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...I guess?
I'm not that skilled at the char-op minigame or the combat system of Pathfinder.
How many people are there who are better?
Give me a number, I don't trust your qualitative judgement.
Well, you've already met two or three, and my planet has eight billion people on it so the answer is probably "an incomprehensibly vast number of people" because it usually is. But pen and paper RPGs aren't like an online game where you can easily check how you stack up against all of mankind, so I can't give you an exact number.
You're insane.
You're a crazy person.
You need to see a competent psychiatrist and get cured of your bizarre delusions.
You're probably one of the four strongest Pathfinder players in your world.
Why would whatever power intervened to bring you to Golarion and foil my schemes have sent the second best party?
Unless... unless your world and its players are more important than you realize. If the strongest players were busy with something else...
Choryon, do you have any reason to believe that the other "games" you've "played" were any less real than this one that you're playing now?
If every game I've run a character in really happened, I've saved dozens of worlds from the most terrible conceivable fates.
Which I suppose doesn't make it impossible.
...Maybe I should put more thought into my emergency backup redemption arc, in case this BBEG thing doesn't pan out.
Don't you have something better to do? Why are you on my case, why aren't you off saving some world or other?!
It'd get old if the stakes were always maximally high, you know? Emotional burnout.
Saving just one city or just one person is fun and kind of relaxing.
To be clear, I don't think any of this is true, it's just funny to think about.
That isn't any consolation when you don't think my world is real either and regardless of whether the worlds you've saved exist like mine does your honed world-saving skills still obviously transfer fine into my context!
What did I ever do to deserve the four strongest Pathfinder players on a planet of eight billion showing up to thwart me specifically?!
I'm not one of the four strongest Pathfinder players on the planet.
So you've said!
How are you blind to - how is your whole world blind to how amazing you are?
And even if I were one of the four best people at using Pathfinder's character-building and combat systems, that's an almost entirely useless skill!
Pathfinder is a collaborative story-telling game!!
In real life there are stakes for failure and you can't skip the boring parts.
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