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<blockquote data-quote="Tia Nadiezja" data-source="post: 7258389" data-attributes="member: 6778763">Without huge mistakes being made, 5e is in no risk at all of becoming Pathfinder/3e. And it's not the amount of content, though the slow release schedule does help.Third Edition was broken from the start, and 3.5 did not fix it.Playing 3e with just the Player's Handbook, and a nonzero number of optimizers at the table, was already a mess. Druid was vastly overpowered, Fighter was terrible, and past fifth level (third level with the right group), the game turned into a series of rocket tag matches where the difference between a character's high saves and low saves was large enough that the GM had to carefully choose not to kill characters at will when running supposedly balanced encounters.THAT was the core problem with 3e, and Pathfinder didn't really get at it at all. 5e's power gap between the best class and its worse was far smaller, the high-to-low-saves difference is smaller, and there's less instant kill on both sides of the screen. 5e works, ground-up, in a way 3e/Pathfinder never can.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tia Nadiezja, post: 7258389, member: 6778763"] Without huge mistakes being made, 5e is in no risk at all of becoming Pathfinder/3e. And it's not the amount of content, though the slow release schedule does help. [i]Third Edition was broken from the start, and 3.5 did not fix it.[/i] Playing 3e with just the Player's Handbook, and a nonzero number of optimizers at the table, was already a mess. Druid was vastly overpowered, Fighter was terrible, and past fifth level (third level with the right group), the game turned into a series of rocket tag matches where the difference between a character's high saves and low saves was large enough that the GM had to carefully choose not to kill characters at will when running supposedly balanced encounters. THAT was the core problem with 3e, and Pathfinder didn't really get at it at all. 5e's power gap between the best class and its worse was far smaller, the high-to-low-saves difference is smaller, and there's less instant kill on both sides of the screen. 5e works, ground-up, in a way 3e/Pathfinder never can. [/QUOTE]

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