The Pathfinder CRPGs are both pretty good and do their best with the “sort of D&D” obligations (it’s very hard to get tabletop groups to play something that isn’t at least D&D-like, in my experience), without all of the “original monster do not steal” Hasbro/WOTC here’s-even-more-illithids cliches. I was sick of those guys in the 90s.
Yeah, I liked Kingmaker despite its writhing brainworms, though I never managed to get into Wrath because every time I opened it up I got some decision paralysis/anxiety thing about making a character build and closed it before actually doing anything.
Owlcat’s Rogue Trader game was janky as hell but very fun and I need to go back and actually finish that someday. I’d really like to see them, or any decent studio really, do a Pathfinder 2e game, because that’s such an improvement over both D&D and over first edition Pathfinder.
though I never managed to get into Wrath because every time I opened it up I got some decision paralysis/anxiety thing about making a character build and closed it before actually doing anything.
I admit that Wrath had a demoralizing level of “doors closing behind you” choices where doing one thing narrows the rails more and more and denies other choices later. While understandable, it’s also stressful especially if you had a character concept and have to look up how exactly to make that the actual story path.
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The Pathfinder CRPGs are both pretty good and do their best with the “sort of D&D” obligations (it’s very hard to get tabletop groups to play something that isn’t at least D&D-like, in my experience), without all of the “original monster do not steal” Hasbro/WOTC here’s-even-more-illithids cliches. I was sick of those guys in the 90s.
Yeah, I liked Kingmaker despite its writhing brainworms, though I never managed to get into Wrath because every time I opened it up I got some decision paralysis/anxiety thing about making a character build and closed it before actually doing anything.
Owlcat’s Rogue Trader game was janky as hell but very fun and I need to go back and actually finish that someday. I’d really like to see them, or any decent studio really, do a Pathfinder 2e game, because that’s such an improvement over both D&D and over first edition Pathfinder.
I admit that Wrath had a demoralizing level of “doors closing behind you” choices where doing one thing narrows the rails more and more and denies other choices later. While understandable, it’s also stressful especially if you had a character concept and have to look up how exactly to make that the actual story path.
There’s actually a really nifty looking game that’s going to do exactly that
Basically virtual tabletop Pathfinder 2E with virtual miniatures and dice rolls