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<blockquote data-quote="Betote" data-source="post: 4550736" data-attributes="member: 52055">Currently, I'm DMing (playtesting) Pathfinder Beta. By now, I love the CMB, the &quot;free cantrips/orisons&quot; rule, the reworking of the skill rank system and the rearrangement of magic items (belts and headbands above all). The revamped classes... Well, they all have more options, that's for sure. And they're generally more powerful, too. I'll most probably use the Pathfinder versions of the Barbarian, Cleric, Fighter, Monk, Rogue and Sorcerer. The Bard Druid, Ranger and Wizard... I haven't playtested them enough, so I'm unsure. Paladin is equally boring in 3.5 and in Pathfinder, so who cares <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Is Pathfinder the perfect game? No, it isn't. No one is. To say that it's better or worse at &quot;solving 3.5's fundamental problems&quot; is extremely subjective because of one thing: there're many different perceptions of what are 3.5's &quot;fundamental problems&quot;.Pathfinder is for people who generally liked 3.5 and wanted some &quot;tweaking&quot;. People who already used things like the Books of Eldritch/Iron/Experimental/whatever Might, rules from AE, maybe the Advanced PHB/DMG/Bestiary series...4e is for people who thought 3.5 is fundamentally flawed, who thought that DMing 3.5 was painful, that wizards had too many options, everything too many rules... If you didn't like 3.5 at all, you won't like Pathfinder, because it's basically the same thing (it has to be, because it's its reason to exist).3.5 is, well, for people who like 3.5. Your books aren't going to spontaneously burn (let's hope <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />) so, why would you feel the obligation of buying a new game? And Paizo isn't trying to sell Pathfinder to you (Paizo just want you to buy their modules and setting stuff). Pathfinder is for the ones who, when 3.5 is not around anymore, will look at the last issue of the Adventure Path and wonder what system is it supposed to be run under.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Betote, post: 4550736, member: 52055"] Currently, I'm DMing (playtesting) Pathfinder Beta. By now, I love the CMB, the "free cantrips/orisons" rule, the reworking of the skill rank system and the rearrangement of magic items (belts and headbands above all). The revamped classes... Well, they all have more options, that's for sure. And they're generally more powerful, too. I'll most probably use the Pathfinder versions of the Barbarian, Cleric, Fighter, Monk, Rogue and Sorcerer. The Bard Druid, Ranger and Wizard... I haven't playtested them enough, so I'm unsure. Paladin is equally boring in 3.5 and in Pathfinder, so who cares ;) Is Pathfinder the perfect game? No, it isn't. No one is. To say that it's better or worse at "solving 3.5's fundamental problems" is extremely subjective because of one thing: there're many different perceptions of what are 3.5's "fundamental problems". Pathfinder is for people who generally liked 3.5 and wanted some "tweaking". People who already used things like the Books of Eldritch/Iron/Experimental/whatever Might, rules from AE, maybe the Advanced PHB/DMG/Bestiary series... 4e is for people who thought 3.5 is fundamentally flawed, who thought that DMing 3.5 was painful, that wizards had too many options, everything too many rules... If you didn't like 3.5 at all, you won't like Pathfinder, because it's basically the same thing (it has to be, because it's its reason to exist). 3.5 is, well, for people who like 3.5. Your books aren't going to spontaneously burn (let's hope :p) so, why would you feel the obligation of buying a new game? And Paizo isn't trying to sell Pathfinder to you (Paizo just want you to buy their modules and setting stuff). Pathfinder is for the ones who, when 3.5 is not around anymore, will look at the last issue of the Adventure Path and wonder what system is it supposed to be run under. [/QUOTE]

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