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At first I thought, OK, they’re letting us focus on storytelling—role playing! I too have a romance for the gnarly mechanics (love 2e) but it’s the collapsing o
by blueboo 5y ago
At first I thought, OK, they’re letting us focus on storytelling—role playing! I too have a romance for the gnarly mechanics (love 2e) but it’s the collapsing of richness in the worlds and characters that dismays me. Now it’s clear we’re marching steadily towards a Marvel superheroization of the experience.
More widely appealing, bite-size, far less varied. Far less interesting. So it goes with mass-market culture. The good news is there are plenty of more interesting artifacts out there…but now we have to do the work of looking for them and sharing them when we found them.
- dorchadas 5y agoThis is my issue with 5e. Where are all the cool classes? Where are all the neat races I can play as? Where are all the cool things I can do with my characters (prestige classes, etc.) to make them seem unique? Instead, there's just your main classes and a few subclasses, with your standard races. Like, I just wanna play as a kitsune summoner without having to just 'flavor' everything that way. I want it to actually feel unique instead of having to rely on imagination to make it feel that way. That said, thank goodness for places like /r/unearthedarcana...And Pathfinder 2e, though I've been struggling to find a group.