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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6782576" data-attributes="member: 3400">Since you already know 3.0, you already know most of how 3.5 and Pathfinder are going to behave. You probably really want to give 5e a little bit of a try before you make your ultimate decision. They're different, as other people have pointed out, in a number of a fundamental ways. The 3e family (including PF) give you a lot more detail for building your character. 5e harkens back to older play styles with respect to magic items and other treasure as well as DMing situations that are otherwise undefined in the rules. You may find you prefer one style of D&D over the other, but not until you at least give 5e a try.As far as making recommendations, I generally recommend Pathfinder over 3.5 for a couple of reasons. Paizo has supported digital version and online tools far more aggressively than WotC did with 3.5. Pretty much all of the non-campaign specific rule content is available online for free via the open game license. WotC chickened out on the OGL too early and withheld most material from the OGL with 3.0 and 3.5 - and that leaves some significant gaps in game content that's easily available. Paizo also sells PDFs of the rulebooks for about $10 each via their online store and that puts them within easier reach if your budget is a bit tight - as long as you don't mind using PDFs for your game. I run from my iPad, so I'm content, but not everybody is.I don't generally make a recommendation between 5e and PF. I play both and enjoy both. PF gives me my PC control freak fix while 5e gives me my simpler/faster D&D fix.</blockquote>

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