Well they are doing 4th edition commercials on their website, still its nice how they mention it ^^
Strip's nice, but where's the criticizing commentary? I couldn't find it
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Fourth Edition suffers under an especially heavy yoke when it comes to power creep in our experience, and after so many expansions there’s a lot of homogeneous abilities and uniformity as an ironic result of having so many options. I still think it can be fixed, but I am sometimes accused of optimism.
Fourth Edition suffers under an especially heavy yoke when it comes to power creep in our experience, and after so many expansions there’s a lot of homogeneous abilities and uniformity as an ironic result of having so many options. I still think it can be fixed, but I am sometimes accused of optimism.
Thanks, my read-fu is weak I guess.
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They will learn to fear, to horde their precious abilities. Yes. Yesssss.
Really?
I thought 3E/3.5/PF had made great efforts to include more at-will abilities, and increase the options for casters, so they don't have to blow their good spells on trivial encounters.I'm having a laugh with a witch right now, and between evil eye, healing and ward hexes, I can still be useful in the smaller encounters, and don't need to cast spells at all.
~laughter~
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The Penny-Arcade guys don't hate 4e (and we don't have to either - love & peace for all!), they're just looking to change things up a bit. No RPG rules set is perfect. But PFRPG is different from 4e in a lot of ways, and you shouldn't really read more into it than that.
Ruh-roh.
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I like my Paladins like I like my RPGs - Old Testament
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If you don't like power creep, then Pathfinder is definitely the game for you!
(Or not...)
;-)
Senior Software Developer
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I had a feeling something like this might be brewing after yesterday's oft-retweeted tweet from cwgabriel:
okay after getting the Starter box a few weeks ago it is official...I am obsessed with Pathfinder. @paizo
Looks like they didn't link directly to paizo.com (yet) so maybe we have time to tweak some bandwidth-type things before the onslaught...
It makes me wonder if Gabe had any experience with 3.x before he tried Pathfinder.
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It makes me wonder if Gabe had any experience with 3.x before he tried Pathfinder.
He got into TTRPGs through fourth edition...
http://penny-arcade.com/2008/05/30/dd-4th-editionhttp://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/06/06/more-dungeons-and-dragons
By the way, I sure do hope Paizo has enough bandwidth to handle all those PA readers who will flock to check out "the new thing". :)
Pathfinder is already the #1 selling RPG. It is likely most readers of PA are very aware of this product already.
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By the way, I sure do hope Paizo has enough bandwidth to handle all those PA readers who will flock to check out "the new thing". :)Pathfinder is already the #1 selling RPG. It is likely most readers of PA are very aware of this product already.
As Wizards of the Coast quite painfully discovered with 4E, pen and paper RPG awareness among video gamers isn't quite what some think it is.
You call that criticism?
It's less criticism and more commentary. PA has been pretty faithful to 4e over the years. It's what they've played in their normal and 'superstar' group. It's what worked for them and theirs for awhile. They've never really been anti- any other system.
But it seems that they're making a shift in their game and trying something new to them that may work better for how they want to play. And it's apparently to PFRPG.
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Ruh-roh.I'm getting the bunker prepped for the firestorm that will ensue when PA readers find the anti-4E posts around here. Any stock requests?
Check the favorite beer thread.
I'm getting the bunker prepped for the firestorm that will ensue when PA readers find the anti-4E posts around here. Any stock requests?
1554 Enlightened Black Ale
and hotwings
I'm getting the bunker prepped for the firestorm that will ensue when PA readers find the anti-4E posts around here. Any stock requests?1554 Enlightened Black Ale
and hotwings
I really don't think the amount of PA people who visit here is going to amount to much, relative the this sites normal traffic anwyay. It would be cool to see the traffic logs for this timeframe.
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I think it's great that, no matter what the system, PA constantly refers back to tabletop gaming as the roots of the modern video gaming industry. It was great to see Paizo and other tabletop gaming companies there at PAX alongside the huge amounts of money being thrown around in the exhibit hall by the big video game publishers.
This comic was also very appropriate for my online gaming group, since we just wrapped up a game of 4e and are starting up Pathfinder. It was a hard sell initially, but my constant flogging of their products and the fantastic line support that Paizo provides finally sealed the deal.
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As a long time reader of PA, Tycho has explained many times that all their advertisers are only for products they themselves enjoy. But also, it's a double-edged sword. Just because they have advertisers, those companies know full well that their games are also open to any critique or criticism within the blog/comic dishes out.
While Gabe has been showing off his amazingly fun game over the years, and the star-studded podcasts are a joy to watch and listen to, it still doesn't change the fact that they are gamers... and many don't like to sit still in the industry, as The Conflux storyline alludes to in some ways. You gotta move on and stretch your wings, keeping it interesting and challenging. Yay, Pathfinder!
The reason for their change seems to be that Gabe's party is level 21+ and he can't challenge them at all. Their game has been put on hiatus, and it looks like discovering pathfinder will end that.
Tycho seems to have been encouraging him to find ways to get more lethal...
I want to see a Pillars of Salt spell now.
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I want to see a Pillars of Salt spell now.
Via Jason's Google Plus:
Pillars of Salt
School: transmutation; Level: cleric/druid 9
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Components: V, S, M (handful of salt)
Range: close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Area: 10-ft-radius spread
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude half; Spell Resistance: yes
This spell calls down the fury of the heavens, transforming all heathens within its area into pillars of salt. All creatures in the area that do not share one alignment component with you take 10 points of damage per caster level. Those that are slain by this spell are transformed into pillars of salt and cannot be raised or resurrected, without first casting wish or miracle. Creatures that save against this effect, but are still slain are not transformed in this way.
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I want to see a Pillars of Salt spell now.Via Jason's Google Plus:
Pillars of Salt
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Was just coming over to post this. Someone posted it on the PA forum too.
So is "The Book of Plagues, Floods and Pillars of Salt" going to be the new slogan for the game? ;)
Make it into a new accessory book! Please? Pretty, pretty please with a handful of manna on the top?
I notice there was no direct pathfinder link in Tycho's blog. Paizo might not get PA Wanged.Is that the new term? I guess slashdotted long out of style.
It's kind of old-ish, in Internet ages. But it's usually used specifically to refer to a site's overload at the hands of a Penny Arcade post. So it's new to some, not to others.
