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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9576095" data-attributes="member: 907">Oh, in the current market Pathfinder is nowhere near being a threat to D&D. But at one time it were, and its existence probably ate into 4e's sales by quite a lot.The way I see it, people disenchanted with 4e would normally have had two options:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Stick with 4e because "Well, I guess this is D&D now."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Stick with 3.5e, which would normally be an intermediate step before.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Stop playing entirely (or possibly switch to some other game).</li> </ol>Pathfinder gave an option 2b: Play Pathfinder instead which is almost exactly 3.5e, and will keep being supported with both rules and setting material, not to mention adventures. This likely persuaded over a lot of people from option 1. In the long run it was probably beneficial, because it kept those players D&D-adjacent and primed to return once 5e was released, but Wizards definitely didn't like it.[MEDIA=youtube]tl6u2NASUzU[/MEDIA]Modiphius is a bit of an odd bird, as they seem highly focused on (a) having a large amount of licensed games that receive a limited amount of releases and then they go on the backlist and don't receive any more support and (b) providing fulfillment services for other companies. But they aren't associated with any one game or game line the way Wizards is associated with D&D, or White Wolf were with World of Darkness. It seems to be working out for them, though.</blockquote>

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