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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pauljathome" data-source="post: 5880181" data-attributes="member: 21807">First off, the people who call Pathfinder 3.75 are pretty much right. It has fairly minor changes from the core of 3.5I think that one of the best things that they did was to remove most of the later 3.5 products and its proliferation of new and over powered base classes.If you like to use all pf the newer stuff (especially Tome of Battle) then you'll very likely prefer 4th edition to Pathfinder anyway (which is NOT meant to be any kind of jab at anybody. Tastes vary, Pathfinder is NOT for everybody).I really like the simplification of combat maneuvers. In some places the new ones are a little less "realistic" but the simplicity gained more than compensates for that.They reined in a lot of the most egregious spells from 3.5.  The whole Polymorph chain being a very good example.I find that I really like the new channeling mechanic for clerics. At least at low to mid levels it means that clerics actually get to use their spells and not just convert everything to cure wounds spells.The biggest single reason to play it over 3.x is, of course, that it is a well supported system with new material (rules and adventures) coming out constantly and with a lot of 3rd party support.That plus the fact that Paizo works really hard to deserve your money. They try and be very responsive and open with their customers. They make you WANT to give them money <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />.I do miss all the prestige classes. Although I think that 3.5 went too far I find that now there are very often NO prestige classes of interest for many characters. But they're coming out with a book this year that may change that <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />.And there are various places where they made very minor changes for no significant benefit. It isn't a problem for people learning Pathfinder but I find that at least once a session I instinctively rule based on the 3.x rule and not the slightly changed Pathfinder rule.</blockquote>

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