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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5317887" data-attributes="member: 21076">I play Pathfinder as I enjoyed the spot that 3.5 hit.  I felt like characters could be tailored as one wanted for the most part and it felt like D&D with several options.  I did not go to 4e as it seemed to be that it drifted too far away from D&D's roots.  Just my opinion of course, that isn't to say it is a bad game, it just didn't fit my idea of what D&D should be like.Now for all the things I liked about 3.5 all the options and splat books did finally start to become unwieldy to me.  So Pathfinder acted as sort of a clean slate and fresh beginning while maintaining the feel of D&D to me.Think of it as D&D 3.75.  A lot of subtle changes in feats, spells and such.  They consolidated skills, made some tweaks to skill points and how they function when you take a class skill.  Subtle changes, but changes.They moved to a Combat Maneuver Bonus and Combat Maneuver Defense system for a large number of the special attacks to help lessen some of the confusion surrounding such special attacks.Character class wise they boosted some classes and tweaked some others down just a bit.  They worked to remove dead levels in character classes making going 20 levels in a class more attractive in some cases.I am sure there are more that I am overlooking, but those are a few off the top of my head.</blockquote>