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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bouncyhead" data-source="post: 5102060" data-attributes="member: 19115">I think this is spot-on. Their new core customer is, since PFRPG, a D&Der who didn't like 4E. In fact, my guess is that the reason they hit a home run (in their terms) with PFRPG is they offered a conservative edition change to a bunch of people who had been eagerly awaiting the 'real' edition change but were disappointed with the result. People who were primed for a 'newness' in D&D but just not that newness. But that new core come with baggage. Steering that crowd through their own edition change is going to require some very deft helmsmanship. These people have demonstrated that they are prepared to shun, or walk away from edition change. In fact I would guess a significant proportion are only with Paizo because they actively disapprove of edition change. They've demonstrated through the PFRPG dev process that they can use playtest to keep people with them, but PFRPG2 would be a whole new order of things.Edit: Reading that back it sounds like I might be Paizo bashing. I should be clear: I am one of this crowd of Pathfinderers and much of my sloppy guesswork above stems from a quick tour around my own ill-formed feelings on the subject.</blockquote>