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DirkDonkeyroot
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Roll 20 is like that old beat ass chevette your whiskey tango buddies dad had on blocks outside his trailer.
Fantasy grounds is like a damn Ferrari in comparison.
Edit: old fantasy grounds, fantasy grounds unity has problems far as I can tell.
Fantasy grounds is like a damn Ferrari in comparison.
Edit: old fantasy grounds, fantasy grounds unity has problems far as I can tell.
Rime
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One of my groups recently swapped to Foundry VTT. It is significantly better than even Fantasy Grounds, but is still in an alpha-ish state.
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DirkDonkeyroot
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Shit, they're gonna have a native shadowrun ruleset? I will have to check that out.
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Arbitrary
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Pathfinder is super, super good and people really like 5th. It's not a terrible problem to have.
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Zaide
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I've been running a campaign for a while now, with the current lockdown we just swapped to Discord + Tabletop Simulator on Steam, it's pretty simple.
Our campaign is set in Norrath, using the EQRPG rules from the old books, which is basically a modified 3.0/3.5 system. The party is level 7 (EQRPG goes to 30 + 5 epic levels, so this is like the equivalent of them being level 14 in Classic EQ) with a Rogue, Mage, Warrior, Bard, Cleric, and Druid.
My guys are Qeynos Investigators who recently went into Blackburrow and killed Tranixx Darkpaw and Lord Elgnub to defeat the Sabertooth Gnolls and rescue Joseph Sayer. They've been investigating the Bloodsabers for like 8 sessions now and are on the verge of locating the Bloodsaber shrine in the Aqueducts. If they don't find a way to stop it within the next two sessions we're going to fire off the "Plague in the Karanas" plot and most likely Kane Bayle will be revealing he is evil and killing Antonious Bayle
Our campaign is set in Norrath, using the EQRPG rules from the old books, which is basically a modified 3.0/3.5 system. The party is level 7 (EQRPG goes to 30 + 5 epic levels, so this is like the equivalent of them being level 14 in Classic EQ) with a Rogue, Mage, Warrior, Bard, Cleric, and Druid.
My guys are Qeynos Investigators who recently went into Blackburrow and killed Tranixx Darkpaw and Lord Elgnub to defeat the Sabertooth Gnolls and rescue Joseph Sayer. They've been investigating the Bloodsabers for like 8 sessions now and are on the verge of locating the Bloodsaber shrine in the Aqueducts. If they don't find a way to stop it within the next two sessions we're going to fire off the "Plague in the Karanas" plot and most likely Kane Bayle will be revealing he is evil and killing Antonious Bayle
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Me and my friends have been playing every Fri night since quarantine started. I dm and we just use discord or zoom. Personally I dislike roll20. And we still play good old 4e.
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Hatorade
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Hell yeah man, been using FG for a long while, if you need some help let me know.
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Hatorade
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Looks like some good stuff, FG unity is coming along and since I am already invested into that I won't look too hard at this one. Looks like the best of Roll20 and FG combined though.
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Nola
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Mind blown...... so much has changed. Mind you I havent played DnD since 2nd esition. I was reading the wiki until my books arrive from Amazon and I find out paladins no longer have to lawful good and not restricted to humans only. They can be any alignment and now they have an oath to follow. Vengeance is right up my alley. I love it cause it's No more Mr. Niceguy and I can kill and not be punished.
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Chanur
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I personally love Pathfinder. I find it to be a bit more crunchy and diverse than DnD. I have played several of their adventure paths.
Dashel
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Yah thanks man. I'm trying to get from 0 to 1 on combat. I just want to be comfortable getting through the first basic combat encounter for Lost Mines. I'm slowly picking it up. They lay most of it out for you really well. I just don't see a map for this first encounter, so I'm gonna grab one I guess from google images, make it a map, and test out putting tokens on it etc. And try out the combat tracker thing.
I feel like if I can get through the first combat I'd be in good shape.
Gonna try to test it today
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So basically I want to make this a map, put the goblin and player tokens on it. Then I think combat should be kinda easy?
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Hatorade
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Looks good, also FG forums have a ton of player made map packs for the various missing maps. If you want it to be harder put the goblins on the high terrain, it will either split the party or some can escape.
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Hatorade
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j00t
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pathfinder vs d&d 5th REALLY depends on what kind of mechanics you like. i'd say 5th is much more beginner friendly as the ruleset is very simple and straight forward. pathfinder lends itself to much more tactical battles as it allows for all kinds of pluses and minuses to rolls depending on all kinds of things (whether or not the target is flanked by multiple enemies, whether or not the target is "flat-footed" for that round, if the attacker is ranged and shooting at a target who is otherwise engaged in melee then the attacker would get -4 to their attack if they don't have the right feat, but the attacker might also get +1 to their attack if they are within 30 feet and have the right feat for that, etc)
pathfinder allows for the character to make extremely tactical decisions that can turn the tide of combat in their favor, but that also means that a single attack might be adding and/or subtracting 4 or 5 different modifiers PER attack. it can be extremely tedious and i imagine beginners could be very quickly turned off by being in the spotlight during their turn and their attack rolls on one creature turns into d20+3+2-4-1+1+2 while an attack role on another creature in that same turn is something different.
that being said, if that's the kind of game you're into then you'll have a good time. from what i've experience (which is limited) pathfinder focuses on the mechanics while 5th edition focuses on the DM telling a story. if you have a good DM, i personally would enjoy 5th edition better, but it puts ALOT of responsibility on the shoulders of the DM and it leaves open some pretty big risks of ruining a game if the DM is bad.
pathfinder allows for the character to make extremely tactical decisions that can turn the tide of combat in their favor, but that also means that a single attack might be adding and/or subtracting 4 or 5 different modifiers PER attack. it can be extremely tedious and i imagine beginners could be very quickly turned off by being in the spotlight during their turn and their attack rolls on one creature turns into d20+3+2-4-1+1+2 while an attack role on another creature in that same turn is something different.
that being said, if that's the kind of game you're into then you'll have a good time. from what i've experience (which is limited) pathfinder focuses on the mechanics while 5th edition focuses on the DM telling a story. if you have a good DM, i personally would enjoy 5th edition better, but it puts ALOT of responsibility on the shoulders of the DM and it leaves open some pretty big risks of ruining a game if the DM is bad.