Comparing D&D 5e to Pathfinder 2nd Edition  This is one of several reviews I am doing this year of various table top roll playing games. I am specifically comparing them to D&D 5e. I am doing this with the assumption that my readers are already familiar with D&D 5e. The following review is based on

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    1 year ago

    Your first two sentences sum up my anxiety about getting my group to switch. A grand total of one player would be fine in the new system. They’re married to the player that already struggles with 5e, so in theory there could be additional office hours there to explain. But if they can’t explain 5e in a way that sticks…

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, you don’t try teaching someone calculus if they still haven’t mastered basic algebra. There’s also my opinion about whether you actually need to bother learning “calculus” just to use eight different rules applied to attacking a single adversary in one round of combat in the first place, rather than just rolling multiple attacks and maybe adding in one or two class/subclass features.