The Gaming Den

This was a fool's errand even back then, when Pathfinder was first announced. I'd say in hindsight, you are correct. Pathfinder lacked a clear, effective, and well designed solution to any (in my opinion) of the actual problems in 3.5E in need of fixing. But at the time? No one but they could have ...

There was some discussion about whether it would in fact become the inheritor of the 3e standard of play and become the thing that by default all roleplayers played if they weren't playing something else. And that was a reasonable discussion to have. This was a fool's errand even back then, when Pa...