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<blockquote data-quote="harpy" data-source="post: 5772230" data-attributes="member: 85243"><p>I'm just patiently waiting for everyone to have tablets and all the books are electronic. Then there can be regular schedule of patch releases that just keep tweaking and updating the rules over the years.</p><p></p><p>After playing Star Wars Saga I was incredibly excited about the news of 4e because what I was really looking forward to was a fixed 3.5. When 4e arrived I was crestfallen. Rather than being a fantasy Star Wars Saga, it went well beyond the design space into this whole new area. I couldn't stand 4e.</p><p></p><p>Pathfinder comes along and I'm hopeful for yet again a fixed 3.5, and while Paizo did perform some fixes, it just didn't go far enough.</p><p></p><p>Pathfinder fell to short, 4e over shot. I just wanted a fixed 3.5 <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>There are different ways to write RPG rules, but the whole 3e/4e age has been written in a very software-like fashion, which would be perfect to be treated as such in terms of updates. I know that we aren't there yet in terms of how the bulk of players interact with the rules, it's all still very analog, but by mid decade tablets will be getting very cheap and so hopefully the shift will have happened and we'll finally have a digital medium in which rules can be updated much the way MMOs get patched. The game is in essence always in development and being tweaked. It never leaves beta and taps into the vast array of brains that can push and test the system far beyond what design and isolated playtesting could yield.</p><p></p><p>In the meantime I long for a Pathfinder 2e. It's the last shot at a fixed 3.5.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harpy, post: 5772230, member: 85243"] I'm just patiently waiting for everyone to have tablets and all the books are electronic. Then there can be regular schedule of patch releases that just keep tweaking and updating the rules over the years. After playing Star Wars Saga I was incredibly excited about the news of 4e because what I was really looking forward to was a fixed 3.5. When 4e arrived I was crestfallen. Rather than being a fantasy Star Wars Saga, it went well beyond the design space into this whole new area. I couldn't stand 4e. Pathfinder comes along and I'm hopeful for yet again a fixed 3.5, and while Paizo did perform some fixes, it just didn't go far enough. Pathfinder fell to short, 4e over shot. I just wanted a fixed 3.5 :( There are different ways to write RPG rules, but the whole 3e/4e age has been written in a very software-like fashion, which would be perfect to be treated as such in terms of updates. I know that we aren't there yet in terms of how the bulk of players interact with the rules, it's all still very analog, but by mid decade tablets will be getting very cheap and so hopefully the shift will have happened and we'll finally have a digital medium in which rules can be updated much the way MMOs get patched. The game is in essence always in development and being tweaked. It never leaves beta and taps into the vast array of brains that can push and test the system far beyond what design and isolated playtesting could yield. In the meantime I long for a Pathfinder 2e. It's the last shot at a fixed 3.5. [/QUOTE]
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