Pathfinder Players When They Play Dungeons and Dragons

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[squidrecluse]

Player: "Alright, I'm at low HP so I really need to make this save... YES, natural 20! That's a critical success!"
DM: "Nice, you only take half damage."
Player: "Oh... well I'm dead."

[Blizz]

And back in 4th Edition...
"A MINOR action? Do I LOOK like a MINOR?"
"Well, you do play a Halfling..." :-P

[Jpteryx]

Pathfinder player: I stand up, draw my weapon, and raise my shield. Ok, that's the end of my turn.
D&D player: Dude, you haven't even used any of your actions yet.

[ChadHensley]

This is great! I've been playing in a PF1 game for over two years now and still struggle with wanting to apply my more extensive knowledge of 5E to the game. Thankfully, my group is super understanding. The weird twist is that the group asked me to run a 5E campaign for them and they hardly ever make crossover mistakes.

[teddys]

Nice one ! I was waiting for : "i make an attack ! then a second ! Then a third !" GM :" You can't do that at level 3...

[taltamary]

Meanwhile, the Lancer player who started playing Pathfinder 2e: "wait, why am I critting on every roll?"

[Team_Orchid]

PF2 Player: I cast Bless, everyone gets a +1 to attack rolls!
[One round of combat later]
PF2 Player: What do you mean I dropped Bless?! Nobody used Dispel Magic!
5E Vet: Oops, sorry I forgot to warn you that concentration spells require 2 feats to not drop them from every enemy pouncing on you.
PF2 Player: That's fine, I'll just pick up Heroism later on.
5E Vet: About that...

[lugh.i]

Funny enough, this happened to me the other way around, a Pathfinder 2e GM who always played DnD keep messing up rules and momentum mixing up rules during the session.

Also, Make an Impression is one minute, Nonat. I'm gonna call the Rules Lawyer 🌝

[shybard]

This actually makes Pathfinder sound WAY more fun than 5e.

[allenbuddy]

Don’t know pf2 well at all, just pf1, but one of the weirdest things to wrap my head around when I came to 5e was how much smaller the numbers were. Bonuses, damage, AC, etc. Several years later and I still feel incredibly nervous when I make new dnd characters bc they just look so underpowered

[Ms_Succubus]

Oh boi, this hits close to home.

Have been playing Pf2e for about 2 or 3 years now and recently started to play DnD.. I'm still so confused, especially about the difference in numbers. My Monk/Barbarian in PF can easily tank everything whilst she deals a lot of damage. My Monk in DnD died in about 1 and a half attatcks. Instantly.

But it's still a lot of fun to discover other systems

[maximocaseres]

I mean, 18 damage with a greataxe is possible with a single hit as a barbarian with +4 strength.
You need a nat 12, but with that, the +2 of rage and the strength itself you can.

[abandonmentissues]

This is super relatable you have no idea how many times I’ve accidentally asked for an awareness + perception roll and my friends just give me this fucking look for it every time

[dragonbretheren]

Going from 5e to PF2e, the biggest thing that kept tripping me up is that not everything gets opportunity attacks (in fact most things from my limited experience don't), which makes combat maneuvering much more viable and MUCH more relevant in general. In 5e, there's an ingrained mindset of "okay, I've parked myself next to an enemy. Now neither of us will move until the other dies" because both the player and the DM have the mindset of "no way am I giving them a free attack, which is functionally equivalent to a free extra turn." Or if you're a backliner in 5e, you have the ingrained mindset of "okay, my frontliner is parked between me and the enemy, so now I'm safe and basically become a motionless turret until the battle is over."

Whereas in PF2e, an frontliner can feasibly run into the enemy back lines, which forces everyone to be more mobile throughout combat, as backliners now actually need to kite and reposition and frontliners need to pursue and engage.

[huntergarren]

I was so confused at first because I only play PF1e, so I defaulted to that when I read Pathfinder. Then I thought "this guy doesn't know anything about Pathfinder" before I realized it was referencing 2e. I was so lost.

[lightning_bishop]

I still confuse skills between games. “Insight, ” just rolls off the tongue better than “sense motive.” I have asked people to make Fortitude saves only God knows how many times in 5e games though.

Pathfinder was my first ever ttrpg, and it is litigious, rules-heavy, and crunchy as fuck.

I think my brain just goes “short word is for 5e, long word is for Pathfinder.”

[kylegrefe]

Me, used to 3.5 and pathfinder 1e: Sorry, 18 doesn't crit, the critical threshold of a battle axe is a nat 20 only.

[Artan]

I was expecting something along the lines of, “Can I _?” “No, 5e doesn’t have that.” “Can I _?” “No, 5e doesn’t do magic items like that… or at all.”

[FirstLast-wkkc]

Ouch.
Well, i can relate to "oops, sorry, i again thought we are playing different system."

[Psykolord]

You know this video goes almost exactly the same if the GM is running a PF1 game.