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<blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 7419314" data-attributes="member: 27957"><p>I picture it as the choice between Ikea and Lego. 5e only gives you a few choices, so maybe you can't get as close to the idea of the character in your head, but you can be fairly sure that no matter what choices you make the end result will be solid and functional. Pathfinder gives you a lot of choices, and with enough system mastery you can be really creative in ways 5e doesn't allow, but that equally means that you're free to make mistakes that leave the character a broken mess.</p><p></p><p>If everyone is willing to invest the time and effort in attaining the system mastery to use Pathfinder, or are at least willing to contract out character creation to the people who have it, the system can be very rewarding. If people want to just sit down and play, where they don't have to cross reference six books for character creation and leveling up takes less than five minutes, then 5e is what you want to be using.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kurotowa, post: 7419314, member: 27957"] I picture it as the choice between Ikea and Lego. 5e only gives you a few choices, so maybe you can't get as close to the idea of the character in your head, but you can be fairly sure that no matter what choices you make the end result will be solid and functional. Pathfinder gives you a lot of choices, and with enough system mastery you can be really creative in ways 5e doesn't allow, but that equally means that you're free to make mistakes that leave the character a broken mess. If everyone is willing to invest the time and effort in attaining the system mastery to use Pathfinder, or are at least willing to contract out character creation to the people who have it, the system can be very rewarding. If people want to just sit down and play, where they don't have to cross reference six books for character creation and leveling up takes less than five minutes, then 5e is what you want to be using. [/QUOTE]
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