Entire post under the read more 'cause it's long enough to split, but all the footnotes are in the first sentence and Cohost bugs out if any come from before the read more. I have reported this bug.
Something surreal about returning to "DnD"1 in 2019 was finding that the community2 had split into Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder, with no communal spaces. I don't remember exactly when I first played, probably circa 2013, but the common view back then was along the lines of "screw trademark law, we know these two games are inherently linked, Pathfinder is no less a legitimate 3.5e successor than 4e." People even called Pathfinder 1e "3.75e". Of course, there was also a greater cross polination of different editions of Dungeons & Dragons back then too.
The other weird thing is people blaming/praising Matt Mercer for cultural shifts that were well under way before Critical Role was a thing.
The footnotes are like half the post so they're under the
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I came back to Dungeons & Dragons 5e, but what I'd played before was Pathfinder 1e. Since Pathfinder 2e was either in testing or just out at the time, and regardless the book that attracted me back3 was for D&D5e (which would have required effort to convert to either Pathfinder edition). Ultimately the campaign faltered because I couldn't handle running D&D5e.
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At least on reddit, my primary social media site both before and after I took my hiatus.
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Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica. Underbaked, frankly. Needed more pages, and needs support neither it nor any other D&D5e book has for urban and intrigue campaigns. I kinda want to give Ravnica campaign another stab at some point, probably in a system designed for more intrigue. Recommendations welcome I guess.
