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So I've been playing a Pathfinder game for the last year, but a lot of are pretty interested in the "5e" changes. Basically, they simplified a lot of the tediou
by snide 12y ago
So I've been playing a Pathfinder game for the last year, but a lot of are pretty interested in the "5e" changes. Basically, they simplified a lot of the tedious bits of 3.5 and removed the weird role concepts. The Basic rules, which come as a PDF, are now available[1]. In general it looks closer to 3 than 4, but is still attempts to remove lots of the table calculation from the game.
What this article somewhat mentions and what seems really weird for people that like Pen and Paper and want to play this new edition is that they are releasing the CORE books over the span of a few months. It's kind of weird for players. Sure we get the Player's handbook this Tuesday, but without a DM book and a Monster Manual it makes things a little limited for a few months.
A decent portion of the core audience moved on to Pathfinder and feel pretty comfortable there. It'll be interesting to see if this push can sway us back.
The key part of course is you don't NEED to change. A lot of people still stick to old versions. I play once a month with a group of 5 others. It'll take us a couple years just to get through our current campaign in Pathfinder. Moving to 5E right now will just be a curiosity.
http://dnd.wizards.com/sites/default/files/media/DnDBasicRules%28No%20Background-PrinterFriendly%29_0.pdf http://dnd.wizards.com/sites/default/files/media/DnDBasicRul...
- faet 12y agoI like that the newer character sheet fit on 1 page +items/spells. It was always a pain trying to get someone on the edge to fill those out. "okay you have 14 dex, which is +2. You need to fill the +2 in here, here, here, here, here and here." I'd suggest trying the starter box. I think I was able to find it for ~12-14 on amazon and it was fun for many of our new players. Pathfinder is still the goto for many of the vets as it's what they know.
- FBT 12y ago> What this article somewhat mentions and what seems really weird for people that like Pen and Paper and want to play this new edition is that they are releasing the CORE books over the span of a few months. It's kind of weird for players. Sure we get the Player's handbook this Tuesday, but without a DM book and a Monster Manual it makes things a little limited for a few months. This is not new. It seems strange, but each and every edition of D&D so far has been released this way, one core book a month for three months. It's a time-honoured tradition, but yes, a strange one. I just don't know the full details about why.
- roedog 12y agoI think Mearls said somewhere that the staggered release was because their copy editing pipeline couldn't handle three releases at once.