I have added a footnote: “I agree this is actually Pathfinder. I also stand by calling it D&D here because I expect calling it Pathfinder would confuse more people than it enlightens, Pathfinder’s close enough to round to D&D for these purposes, and I guess I can add this footnote.”
I’m curious if this satisfies you?
(I’m also amused that I see the “It’s not D&D, it’s Pathfinder” point brought up repeatedly but don’t think I’ve run across someone making the “It’s not BDSM, those are abusive relationships” point.)
It does. Strenuously arguing the distinction, with the bold and caps, was mostly in jest: I’ve myself referred to all TTRPGs as “D&D.”
The irony of quibbling over the D&D vs. Pathfinder distinction instead of what one might have expected would be the sticking point was intended to be funny.
I agree the internet actually can convey tone-of-voice. I also stand by calling it the internet here instead of “text communication” or “forum software” because the opportunity to make this pedantic footnote amused me.
I mean, mostly this is in jest, but like, Pathfinder is really mostly DnD with some changes. Pathfinder is much more similar to DnD than any other TTRPG setup. So referring to it as “Dungeons and Dragons” seems appropriate, given the former is much more widely known.
There’s not any reasonable standard by which you could label Pathfinder (especially 1st edition PF, which is what Project Lawful is based on) as being “not D&D”, while also labeling D&D 5e as being “D&D”[1]. PF was, after all, informally called “3.75” when it was released (referring to the goal of the Pathfinder RPG project being to clean up and improve the D&D “3.5e” rule set).
Pathfinder is NOT DnD.
I have added a footnote: “I agree this is actually Pathfinder. I also stand by calling it D&D here because I expect calling it Pathfinder would confuse more people than it enlightens, Pathfinder’s close enough to round to D&D for these purposes, and I guess I can add this footnote.”
I’m curious if this satisfies you?
(I’m also amused that I see the “It’s not D&D, it’s Pathfinder” point brought up repeatedly but don’t think I’ve run across someone making the “It’s not BDSM, those are abusive relationships” point.)
It does. Strenuously arguing the distinction, with the bold and caps, was mostly in jest: I’ve myself referred to all TTRPGs as “D&D.”
The irony of quibbling over the D&D vs. Pathfinder distinction instead of what one might have expected would be the sticking point was intended to be funny.
The internet’s[1] lack of tone-of-voice claims another victim.
I agree the internet actually can convey tone-of-voice. I also stand by calling it the internet here instead of “text communication” or “forum software” because the opportunity to make this pedantic footnote amused me.
Come on:
IDK, imagine someone made an LLM that felt so much like 3 Opus that it was informally nicknamed 3.1 Opus
(Also, is planecrash placed in a world that descended from the first edition of Pathfinder and not second?)
I mean, mostly this is in jest, but like, Pathfinder is really mostly DnD with some changes. Pathfinder is much more similar to DnD than any other TTRPG setup. So referring to it as “Dungeons and Dragons” seems appropriate, given the former is much more widely known.
It really is, though.
There’s not any reasonable standard by which you could label Pathfinder (especially 1st edition PF, which is what Project Lawful is based on) as being “not D&D”, while also labeling D&D 5e as being “D&D”[1]. PF was, after all, informally called “3.75” when it was released (referring to the goal of the Pathfinder RPG project being to clean up and improve the D&D “3.5e” rule set).
I won’t even get into the 4e question…
But it is DnD fan fiction, so OP is basically fine
I’d say it’s more like D&D 3.5 than any two of [AD&D, D&D 3.5, D&D 4E, D&D 5E] are like each other.