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What is Paizo going to do when 5E comes out?
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<blockquote data-quote="Cybit" data-source="post: 6023045" data-attributes="member: 66111"><p>A lot of it depends.</p><p></p><p>I think part of the reason 4E did not transition over as well as previous editions was because people were not ready for move on from 3.5, and PF offered a slightly new take on a familiar system. That said; it's now been 4 more years since then, and Paizo has the unfamiliar position of potentially being the big kid on the block for the next two years as 5E gets revved up. I think the biggest issue Paizo may have is just general burnout from 3.5/PF sets in, as people will have been playing the system for more than 10 years by the time D&D Next comes out. </p><p></p><p>If D&D Next is wildly successful, I expect Paizo might go more into publishing adventures & universe books for D&D Next. If D&D Next is not very successful, PF will probably keep going on, probably moving towards PF2 (which will be very interesting, if they try to keep the 3.5 core, or move towards actually making their own d20 system). Paizo's most...interesting decision will be if D&D Next is successful enough to pull a decent amount of PF players away, but not enough to completely take over the market. Then they are in that weird position of either a) switching support over to D&D Next and possibly being the tipping point for the edition, or b) being a distant second place. </p><p></p><p>Honestly; I'm curious to see how PF evolves and how the PF player base evolves over the next two years. I think there will be a lot of unexpected results from Paizo being on top of the d20 mountain for two years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cybit, post: 6023045, member: 66111"] A lot of it depends. I think part of the reason 4E did not transition over as well as previous editions was because people were not ready for move on from 3.5, and PF offered a slightly new take on a familiar system. That said; it's now been 4 more years since then, and Paizo has the unfamiliar position of potentially being the big kid on the block for the next two years as 5E gets revved up. I think the biggest issue Paizo may have is just general burnout from 3.5/PF sets in, as people will have been playing the system for more than 10 years by the time D&D Next comes out. If D&D Next is wildly successful, I expect Paizo might go more into publishing adventures & universe books for D&D Next. If D&D Next is not very successful, PF will probably keep going on, probably moving towards PF2 (which will be very interesting, if they try to keep the 3.5 core, or move towards actually making their own d20 system). Paizo's most...interesting decision will be if D&D Next is successful enough to pull a decent amount of PF players away, but not enough to completely take over the market. Then they are in that weird position of either a) switching support over to D&D Next and possibly being the tipping point for the edition, or b) being a distant second place. Honestly; I'm curious to see how PF evolves and how the PF player base evolves over the next two years. I think there will be a lot of unexpected results from Paizo being on top of the d20 mountain for two years. [/QUOTE]
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