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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 9391994" data-attributes="member: 891">PF2E is definitely my preferred system.I love the amount of tactical detail. It's a bit rules lighter than I am used to, coming from 1980s era tRPGs like Hero/GURPs and even Other Suns (an obscure Sci-Fi game with trig and calculus formulas needed to resolve star ship actions).There are 'enough' tactical choices to keep play fast. Not as many as I would like in a perfect world - and since I use Foundry I could easily handle more as I automate a lot of background detail. But it's enough to enjoy, without being too many to weigh things down.I very much like that it can make both the roleplayer and gamer sides of me happy. I don't have to give up my 'gamist' side as so many other modern tRPGs demand.I'm pretty disgusted right now with a lot of DnD influencers that love to dump on and insult players that enjoy 'game' challenge, and glad that perspective - that wasn't present in DnD back when I played it in the AD&D 1E through 3.5 days - has not yet infected Pathfinder. The 'anti-game' folks used to be more present in games like Amber Diceless to Tri-Stat, and we used to have a lot of systems welcoming both camps (80s/90s era Shadowrun, Vampire, etc). If folks want to be in camps, then I'm happy to let the anti-game folks (at least among YouTubers - I don't get the same hostility from the actual people playing the game) stay in DnD. And I'm glad Pathfinder straddles the middle of welcoming both people who want stories and people who want games - because many of us want both things in the same campaign.I'm glad that I feel no need at all to make any house rules. I've never been a fan of house rules and "back in the day" I'd just dump a system if I felt that need, or play through things I felt were broken. For me, Pathfinder 'as written' works and I can just 'go with it'. I get that goes against the grain of a lot of people, and especially in this modern era people feel it's almost a duty to house rule (homebrew rules); but playing by a known preset standard is just how I like things.I really like the setting. For me the 2E and then remaster changes were clear fixes to get rid of elements I found distasteful or just poorly written. The current 'Lost Omens' version of the setting just works for me. It's kitchen sink as they say, but with an internal logic to it. It's not perfect, but there are less flaws than any other major published offering I've seen to date.As a GM, there is less work - making running stories smoother.As a Player there is more work - meaning there are more game elements for me to dig in, explore, challenge, and thrive with. There is just the right amount of character granularity. No multi-page long list of advantages / disadvantages like in GURPS or Hero, no 'hand wave it' like in Tri-Stat or DnD. People call 'choice paralysis' what I see as 'choice paradise'.</blockquote>

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