Left Behind

One of these days, I'm going to have to cancel my subscription to the Pathfinder Adventure Path product.

The thing is, after ten years of receiving two full campaigns per year, I now have more material than I will ever use. Furthermore, not only am I highly unlikely ever to use any of these Paths (good though they are), I'm long since at a point where it would actually be really hard to do so - as time has gone on, Pathfinder has exploded way beyond the original offering, to the point where it's almost unrecognisable, and to the point where I can't claim to have any meaningful expertise with the system. It would be like trying to run Windows 10 on a 486 processor - technically the framework should be similar enough to make them compatible-ish, but in practice it just won't work at all.

So I've reached a point where I'm actually just getting them to read, not to play, and they're not that good.

Maybe when they announce Pathfinder 2nd Edition, that's the time to give it up - surely it can't be that far away? (Or, maybe when they announce Pathfinder 2nd Edition, that should be the point where I hop back onto that game big-time, and stay current?)

Funnily enough, we're also just about to get to the point where I'm left behind on D&D 5th Edition as well. With the end of the "Dust to Dust" campaign, I'm no longer actively using the system and that, coupled with my having left ENWorld, has seen my interest in the system starting to wane sharply. And the upcoming "Tales from the Yawning Portal" will mark the point where I stop buying the official adventures (unless and until they do an Eberron product) - meaning that the upcoming Major Rules Expansion is the only 5e product on the horizon I'm actually interested in.

(And more even that than: because the "Firefly" RPG appears to have come to its end, there are no current games that I am following. "N.E.W." was okay, but didn't inspire me to immediately go out and run some games, and "O.L.D." is unlikely to do so either, that being the only other RPG product I'm sure to get this year. Which just leaves the upcoming "Star Trek" game as a 'maybe', which actually means "probably not".)

And so I suddenly find myself being left behind by RPGs entirely. I'm not sure if that's just another short-term malaise, or if this is finally the end of the road. Either way, that's why things have been, and are unlikely to remain, fairly quiet around here.