I've started playing roleplaying games last year and I started on 5e but looking at people's comments people talk a lot of shit about 5e and hype pathfinder and 3.5 up.
As a newbie Dungeon Master please tell me why my next campaign should be pathfinder and not 5e
You should play Pathfinder before you DM it, then you will know for yourself.
On the other hand, do it if you want to. Fun can be had with any game.
If you like transgender Dwarf Shaman that come to be via finding a ((Lizard)) familiar after falling downa ravine, that literally teaches it how to make Hormones, yeah, not a gender change potion, literal hormone blockers to calm down
>Her
Raging Hormones that assists "her" in finding ore veins for her clan, then Pathfinder is for you!
This entire fucking premise is not only real, but stolen from a d20 splatbook called Book of forbidden carnal lusts
Like Literally 3rd Reich with Devil Worship and a Devil that's actually a pretty cool guy because he's Patriarchy incarnate, according to lore? Then Pathfinder is for you!
Like the Old way 1st edition way Liches were created and how demiliches came to be? Pathfinder is for you! Like the potential lost because TSR-WoTC can't liscence Lovecraft's work? Pathfinder is for you!
Like horribly inaccurate statted shoggoths? Pathfinder is for you my friend!
Like a evil oppressive shadow government that keeps the secrets of the universe to itself and often makes people dissapear whom discover this whilst presenting this idea that they're the good guys as they're ruled by wealthy ((merchants)) spellcasters, and whatever else, who are in charge of the main iconic character meetup area that is in no way, a total crime infested violent shithole? Pathfinder is for you! Want to run those old Sci-fi Western 50's era settings like Conan, Red Sonja, Tarzan and that guy who went to mars? Pathfinder is for you! It's part of the same universe even! Why stop there? Fight Rasptuion, master of benevolent communism and magic at behedst of his mother that is Baba yaga.
Want Vampires that are actually Undead Junkies? Pathfinder is for you! Of course, you can just use it to make your own setting, nothing stops you from that user!
75% of the writers for PF are abominable aberrations/Extraplanar Gender-bandit Outsiders with the evil subtype
Oh right! And for some reason PF is full of weebs, which is amazing, because I guess when you add moe' you don't need to write stuff like adventures in the east, which gives you the "trying to be eastern but it's clearly done in the west" out of depth feel you kind of get if you read a marvel X-men Comic when Psycloke came up, or Wolverine goes to Nippon and some-such, there's just a feeling for it in this context, you know?
Thing is i live in a rural area and only have a small group to play with and I'm the only dm
>As a newbie dungeon master
Go with 5e.
As someone who hates 5e and loves Pathfinder, 5e is vastly more friendly to new players and GMs because it is very simple.
Oh, and there's a crossdressing Psychic halfling slave which you'd mistake for a girl before you see the androgynous sideburns, and a really gay 2edgdy4u elf.
Also, a Goddess that is one big phat preggo-monstergirl religious sacrilege fetish Baphomet girl fapbait thing.
Can I make a catgirl character in PF, I need to know so I can make a moe waifu catgirl for a game my friend is running.
You can have fun with any game, but some systems get in the way.
Pathfinder has some more options, but the mechanics are kind of a mess compared to 5e. I would strongly recommend 5e for newbies, it's much less of a pain in the ass to learn. I would also recommend 5e for veterans, due to better balance, less precipitous level scaling, and more elegant base mechanics. But there's no accounting for taste.
> I've started playing roleplaying games last year and I started on 5e but looking at people's comments people talk a lot of shit about 5e and hype pathfinder and 3.5 up.
You've been memed upon. 3.PF is shit, while 5e is universally regarded as a well-made (but not perfect) system.