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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iwarrior-poet" data-source="post: 4723398" data-attributes="member: 13860">I have been looking at Paizo's Pathfinder for awhile now. At first I was very interested in it. It seemed to bring some good reforms to the 3.5 gaming system (it is dubbed 3.75). It has been billed as compatible with 3.5.<a href="http://paizo.com/pathfinder/pathfinderRPG" target="_blank">paizo.com - Pathfinder® / Pathfinder Roleplaying Game</a>However, the more I read it, the less I think it could really fit into an existing 3.5 campaign. The revisions to feats, skills and base classes---while helpful, would be very difficult to easily adapt to a lot of 3.5 material. Stat blocks from many resource based NPC's and monsters would be invalid. I know I could Houserule partial implementation of Pathfinder---but I would rather do an all or nothing switch. The conspiracy theory part of my brain wonders if Paizo is promoting Pathfinder as backwards compatible---but really wants everyone to drop their old stuff and only purchase other Pathfinder Products. This might have worked if I didn't already have a large investment in 3.5 stuff.My friends and I have been doing a Forgotten Realms Campaign for over seven years. We have spent over $1000 combined on various 3.5 materials. I HATE how 4e pushed a giant reset button on the entire FR (let along the actual gaming mechanics). I really would like to move into a reformed gaming system (in particular one that might eventually get a good digital gaming aid) that allows me to retain my investments in materials, but Paizo is looking like less of an option.Thoughts?Suggestions?(Preemptory----I am will staunchly resist 4e suggestions and I already know about PCGen and CMP datasets. That is another nasty problem... Don't get me started...)</blockquote>

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