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Started by Elemental_Elf, August 13, 2009, 07:40:46 PM

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August 14, 2009, 09:56:01 PM
Me, am I totally in love with Pathfinder? Not really, but I'm definitely not into 4e. Combined, my playing group has over 150 3.5 books, including Core, Splat and 3pp - I've only got 4 3e books. Most of those books are in two players hands.

Since D&D is the game system I am most familiar, when I decided to create a publication of my own, Pathfinder seemed like the smart way to go, since my project is ready to publish coinciding with Pathfinder's release.

I've got the handbook ordered through Amazon, for only $31.85 with free shipping - I should get it by the 21st of the month. So I'll give my official response, when I've had time to review it. I am hopeful. While I liked 3.5, there are problems, which PF intended to fix - somewhat, so we'll see.

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August 15, 2009, 12:38:45 PM
I am curious - how much prep time does a Pathfinder GM need to invest into a game session, especially at high levels?

The sheer amount of effort prep time required with D&D 3.X was one of my major issues with it - and one of the main reasons why I am now satisfied with D&D4E.
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August 15, 2009, 01:49:16 PM
I'm not a big "crunch" person at all, so I may be missing some key details in the mechanics, but glancing over the OGL Pathfinder SRD, I don't see anything that is really all that different from regular old D&D. The races and classes still feel like stereotypes, to me, for example. (Maybe this is intentional, and something they didn't feel needed "fixing")

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August 15, 2009, 02:20:29 PM
Quote from: Nomadic
Quote from: E_E
Quote from: FREAKIN' AWESOME HORSE...I started witnessing a bunch of people proclaim Pathfinder to be this divine solution to their problems in the ENWorld chat. It gave me a really poor impression of Pathfinder because said individuals were very ignorant about the development of the system modification.

So you condemn an entire game because of stupid people?  

If you keep running into stupid people when dealing with a community based on a game you might question how good of an idea it would be to get involved in that game...
To be fair, the main Pathfinder community exists on the Paizo boards, not on ENWorld chat. It's unlikely that a few posters on ENWorld chat are a representative sample.
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