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  • PF1.0 does in fact have more classes, archetypes, and prestige classes than base 3.5e.

    3rd sentence, first message.

    many 3.5e classes would be archetypes in pathfinder

    True, there are few, I wouldn’t say “many” tho.

    in my experience playing different archetypes in pf can produce vastly different player experiences

    Absolutely they do and I mean, I do like PF1 as well.

    I only have a problem with “PF1 has more classes than 3.5”, which I would classify as “debatable”. I wouldn’t say wrong, since some archetypes do change the class enough, to be in my view as well, another class.



  • I don’t really count “instead of x you get y & instead of A you get B” as a new class. Some archetypes does change the class a lot but in majority of cases you are still playing the X class.

    Meanwhile 3.5e has a class that just focuses on masks or another that does well if the campaign is done in a Goblin accounting, or another who just focuses on mind effects. There is truly more variance.

    But yes. It does have balance issues but most can be balanced in a game, if you are playing with friends instead of randos. And it does also suffer from feat bloat and feat paths for builds.

    But in the end best thing is you can kinda mix and match from pathfinder with surprisingly minor tweaking.

    This was more meant for people comparing 5e & PF2e