Just leaving this here in case anyone needs it

I hope that pool doesn’t become a piece of posthumous art

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i do have a group that we’ve been playing since covid lockdowns via roll20 and later foundry and Unfortunately i don’t have blocks of time for more games (i wish i did!). My comment was mostly just aimed at that all local my friends play d&d and don’t want to switch.

But if you’re looking to play pathfinder2e online there are communities like the pathfinder2e subreddit which has an active discord community. Foundryvtt has a very active pathfinder2e community (but LFG is done through main foundry discord).

And if you’re not opposed to Organized Play (paizos version of adventurers league) then they have in store and online one-shots you can join. It’s actually how i met my group but we branched off and did our own thing.

Hey everyone has their preferences but these posts gatekeeping what’s called an ttrpg always confuse me. And I’m even more confused by choosing to call it a video game. But you do you. Pf1 wasn’t a fun system to me 🤷‍♂️

As a GM i love the balance. Martial-caster balance is overall pretty good. Player options across the board seem fairly well balanced. And as a GM i love that the creatures/hazards are all balanced as well. They have this whole set of easy to use guidelines on how to build an encounter based on the party level and how challenging you want it to be. I don’t have to keep throwing monsters at the party to see what sticks, i can instead craft an encounter in a minute and know pretty darn well how tough it will be for the party. I cannot express to you how amazing that feels to take the guess work out of things. It makes my party going off the rails easier to manage because i can create fun and challenging encounters on the fly

I responded separately but did want to point out this is a sunk cost fallacy. I.e. you said you wasted all this money on 3.5. That money is no longer relevant. The relevance is what you enjoy. If you enjoy 3.5 and don’t want to try anything else then that’s your cookie and you can eat it all you want. If you’re open to trying different things that might be better (or might not!) then the wasted money shouldnt be part of the equation

Pf2e is a different system mechanically and setting wise than dnd 3.x, and this unfortunately got even worse with hasbro tried to flip the table on the OGL. That caused paizo to create their own irrevocable license and strip all ogl content from their future books now called pf2e remastered. I’m not sure your 3.x stuff would be of much use there without needing to convert things yourself.

But 3.x as i understand it was more closely aligned with pf1e. There might be some compatibility there but i never played 3.x or pf1 so I’m not sure

But… BUT… hear me out… all of the pf2e game rules, character options, and monster statblocks are available for free on archives of nethys, an official site so no high seas sailing.

Game setting info beyond some basic blurbs in those rulebooks are not published online for free, but those aren’t needed if you want to homebrew your own setting. Prewritten adventures also aren’t typically available for free, but a few are released from free rpgday . And they also have their version of adventuerers league (called pathfinder society) which you can get those adventures to run for free if you go through a participating game store (or convince a game store to participate).

All that is to say its pretty low risk to try it out.

And if you’re open to spending some money the beginner box is exceptional-- uses real rules and introduces rules to the GM and player when necessary. Available physical box, digital download, or in virtual tabletops

I like pathfinder(2e) more in every way except less people play it

My set up moved to a $1000 smart trainer about 12 years ago that i used almost daily for 10 years. Past few years I alternate with rowing just because i am trying to work out my upper body too

As far a which type to get though, this article has a chart comparing them (edit: electromagnetic is a “smart trainer”).

if i were starting again i probably would do a fluid trainer since its the most road-like feel without going into smart trainers which can range from $400-1500. The road-like feel just makes it more enjoyable and the fluid trainers have come down in price since i first started

I ride my stationary bike at home. It was always the stupidest feeling for me to drive to a car park just so i could workout

Edit: I’ll add if you have a bike already, they make basic stationary trainers for relatively cheap that you can attach your rear wheel to. Sometimes called bike training stands, they come in three styles:

• Wind (less common these days)
• magnetic (usually adjustable)
• fluid (more roadlike feel)

They can be between $30-100. And then if you end up liking it then they also have smart trainers that are even better but expensive up front.

For the bike trainer stands then if you like it get a training tire which is more durable than standard tires. And you’re also going to want to find any fan and point it at you while working out.

If you miss the social aspect there are some apps like zwift, rouvy, etc that let you ride virtually with other people though $, and you’d also need some relatively cheap speed/cadence sensor hardware on your bike to send your speed/ cadence to send to those apps (this is not needed with a smart trainer). Because i hate extra subscriptions, I just watch TV or read a book (can be hard during a harder workout).

There’s a lot more i could say but basically i started with a 30 year old bike on a cheap magnetic trainer. It wasn’t the nicest set up in the world but it worked, and eventually i realized i liked it enough to just cut my gym free and save up for a nicer set up.

Oh wow that takes me back. I used to love this game

Looks neat, but i don’t trust myself to play another RTS after the amount of time i sunk into starcraft1-2 and warcraft 1-3 lol

It lists single player though so if the Campaign is good then maybe I’ll try that

If you’re curious why, YouTube caps the duration to 12 hours and filesize to 256gb for verified accounts.

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Unrealistic, they only come in pairs of two

I meant exactly what i said.

“Funded by cryptography” doesn’t make sense

“Funded by crypto(currency)” does make sense

Check out their FAQ section about funding. It used to be a lot more front and center but now they are understandably trying to distance the crypto(currency) from it.

If you don’t mind using a platform funded by crypto

Download was 600mb so hopefully that is reasonable enough

I poked around it enough to make sure it worked but it says to play it in one sitting so I’ve got to find a chunk of spare time maybe this weekend. I think I’ll like it from what I’ve seen though. Some puzzles to solve and the premise intrigues me