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I just wanted to express some gratitude toward Paizo and this community. One of the bright spots of this year has been a weekly game I started DMing in April with some old friends.
One friend in particular had been asking me to run a game for a while in 2019. I was really resistant due to a few factors; time constraints (I used to travel a lot for work), distance (none of my friends live nearby), and I wasn’t certain I wanted to learn yet another set of new rules. Too give some context, I’ve been playing since the old red box came out and just celebrated my 50th birthday.
I also was not excited about any online gaming platforms I had looked at. Most weren’t very intuitive, at least to me, or the learning curve seemed to be more than I had time to invest in.
With the pandemic, and spending all my time at home, I decided to give it a try. After a few trial games, we ended up using Discord for video calls, and Google Jamboard for maps and combat grids. As much as I wanted to run a homebrew, I knew I certainly didn’t have time to create my own AP. We decided to go with Age of Ashes, which has been great so far. We’re currently at 12th level.
With the help of these forums, learning the new rules was much easier than I anticipated. I love the fact that I can get an answer to most questions by doing a forum search. As a GM, second addition is much easier to learn, and run. Looking back, I think my biggest hurdle was grasping the new CR system and its simplicity. I just felt that I had to be missing something. But a few folks on these boards got me back on course. Thank you!
I’m also still very thankful to have all the rules available on-line. I no longer need to reference a huge stack of rule books at my side. Thank you, again!
We haven’t always been running a perfect game by the rules. For example, I forgot about using the Wounded condition for quite a while. However, we’ve been having a great time.
With all that said, we’ve been running a weekly 2 hour game since mid-April, it’s been a lot of fun so far, and its helped some old friends reconnect and retain some sanity.
Thank you for all that you do.
Happy to hear your game is going well! I really like these forums too.