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<blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 7419856" data-attributes="member: 6879661"><p>I played Pathfinder from the launch of 4e to about two years ago when our long time group made a wholesale switch to 5e. For me Pathfinder got very muddled with lots of OP and broken feats and abilities. Characters turned into collections of stats and modifiers, combined in ever increasingly niche ways to play the character you want. A lot of the feats have individually minor effects that improve exponentially when combined with other individually minor abilities.</p><p></p><p>For instance, playing a spell-thief (magic using rogue) requires multiclassing and carefully shepherding your character with feats, traits and stats to finally get good at magic at about 6th/7th level. On the flip side at 3rd level the equivalent archetype lets you cast spells without losing what it means to be a thief. In that sense 5e is ‘cleaner’ for me and less convoluted. </p><p></p><p>As people have said, it’s far easier to break Pathfinder than 5e and as a DM I much prefer DMing the latter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheSword, post: 7419856, member: 6879661"] I played Pathfinder from the launch of 4e to about two years ago when our long time group made a wholesale switch to 5e. For me Pathfinder got very muddled with lots of OP and broken feats and abilities. Characters turned into collections of stats and modifiers, combined in ever increasingly niche ways to play the character you want. A lot of the feats have individually minor effects that improve exponentially when combined with other individually minor abilities. For instance, playing a spell-thief (magic using rogue) requires multiclassing and carefully shepherding your character with feats, traits and stats to finally get good at magic at about 6th/7th level. On the flip side at 3rd level the equivalent archetype lets you cast spells without losing what it means to be a thief. In that sense 5e is ‘cleaner’ for me and less convoluted. As people have said, it’s far easier to break Pathfinder than 5e and as a DM I much prefer DMing the latter. [/QUOTE]
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