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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6803365" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>@<em><strong><u><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=6776981" target="_blank">Morlock</a></u></strong></em> it sounds to me like you are just thoroughly convinced that there is no possible downside to Paizo making a PF2 from the 5e rules. You're not interested in knowing whether it has potential problems--the only possible thing we can give you, since this is a huge hypothetical--so the thread title is a bit spurious. You're not really asking a question at all. You're presenting an argument. It's not the interrogative, "Could Paizo go 5e?" and rather a declaration, "Paizo Could go 5e."</p><p></p><p>Intentionally shooting for <em>hard</em> compatibility with 5e, yet still meeting your points 1 and 2 there, seems pretty difficult. Unless, as @<em><strong><u><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=22424" target="_blank">delericho</a></u></strong></em> put it, they "bring 5e enhancements into a new PF" rather than "build a new PF on the basis of 5e."</p><p></p><p>And "they'll still have PF2(5e)" would be precisely where Paizo was back when 4e launched, <em>which was a problem for them at the time</em>. It WOULD be another case of "getting left behind." Their fanbase would get split, yet again. They'd be facing the same problems as D&D does, whenever a new edition is launched--they built for compatibility with a thing that <em>isn't in vogue anymore.</em></p><p></p><p>If the existence of 5e is a danger such that they should rework their stuff into a new PF2, then 6e should be precisely the same danger. And if 5e is having no meaningful negative effect on their sales, they have no reason to make 5e compatibility a goal with any prospective PF2--better to keep the fans you have than to risk it on fans you don't. Either way, shooting for deep/fundamental compatibility seems unwise...yet shooting for <em>shallow</em> compatibility, e.g. lifting all the useful ideas and trashing the rest, <em>is exactly what Delericho was talking about</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 6803365, member: 6790260"] @[I][B][U][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=6776981"]Morlock[/URL][/U][/B][/I] it sounds to me like you are just thoroughly convinced that there is no possible downside to Paizo making a PF2 from the 5e rules. You're not interested in knowing whether it has potential problems--the only possible thing we can give you, since this is a huge hypothetical--so the thread title is a bit spurious. You're not really asking a question at all. You're presenting an argument. It's not the interrogative, "Could Paizo go 5e?" and rather a declaration, "Paizo Could go 5e." Intentionally shooting for [I]hard[/I] compatibility with 5e, yet still meeting your points 1 and 2 there, seems pretty difficult. Unless, as @[I][B][U][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=22424"]delericho[/URL][/U][/B][/I] put it, they "bring 5e enhancements into a new PF" rather than "build a new PF on the basis of 5e." And "they'll still have PF2(5e)" would be precisely where Paizo was back when 4e launched, [I]which was a problem for them at the time[/I]. It WOULD be another case of "getting left behind." Their fanbase would get split, yet again. They'd be facing the same problems as D&D does, whenever a new edition is launched--they built for compatibility with a thing that [I]isn't in vogue anymore.[/I] If the existence of 5e is a danger such that they should rework their stuff into a new PF2, then 6e should be precisely the same danger. And if 5e is having no meaningful negative effect on their sales, they have no reason to make 5e compatibility a goal with any prospective PF2--better to keep the fans you have than to risk it on fans you don't. Either way, shooting for deep/fundamental compatibility seems unwise...yet shooting for [I]shallow[/I] compatibility, e.g. lifting all the useful ideas and trashing the rest, [I]is exactly what Delericho was talking about[/I]. [/QUOTE]
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