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<blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 5927754" data-attributes="member: 16586"><p>I'm guessing we followed a pretty similar path, albeit in my case it probably had more to do with growing up having been fed a steady diet of heroic fiction in various forms prior to having started playing D&D. Rand Al'thor, the Heroes of Greek Mythology, Luke Skywalker, Chrono, Link from Zelda, Peter Parker, the Fellowship of the Ring, and the X-Men were the heroes of my youth. I didn't develop a taste for Swords and Sorcery fiction until much later. </p><p></p><p>I also agree that 2e is an incredibly incoherent game. It throws AD&D in your face and then promptly instructs you to not play AD&D. When I play it these days I ignore that advice. I consider it to be a poor man's 1e.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You're pretty much spot on in your observations here and managed to strike on my biggest fear for 5e. Pathfinder strikes me as a game that embraces the worst parts of 3e. It takes itself entirely too seriously, values setting over a game that works, and embraces over codification.</p><p></p><p>I hope WotC realizes that going too far down that path will result in a game that their other constituents will find vastly unpalatable. So far it looks good, although spell slot numbers seem higher than I'd like.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Campbell, post: 5927754, member: 16586"] I'm guessing we followed a pretty similar path, albeit in my case it probably had more to do with growing up having been fed a steady diet of heroic fiction in various forms prior to having started playing D&D. Rand Al'thor, the Heroes of Greek Mythology, Luke Skywalker, Chrono, Link from Zelda, Peter Parker, the Fellowship of the Ring, and the X-Men were the heroes of my youth. I didn't develop a taste for Swords and Sorcery fiction until much later. I also agree that 2e is an incredibly incoherent game. It throws AD&D in your face and then promptly instructs you to not play AD&D. When I play it these days I ignore that advice. I consider it to be a poor man's 1e. You're pretty much spot on in your observations here and managed to strike on my biggest fear for 5e. Pathfinder strikes me as a game that embraces the worst parts of 3e. It takes itself entirely too seriously, values setting over a game that works, and embraces over codification. I hope WotC realizes that going too far down that path will result in a game that their other constituents will find vastly unpalatable. So far it looks good, although spell slot numbers seem higher than I'd like. [/QUOTE]
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