Pathfinder 2E Do you think 1st or 2nd edition is more complicated?

[Zardnaar]

Yeah if you still have people playing 1E locally that's an incentive to stick with it. In my area of the woods I know of at least five GMs who moved to 2E (including myself) and as a result there are lots of 2E groups and no one plays 1E anymore.

Every now and then I get nostalgic for my 3E/PF1E days and crack open the books. One look at a monster stat block reminds me of just how much the game improved in terms of respecting the GM's time. I used to joke that for every 45 minutes of gameplay I invested in one hour of prep time but it was basically true. With PF2E I can spend about 1-2 hours prepping and have enough material for 5-10 hours of play, easily. As a result, once learned, it is incredibly hard to go back to 1E no matter how much I enjoy reminiscing.

Same.

'Ive got my prep time down to a 1-4 ratio with 5.5. Probably less prep i did this week did t get used still using previous session prep.

3.5 it was close to 1-1.