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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 5098933" data-attributes="member: 13703">I still think Paizo are quite a way off becoming the next WotC.Are they a successful company that makes great gaming products?  Yes.Are they anywhere near the size/sell as many copies of their products as WotC?  I don't know for sure, but I highly doubt it.So while Paizo are doing well, I still think they are a long way off being the big fish in the pond.For Paizo to be more along the path to being the next WotC, they would need to do something like come up with their own RPG.  Many people will state that Pathfinder RPG is just that.  However I consider Pathfinder to just be a revised version of 3.5E.Sure Paizo changed some things, but considering you can run 3.5E adventures and Pathfinder RPG adventures using either system with almost no changes required, I would say that they are still effectively the same system.Does that mean that Pathfinder is a bad RPG?  Not at all.  It just means that it isn't a different game to 3.5E D&D (in my opinion at least).And one important question that probably only Lisa Stevens can answer:Does Paizo even want to be like WotC (in any regard)?  I imagine the answer to most, if not all, of that question would be no.Olaf the Stout</blockquote>