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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8045785" data-attributes="member: 7016699">I don't exactly disagree with what you're saying here, but I have a few thoughts.I am running a couple 5E campaigns, and playing in a couple others, and playing in a couple Pathfinder 1E campaigns (intermittent with one of the 5E campaigns--it's about who's GMing a given string of sessions and what they feel comfortable GMing). The biggest thing I like about 5E isn't in your list: I can run characters pencil-and-paper, so I don't need to use a crappy computer program to simulate a character sheet. Pathfinder characters are much more complicated to play than 5E characters, especially at higher levels with expected magic.Also, the variance between the PCs--what they're good at and what they aren't--is vastly reduced in 5E relative to Pathfinder. In the one Pathfinder campaign we have two characters who can regularly top 40 in Perception, and another character who has a minor Wisdom bonus and no ranks in it. The numbers in 5E are ... less likely to get that out of hand without a lot of effort on the part of the PCs.At this point I play Pathfinder 1E because my friends are running it; I run 5E because I actually enjoy doing so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prabe, post: 8045785, member: 7016699"] I don't exactly disagree with what you're saying here, but I have a few thoughts. I am running a couple 5E campaigns, and playing in a couple others, and playing in a couple Pathfinder 1E campaigns (intermittent with one of the 5E campaigns--it's about who's GMing a given string of sessions and what they feel comfortable GMing). The biggest thing I like about 5E isn't in your list: I can run characters pencil-and-paper, so I don't need to use a crappy computer program to simulate a character sheet. Pathfinder characters are much more complicated to play than 5E characters, especially at higher levels with expected magic. Also, the variance between the PCs--what they're good at and what they aren't--is vastly reduced in 5E relative to Pathfinder. In the one Pathfinder campaign we have two characters who can regularly top 40 in Perception, and another character who has a minor Wisdom bonus and no ranks in it. The numbers in 5E are ... less likely to get that out of hand without a lot of effort on the part of the PCs. At this point I play Pathfinder 1E because my friends are running it; I run 5E because I actually enjoy doing so. [/QUOTE]

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