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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6006844" data-attributes="member: 42582">You said that:Here are the figures from the famous <a href="http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/wotcdemo.html" target="_blank">WotC turn-of-the-millenium market research</a>:Getting back to the people still playing the games, when asked what games TRPG players play monthly, the answers (multiple choices allowed) were: D&D 66% Vampire: the Masquerade 25% Star Wars 21% Palladium (assume this is RIFTS) 16% Werewolf: the Apocalypse 15% Shadowrun 15% Star Trek 12% Call of Cthulhu 8% Legend of the Five Rings 8% Deadlands 5% Alternity 4% GURPS 3%Palladium is visible there. BRP (in the form of CoC) is visible there. If the snapshot had been taken 10 or so years earlier, I am confident that ICE (in the form of MERP) would have beeen visible there - especially as many people bought MERP supplements to run in other systems (and ICE deliberately caterered to this, with extensive conversion guidelines in their MERP books).And as [MENTION=22779]Hussar[/MENTION] pointed out, White Wolf (in the form of Vampire and Werewolf) was highly visible there, and had earlier outranked D&D as the top-selling RPG.In any event, while Pathfinder is not D&D from the point of view of trademarking and corporate profits, it very obviously is D&D from the point of view of audience uptake and participation. Here is a poster from Paizo that illustrates that point (and if there is one thing that Paizo is great at, it's marketing - they know their audience):[section][imagel]http://paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZOP/PZOPFLAUNCH_500.jpeg[/imagel][/section]I don't think there is any ambiguity about what "3.5" in that poster is referring too!</blockquote>

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