Jeff Wilder

Someone ended up doing a 5E mouse-pad (I don't play 5E) sometime later, and sure enough, the font was huge.

Yes! I had an idea to do my GM info on a massive mouse-pad, because I've never been able to see GM screens as anything but a barrier.

But the custom mouse-pad people said the font-size needed to be way too large for the pad to be useful.

Also, there're tricks for doing secret rolls openly!

The Shwartz is growing.

(Generally, if there's not someone writing a recap, such as the game I just dropped, there's no real roleplaying or any story other than the published adventure plot, so no real need for a recap.)

We usually have someone who writes a recap of the session on our Discord. When I'm a player, I often do it. As a GM right now, my friend Cassandra takes phenomenal notes (better than me, as player or GM) and does a detailed recap.

Thank God for Cassandra.

Mine has the SWEEP trait when I'm reaching over my desk or a counter for something.

They don't have any magical abilities, nor are they from (or originating from) a different plane of existence. If it weren't for the way their intelligence increases in hive situations, I might say they'd be animals or beasts. But in Pathfinder, IMO, they would be aberrations from the Dark Tapestry.

What's your favorite line from a DC book?

From Consumed?

... From A Knight of the Seven Kingdons?

Is it a coincidence that a few days ago the headlines were PENTAGON IS STRUGGLING TO FIND SOMETHING TO SPEND $500B ON, and now the headlines are WAR WITH IRAN MIGHT COST OVER $200B ... ?

This is the first criticism of the daredevil that is just plain correct. Full stop.

The idea of "realism" (or even "verisimilitude," pedants) is ridiculous in this context.

Justice for Smalls! (Hell, even for Tinys! Anybody whose ever owned a cat has suffered daredevil moves!)

Jihad was a pretty good game, though. :-)

It could do more damage ...

... if properly optimized.

... solely to those players.)

Without the fun of playing PFS together, my friends (from different parts of the country) stopped attending GenCon. Without my friends, I've likely stopped attending GenCon. (I've attended 35 GenCons, BTW.)

The "build a tank and roll over everything" HURTS THE GAME.

... my friends and I simply could not have fun in PF1E any longer. EVERYTHING was about the "build." Roleplaying was a "waste of time." Every player-player interaction was "you should take (or have taken) these feats, because they're better."

(And this wasn't limited to players. PFS GMs catered ...

Yes, that seems to have become the goal in PF1E, exemplified in my experience with PF Society games.

I played PFS solely at GenCon, which meant my PCs only got 3-5 adventures per year. At first, for the first five or seven years, PFS was GREAT. Then the "builds" started showing up. By 2018 ...

Young Guns: "Didjoo see the size of that chicken?!"

I recently quit an in-person game because I was the only one -- including the GM! -- trying to keep it going. I've learned that people have to consider TTRPGs a real social commitment like any other; if they don't, they cancel with the flimsiest of excuses, and usually with extreme late notice.

anti=privacy and anti-consumer changes from amazon what i can't believe no way

Those are fantastic.

Gonna depend on if you're looking for an online game or a face-to-face game.

For the former, I dunno. I had a lot of success on old social media before I dropped it, but effectively none so far on Bluesky.

For in-person games, a physical note on game store bulletin boards still works great.

I'm looking to GM or play in a Pathfinder 2E game in the SF Bay Area on Sundays. (If I GM, it would almost certainly be the Season of Ghosts AP.) I have a great large playing space in my Daly City home, or can travel to play. Please feel free to reply or message for details.

#pathfinder2E #pf2e

Hello! I'm guessing this is an in-person group, but figured I'd ask. I GM PF2E, but haven't yet had the chance to play it.

Great luck filling your game!

(Apropos of nothing, Houston has a new professional volleyball team (LOVB Houston ... not the most creative name), and they are incredible.)

Zagnuts (and 5th Avenues) are so underrated. Love them, when I can find them. I'll even eat them from dusty-ass vending machines.

We've been playing Pathfinder for 19 years and we still call it D&D.

:-)

40% humans! That's unpossible!

The two most amazing things are:

(1) How much more expensive it's gotten to attend. (Part of that is my relocation to California; another part is that my friends gradually fell off from attending.)

(2) The changing crowd. In 1985, it was easily 95% men. It's been fantastic seeing that change.

I've been to 35 GenCons (starting in 1985, most recently in 2023). It changes a little from year to year, but in general I run a game or two, play in a few games -- say three or four -- and surf the Exhibit Hall (for buying, demos, or chats with designers) during any time not doing those things.

I'm not well-versed enough yet with PF2E to opine on this from a balance perspective, but from a flavor perspective, a returning weapon not returning when thrown would be *terrible*.

Think about it: a PC isn't in combat, but wants to demonstrate the returning property. They can't do that? Yuck.

Hear me out:

Conan O'Brien vs. Pippi Longstockings.

Art should be either Maleev or Sienkiewicz. (Obviously.)

Smart. I didn't know about the cut-lines!