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Where's the option for willing to play both, without "switching out" one for the other?
Pathfinder 1E Current Pathfinder Players: Are you considering switching over to D&D 5E?
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I definitely prefer 3e to 4e, but I've reached my Pathfinder threshold and am rather tired of it. It's just too complex and tedious.
Plus my heart I think longs for something like the edition I played when I started playing - 2e.
I'm ready for something simple, fast and easy. I hope D&D Next delivers on that promise.
Plus my heart I think longs for something like the edition I played when I started playing - 2e.
I'm ready for something simple, fast and easy. I hope D&D Next delivers on that promise.
gamerprinter
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20 years ago, I played a lot more different RPG systems and multiple groups. Now a days I only play games with a single group, and that group pretty much sticks to a single RPG system. It was 3x, now its Pathfinder. So 20 years ago, I'm sure I would have some excitement for a new release of D&D, but its not 20 years ago - I have no excitement now, really only irritation that the system is being rebooted again.
Really the only way I'd even look at Next/5e, is if it was brand under Paizo Publishing, since it won't be, then I won't even look. I don't think there is anything that WotC could do to get me to look at any product they create for any reason whatsoever. I don't need a second game system, one is more than enough.
Really the only way I'd even look at Next/5e, is if it was brand under Paizo Publishing, since it won't be, then I won't even look. I don't think there is anything that WotC could do to get me to look at any product they create for any reason whatsoever. I don't need a second game system, one is more than enough.
This seems an oddly stubborn and dogmatic position to take. Are you saying if WotC produced a D&D game that you liked better than Pathfinder, you would refuse to buy/play it out of sheer hostility towards the company itself?
I don't know what terrible thing WotC could have done to you to cause such anger.
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gamerprinter
Mapper/Publisher
No, not at all. I haven't stated the context of my reasons for buying a new RPG system in my previous post (I didn't want to bore you all with it, but since you're asking...).
My buying habits and yours must be completely different, and for the reasons I make purchases. I never buy anything because its something new, and I want to try it out. I only ever buy anything because I have some kind of need, and most often such purchases aren't made until years and years after its release to the public - I never want to be the first in line for any product (RPGs or otherwise). I never generally make purchases based on brand loyalty, its only ever based on my research for a given product, and what I deem to be my best choice at the time. Of course I did move to PF at Beta for the reason discussed below.
Consider that when 3x was released, I was still playing 2e. Just because 3x was created in no way meant, I needed to purchase that system. It wasn't until a new player joined our group that had hopes to one day publish a 3x campaign he'd been writing, that we even looked at 3x at all, and that was 2006. That person never did publish his adventure (although it was kind of poorly designed and written anyway). Had that new member with his specific system request for 3x never happened, there would be a very good chance that our table would still be playing 2e, even today.
It was only because I too wanted to publish my own oriental setting and didn't want to have to compete with the existing OA 3x Rokugan, that I even looked at Pathfinder in the first place. So it was for that reason alone that our table switched to PF.
I have since published the Kaidan setting of Japanese horror (PFRPG) as an imprint under Rite Publishing, then ran a Kickstarter to fund the creation of hard back printed GMs and Players guides to the setting - which we are still in the final stages of work preparing it for release. Because there are yet a ton of supplements and adventures I want to create for that setting intended for Pathfinder RPG, I don't see a compelling reason to look at another game system until my setting and all products I want to develop has been created - which I see requires at least 2-4 years more.
And even then, there would have to be a direct compelling need to look at another RPG system to consider another switch. If, by some chance, that another opportunity or a new member with new needs joins our group, then perhaps that might be a reason to look at Next (of course that would only be considered after the complete development of Kaidan). Short of something like that, however, I don't it ever happening.
So its not due to being stubborn and dogmatic - I don't ever make purchases of anything based on emotion, only ever for some tangible need. Companies and brands mean nothing to me - I don't have any hostilities nor attachments to any RPG company (except my own and those that I freelance for - and I have done freelance work for Paizo Publishing.)
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Fair enough.
For myself, I've found I tire of a system after so many years playing it. I've reached that point with 3e/PF and find myself coming full circle, longing for something fast and loose and, dare I say, AD&D-ish.
Good luck with your publishing efforts.
an_idol_mind
Explorer
I voted no, but it's also worth noting that I didn't plan on switching over to 3rd edition, 3.5, or Pathfinder until I actually saw the products.
A lot would depend on the quality of support D&D gets. One of Pathfinder's biggest advantages is that they make a lot of support material that I really want to pick up. If WotC doesn't put together a heck of a good product and some excellent non-rules support to go with it, I can't imagine being that interested.
A lot would depend on the quality of support D&D gets. One of Pathfinder's biggest advantages is that they make a lot of support material that I really want to pick up. If WotC doesn't put together a heck of a good product and some excellent non-rules support to go with it, I can't imagine being that interested.
I'm going to say this with 100% assurance and certainty. WoTc will never ever outdo Piazo when it comes to support material.
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