Yan Grorson's page

Thanks so much! Yes, converting the setting from 3.5 to Pathfinder is going to be a lot of work. My Player's Handbook is currently sitting at 700 pages long. Now, a lot of the work doesn't need to be redone. My races typically have about 20 pages, give or so, of text to explain to players the nuances of their societies. And, most of that isn't rules-based. The overwhelming majority is lore, and thankfully, that is universal.

But, as far as the other stuff, it's probably smart, given the absurd state of things legally speaking, and the grasping and crushing nature of copyright once it gets into the hands of a entity determined to destroy all artistic value and boil it down to pure, petty profits in the hands of stockholders that don't care about games and go out on yachts when they want to have fun:D ...but it doesn't matter to me much, because I'll for my setting I'll write the rules for races, classes, spells, feats, etc. I won't be taking anything from Pathfinder other than the base rules, and even some of those will be heavily modified...probably. And, I will be creating a schema for monster design that is more flexible. The current monster design isn't bad, per se, depending on what you're doing, but for my purposes, I'm going to need something more narratively consistent. Ultimately, in a choice between 5E and Pathfinder, Pathfinder wins because there's not much to do with 5E. They've sucked everything useful or interesting out of it for the most part, and the only rules left are Roll a D20, and the highest roll wins. Plus, advantage/disadvantage, which I feel is a net loss for the system. So, for me, 5E can't even be modified to work with Threshold.

However, the above is still super useful as I plan to run a generic Pathfinder campaign in Golarion to become acquainted with the system, broadly speaking. It is remarkably easy to write for it, and I absolutely love how fast combat resolves. It's a good system, and I'm not even sure why it's better than 3.5, but my experience just shows that it is. So, I'm excited to do something really interesting with it!

My question was answered.

I merely thought that the rules would be contained in the Player's Guide, since that is what I'm used to with D&D, but in Pathfinder, the rules are instead contained in a separate book called the Core Rulebook. So, I have now purchased the book I need. I'm aware that all the rules are online, but I greatly prefer hardcopy.

I needlessly purchased over $200 worth of books, but that's ok. They are very pretty and will fit nicely in my collection nonetheless. And, I don't mind helping the Paizo folks. They have mortgages too, after all. So, it's all good:)

Thanks again!