(A) Nobody's Guide to Gaming

 Hey folks! So how about them boys from Paizo? Paizo for those who are unaware own both Pathfinder and Starfinder. Pathfinder 1e was a reskin and expansion of D&D3.5 but the other two are unique. Starfinder feels like a first attempt to truly branch off. The spellcasters only go to 6 levels, it’s a space game so we have lasers, missiles, and spaceships. Starfinder has both hit points and Stamina Points (a thing they floated in Pathfinder Unchained, basically quick HP where as your other HP is much harder to recover.) Although I found it fun I’m not really huge on it’s lore which is very tied to the mechanics and therefore I don’t tend to play it over other Sci-fi games.   Pathfinder 2e though is my IRL groups current favorite. It has all the trappings you’d expect from a D&D style game (Paladin has been renamed Champion, Alchemist and Goblin are in the core book. Pathfinder 2e’s sweet mechanic (such as advantage/disadvantage in D&D 5e) is the revamp of the crit...

 Hello folks my name is Nilsine /Fellstrike and before I write some on other games, I thought I’d talk about the Gargantuan Red Dragon in the Dungeon. Dungeons and Dragons has had a lot of versions over the years and funny enough I’ve pretty much played around the time the OGL was created (baring like 2 sessions of AD&D but I am definitely not qualified to talk about those. 3 rd (3.5 and Pathfinder 1e) are what I tend to think of as far as a simulation style game. Though honestly, I think that case is a bit overblown it is the game where without magic you can min-max characters who are nigh-invisible or can wrestle literal giants. However, in these games the for lack of a better word physics numbers matter. Range in foots, carrying in pounds, most things tend to be spelled out and kind of work how you might think. 3 rd edition was also when D&D stopped using THACO and instead you added a number to a d20 roll and compared it to a DC. It can be a lot of fun but I feel lik...