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shadowsword87 posted...

Pathfinder is an incredibly powerful tool that can be used to create intricate mechanics to match with a story, if that's what you are looking for. I'm not looking for that for 95% of my games, I only used PF once, and that was because I did want to have a more detail orientated game (it was for my IRL group who were playing a merchant group in a post-apocalyptic heavily magic world), it didn't go through because I was moving, but still the point stands. I honestly don't need it for most of everything because I actually agree with you on some parts about mechanics, if they don't add to the story then they shouldn't be there.

I remembered during nudo's game someone was pushing for Pathfinder over 4e or even 3e. My withered old person brain was telling me it was you, but it might have been Knives.



shadowsword87 posted...

I have a sort of revulsion towards the "you like scifi, so that means you like X"

Well, to be fair, that wasn't the case here. It was more like, "you like sci-fi, as such, do you like X?" The first makes assumptions, but the latter is merely asking questions.



shadowsword87 posted...

when I actually really like is the stories that scifi can tell (man changing technology vs technology changing man, what does it mean to be human/sentient, solving a physical problem non-violently, what does it feel like being a cog in a machine, and those things) but that doesn't mean I like all scifi stories.

Yes, that is all literally sci-fi. Moreso than what most modern people seem to believe the term actually means.

But I also don't think most people would make the assertion "you like X, therefore you must love all of X" (which is yet a third different premise than the previous two). I think most people understand you can enjoy a specific genre to some degree without loving every single possible entry within said genre.

Hell, I'd say fantasy probably rates as my primary fiction genre, yet I probably spend more time ranting about the fantasy I hate than I do praising fantasy I love.

And, I mean, even on the topic of D&D and Pathfinder as the narrowest of focuses, I've mentioned before that I kind of like Faerun, Mystara, and the Nentir Vale as fantasy settings while being somewhat colder on Greyhawk, and actively disliking Eberron and Pathfinder's settings.

If anything, that's part of why I asked how you felt about Starfinder rather than just assuming you loved it.


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