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In my experience (which is limited to Pathfinder 2e without any extensions) Pathfinder is by far inferior to D&D 5e. The classes _are_ more interesting, but yo
by nextlevelwizard 3y ago
In my experience (which is limited to Pathfinder 2e without any extensions) Pathfinder is by far inferior to D&D 5e.
The classes _are_ more interesting, but you pretty much have to maximise your character's potential if you want to keep the game going or you just have to be willing to re-roll often and let characters die and just abandon quests. i.e. it is not good for heroic fantasy.
Then again Pathfinder isn't gritty enough for me to be interesting as "bunch of peasants who try to be adventurers" either.
- ZiiS 3y agoYes; rulesets and even settings are not the most important thing and are highly subjective. It is hard to make recommendations. I would expect a GM to scale difficulty to prevent characters dying too much (at least if they don't want to) with any system. But I can see that Pathfinder dose incentivize min-maxing long lived characters which will not be everyone's cup of tea. Similarly the combat system is fairly terrible in Cyberpunk 2020 but never stopped me enjoying it.