Honestly, as someone who was all for a new contender in the rpg crawl/slog category, PF 1.0 certainly seemed like D&D 3.75. (and it didn’t hurt that presumption that a number of OGs had left D&D to help launch it.)
Apparently, many felt that it was better at D&D than even D&D at the time, though I’ve since become an indifferent fan of it at best.
Same slog, same crunch, same vast array of “options” without much in the way of lowering the myriad barriers to entry, etc. Meh.
Good thing now there’s Daggerheart, Blades in the Dark, Powered by the Apocalypse, Worlds/Stars Without Number, et al! 🤩🤘🏼
I mean, that was the intention. It was designed specifically for the 3.5 people to have more 3.5 to play after WotC decided to move on to 4th edition. That was the entire goal. There was also a big OGL scandal because WotC was trying to make an proprietary in-house VTT with 4e’s rules coded into it, and as such they needed the rules to be legally Theirs. Paizo was in a place to take advantage of that misstep, and so they did.
Honestly, as someone who was all for a new contender in the rpg crawl/slog category, PF 1.0 certainly seemed like D&D 3.75. (and it didn’t hurt that presumption that a number of OGs had left D&D to help launch it.)
Apparently, many felt that it was better at D&D than even D&D at the time, though I’ve since become an indifferent fan of it at best.
Same slog, same crunch, same vast array of “options” without much in the way of lowering the myriad barriers to entry, etc. Meh.
Good thing now there’s Daggerheart, Blades in the Dark, Powered by the Apocalypse, Worlds/Stars Without Number, et al! 🤩🤘🏼
I mean, that was the intention. It was designed specifically for the 3.5 people to have more 3.5 to play after WotC decided to move on to 4th edition. That was the entire goal. There was also a big OGL scandal because WotC was trying to make an proprietary in-house VTT with 4e’s rules coded into it, and as such they needed the rules to be legally Theirs. Paizo was in a place to take advantage of that misstep, and so they did.