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<blockquote data-quote="Tovec" data-source="post: 6189065" data-attributes="member: 95493"><p>Personally @<em><strong><u><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=55248" target="_blank">Rob1207</a></u></strong></em> I think your problem is that you played an alchemist at .. first? level or near it. When the alchemist can only do self healing and what not but before it kicks in and he can do more things and stuff for the rest of the party. So, Alchemist was probably the worst class in this "gamey" regard.</p><p></p><p>Overall PF has that distinction you are looking for. It is based on 3.5 system and so it is still gamey, but as others have pointed out its an RPG so that is par for the course. I know that I love PF and can't stand 4e's gamey-ness and that my friends are all the same. That we never noticed "recharge" power problems for any martial classes, and the spellcasters have that but they are the same as 3.5 and so it was what we were used to I guess. So.. yeah, I blame the alchemist. If he had been able to give the other guy the potion it would have been fine right? If the objection boils down to that one stupidity of a single class then it seems weak for an argument for "PF is too gamey/just as gamey as 4e."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tovec, post: 6189065, member: 95493"] Personally @[I][B][U][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=55248"]Rob1207[/URL][/U][/B][/I] I think your problem is that you played an alchemist at .. first? level or near it. When the alchemist can only do self healing and what not but before it kicks in and he can do more things and stuff for the rest of the party. So, Alchemist was probably the worst class in this "gamey" regard. Overall PF has that distinction you are looking for. It is based on 3.5 system and so it is still gamey, but as others have pointed out its an RPG so that is par for the course. I know that I love PF and can't stand 4e's gamey-ness and that my friends are all the same. That we never noticed "recharge" power problems for any martial classes, and the spellcasters have that but they are the same as 3.5 and so it was what we were used to I guess. So.. yeah, I blame the alchemist. If he had been able to give the other guy the potion it would have been fine right? If the objection boils down to that one stupidity of a single class then it seems weak for an argument for "PF is too gamey/just as gamey as 4e." [/QUOTE]
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