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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ggroy" data-source="post: 5095570" data-attributes="member: 83805">Perhaps a better comparison than WotC, would be the late 1970's era TSR before (A)D&D became very popular in the mainstream pop culture.It remains to be seen whether lightning will strike twice, in Paizo replicating the huge success of early-mid 1980's TSR.At the present time, I don't see anything offhand which would indicate that Paizo would be able to replicate or exceed the success of early-mid 1980's TSR .  There would have to be significant penetration of Pathfinder into the mainstream pop culture of the early 2010's.EDIT: One possible way would be if the upcoming Pathfinder novels are very popular amongst the kids who grew up reading Harry Potter.  Though the flipside of novels becoming extremely popular, is that the company may possibly change their business plan and concentrate more on publishing new novels than on new Pathfinder rpg game stuff.  More novels being written brings in more canon and fleshes out more details of the Golarion campaign setting world.  It may very well end up becoming like another very detailed and "canon heavy" Forgotten Realms type setting.  Canon clashes become more probable, especially if the editors become too lax.  It would be a huge nightmare writing for highly detailed world setting, which requires an encyclopedic knowledge of the details and canon.</blockquote>