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I agree with your first sentence. However, magical or supernatural abilities that say "You must wait X before using this again", where X is a specific length of time, are pretty rare, if they exist at all. All of the abilities I can think of reset after explicitly resting for a certain period of...

I like the 5E wizard the best. I'm currently trying out a wizard who started as a fighter, with an eye to taking a second fighter level after I get 3rd level spells, to see just how cool dropping an extra Action Surged fireball can be. The draconic sorcerer seems tailor-made for blasting, but...

If I had to guess, it's because the paucity of options with 5E is a feature, not a bug for many people.

Ugh, Resonance. The only thing I've seen from the PF2 previews that I truly do not like, because I don't consider the "problem" it's trying to solve as a problem. I see it as both better than and worse than 5E's "solution" to the magic item "problem". Better in the sense that Resonance is not a...

Yeah, I admit that was a poor choice of words for what I meant: getting rid of additive boni is too high a price to pay for casters being able to hit with ray spells (for people who like the versimilitude of 3.x).

I'm a "Rules, not Rulings" guy. I prefer to use the system to achieve what I want, rather than play "Mother May I?" with the DM.

5E does it, and it works, only because it's very difficult to boost your AC much beyond 20. They threw the baby out with the bathwater on that, IMHO. The overlapping (rather than additive) methods of calculating AC were too high a price for getting rid of touch AC.

If I'm ever lucky enough to play Pathfinder again, I'll certainly consider that combo if I can't play a DSP Psion. If you don't care to be a "face" (specializing in skills such as Diplomacy and Bluff), and I never do, Charisma is a dump stat (primary ability notwithstanding). Every other...

This. Skill proficiency is about the only thing that I use to consider what background to take in 5E; flavor is not a consideration for me. I can't believe it needs to be said in the first place, but I'll second "If any element of the game grants any mechanical bonus, it will be used power game.".

You use scare quotes around "this game is so static" as if it's not, but it really is. 5E does not let you spread your skill expertise as thinly as you may want. If it's not a class skill for your 1st level class, and it's not offered by your background, you will only ever get better at it by...

I don't have hard numbers. My own experience with both boards gives me the impression that Paizo gets more overall traffic than ENWorld does, for better or worse (Not all traffic is necessarily good traffic!). Just Paizo's playtest forum alone seems to get more than EN's 5E and "Pathfinder and...

If ENWorld got even close to the amount of posting traffic Paizo's boards do, I'd imagine they'd have to step up the moderation as well. To be a fair comparison to Paizo's boards, you'd have to have one place that is THE place to discuss 5E, that place being a hypothetical WotC-ran board. They...

To all you people who decry the bonus-based method of determining derived stats like armor class... do you really calculate such things on the fly every single time? Do you not have separate spaces on your character sheet "This is my touch AC, this is my normal AC, this is my flat-footed AC...

You can go to the Paizo Pathfinder 2 Playtest forum, or the Pathfinder forum here at EN World for more information.

This is one thing I hate about 5E, the move away from bonus-based calculations. If you wear armor (or have Wisdom so strong it acts as armor), making your skin itself be resistant to damage should do something for you, but here we have a feat that does just that (I'm not familiar with the feat...

I once had a DM that did this. He mixed in rules questions (this was at the time when 3.0 was new) and questions about past campaigns that I wasn't involved in. I excelled at the rules questions because I was the only one who apparently read the PH, but failed miserably at the lore questions...

I'm not CapnZapp, but for me, the wizard being Vancian WAS a problem. I regard paleovancian casting to be a wart on the system and wish it to be summarily excised. I like my arcanists bookish smart. I didn't like having to pump what I otherwise consider a dump stat to be a good caster, but I did...

Well, there is the frostbite cantrip now.

It doesn't have to cost you a dime. You only have to pay if you pre-order the playtest books (and I think that window has closed, anyway). You can download the pdfs for free.

According to this site, you are correct with conjure elemental, but not on wall of fire. I seem to remember clerics being able to have bless and hold person up simultaneously, and wizards able to have fly and invisibility up simultaneously.