As far as I can tell, their reaction to Pathfinder is that Paizo lied and the game is bullshit. Which I take to mean, "When I actually play it, I can't make what I say should happen magically happen because the DM says no/the players won't go for it."
The funny thing is that this forum derides people who are resolving actions without recourse to a book-written system as "playing Magical Tea Party", because when little kids have make-believe time they just say what happens and because there are no rules, it does.
To me it seems like they're trading "Magical Tea Party" in for "Bible Study", where you spend your time scrutinizing the Good Book to find the one obscure passage that forgives what you're doing while condemning what others are... or, if you can't find that, to prove that it doesn't condemn what you're doing and it doesn't excuse what others are doing.
And since they'll take whichever interpretation supports what they want to do in the first place, they're still playing "Magical Tea Party".
Though I prefer the more accurate name of "Pretendy Fun Time"... only their way doesn't seem to be much fun even for them.
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The funny thing is that this forum derides people who are resolving actions without recourse to a book-written system as "playing Magical Tea Party", because when little kids have make-believe time they just say what happens and because there are no rules, it does.
To me it seems like they're trading "Magical Tea Party" in for "Bible Study", where you spend your time scrutinizing the Good Book to find the one obscure passage that forgives what you're doing while condemning what others are... or, if you can't find that, to prove that it doesn't condemn what you're doing and it doesn't excuse what others are doing.
And since they'll take whichever interpretation supports what they want to do in the first place, they're still playing "Magical Tea Party".
Though I prefer the more accurate name of "Pretendy Fun Time"... only their way doesn't seem to be much fun even for them.