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I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm sure that enters into the thinking. But I would point out that customers usually only purchase one cell phone, but often purchase materials for more than one game system. Extending Golarion and its APs to D&D5e does not require new art or stories, only a system...

I would say it was minor. To me, it wasn't a rule with a major impact when it was present in the playtest. I felt it was pointless bureaucracy. We played with it for a while and then just ignored it. If they would have left it in we would have ignored it. It was kind of like alignment...

Perhaps that is a bad example, as the first thing I want to ask is "Who's interpretation of Beowulf?" I'd personally pick Michael Crichton's "Eaters of the Dead" but others will pick the 2007 Film in which Angelina Jolie played Grendle's Mother. I'd go so far as to say they're not even in the...

Of course. I can, and do, modify my games to suit my needs. I was speaking broadly, though I probably wasn't very clear about that. Many people look for off-the-shelf solutions to fit their available time. They want to use a stock system with off-the-shelf adventures. Those folks are not able to...

I kind of agree with both CapnZapp and Saelorn on the sandbox and DC's discussion in that DC 45 for high level progressions is not desirable and neither is a +7 variation at 20 level difference, assuming +7 is the max possible differentiation. There aren't enough game systems, and game systems...

Somebody earlier in this discussion listed something like "greater character choices" as an advantage for PF2. Those who have liked the PF2 playtest will likely say they feel your issue is addressed. Thus far, I would disagree. I had to make a lot of characters in the playtest and just...

It reads to me like a rhetorical question, but if CapnZapp really wants an answer then you're correct.

I can appreciate what they tried to do and I hope they got meaningful information out of it. I can't speak for my region and can only speak for myself. Regarding only the story and not the chores of mechanical testing, only the first adventure was interesting. Anything related to the World...

We just finished the last part of the playtest AP two days ago. I was surprised to learn the DM, who has been pro-PF2, has not been happy with many aspects of the rules. In particular, he commented on not liking the characters that we came up with during the playtest. Of all the characters we...

Just like everyone else -- You guess. You speculate. You express an opinion. This is the Internet! :)

We can't really tell yet. Some people on message boards say there were major changes; others don't. None of them have seen it. Does ditching Resonance, adjusting the skill bonus progression, and more fully filling out the playtest class shells count as a major change? You make the call.

One of my regular games is still working on the PF2 Playtest. The DM just sent out the message about how to update our characters for the last part. He also sent along the playtest goals, which we won't get to comment on because the playtest is complete. As I read through the questions, I feel I...

I'd say it depends on the mindset of the DM, what rules they think is best for themselves, the story to be told, and the players. The older rules are generally simpler and less defined. Continuity fits into this too. If you're part of a long-running game where character continuity matters...

Could you tell us a little bit about your custom setting? For instance, I might recommend Greyhawk and Golarion for pop-fantasy schlock, or historical references for something more realistic. Parts of Forgotten Realms can be used for low-magic even though the fiction for the setting can waste a...

Yes. I'm in two different games have reached those levels several times. The first game plays adventure paths (AP) starting with D&D 3.5, moving into PF 1, and headed to PF2. At upper levels those APs tend to jump the shark with silly character abilities, implausible settings, weird monsters...

While I might appreciate it if the final version of PF2 turned out to actually be close to PF1, I think they'd get destroyed by those folks who liked the system demonstrated by the playtest. So while I can agree there is a certain logic to keeping PF2 and PF1 similar, I think Paizo is running on...

I'm in two Pathfinder games. One plans to use PF2 and the other is sticking with PF1. One of the DMs in the PF1 game expects to manually convert PF2 adventures to PF1. If Paizo supported PF1 in new APs as it would save him time. I suspect Paizo could publish a free PF1 Companion PDF for each AP...

What happens to Paizo depends on sales. If the 1e folks don't largely follow Paizo to 2e then Paizo needs new players. If revenues are lower then Paizo will need to examine its options. IIRC, they are not planning to support 1e with their APs. I toyed around with Google Trends thinking it might...

The link leads me to a pay wall.

That's my memory as well, so yeh "1e was like that." ;) And, to me that was the appeal of 1e. There were so many really nice homebrew games with customized rules that supported what the DM was trying to do. The "universal" aspects to the game system were crude, but the games didn't suffer. The...