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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rzach" data-source="post: 4118704" data-attributes="member: 61385">I am pro 4e. I have burned out on 3.x. While I don't hate 3.x, I am not it's biggest fan. But when a company tries to fix a game my curiosity gets the better of me. From a rules perspective I am curious about the fixes to 3.x game mechanics. So yesterday I went and downloaded the Pathfinder alpha to see if anything in there was interesting.My initial opinions are these. 1) Grapple is still to complex. These new rules are better than 3.x rules but will take to much time to use at the table. People will still have to look up the grapple rules each time.2) Pathfinder doesn't address my core issue with 3.x games. Prestige classes. Why would you take a base class to 20th level when you can take a prestige class or two and end up with a more powerful character? Prestige classes are a number stackers dream come true. (Yes I am guilty of stacking prestige classes myself.)As far as I can see the Pathfinder Alpha does nothing to deal with the number stacking issues 3.x has. This to me is a major problem. If all the old 3.x prestige classes are still considered cannon then the game will be broken. If the prestige classes are not cannon then they have invalidated several thousand dollars worth of material I own. Since I am switching to 4e I don't really care about that old material myself so much. But if I was going to stay in the 3.x game it would be a major issue for me.Really, unless Pathfinder could address the issues that prestige classes brought to the game, I see no reason to purchase it. And my group agrees with me. We all think that 3.x games are fundamentally flawed because of basic design issues with number stacking. My solution for the last few games has been to get the players to describe their character concepts and then custom build a 20 level class for them that uses these concepts. Unfortunately that is a lot of work to do for a game and it gets worse when a character dies in the middle of an adventure. 4e looks like it will deal with the flaws of 3.x in a manageable way so we are going to switch to it in June. Personally I think that Paizo made an error in this decision. Because of that decision they will not be receiving my groups money. I really hope this decision doesn't cause Paizo to go under, but I don't see the move as having a happy ending.Later,Rzach</blockquote>

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