It has been quite an ordeal to finally get the PDF as it has first been delayed a bit and then the servers got hammered so much that it was pretty much impossible to buy and finally download it. But now, in the morning over here in Germany, which is very late at night for Paizo, I managed to get through.

And after checking out the rules for my favorite races (Human, Elf, Half-Elf) and classes (Druid, Wizard) I noticed a great, promising improvement over Third Edition. So now I'm really happy I got it, supported Paizo by paying them, and it's all very exciting.

I haven't been looking forward to play a new RPG so much for almost a decade! Thanks, Paizo, and keep up the wonderful work!

While I wasn't able to keep my preorder of the core book, I still managed to snag a 1st edition copy from my FLGS. I have to say, the rules have met and even exceeded my expectations! Thank you to everyone at Paizo for making this game and involving the players in the development process. I look forward to seeing Pathfinder products for many years to come. You have my support and that of my gaming group :)

So after some searching (and a half hour train trip to Burton on Trent after the shops in Birmingham (UK) proved to be having supply difficulties) I tracked down an elusive first edition dead tree copy of the PFRPG Core Rulebook… And my initial impression is a mixture of excitement and frustration.
So many more ‘core rules’ options for many of the basic classes (EG feat trees for fighters, rage powers for barbarians, ki pools for monks) as compared to the game’s third edition D&D forerunners and further areas of rules cleaned up (EG combat maneuvers), but so much more which could have been done but which was not. The goal of ‘backwards compatability’ may have been responsible for the reining in of some of the changes which were aired during the public Beta playtest that I had personally found to be exciting.
However an improvement in my opinion in many areas of 3.5 D&D and the author and his design team show promise I believe – well worth watching for the future.
Four stars.

Quite a nice Book, its well written, and CLEARLY written, less ambiguous than previous editions of 3.x...Excellent art and a decent bargain for a Tome of its proportion, to those who wish to see the legacy of 3.x live on, this is the place to start

I have had my copy for less that 8 hours now, but I am VERY impressed. I am a GM (we need to come up for a new title for the PFRPG, lol) and this promises to keep me enthralled for a few days as I digest the subtle, and not so subtle, differences between this & my 3.5e material I have lying around. So far, there are plenty of goodies to get my players excited with. This is the direction 4e should have took. Not flaming 4e, just not satisfied with it as I am with this. Kudos to Paizo for giving me a system & a company that I can be excited about again.

My group and I have been calling this 3.7 We can't wait to get a copy of this as the BETA was great.

It can be said, a true design will reach it's end run. All possibilities have been explored, all avenues have been walked.

But sometimes, those who believed, believed in giving one last HURRAH! Can say in earnest, the exploration is not done...yet

Now...another journey has begun.

3.5....lives on, in Pathfinder.

August!

Be there!

This is definately the game everyone i know will be playing from the moment it is released on! The BETA is absolutely amazing and just a taste of the ambrosia the hardcopy is going to be. I and my friends are so happy to not learn a new system but to have the feeling of freshness added to our game. Thanks Paizo and thank you Pathfinder!

I cannot wait for this hardcover, I am going to buy two, one for use and one for show. This actually settled my 4.0-3.5 debate. I am staying with 3.5.