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And then you take the Test of the Starstone. As a joke, of course.

I think the level scaling fits Golarion, since "becoming a god" is a semi realistic goal for someone to set for themselves :P

But people who want to play in grittier settings do use the proficiency without level rules, and from what I've seen all the major third party tools support that option. As a gm, It can be hard to balance for though! The +level to everything mostly serves to give your level 10 cleric a fighting chance on their stealth checks, and without that boost there are some actions some characters just can't perform.

sea water wouldn't be containing elemental magnesium, it would contain magnesium salts.

Yeah, like a full season. I was thinking of a gm swap situation going on

I love dimension 20 so much, I'll definitely be keeping an eye out on this!

I wonder if MM will GM for D20???

Just play a fighter/rogue. Best way to learn pathfinder 2

Close enough to a meme anyways. I'm not complaining!

I love Oglaf so much

o7

I'd say it's probably closest to Dungeon World? It is a d12 system, and the design of the character classes is pretty clearly inspired by Apocalypse World and the like, but it drops some of the quirkier, fluffier aspects of those systems for a more d20-like approach.

For example, combat is a little crunchier and a little closer to d20 systems - it's still theater of the mind but there are turns and initiative. Your character has an attack modifier, damage die, and a defense score that determines how hard you are to hit - which work in ways familiar to d20 players. Some characters also have Block, which is damage reducton. If you roll poorly on your attack, though, you can be counterattacked - but the players can do that to enemies on their turn, too, so it balances out.

You also make skill checks like you would in a d20 system, though it does still use the degrees of success that PtbA is known for. But you don't have that little quirk of the NPCs only acting when the PCs make a move. NPCs don't have stats for things like skill checks, but there's nothing stopping the GM from assigning an appropriate modifier and rolling for NPCs if needed - although the players should still be using their skills whenever possible. And when the PCs are elsewhere on the map, the GM is encouraged to keep NPCs and factions proactive and advancing their own plans.

Thank you for being a backer. It's a wonderfully crafted system!

I don't know what the implied demographic is, but I assume I am not in it.

The demographic is people who care more about being free from corporate controlled media than they care about a shiny, polished user experience. (i.e. free open source software [FOSS] enthusiasts) This is necessarily the case because of the relationship between sites like Lemmy and sites like, say Reddit. Reddit is absolutely more polished, but Lemmy is more resistant to enshittifcation.

Naturally tech nerds are both more aware of the dangers of corporate controlled software and more able to make the switch, so you get a lot of them as your early adopters.

I suppose that vibe is part of why I don't feel the desire to venture further into the fediverse.

I really hope you change your mind. Both because Lemmy definitely feels "further in" than something like mastodon or pixelfed, but also because these sites really do need mainstream adoption in order to compete with the tech giants.