll up on time at 19:00
This is an announcment of the plan way in advance, so if you’ve been eager to get into the system and are free on the 27th, you can already ping me your characters starting now. I can reserve you a spot at the table as long as you’re reasonably sure you’ll be able to make it (as I did for @Alaadu). See you around!
I’ve actually been transitioning to PF2e myself and have found it a lot more enjoyable from what I have played so far. I won’t be there this weekend, but I’ll be in Vienna on 4 and 5 Oct so if you’re running PF2e then that’d be grand!
Awesome, great to hear more positive feedback about the system! I plan to run another session on the 4th at the usual VALUE Friday at Die Requisite, assuming everything goes smoothly this upcoming Friday.
Keep an eye on a new forum post for next week’s sessions, it should be up on the forum by the 29th, latest by the 30th. Easiest to find it on the event calendar once it’s up.
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Ahh, PF2e. There are currently a lot of games being offered and I did have a good time with the system.
I might want to run my own DnD games instead at Value Fridays, but count me in if I have time
As far as I understand 2e dual-classing at the moment, it’s a variant rule that gives characters more power/versatility for fewer trade-offs than 1e or D&D 5e so the answer (especially now in the beginning with focus on mechanics & learning the system) would be no for now
Isn’t the only way to dual class in 2e by taking Archetype dedication feats (the classes exist as Archetypes too)? I didn’t know there was a different variant rule
Archetype dedication feats are more like traditional multiclassing, dual classing variant rule is meant for small groups to give them a wider variety of spells and such, AFAIK
Yeah, dualclassing in PF means having 2 classes at the same time not “replacing existing features for variety’s sake”. It’s meant to be a direct power increase.
Looks interesting, aye 
We can even show what we are planning to do!