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Imaro I'm not on this site for pidgin chess. Enjoy you're squabbling but you are attacking a strawman here. No pathfinder isn't popular just for the D&D brand recognition, but it is a major factor. Advertising is another major reason for Paizos success, and luck played a role, but from my first...

Every store I've gone to the sales staff uses pathfinder and D&D 3.75 interchangeably. It might not say that on the book but it shore as hell dose on the stores literature. Pathfinder wan't designed to imitate D&D 3.5, It copied 3.5 nearly verbatim. Assuming you aren't talking about some other...

First off cite? I never said that PF was going to fail because it didn't use the D&D brand name, nor have I ever read anyone who has said that. Next you are ignoring the facts I've pointed to you several times now that Paizo is a spin off of WOTC and Pathfinder is sold by game stores as D&D...

Well put, but this was asking for opinions. Not necessarily what works best when but what you feel provides the best game when done well.

You're close but you need to take one step back. However there is one thing telling in what you said there. You provided the options (And I'm going to group them as the question is intending them). "You can set goals by telling the players what the goals are, or you can set them by having a...

OK to rephrase one the question is about setting goals vs. providing paths to goals.

It's a metaphor for running a game. Yes the DM can tell the people what their character need to do and how they need to do it but that's also called railroading.

Ok, the idea is a captain tells the crew what to do, but doesn't steer the ship. The navigator follows order to steer the ship but has little choice what is done. So in your opinion should the GM tell the party what needs doing and let the players find their way, or should the GM listen to the...

Heal bot clerics are hardly ever game breaking. I had a LVL 2 Cleric that regularly healed over 30 points of damage with a singe healing word or healing strike(surge+wis+D6 for target and wis+str for me). No healing magic items either all feats and class features. That and the fact the battle...

But Pathfinder isn't a retro clone. It was sold as a tweaked version of 3.5. Go To any game store and if they don't tell you it is they understand D&D 3.75. And Where's their credentials. Piazo was part of wizards publish material for 3.5. Pathfinder started on the 9900 meter line on the 10k...

To review yes it did. When Pathfinder launched it had brand recognition. It is D&D, lets not kid ourselves. That's what Paizo sell it as, that's what stores sell it as.

Look up how many national TV programs, comic strips, and books reference D&D. Who? The fact is D&D is known from coast to coast and around the world. When normal people think of RP then think of D&D and usually will ask, "what's RP?"

Ask your grandmother what D&D is and then asker what world of darkness is. You'll see which system has more press. Oh and remember the old slogan, "there's no such thing as bad publicity".

That's the thing they're not popular for their content, but brand recognition. Tell me, how is D&D a genre. Answer it's not. D&D is a semi generic heroic fantasy class based level based rpg with a simple core mechanic but a lot of crunch. Their a dime a dozen. Again allot with excellent...

Realy our imaginations suck. Want proof? The wierest creatures in Sci Fy or fantasy pale in comparison to creators the live at the mid ocean ridges. So yes is it any wonder that the most inventive mainstream RPGs have got is people shaped trees, crystals, bugs and wooden robots? Now that's not...

I would refine this. If you're not enjoying you're time playing then there is a problem. Fun isn't always the goal. Being creeper/freaked/scared out of you're mind may not be considered fun but t shore can be enjoyable. Slight distinction but important.

I'm going to agree on savage worlds. There are simple rules for mass combat and other aspects that involve multiple people. One that could be a bit of a stretch would be Mech Warrior could work. A different twist would be a game like Houses of the Blooded. Now I'm in a game of D&D ATM were in...

Ok can I say the quote in the OP is bs marketing speak. Pathfinder's setting and stories are passable. There are so many other games with soo much more focused on setting and feel.

Hi I'm new to the site so I thought I'd introduce my self by sharing my dead tree RPG collection and asking others to do the same. D20 BESM D&D 3.5 PHB D&D 4E DMG1 D&D 4E heroes of the fallen lands D&D 4E Heroes of the forgotten kingdoms D&D 4E Manual of the planes D&D 4E MM1 D&D 4E Monster...

I think it's an important note that we don't actually have very much data. For example we only have relative rankings on amazon. At this point 4E has basically 3 PHB1's, 2 DMG1's etc. not to mention box sets. So it's not really a comparison at all to say PHB1 has a worse ranking then the...