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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 9598680" data-attributes="member: 891">They have stated this several times and they are... kind of... sticking to it.They ONLY planned to remaster what has already been remastered:The core rulebook, the advanced players guide, and bestiary, and the Gamemastery guide. These all got rewritten as new core books. In a sense the last piece of this is shipping right now: NPC Core is about 1/5-1/4 the NPCs that were in Gamemastery Guide. It just also has a massive amount of never before seen new stuff.Where they are being fuzzy is that all new reprints are getting the remaster label on the cover - but these are just reprints with the near to last page OGL swapped for ORC, and the errata that is mostly already on their website's FAQ. These books - if you owned the PDFs, you get an update.So technically we're done with remaster. NOTHING else should get a 'real remaster' (soft edition bump). Future books that say 'remaster' should just be reprints with errata and ORC.It can suck for print only people, but we're like people holding on to LPs in the MP3 era... Our format has no logical purpose, it's all about nostalgia.Fortunately for me I'm in between. I am still fond of my legacy format, but I actually prefer the digital for day to day use. I only keep the legacy because I'm an old Gen-X who feels weird if I can't see a physical item somewhere.Again: I don't blame Paizo for this one bit. I blame WotC and their OGL fiasco. By the time they reneged on it from pressure, and ONLY from pressure - Paizo was knee deep into remaster work, and it was just better to keep moving forward just in case the wind changed direction over at WotC. One thing about ORC is that even if the wind changes at Paizo, anything in ORC can't be messed with.Note that the same person who created d20 and OGL, now works at/with Paizo and made ORC. And he made ORC to fix the flaws time has shown in OGL. They can't Pinkerton you over ORC stuff. <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=";)" />Also... it's been more like 4-6 years. At this point PF2E is just shy of 7 years old - I have the print version of the beta, and it's from 2018. I have the print version of the first printing also - 2019.So we're looking at around 1.5 to 2x longer than the gap between 3.0 and 3.5. I was there for that gap too - it was very popular at the time because it fixed stuff. But it was a smaller change than Pathfinder just got. In retrospect it looks much more like a cash grab - no major fixes and no legal pressure. But I also have to admit that given WotC today, I have a tendency to just past WotC more harshly.WotC at the time of 3.0 was the people who now own Paizo - often literally the same people. WotC by 3.5 was possibly early Hasbro.</blockquote>

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