Is it still compatible with all the money I wasted on 3.x Hasbro D&D?

What are some highlights that make you feel that way? I’ve never played.

Not OP but the top 3 for me are

1. Martial - Caster balance
2. 3 action economy
3. A much better framework for GMs

3 action economy for me, I also like that the rules are much clearer and more balanced to more play styles.

2e did the 5e thing of filing down a table top game to a video game.

Doesn’t help that we’ve got metric tons of content in the old system. Why retrofit what didn’t really need fixing? Just give me more APs.

Here’s my list:

• It scales very well from level 1-20. The math just works at all levels of play.
• 3 action rounds
• Encounter design and balancing is easy for the busy GM
• All of the classes are good, flavorful, and have interesting options
• Teamwork is highly encouraged through class and ability design
• Martial/Caster/Support balance
• Degrees of success/failure
• Easy, free access to the rules
• The ORC license
• https://pathbuilder2e.com/
• Pathfinder Society Organized play is well done and well supported by Paizo
• The rune system for magic weapons/armor

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Two big things I love:

• Three action system: every “activity” (strike, stride, cast a spell, etc) has an action cost. On a standard turn, your character gets 3 actions to spend on those various activities. This obviates the need for DnD’s rules about spending a whole turn running since you can just spend multiple actions striding.

• Keyword system: PF2e leans more onto standardized keywords and uses them appropriately. Everything (all actions, weapons, items, even statuses) has a set of traits that (usually) briefly explains how the thing acts. It allows for standardized templates for interactions between different elements of the game. This takes a HUGE burden off the GM during game play, esp for modules that weren’t written to think about each other. All the examples I can think of would take several pages to explain, but you can look up some things on Easy Tools and see their traits.

Bonus thing I love: all the rules are openly published, leading to TONS of extra tools that just make the game easier to run. (That said you should buy a set of books to help the publishers after you’ve been converted).

Meanwhile, non D&D players are like: they’re the same picture.

Not really, PF2E is its own system that is in the D20 family but no longer directly compatible with 3.X. However, since encounter balancing is easy, if you want to convert 3.X adventures to PF2E the work is pretty simple.

No, but it is much improved and streamlined

I wish GURPS had taken off more.

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I don’t know if I agree that all classes are good.

Oracle and Gunslinger have always (at least in my mind) seemed to be overly weak. Like, Gunslinger seems like if should be a high damage output class, but lack of Dex to Damage really seems to hinder him from being a hard hitter. Lol, not to mention, guns just feel really weak.

For Oracle, her curse seems a major downside without a compensating upside (at least until late levels; haven’t built one above lv 5).

I’d love to hear counterpoints of anyone has any.

To be clear, 95% agree with your takes though.

I was curious about this some years back.

Are there any published materials on how to run a game in a GURPS system?

but lack of Dex to Damage really seems to hinder him from being a hard hitter.

This is offset by nearly every firearm having the lethal trait, where on a crit their damage dice increase in size and they get an addition damage die.

The class is built around crit-fishing, and it works well. Granted, it gets hard to reliably crit higher-level enemies, but that’s easily offset by the party working together

Wait, your party works together??

Wish mine did that.

So much

GURPS Worldbook Index

(www.sjgames.com)

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I’m a gunslinger in one of the games I play in, and yeah, I don’t do barbarian numbers, but I hold my own, and it is a FUN class to play. I built a dual-wielder with the hopes that it would play like Han Solo running down the hallway shooting back at stormtroopers, and it delivers.

Plus, being 60 feet away means that I can help everyone do damage at once. It makes the party happy, too.