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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 9595676" data-attributes="member: 891">Not on that one no. But the Core remasters were more like a new edition.Just like with DnD 2024 - WotC and Paizo both are now 'scared' of the edition word.Technically these are D&D 5.5 and Pathfinder 2.5 - but don't tell the folks in marketing or the C-suite that. Over on the DnD side, I've heard that even the authors of '2024' have gotten in trouble for calling it what it is: 5.5Paizo's managed to put a tighter gag on it's writers, but that doesn't change what it is, version 2.5.The Core books had major changes. If we were in the 1980s, we'd be calling these things D&D 6E and Pathfinder 3E - because both changes their systems more than AD&D 2E changed from AD&D 1E. Both have more changes than any change in an edition of GURPS, more changes than we saw between the first 3 editions of Champions, etc... Back in those days if you changed the cover art folks would call it a new edition, and people would buy that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />So the core books... those we had to rebuy. That's why I don't like them using the word remaster still. For books that are just errata plus a swap of OGL for ORC - those should just be called errata. But marketing must think calling them remaster will motivate some of us to buy the print book again...Still, it has one benefit. If you're new to Pathfinder and sitting in a local shop, you can see the update on the cover rather than having to look inside for what printing it is.As for why the community was OK with the original set of remaster core's... folks put the blame for that on WotC and their OGL scandal. It forced the hand of Paizo to get out of the OGL, and so Paizo took that as an opportunity to 'do an edition bump that wasn't an edition bump...'Personally I find this whole fear of the 'edition' word to just be a point of customer confusion.</blockquote>

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