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Is 5e Basically Becoming Pathfinder 2e?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7279491" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>Not really, 5e is prettymuch the Ghost of D&Ds Past ('tis the season for holiday puns). The classes in 5e are evocative of classes in the classic game - character-defining, mechanically differentiated, etc... </p><p></p><p>'cookie cutter' is not exactly unfair, but neither is it the whole picture. The classes aren't building block to the degree they were in 3.x; nor are they as re-skinnable and balanced as in 4e. They're what classes have more often been: a complete career path that defines your character. Sub-classes & backgrounds provide focus and color, like kits in 2e.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>, but still stay to a simpler mechanic to allow new people to play. I play Pathfinder, and it can get complicated once you move past the base classes into more unique class choices including the hybrid classes. I don't have a lot of experience with 5e as of yet, but it is the choice to go to for my friends that want to get into tabletop RPG's, and I think it's great and once they do start it up, I'm all for joining them. I've been playing RPG's (tabletop and video game) for over 20 years. So, I like the fact that it isn't becoming Pathfinder 2e, it's its own thing.</p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7279491, member: 996"] Not really, 5e is prettymuch the Ghost of D&Ds Past ('tis the season for holiday puns). The classes in 5e are evocative of classes in the classic game - character-defining, mechanically differentiated, etc... 'cookie cutter' is not exactly unfair, but neither is it the whole picture. The classes aren't building block to the degree they were in 3.x; nor are they as re-skinnable and balanced as in 4e. They're what classes have more often been: a complete career path that defines your character. Sub-classes & backgrounds provide focus and color, like kits in 2e. , but still stay to a simpler mechanic to allow new people to play. I play Pathfinder, and it can get complicated once you move past the base classes into more unique class choices including the hybrid classes. I don't have a lot of experience with 5e as of yet, but it is the choice to go to for my friends that want to get into tabletop RPG's, and I think it's great and once they do start it up, I'm all for joining them. I've been playing RPG's (tabletop and video game) for over 20 years. So, I like the fact that it isn't becoming Pathfinder 2e, it's its own thing.[/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]
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