• bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
    793·
    11 months ago

    „There are ways to make it simpler” completely misses the point of something being simple.

    • Deceptichum@kbin.social
      421·
      11 months ago

      If you put in lots of effort and hard work, you can make it easy to avoid having to put in lots of effort and hard work.

    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      Well, if you have a techy person take an hour to set it up for you, it can be simple for the end user, without them having to do anything technical themselves.

    • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Welcome to this community in a nutshell. Any amount of friction is enough to lose significant portions of your audience

    • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
      614·
      10 months ago

      That’s… not the point of the meme though:-).

      If you want simple, and have an entire IT staff backing you, get Windows.

      If you want simple and want elegant, get Mac OSX.

      Linux is not that simple (unless everything just happens to work), but it is nice for people to have choices:-).

      Pro-Tip: don’t do what others tell you - find what works best for you and enjoy it:-).

  • nebula42@lemmy.today
    18·
    10 months ago

    This is deadass making me reconsider dnd, thanks /gen

    Also, with dnd, you buy a physical book and you own it forever right? Physical books don’t have DRM, unless there’s something I’m missing.

    • Sotuanduso@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      From what I know, it’s not an exact match, unless there’s something going on with virtual tabletops.

      The ownership difference I know of matters more for third party creators. Under D&D’s OGL (at least the new versions,) Wizards can own anything created with it (or so I’ve heard.) Pathfinder’s ORC (used for 2e at least) is explicitly unowned by Paizo so they couldn’t even put such a clause in there if they wanted to.

      Other than that, both licenses pretty much allow you to mod as you wish, and publish said mods for profit.

  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
    141·
    10 months ago

    I mean… no one can take my physical d&d books or pdfs or miniatures…? I’m sure I could ‘buy’ online copies of stuff but why would anyone?

  • mogoh@lemmy.ml
    13·
    10 months ago

    I don’t know. I played 3.5 and 5e and I like the 5e rules way more than 3.5. Isn’t PF very close to 3.5?

    • vithigar@lemmy.ca
      12·
      10 months ago

      First edition Pathfinder was very close to 3.5. Many people called it 3.75e.

      While some of the D&D bones are still there, Second edition Pathfinder is very much its own thing.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
    122·
    10 months ago

    As D&D stands right now I am fine with their model. It just isn’t that important to me that when I am crafting a one shot to sell that I have to slap a picture on the second page saying that I agree Wizards of the Coast owns D&D.

    If they go back to that nightmare a year ago I will probably get into Pathfinder

  • Scrof@sopuli.xyz
    111·
    10 months ago

    Golarion is also a way more badass setting than Forgotten Realms!

  • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    10 months ago

    I mean, D&D 5th edition is licensed CC-BY, which is VERY open source.

    • Kata1yst@kbin.social
      22·
      10 months ago

      The base ruleset (SRD) only. Everything else is OGL, which has proven to be as open as Wizards Hasbro wants to make it.