Pathfinder RPG - Anyone tried it?

[GabrielWithoutWings]

I was in Books-A-Million the other day and noticed that the Pathfinder core books are out.

For anyone that doesn't know, Paizo publishing took the Dungeons & Dragons Open Gaming License rules and brought a series of updated rule books.

While D&D went into the realm of 4E, Pathfinder is basically D&D3.75.

Anyone played under this system?

 

[silvermoon383]

I have. If you prefer DnD 3.5 and want a similar system it works well, though from what I've heard a lot of the newer Pathfinder books are leaning more towards 3.5 instead of a more unique "3.75", but I've only used the core books so I can't speak to that.

 

[Riverwolf]

If you hated 3rd and 3.5, try it out; from what I understand, it's a major improvement: sort of what 3rd should have been from the start.

That said, I played the game ONCE in a game store, and didn't really care much for it, but that could have easily been to the fault of the DM rather than the game itself.

 

[Quintessence]

It's awesome. I've played with it for... I don't know... a couple years now? I may be a bit biased, though, because I really did not like 4th Edition D&D. 4th Edition is good at pretty much only one thing: combat. For that, it works very well. However, if I wanted a combat-based game, I'd go sit and play a video game. Nerfing everything non-combat from a tabletop system is squandering the best aspects of role-playing, IMHO.

 

[Mike182]

I play 3.5 but bend/change the rules in places to make them make more sense or a bit simpler, which Pathfinder seems to have done. Pathfinder however does subtly changes class features and some spells, I know the 3.5 class features and spells like the back of my hand so fall to them by default.