Plus the Pinkerton thing.
Plus the OGL thing.
Plus…
plus being the original lootcrates.
I switched to A:NR and stopped doing my weekly drafts.
A:NR being?
Android: Netrunner, as the other comment alludes to, an LCG originally made by FFG that is now supported by the non profit NISEI with print and play stuff.
android netrunner probably. its im card game board game format so ots not like theres any lootbox esque sales
Are you playing FFG Netrunner or Nisei?
I highly recommend Pathfinder 2e if folks were wondering what to play instead of dnd 5e. Easily the best ttrpg action system I’ve tried.
We’re playing Glitch! It’s about retired world-killing void gods who solve mysteries and go to therapy
That sounds amazing I need to add it to my list of things to acquire. What is the system like mechanically?
Agreed, we’re about half a year and halfway through Abomination Vaults right now. Using PF2e with Foundry VTT has been amazing, especially with all the built-in automation.
The thing I like most about Pathfinder is how well documented their rules are. 5e had a bunch of hand wavy DM-fiat rules, while PF2e typically has a rule for almost everything.
Several friends and I are also being run through PF2e while using Foundry and it’s been incredible. We’ve all casually played 5e in the past, but the learning curve for PF2e has been quick and short. And, like you said, much easier to find an answer to really specific or strange situations overall. Makes for a really solid experience as a player.
It’d because D&D 5E was fundamentally broken, and so much of the rules are just hacky ways to solve it. Things like bonus action weren’t designed well from the start, with them having to have a hacky “one spell per turn” rule, which can be avoided with certain methods, and things like that.
Pathfinder 2E has such a solid foundation that it doesn’t need all the hacky crap to work, which makes it so much easier to understand. There’s no bonus actions or anything, just three actions per turn that you handle everything from movement to combat, and anything else, with. It let’s it be “more complex” while also being easier to understand.
Our discord server has moved entirely to new systems and it’s all better; CoC, DCC, PbtA, PF2e, SWADE, etc.
Yeah we tried a few other systems after our main 5e campaign ended. Ars Magica, Lancer, WH40k Wrath and Glory, Blades in the Dark, Cyberpunk Red. My group is not one for roleplaying much, so we prefer crunchy systems. Lancer was great for that, and so is Pathfinder 2e.
In our circles, Pathfinder and Starfinder has all but replaced DND.
Our group is ten sessions into Fabula Ultima and it’s fantastic
I’m a bit out of the loop, what made WotC become so horrible? Greed? Probably greed.
For the entirety of last Lizards of the Coast had one scandal after another, starting with a leaked draft licensing agreement for 3ed party supplements that completely screwed them, including giving WOTC the ability to just use the content of 3d party publishers without paying them.
Hasbro ownership
I am so fuckdamn tired of corporate greed ruining everything I love…
Hasbro owns WotC since 1999.
Nailed it.
I used to love playing MtG. I don’t really anymore, and I won’t give another dime to that shit company. Fuck WotC and fuck Hasbro.
I still like playing but I think the last time I bought anything other than singles from my lgs was almost 20 years ago. I never understood the appeal of gambling just to have a bunch of trash in my collection, now I feel the same plus fuck giving WotC money
I used to go to FNM every week with a group, got into EDH, built decks, went to GPs, it used to be so much fun! Now it’s just this cheap cash grab, Arena is miserable, Moto never gets talked about because they don’t profit off it like Arena (and it’s never going to get updated or fixed in any meaningful way), the power creep is absolutely bananas they’re on track to invalidating years worth of cards. It’s just really unfortunate it went downhill soooo fast. And we’re going to get more of these stupid crossover sets with a billion stupid overlapping keywords 😭.
It’s also frustrating because deck building games are fun, and Arena is the only “F2P” version that scratches that itch, but their hidden ranking/matchmaking system makes it borderline unbearable.
:( fuck wotc.
I stopped buying their shit after they started hiring Pinkerton mercenaries to clean up their mistakes.
Following the Civil War, the Pinkertons began conducting operations against organized labor.[5] During the labor strikes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, businesses hired the Pinkerton Agency to infiltrate unions, supply guards, keep strikers and suspected unionists out of factories, and recruit goon squads to intimidate workers.[6] During the Homestead Strike of 1892, Pinkerton agents were called in to reinforce the strikebreaking measures of industrialist Henry Clay Frick, who was acting on behalf of Andrew Carnegie, the head of Carnegie Steel.[7]
They also announced they’ll be pulling out both MtG and DnD from the Brazilian market, i guess low profit is worse than no profit.
For the love of God play traveler, it’s beyond time to bury D&D
If only DnD was made with the original Traveller system, it could have died during chargen
Keep in mind Traveller is space scifi, while DnD is medieval-ish fantasy, so not really comparable
This would make a great meme format
Unions. Unions. Unions. Unions.
I wonder what people could do about this…
Unions. Unions. Unions. Unions.
This is why I love Fate Core and Cortex Prime. So many great games out there
