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<blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 6543043" data-attributes="member: 6680772">You're missing his point, though.&nbsp; He's not talking about what's successful and viable in the fan community, he's talking about what's successful and viable for the companies making it.So you can't just tack Pathfinder onto 3.5 and say &quot;Look at the success!&quot;&nbsp; The fact is that 3.5 was no longer making WotC the kind of money it needed, so it had to be revised and resold.&nbsp; Pathfinder doesn't change that -- it's actually an example of what he's talking about.&nbsp; Paizo redid the core rules (big public playtest and everything), and started from Square One.&nbsp; Not surprisingly, people started calling Pathfinder bloated and unwieldy 4 or 5 years after release (if not sooner).&nbsp; We're starting to hear rumors of a new edition of Pathfinder.&nbsp; Paizo may be better positioned to handle this than WotC, but again, they are two different companies with different goals and different strategies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Iosue, post: 6543043, member: 6680772"] You're missing his point, though. He's not talking about what's successful and viable in the fan community, he's talking about what's successful and viable for the companies making it. So you can't just tack Pathfinder onto 3.5 and say "Look at the success!" The fact is that 3.5 was no longer making WotC the kind of money it needed, so it had to be revised and resold. Pathfinder doesn't change that -- it's actually an example of what he's talking about. Paizo redid the core rules (big public playtest and everything), and started from Square One. Not surprisingly, people started calling Pathfinder bloated and unwieldy 4 or 5 years after release (if not sooner). We're starting to hear rumors of a new edition of Pathfinder. Paizo may be better positioned to handle this than WotC, but again, they are two different companies with different goals and different strategies. [/QUOTE]

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