Paizo Continuing Their Pathfinder Playtest At Gen Con This Year
July 18, 2018 by brennon
Paizo will be in attendance at Gen Con this year with Pathfinder and the new edition which is currently going through the playtesting stage. At the show this year they are going to be running a BIG playtesting event which will give more people a chance to have their say on the game and try the rules out.
You can follow along with a lot of their development for the game by checking out the website for the Playtest HERE. However, I like the idea of Pathfinder fans both new and old being able to come together at a convention like Gen Con and being able to play together to shape the future of the game.
It works for Dungeons & Dragons and 5th Edition so I don't see why it can't also work for Pathfinder!
Will you be taking part or indeed have you already begun doing so?
"I like the idea of Pathfinder fans both new and old being able to come together at a convention like Gen Con and being able to play together to shape the future of the game..."
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May turn into a great quester’s game.
If its anything like the abysmal starfinder rpg, then I will take a hard pass.
Paizo dropped the ball with that junker.
@slayerofworlds – I don’t play either game, but interested what your problem with Starfinder was. I undersand it’s an adaptation of pathfinder so I’m assuming that if you like one you’ll probably like the other. So is it that you don’t like either, or don’t like their adaptation?
I do like Pathfinder, in may regards. They really expanded 3rd edition DnD. They made it their own, and yet stayed true to the foundation of what was 3rd edition DnD.
Starfinder shoves all that away to cater to a new form of roleplaying that I find lacks any challenge or innate hurdles to overcome.
In starfinder….
There are no negatives. No negative stats. No flaws. No handicaps. Every character is all awesome all day long. So many bonuses. That bonuses are the norm.
Skill selection has been so cut down, that virtually everyone can do everything. In a group of five players, I couldn’t do anything that anyone else couldn’t do nearly just as well. Most times, even better then me. Skills didn’t matter. So many bonuses, that everyone had the skills to solo anything.
To me space sci fi is all about new and weird enviroments to be challenged by, and overcome. Well that doesn’t matter, cause basically the equipment means that space or planetary enviroments will never ever matter or challenge anyone. Even at begininning levels. Just no challenge.
Once again Paizo ignores economy as a real facet of an RPG system. Just brushes and hand waves things away. Leading to huge chunks of RP hooks being moot. Why be a pirate or merchant if you literally no point to it.
Some classes are just useless to play, compared to others…. period. Which Im fine with if they could shine in other aspects. But skills and equipement being how it is. If you don’t shine in combat, then you cant shine anywhere else. Cause everyone can do it all.
Weapons and equipement has levels… leading to immersion breaking RPs where players are trying to by a level 6 gun to replace their level 4. Or do you have something way higher level then what I have. Blah… its a joke.
I hate starfinder. Its not hard scifi at all. Its boring scifi. Magic in space done as boring and unispiring as possible.