Reply To: Dumbing Down RPG's

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@pagan8th

I think you read the (modern) character construction wrong or your GM sucks at using/explaining them …

The thing to remember is that these are not computer games.
There is no real ‘you must pick this and only this’, unless your GM is a rules lawyer and forces you to stick to the official classes in Pathfinder (which is D&D v3.5-ish)

The archetypes in many of these ‘new’ rules are merely suggestions of skill & talent combos that work so you don’t run into a situation where you create a character incapable of performing even the most basic skills of his ‘profession’.

Besides … there’s always the OSR (‘Old School Rules’ ) which is pretty much back to the ‘good old days’ of D&D.
Example is DCC (Dungeon Crawl Classic). If you start at level 0 you don’t even get to pick a class, until you survive your first adventure …