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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9245701" data-attributes="member: 7635">Personally, I don't consider the Pathfinder model to be the best method for any and all games. In fact, I find that balkanizing the RPG section into a bunch of games that aren't intercompatible has lessened my desire for 3pp, not enhanced it.To white, in 3.5 there were companies I looked at and purchased regularly: Green Ronin, Goodman Games, Paizo. Ran a lot of adventures and used supplements from each regularly. In the years since, I went for regularly purchasing them to having bought little from any of them in a long time. Why? Because each has put the vast majority of its energy into its home systems (PF, DCC, True 20) and I don't run any of them. I don't have the time to run more than one game (let alone system) and I simply have no need for multiple Fantasy RPGs. As each focused on their home system (and the home systems diverged farther and farther) I simply stopped buying from them. The same will now probably happen with Kobold, MCDM, and such. What will happen is that plenty of independent RPG companies will make independent games that don't connect with one another, causing fans to &quot;pick a system&quot; and stick with it. And to be fair, my heavy investment in D&amp;D 5e means that I'm far more likely to buy the PHB 24 (especially if it remains compatible with my older 5e books) than I am to pick of TotV, let alone PF2e. I'm getting too old to be starting again somewhere new...I get it probably wasn't healthy to have so many games that are just reflections of the big dog, but I really DO miss the days I could mix and match my favorite publishers and designers because they all were designing in the same language and mechanics. Now, no matter what I think of Paizo as a company, I have no use for the products it designs these days.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 9245701, member: 7635"] Personally, I don't consider the Pathfinder model to be the best method for any and all games. In fact, I find that balkanizing the RPG section into a bunch of games that aren't intercompatible has lessened my desire for 3pp, not enhanced it. To white, in 3.5 there were companies I looked at and purchased regularly: Green Ronin, Goodman Games, Paizo. Ran a lot of adventures and used supplements from each regularly. In the years since, I went for regularly purchasing them to having bought little from any of them in a long time. Why? Because each has put the vast majority of its energy into its home systems (PF, DCC, True 20) and I don't run any of them. I don't have the time to run more than one game (let alone system) and I simply have no need for multiple Fantasy RPGs. As each focused on their home system (and the home systems diverged farther and farther) I simply stopped buying from them. The same will now probably happen with Kobold, MCDM, and such. What will happen is that plenty of independent RPG companies will make independent games that don't connect with one another, causing fans to "pick a system" and stick with it. And to be fair, my heavy investment in D&D 5e means that I'm far more likely to buy the PHB 24 (especially if it remains compatible with my older 5e books) than I am to pick of TotV, let alone PF2e. I'm getting too old to be starting again somewhere new... I get it probably wasn't healthy to have so many games that are just reflections of the big dog, but I really DO miss the days I could mix and match my favorite publishers and designers because they all were designing in the same language and mechanics. Now, no matter what I think of Paizo as a company, I have no use for the products it designs these days. [/QUOTE]

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