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Nice to see some still appreciate what Paizo has done.

I started with D&D in the early 80's with the Basic and Expert boxed sets and moved onto 1E pretty quickly, followed by 2E, 3.0 and 3.5. I didn't like what I was seeing about thee upcoming D&D 4th ed so wasn't planning on converting to it. I think I may have first heard about Pathfinder online. I liked what I was reading about it so I downloaded the Beta rules and started running Rise of the Runelords.

Aside from one gaming session with D&D 5E as a player I haven't once gone back to D&D. That said, my group isn't moving on to Pathfinder 2E either.

Nope. While my group still plays PF1 I stopped buying rule books a long time ago. I think the last (other than Unchained) was Advanced Race Guide and we don't use it. I saw the rules bloat coming and chose to avoid it. I have more adventure paths than I can ever run. Maybe I would purchase adventure modules but unlikely.

To be honest, for years I was the sole GM for my group and after playing D&D 3.0, 3.5 and Pathfinder I was getting burnt out any way. The change to PF2 gave me the excuse I needed to try other games and one of my players decided to pick up the reins of PF1 for the group.

I still play 1e with two groups. One online with my old gaming group where I grew up and one around a table locally where I live. I had been the GM for the group that is now online since beta was out, I finally got tired of running Pathfinder and moved onto Savage Worlds but one of my players has stepped into the GM role for Pathfinder so we trade off.

Not vital at all. My job as a Game Master is to make the adventure fun for everyone playing. Sometimes that means that I may have to modify, sometimes a lot, the adventures I am running to make it work for the group of characters my players decided on. For example; if there is no healer then maybe I have to toss out more healing items or change the nature of the combat players engage in.

Deep breaths...
In with the good air...
Out with the bad...
In with the good air...
Out with the bad...

3rd edition is sorely needed. Since they removed my beloved Alignment system in 2.755487 ed. the game hasn't been the same. In addition to the traditional alignments coming back Paizo needs to add a situational ethics variation.

Of course, if the rumored purchase by Facebook is true I won't play the new stuff anyway.

I think this has far less to do with the class chosen than the character's alignment and the roleplaying skills of the player.