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Pathfinder Second Edition: I hear it's bad - Why Bad, How Bad?
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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 7632848" data-attributes="member: 7635"><p>I want to agree with you here, but I think it's apples and oranges. </p><p></p><p>Pathfinder is including all the core classes from the Core Rulebook plus alchemist. That means that the same types of characters you could make using just core rules in PF1 are all makeable in PF2. Sure, there is no gunslinger, witch or summoner, but those were add on classes in PF1 as well. </p><p></p><p>However, it took 4e 3 years and 3 PHBs to reproduce the 11 base classes in the 3e PHB. And thanks to basing class choice on power source, it meant new classes like warden, invoker, warlord, and warlock got prioritized over bard, druid, sorcerer, and monk. </p><p></p><p>The smartest thing 5e did was attempt to get all the default D&D classes into the PHB. Some of them were subs for other classes, and I'm not getting into the battle master/warlord debate, but at least 5e didn't make us wait to have all the core classes from the previous editions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 7632848, member: 7635"] I want to agree with you here, but I think it's apples and oranges. Pathfinder is including all the core classes from the Core Rulebook plus alchemist. That means that the same types of characters you could make using just core rules in PF1 are all makeable in PF2. Sure, there is no gunslinger, witch or summoner, but those were add on classes in PF1 as well. However, it took 4e 3 years and 3 PHBs to reproduce the 11 base classes in the 3e PHB. And thanks to basing class choice on power source, it meant new classes like warden, invoker, warlord, and warlock got prioritized over bard, druid, sorcerer, and monk. The smartest thing 5e did was attempt to get all the default D&D classes into the PHB. Some of them were subs for other classes, and I'm not getting into the battle master/warlord debate, but at least 5e didn't make us wait to have all the core classes from the previous editions. [/QUOTE]
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