bestmiaou

this week i've been putting together my first pathfinder character, and the number of feat and class option combinations is frankly ridiculous. the only reason that i could actually get through most of character creation was because there were more experienced players around to tell me the "standard" choices for the character i wanted to play. i'm still working on equipment after several hours of looking through the lists, but that's mostly because sorcerers don't have many ways to get enhancements via equipment options, and i'm trying to figure out decent ways to spend my money.

the only game i've played that may be worse is GURPS, and i'm not sure about that. the point buy system in GURPS makes it easy to have both big abilities and small ones. in pathfinder, if you want a big ability that isn't tied to a class (like, say, being able to effectively wield 2 weapons at one), it has to be split up between several feats, which just inflates the number of feats by a ridiculous amount.

 i'm starting to transition off of all of the corporate social media platforms for a lot of reasons, and the one i think i'll miss the most is tumblr. it is an incredibly effective meme generator, simply due to both the size of the community and how easy it is for adjacent communities to "infect" each other we new ones. it also had some of the best semi-public communities i've ever participated in (and also some of the worst, but that's how it goes, i guess), which has largely gone away due to them making changes needed to monetize their user base as hard as possible. there is, by definition, only one way to maximize profits from a social media website.