The Sweet Spot

[ProfessorCirno]

It should be noted that having a lot more feats gives a lot more power to non-casters. There's only so many spellcasting feats that give you a concrete improvement, while there's tons of fightan feats.

 

[Dredan]

I agree there 100%. The melee classes definately got a boost in abilities. Wizards especially, are limited to a few good feats and of course the metamagics. What WOTC did with The Complete Arcane added a few nice feats. Once again not OGL .

 

[milo]

I am not sure about the levels for the sweet spot, we took our characters from 3.5 and converted them to pathfinder to try the new system. But if nothing else the sweetspot is larger due to the slower rate of leveling for characters. Even with the fast rate of leveling in Pathfinder to go from 3rd to 15th takes more experience than 1 to 20 in 3.5 or 3rd editions. It took our group about 6 sessions to go from 10th to 11th. I would like to try it from 1st up though but that could take a long time.

 

[concerro]

Many DM's have games breaking down around level 13, but I have heard for Pathfinder it extends to about 16 which is good.

 

[fonkin]

Many DM's have games breaking down around level 13, but I have heard for Pathfinder it extends to about 16 which is good.

Oh goody! My 3.5 party is hovering right around 12 and I've announced that we're switching our current campaign directly over to Pathfinder after they finish the current plot cycle. I expect this campaign to start petering out before we hit those very high levels anyway.

As an aside, high level campaigns are problematic in any setting, regardless of the rules system. As Docmoriartty said elsewhere in this thread, when the modifiers are generally double the die roll, the game plods into uninteresting territory. Too many dice, and so forth. The DM has to be creative to manage this sort of thing. In the most successful high level campaign I've ever participated in (about 20 years and counting at the >10th level using modified AD&D), we've done it in several ways.