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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Satin Knights" data-source="post: 5854077" data-attributes="member: 6666968">The biggest accomplishment of Pathfinder is the rebalancing of the classes and closing of loopholes.  All the classes got minor little bumps in power compared to 3.5, but the power curves of class vs. class were greatly smoothed out.  Most of the loopholes have been closed in order to bring about the death of Pun-Pun and Codzilla.  When a new loophole arises, it is killed off by errata or developer "rules clarifications".  Bye-bye RAGELANCEPOUNCE. (The unstoppable nuke from orbit barbarian.)Pathfinder also rewards sticking with a single class much more than 3.5 did.  So, the triple or quad classed characters are rare today except for those prestige classes that are designed to be that way like the Dragon Disciple or Arcane Archer.They started with prestige classes in the early books, but now have gone to an archetype system that allows customization forking of the base classes.  It basically sacrifices several small class abilities  C, E and G in order to get new class abilities P, Q and V.  This allows wider variations in characters while staying in the base class to achieve the high end abilities of the class.The authors of the material are on their forums at Paizo.com daily.  They are always answering questions and taking in criticisms.  They also write up a concept for a book, and then toss it to the community for six months for a playtest.  They take the comments from the playtest, re-edit the concept, and then put it out as a book six months to a year later.  So, your participation in the beta test can affect the final print book. Mine did.And finally, print books vs. PDFs.  All of their material is available in PDFs.  When the hardcover main books are $39.95, you can get the PDF for $9.95.  When a new printing with errata comes out, you get notified that a new PDF is available to download for free.  Major bonus points in my book for that one.  If you purchase the hardcover books direct from Paizo instead of Amazon at a discount, you get the corresponding PDFs for free. (I believe)</blockquote>

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