GMforPowergamers
Legend
I agree just look at Tomb of battle...It brought martial character up to about 1/10th the power of casters...and lots of people still cry brokenUnfortunately, due to the magic system in 3.5, this is simply not possible. The only way of bringing the martial classes up to par, is to have them cast the same spells as the spellcasters
My guess is that they have simply made the gap (a little?) smaller, because a lot of those who want to play PF like that spellcasters are clearly superior to the rest, so why change too much and risk alienating people?
"I don't see how it's possible without everyone being a pseudo-spellcaster" is a very, very limited view of what is possible with good game design. (And I don't consider "everyone is a pseudo-spellcaster" to be good game design for D&D.)
Are you kidding me? lets take a look here...
player 1: Save or Die
Player 2: Hi I'm a bear that can summon other bears, and call lightning
Player 3: I can attack, full attack, trip or sunder...
Player 2: I can do all of that too...
WHAT!?!??!?- spellcasters still reign supreme, however some most obvious game breakers (polymoprh spells, some divinations) were changed.
people endorseing the game admite
are you kidding??? then why would anyone every not play one? Becuse playing less powerful is fun when? Yea becuse when I read old sherlock homes novels I think "Wow I want to be watson" or maybe "Side kick sounds like fun"spellcasters still reign supreme
The revisions to the various classes seemed fairly cosmetic on a whole. If anything, it seems spellcasters are stronger than ever. The so-called "improvements" to fighters don't really do anything to address their main flaw - lack of options (everything the warblade is).
I am getting the impression that while the designers of pathfinder did perhaps set out to "right" 3.5e, the problem was that they did not really know where the actual problems stemmed from. It really seems like a haphazard bundle of house rules. Fairly hit-and-miss, I daresay they are potentially creating as many new problems as they are purportedly fixing, if not more.
At best, it would be different from 3.5, not better, IMO.
I keep comeing back to why am I paying for YOUR set of house rules...
Also keep in mind it is never going to really be like 3.5 becuse 3.5 has 100+ books that are not OGL...(all of the complete books, the tomb of battle, tomb of magic, Heros of horror) so be ready to just make it a new edtion...becuse that is what it is.
Infact I have to say some people call it 3.75, I think 4eB is better. It is diffrent enough to be a new edtion but it is not the 4e that WotC put out.
I am still wish I was a bug on the wall a year ago when someone said with a straight face "Lets give wizards more class features" I mean really, was there some player somewhere who thought it was weaker to take 17 levels of wizard that to take 30 levels of fighter???