In my local gaming group, the big news after Gencon was the big release of Pathfinder. Talk about the game around the table overshadowed WotC Darksun announcement at our post con pow wow. I mean one guy mentioned Darksun; everyone nodded to recognized it existed followed by a couple comments about psionics, and then everyone went back to talking about Pathfinder for another 20 or so minutes. I actually wanted to buy the new book, but it is sold out on the day it came out around here. I did not make it to Gencon so I missed the chance to get the book there. The players at my game tonight said that it was good that I missed new game book, because their versions had missing or garbled pages. (fixed in the PDF version from what I understand)
I was just thinking they are so lucky, because I bet those books will be worth something someday, like the day after Paizo overshadows WotC and starts sponsoring Gencon (Once they do I’ll start going to Gencon again). I mean, I keep running into people that are bored with 4e and have switched back to 3.5 or jumped over to PAIZO’s option. Am I crazy? Is this something that could happen? I would like it too.
I guess I’ll wait until November for the next big printing of Pathfinder (not confirmed). I should mention my game group is biased toward 3.x since we are still powering through the 3.5 RPGA modules from the old Living Greyhawk campaign. Three out of seven play 4e the other four play 3.x versions of the game. A big downside to 4e seems to be rules bloat; too many books and the game is a year old.
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4e has been pretty much a disappointment for me. Its kind of, meh, it’s ok. Its supposed to be easier but in reality it isn’t. Sure, some of the core mechanics are a bit more streamlined and consistent but what good is that when you add all these little rules and exceptions? ‘Elven re-roll’, ‘Lost in the Crowd’, ‘Action points’, ‘healing surges’, ‘Second wind’, ‘bloodied’, ‘Hunter’s quarry’, ‘At-will’, ‘Encounter’ and ‘Daily’ powers. The list is endless.
Daily powers were the biggest gaff in 4e. The evidence is in the new rule books like the Martial Powers and Player’s Handbook II. Both books have fairly substantial offerings of daily powers that do 1/2 damage on a miss. In the original 4e players handbook, most daily powers do no damage on a miss. There must have been many howls of frustration at WoTC when a daily power would miss.
We just started ‘Thunerspire Labyrinth’ which seems to be a bit more entertaining than ‘Keep on the Shadowfell’ so maybe it’ll get better.
I keep hearing good things about Pathfinder so maybe I’ll take a look at it.
Sorry this turned into a flame, lol!
The 4e game is easy but complicated. It is very easy to DM but you need modules otherwise it gets complicated real fast. If you are the player, it is real complicated to build a decent PC. To make it easy you almost need the subscription to DDI and WotC Character Builder to make your PCs.
I just posted a comment on a separate post so I won’t double-post the URL, but if anyone hasn’t seen it yet I invite you to come check out the Pathfinder SRD. You can get the URL from my info above or from the other post
Good gaming folks!
I got the Pathfinder core rule book today. It’s pretty clear why the core gamers like it so much.
Even paging through the book, it gets my imagination going with the infinite possibilities. I’m going to download the free beginners module and character sheets to give it a whirl.