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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 5809974" data-attributes="member: 9213">What do I love about Pathfinder? I like that it's still basically the 3.5 framework that is highly customizable and usable with most of my huge library of 3.5 material. It's much easier to subtract what I dont want in my game than to add or build it myself. There are so many 3.5 subsystems that I can pretty much customize my game anyway that I want to. As an AP subscriber from the beginning I love the adventure support. Even if it's an AP that I have no intentions of running wholesale (Second Darkness, Legacy of Fire, Serpent Skull....) I can pillage the hell out of it for maps, NPC's and even individual encounters. There are whole towns, cities and adventure sites that I can use. I like that the world of Golarion is fleshed out via the adventures and not so much a novel line. This way there's no players going "Well, It didnt happen like that. In [insert book name here] that charactere died" or "that city was destroyed" Not in our adventure it wasnt...I can tell you what used to annoy me about Pathfinder, it was doing NPC / Monster Statblocks by hand. But then I just started to cut and paste from PDF's of the AP's and books and that made my life easier as I'd simply excise the things I wasnt going to use and make changes that I needed to. Then I got the Pathfinder for HERO LAB and that pretty much sorted everything else out. There is NOTHING that will make me leave Pathfinder short of several colossal blunders by the Paizo crew. I've been off the WOTC teat for about 4 years now and have no desire to go back. 5e would have to not only be a phenomenal ruleset but also allow me to easily use all of my 3x and Pathfinder material to run a game in it the way I'd like. And personally I dont see that happening. Would I try 5E without investing anything in it? Sure. But there definitely wont be a repeat of 2008 when my level headedness and willingness to give 4E a fair shot resulted in my buying the 4E gift set from Amazon using it to run a few sessions of 4E and then never using it again. Now I only support games that I KNOW that I'm going to be running or playing in no matter who cool they may be.</blockquote>

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