[ivanstojic]

My TTRPG group has been playing together for several years - on and off. We'd been mostly playing D&D 5e, even though we had members clamoring for other systems. After the WotC fiasco started blowing up, we finally bought a couple of Pathfinder 2e books, ran a few trial characters and one-shots. We are now in process of starting a new campaign entirely based on Pathfinder that we expect could take a couple of months to play out.

It really only took us one session to figure out the major mechanical systems in the gameplay, and a few we are still learning about. The major component remains the role playing experience which is the same, no matter which dice you throw to decide outcomes of situations.

I think Hasbro will soon realize that while the social impact of the name D&D is deep, the stickiness of the system is much lower than they gambled on. It's unlikely that any of my member group will soon buy anything new from them.

[PaulKeeble]

They spent enough time with this license issue a lot of people have had time to jump over to Pathfinder 2E and settle into a campaign. Its not particularly difficult to do so and when the ORC arrives with 150 independent companies releasing content they likely will never leave. Some of the exodus is going to be permanent especially since in many ways Pathfinder solves a lot of the rules issues people have in DnD.

[hellcow]

My group is finishing up a multi-year 5e campaign. None of us had ever played a TTRPG before this, so we've never experienced anything outside of 5e. We were all super excited for OneDND...

But when the OGL changes hit, we canceled our DNDBeyond subscription and are switching to Starfinder as soon as our campaign is done. This announcement from WotC is too little, too late.

The fun is getting together with friends. I don't need WotC or microtransactions for that.

[ecshafer]

I always recommend people try systems outside of DnD. I've been playing RPGs for almost 2 decades now, and I always liken it to being a fan of movies, and always watching the same movie every week on movie night. DnD is the most popular RPG, and that is really it's strongest point. There are tens of thousands of other games out there, and in my opinion most of them are better than DnD, a lot of them are better at being DnD than DnD is at being DnD.

[Varriount]

I'm getting ready to do this with my group as well. So far I'm really enjoying Pathfinder 2e's mechanics. I feel that the three-action system is much more straightforward than 5e's action/bonus action system, and the "Sustain a Spell" action much better than concentration.

The big thing I don't like is the organization of the core rulebook. Considering how heavily conditions are used, would be nice if features and spells that apply conditions mentioned what those conditions did directly in their description, rather than requiring the reader to repeatedly flip to the conditions section. And there's also the unfortunate tendency for some important details to only be explained in the glossary or other unexpected sections[1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/cx6p63/harmon...