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Pathfinder on the bookstore shelves? Forked Thread: The 3.5 renaissance!
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<blockquote data-quote="joethelawyer" data-source="post: 4706512" data-attributes="member: 55764"><p>This I agree with, partially. Dungeons and Dragons, being the first, and having a lot of early notoriety, made its own brand name from nothing, as well as creating an industry. Star Wars RPG derives marketshare primarily (at least initially) from the Star Wars franchise. Warcraft gets its name brand recognition from the computer game. </p><p></p><p>But look at White Wolf and Warhammer. They have an established industry name, created from nothing. There is nothing inherent in the name itself that lets you know what products they produce. I may be wrong here, never having played either system, but I think White Wolf is mostly a Live Action RPG, and Warhammer is mostly a tabletop miniatures war strategy game, right? I know there is a warhammer FRPG now, but I don't think it has anywhere near the marketshare in the tabletop rpg market that d20 based games have.</p><p></p><p>Since, not counting 4e, the d20 based games have the lions share of the tabletop RPG market, it seems natural to assume that a d20 based game will move to fill in the gap that WOTC's exit from the tabletop rpg market would open up.</p><p></p><p>That being said, and given the fact that other companies have created name brand recognition out of nothing, I think Pathfinder can do it if they get a bigger presence in stores now. </p><p></p><p>just my opinion...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joethelawyer, post: 4706512, member: 55764"] This I agree with, partially. Dungeons and Dragons, being the first, and having a lot of early notoriety, made its own brand name from nothing, as well as creating an industry. Star Wars RPG derives marketshare primarily (at least initially) from the Star Wars franchise. Warcraft gets its name brand recognition from the computer game. But look at White Wolf and Warhammer. They have an established industry name, created from nothing. There is nothing inherent in the name itself that lets you know what products they produce. I may be wrong here, never having played either system, but I think White Wolf is mostly a Live Action RPG, and Warhammer is mostly a tabletop miniatures war strategy game, right? I know there is a warhammer FRPG now, but I don't think it has anywhere near the marketshare in the tabletop rpg market that d20 based games have. Since, not counting 4e, the d20 based games have the lions share of the tabletop RPG market, it seems natural to assume that a d20 based game will move to fill in the gap that WOTC's exit from the tabletop rpg market would open up. That being said, and given the fact that other companies have created name brand recognition out of nothing, I think Pathfinder can do it if they get a bigger presence in stores now. just my opinion... [/QUOTE]
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