Hi Bloodbain and welcome to the guild!

I used to use Bryce a lot and still have Bryce 7 on my system. It takes a lot of getting used to in terms of learning how it works. Unless I'm using it to render heightmaps, I tend to do all my modelling in another program (Silo 3d) and render it in Bryce. Although the front end of Bryce is idiosyncratic it's still good value for money imo. It's speciality is rendering landscapes but Vue Infinite seems to have cornered that market although you need a powerful system (or lots of time) to run it.

What sort of stuff were you thinking of modelling and what is your budget? There is a lot out there ranging from free to obscenely expensive.