Why does Pathfinder suck?

Take a look at Talislanta.

Every published edition is now free from their official site.

It's got a setting like nowt else, no humans or traditional fantasy races.

>No Tolkein and no humans
Fucking sign me up.

>Talislanta
>pointy ears guys who look like elves
>game markets itself as "no elves"
yea, okay

That's called a kettlebell and they're getting popular lately.

maybe they're aelves, totally different

This is some of the better bait I have ever seen.

At least 75% of all fantasy races ever are elf. Because pointy ears are the elf toggle.

>Because there are other systems that are free online, have plenty of third party stuff, and are also easy to learn. It's cool if you like Pathfinder, but don't say you like it because you think it's the only rpg out there that has those three positives.

You'd be surprised at the number of people who only play 3E/Pathfinder because they are under the mistaken impression that it's the best viable option. Why else would their friends all insist on it?

These systems also teach people that learning new RPGs are super hard so you shouldn't learn anything else.
When this is false for a huge number of systems.
They're the worst entry to the medium.

>I like to eat shit, all my friends like eating shit, and it took us a lot of time investment to learn how to eat shit properly. Why does everyone rankle their noses in disgust when I tell them we like eating shit?
Pathfinder is a garbage system and that's that. There is no reason to play such a bloated, complex, obsessively rules heavy RPG based on flawed design philosophy. There is absolutely no reason to subject yourself to caster supremacy, ivory tower design, "rules for everything"/"it's not up to the GM" design, massive numbers of options across dozens of books, insane amounts of time spent bookkeeping instead of playing, ridiculously long combats as people struggle to work through every possible detail of such a wildly complex, interconnected system and to do so much fucking math at the table.

Pathfinder is the Minecraft of tabletop RPGs. It looks simple enough at first but it takes forever to do anything, changing anything sets off a chain reaction of bullshit and the fanbase is among the most autistic in the industry. Both had a huge impact on their industries, and both were probably net negatives.