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<blockquote data-quote="pickin_grinnin" data-source="post: 6291791" data-attributes="member: 6697674">I avoided Pathfinder for a very long time, for many reasons.&nbsp; I had such a hard time finding games in my area with reliable, mature players who would play anything BUT Pathfinder that I finally decided to give it a shot.&nbsp; It's not a bad game, but neither was 3.5.&nbsp; Others have pointed out a lot of technical issues with it, so I won't bother repeating those things.The following things tend to irritate me:1) It's time to do away with classes.&nbsp; They're just too limiting, and unnecessarily so.&nbsp; If they simply must use them, there need to be a lot more classes available, and the archetypes for them need to have a more decent tradeoff between benefits and drawbacks.2) They throw a few new feats and a class or two into virtually every splatbook.&nbsp; I understand the sales strategy there, but I would rather buy &quot;the big book of feats&quot; than ten splatbooks that have nothing I want except for a couple of new feats.&nbsp; I do like that you can eventually find all that information on line, though.3) The prices they charge for the splatbooks are too high for what you get, whether you buy them in PDF or print form.&nbsp; Some of them are pretty thin, yet priced as if they were a much larger book.&nbsp; Either lower the prices or flesh them out a bit more.4) The Pathfinder Society folks have done a very poor job of indicating what is and is not &quot;legal&quot; for play.&nbsp; The official &quot;additional resources&quot; page is a mess, very poorly formatted, and (for some weird reason) lists both what you can and can't use in some places, when they could simply say &quot;out of this book you can't use X.&quot;&nbsp; It's not hard to organize a document like that, and it's not hard to keep it updated if you organize it well from the beginning.&nbsp; There are a number of things I don't care for when it comes to the Pathfinder Society, which is a shame.&nbsp; I was initially excited about getting into it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pickin_grinnin, post: 6291791, member: 6697674"] I avoided Pathfinder for a very long time, for many reasons. I had such a hard time finding games in my area with reliable, mature players who would play anything BUT Pathfinder that I finally decided to give it a shot. It's not a bad game, but neither was 3.5. Others have pointed out a lot of technical issues with it, so I won't bother repeating those things. The following things tend to irritate me: 1) It's time to do away with classes. They're just too limiting, and unnecessarily so. If they simply must use them, there need to be a lot more classes available, and the archetypes for them need to have a more decent tradeoff between benefits and drawbacks. 2) They throw a few new feats and a class or two into virtually every splatbook. I understand the sales strategy there, but I would rather buy "the big book of feats" than ten splatbooks that have nothing I want except for a couple of new feats. I do like that you can eventually find all that information on line, though. 3) The prices they charge for the splatbooks are too high for what you get, whether you buy them in PDF or print form. Some of them are pretty thin, yet priced as if they were a much larger book. Either lower the prices or flesh them out a bit more. 4) The Pathfinder Society folks have done a very poor job of indicating what is and is not "legal" for play. The official "additional resources" page is a mess, very poorly formatted, and (for some weird reason) lists both what you can and can't use in some places, when they could simply say "out of this book you can't use X." It's not hard to organize a document like that, and it's not hard to keep it updated if you organize it well from the beginning. There are a number of things I don't care for when it comes to the Pathfinder Society, which is a shame. I was initially excited about getting into it. [/QUOTE]

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