Pathfinder is currently one of the top notch pen & paper rpgs around.
But there needs to be a pathfinder light edition!
Why?
I'm playing D&D games for more than 20 years now, seeing a lot of iterations of the game. As I'm growing older (pun intended) I become more and more interessted in retro clones, things like true20 or green ronins Dragon Age game, because they are much more easy to play.
IMO the main problem is feats, they make the game so cumbersome. My vision of the game is one that uses the d20 engine, and almost anything is handled by skills.
I noticed that during our sessions, we often need to pause, to flip through the books, in order to find a rule, which we knew to be hidden somewher. That often takes up to five minutes. That's not good.
I compare the various D&D editions with computer operation systems. At first we had oses like DOS (D&D 1E) which was very fast and solid, but could not do much things. Now we have windows7 (D&D 3+) which can do everything, but gets slower the longer it runs on your computer.
What we need is a hybrid. Fast, solid mechanics which allow you still to play a variable game. I think Pathfinder is the best candidate for this, since the engine IS already very good (3E > 3.5E > Pathfinder)
Wouldn't that be a great product?
Some things that I'd like to see in such a game could be..
* drop feats
* drop redundant mechanics, e.g.
** make saving throws a skill
** make initiative a skill
** make attack a skill with certain weapon groups
What do you think?
