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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 5480369" data-attributes="member: 10784">your experience DMing 3.5 was almost the exact same as mine - a huge epic campaign that went from level 1 to level 18.  I found myself putting so much time into creating challenging encounters for my big group (myself and 8 players at the time) that the story and character development suffered the last half of the campaign.  It was literally a full-time job to prepare.There were a lot of good encounters that were challenging & memorable and good times - the big fight with the lich archmage was one where my lich had used all of her quickened spells and most of her big bang spells, while the party was down to their last legs in terms of hit points.  I'd never been able to DM a bad guy that could cast "Time Stop" and other level 9 spells until that encounter.When I looked over Pathfinder, I liked some of what they did, but they seemed to add more complexity to the base classes and it would be even more of a nightmare to prepare without the equivalent of Heroforge & Monsterforge for Pathfinder (not available when my 3.5 campaign ended).  Sure, it's supposed to be backwards-compatible, but there were enough changes that it would be a nightmare of memorization/bookkeeping to track them.I also don't love 4E, but it's a world easier on the DM than 3.5.</blockquote>