On this day in 1968, the May 68 Rebellion, the largest general strike in French history, began when school officials shut down the University of Paris after months of student protests, escalating to nationwide unrest.
In mid-March, leftist students had occupied an administration building there, although they left peacefully after their demands were published. On May 6th, more than 20,000 students, teachers, and supporters engaged in a protest march. The march was attacked by police and devolved into a riot.
The state repression of protesters caused two major left union federations, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) and the Force Ouvrière (CGT-FO), to call a one-day general strike on May 13th. More than one million people demonstrated that day.
By the middle of May, demonstrations had extended to factories, though their demands were different from the students'. Across France, students occupied university structures and up to one-third of the country's workforce was on strike.
The protests were so widespread and energetic that many political leaders feared civil war or revolution. President Charles de Gaulle secretly fled France to Germany at one point, and the national government at times ceased to function.
Revolution was averted when de Gaulle dissolved the National Assembly and scheduled an election that the left dissidents agreed to participate in. Revolutionary fervor subsided and the government banned a number of leftist organizations in the following months.
In the election, de Gaulle's party won the greatest victory in French parliamentary history, taking 353 of 486 seats versus the Communists' 34 and the Socialists' 57.
How Beautiful It Was - Jacobin https://jacobin.com/2018/05/how-beautiful-it-was/
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ok nerds. sell me on pathfinder. i kinda hate dnd, but i want to run a pirate-themed campaign for players who have only ever played dnd. my main goal is for combat to feel cool and dynamic and exciting, rather than a 1-hour slogfest of dice rolls.
IDK I am anti-anything D&D derived, and prefer d100 systems.
This is not a recommendation, but if I was in this situation I'd probably try to use the barge rules from Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: The Enemy Within Campaign - Death on the Reik book as a start and tweak the numbers for sea vs river travel.
I'm not sure what the tone of your campaign will be like, but if you wanted a more supernatural horror pirates feel like the first Pirates of the Carribean movie, you could do something really cool trying something like a pirate themed campaign in Call of Cthulhu.
Everything is free and the pathbuilder app makes character creation and maintenance easy.
There are lots of interesting actions your characters can take, and a ton of flexibility in build options.
In my current game, I play a fighter who is also the team's primary healer. I just took a lot of medicine feats and can stitch people up real fast. I also specialize in debuffs, using fighter feats like Disarming Strike and Snagging Strike and the Intimidate skill to set things up for our primary strikers - an inventor-alchemist who is also a mobile vending machine, and a detective with a mean right hook.
I like the combat. It's fun being like "I roar at the enemy to scare them, then grab them with my free hand to get them off-guard, and rip the weapon out of their hand." And have this all mechanically represented.
The downside maybe is that players used to more freeform systems might want to try cool tricks that RAW are gated behind character options. You want to intimidate someone who doesn't speak your language? That's a feat. Combine a basic strike with another maneuver? Probably requires a feat.
And the action economy can be pretty strict with things like drawing/sheathing weapons and items, and needing free hands to do certain actions.
Pretty crunchy system, but it's my favorite dnd-like to run and play right now.
Combat in Pathfinder 2e is much more dynamic that in DnD because the action economy is very different. I actually enjoy playing a fighter in Pathfinder, and I'm normally a full caster only kinda girl. It is just a version of DnD though. Like the best version of DnD made by a better company. Being a kinda Dnd will probably help given your players have only played dnd before. But when my current campaign is over, I definitely want to try more different systems next.
Pathfinder is kinda like older version of DND 3.5 but with more of the streamlined systems of 4, some people compare it to DND 5 but that's a misaprehension in my mind. A lot closer to the traditional side of Tabletop games with some modern flair without devolving into diceslop.
Also Wisdom-Focused Dragonborn War Clerics have objectively better spells and they're my favorite so I'm a little biased.