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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5367196" data-attributes="member: 21076">The official character builder for Pathfinder is <a href="http://www.wolflair.com/index.php?context=hero_lab&page=pathfinder_roleplaying_game" target="_blank">Hero Lab</a>.  It is not subscription based, but it does require buying the Hero Lab application which will come with one system of your choice.  Then you can buy add-on data sets for things like the Advanced Player's Guide, Bestiary, Adventurer's Armory, etc.This is the one I have primarily been using it.  It is great.  It makes it super easy to generate a character, support is responsive when needed.  You do have to purchase the datasets that you want to use, but really - you can get by with just the core and probably the Advanced Player's Guide.There are other generators as well.  <a href="http://pcgen.sourceforge.net/01_overview.php" target="_blank">PC Gen</a> is good and is free to use.  The betas have a good portion of the APG material I believe.  Several people on the Paizo forums have spreadsheet based character builders.With Hero Lab you could buy the data sets and not have to buy the book if that is what you were after.  Really, these days I think one can pretty easily get along with just the core rulebook, the bestiary and as you get used to the system, the Advanced Players Guide.  There are many other supplements, but those three books are the vast majority of the rules at the moment.  Also, the PDF versions are dirt cheap at $10 a piece.  So if you don't mind PDFs you can have all the main rules for $30.And on top of that, you can access the vast majority of rules via the freely available <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/" target="_blank">Pathfinder SRD</a>.  Paizo releases a large amount of their rules as open content, so therefore is published at the SRD site.We don't really have powers, but all character classes have received some form of power-up.  No dead levels, armor training, weapon training.  Barbarians get rage powers and such.  The SRD noted above will let you see what a lot of these are about.Hopefully that helped, I am sure others will be along to help answer them as well.I will just say I think Pathfinder is a great system.  Paizo is great as a company and really seem to support the community.  Their openness with the rules in my opinion and dirt cheap PDF prices for the rules really keep the barriers low for entry into the system.  With that said, I liked 3.x as well, so it stands to reason that I like Pathfinder as well.</blockquote>

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