17h ago

Read your spellbooks

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Why would a DM be involved in a Pathfinder game though?
- Because most people are not so anal retentive as to give a damn about Hasbros trademarks.
  
  Eh, it's part anal retention, part joke, part not wanting to give WotC the brand recognition.
- The Pathfinder video games are directly from the Pathfinder tabletop game, which is basically a different copyright of D&D. They would need a DM. I'm not sure what else you could be thinking.
  Edit: DM = Dungeon Master (D&D), GM = Game Master (Pathfinder), as this user pointed out below.
  
  GM is also used in GURPS, but the 5 guys here who have used it already know that.
  And if they want someone to join them, they can always DM me.
  
  They're called GMs in Pathfinder ;)
  Dungeon Master is a DnD term, and trademarked by WotC.
  
  Breaking Hasbro IP is chaotic good though
  
  I'd rather not give them the recognition, and Pathfinder ditched alignment anyway.
  
  It is actually a good strategy to dilute the term Dungeon Master into a general phrase, because that means Hasbro can't enforce their copyright. For instance, Aspirin is a brand name, but it's such a generic term that anyone in the US can call their product Aspirin without risk.
  
  We'll have to agree to disagree! I prefer using the game's defined term, or Game Master for general usage.
  Edited to add, you TTRPG players sure are a contentious people.
  
  Don't you mean "us TTRPG people"? You're also a part of this
  
  +1 Hate for intellectual property law
  
  Oh I completely forgot about that distinction XD
  
  Pathfinder is very different mechanically to dnd. It's like saying settlers of catan is a different copyright of carcassonne.
  
  Pathfinder is very different mechanically to dnd
  Is it though?
  
  Depends on which edition of DnD, frankly. Pathfinder 1e and 2e are quite mechanically different, as many DnD editions are to each other.
  
  I need to read up on Pathfinder 2e.
  I know the "joke" was that 1e was basically D&D 3.75... which was a bit too powergamey for my tastes, so I never even looked at 2e...
  
  It's still a d20 system but it is quite a bit different.
  
  I've just not had the excuse to look yet, my life is currently a bit too chaotic for a regular game, let alone one in another new system...
  I am working on an open game setting over at https://ttrpg.network/c/Canyonlands but don't have anything like a plan for actually running a game.
  
  Good luck, fellow worldbuilder!
  
  Pathfinder is closer to D&D than most other TTRPGs (not counting direct D&D derivatives)
  
  True, but anyone who thinks it's a drag and drop replacement is in for a headache
- You might want to explain the joke, I thought you were just an arse before reading the replies :D
  
  Nobody liked that

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