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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7333263" data-attributes="member: 6925649"><p>How about comparing Pathfinder with D20 Modern and Future? D20 Future is much more compatible with Pathfinder than Starfinder is. You can play Pathfinder creatures as is without major surgery in D20 Modern/Future. the main difference between D20 Modern and the D&D its derived from is the Defense Score which increases per level as opposed to armor. I think game designers like to design games and write complicated sets of new rules, always trying to outdo previous editions of the game. I really wish they had simply stuck with D&D 3.5, that is what attracted me to Pathfinder in the first place, but then in their next game they threw out what made the successful with Pathfinder. I don't like to spend time learning new rules, especially when I think those new rules are unnecessary. I don't understand for instance why Starfinder has two types of armor classes, one for kinetic attacks and the other fr energy attacks, I think the real problem is the difference between bullets and arrows and swords. As far as I'm concerned, blaster bolts fired from laser weapons are just a fancy replacement for bullets fired out of a gun. There is no reason to treat a person firing a laser weapon any different from a person shooting a gun firing bullets, there is no reason to have different armor classes against energy weapons and kinetic weapons when the real difference is between bullets and arrows and swords. Also Pathfinder just has classes, archetypes are optional, but not in Starfinder, they are an integral part of building your character. I like simple character builds because then I build NPCs the same way, Starfinder has abandoned the philosophy which made Pathfinder such a success. I really wish they made a Pathfinder version of D20 Modern/Future instead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Bowman, post: 7333263, member: 6925649"] How about comparing Pathfinder with D20 Modern and Future? D20 Future is much more compatible with Pathfinder than Starfinder is. You can play Pathfinder creatures as is without major surgery in D20 Modern/Future. the main difference between D20 Modern and the D&D its derived from is the Defense Score which increases per level as opposed to armor. I think game designers like to design games and write complicated sets of new rules, always trying to outdo previous editions of the game. I really wish they had simply stuck with D&D 3.5, that is what attracted me to Pathfinder in the first place, but then in their next game they threw out what made the successful with Pathfinder. I don't like to spend time learning new rules, especially when I think those new rules are unnecessary. I don't understand for instance why Starfinder has two types of armor classes, one for kinetic attacks and the other fr energy attacks, I think the real problem is the difference between bullets and arrows and swords. As far as I'm concerned, blaster bolts fired from laser weapons are just a fancy replacement for bullets fired out of a gun. There is no reason to treat a person firing a laser weapon any different from a person shooting a gun firing bullets, there is no reason to have different armor classes against energy weapons and kinetic weapons when the real difference is between bullets and arrows and swords. Also Pathfinder just has classes, archetypes are optional, but not in Starfinder, they are an integral part of building your character. I like simple character builds because then I build NPCs the same way, Starfinder has abandoned the philosophy which made Pathfinder such a success. I really wish they made a Pathfinder version of D20 Modern/Future instead. [/QUOTE]
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