D&D YouTubers talk Pathfinder downtime rules, shortcomings in D&D 5E's design (Rules Lawyer)
633Excerpted from our FOURTH play session of ABOMINATION VAULTS! Shot on March 20, 2023. (At the time this was shot, we weren't sure we would meet again. The group has decided to go forward and we will be meeting twice a month!)
FEATURING
Blaine Simple - https://www.youtube.com/@BlaineSimple
Never played before
D4 D&D Deep Dive (Colby) - https://www.youtube.com/c/dddeepdive
Played a few sessions with me
MonkeyDM (Evan) - https://www.youtube.com/@MonkeyDM , https://www.monkeydm.com/
Never played before
MrRhexx - https://www.youtube.com/@MrRhexx , https://mrrhexx.store/
Never played before
The DM Lair (Luke) - https://www.youtube.com/c/theDMLair
Played a few sessions with me (The DM Lair publishes LAIR MAGAZINE, an easy-to-use D&D 5e (and soon PF2!) GM resources (adventures, maps, puzzles, traps, and more) designed to help GMs reduce prep time and run amazing games: https://www.patreon.com/thedmlair )
0:00 Excerpts from the session
2:56 Discussing the downtime rules
8:11 Problems running downtime in D&D
10:13 Pathfinder too videogamey?
13:25 Powerful abilities level- and gold-gated in Pathfinder
15:00 D&D nods to lack of balance in older editions
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