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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 5614275" data-attributes="member: 11760">Pathfinder is partially a special case, though. Erik Mona and company had built up a LOT of good will with their run on Dragon and Dungeon, and the way that WotC terminated those magazines left a bad taste in a lot of mouths (including mine, and I wasn't even a subscriber). Mona also had serious bonafides with the Greyhawk and classic D&amp;D community, which helped make him a perceived new standard-bearer for classic D&amp;D. He also did a much better job of speaking directly and honestly with fans than WotC have done for many years. People wanted Mona and company to succeed. Also, Pathfinder was originally talked about as being an extension of 3.5, but it pretty quickly moved away from that: You don't hear about a lot of people playing Pathfinder with all of the 3.5 WotC supplements -- more people are playing magi rather than warlocks, for instance. People ended up moving over to Pathfinder, which was perceived as &quot;fixing&quot; a lot of the problems that the 3.5 fans acknowledged that 3E had (as opposed to the more radical surgery that 4E performed), instead of just using the Pathfinder to supplement existing 3.5 games.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 5614275, member: 11760"] Pathfinder is partially a special case, though. Erik Mona and company had built up a LOT of good will with their run on Dragon and Dungeon, and the way that WotC terminated those magazines left a bad taste in a lot of mouths (including mine, and I wasn't even a subscriber). Mona also had serious bonafides with the Greyhawk and classic D&D community, which helped make him a perceived new standard-bearer for classic D&D. He also did a much better job of speaking directly and honestly with fans than WotC have done for many years. People [i]wanted[/i] Mona and company to succeed. Also, Pathfinder was originally talked about as being an extension of 3.5, but it pretty quickly moved away from that: You don't hear about a lot of people playing Pathfinder with all of the 3.5 WotC supplements -- more people are playing magi rather than warlocks, for instance. People ended up moving over to Pathfinder, which was perceived as "fixing" a lot of the problems that the 3.5 fans acknowledged that 3E had (as opposed to the more radical surgery that 4E performed), instead of just using the Pathfinder to supplement existing 3.5 games. [/QUOTE]

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