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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5477068" data-attributes="member: 15538">This paragraph is riddled with logical errors. First, Paizo is selling the Pathfinder game in no small part to sell a core game to people who are already their customers. Even if the market remained exactly the same, that's money in their pocket. Second, their concern could be losing market share to another third party. Third, if 3.5 is going to become 3.75, someone has to write it. Irrespective of relative market share, Paizo apparently decided to crown themselves the publisher of 3.75. There is no question that an itch to revise 3.5 was growing. Fourth, it could be a hedge, to attempt to weaken WotC's position and try to get them to open 4e under the OGL. Fifth, you are making the very questionable guess that 3e players will not need new rulebooks; even without any rules changes at all, someone had to figure out a profitable way to reprint something resembling the 3.5 core books. In this case, active support is evidence of... active support. You are correct in that publishing Pathfinder clearly serves Paizo's interests, but you are incorrect in implying a 3pp continuation of the 3e game lineage exists only because Pathfinder wants to sell modules. The clearest reason for Paizo to puplish Pathfinder is because they could. They are a game company; if it suits their financial and creative ends to publish something, they will. You're painting a picture of Paizo as a blade-and-razor type operation, but that's inaccurate. The core books themselves are money makers, and thousands of "razors" are already out there. Even without the Pathfinder RPG, Paizo could have continued to sell modules as long as someone kept the core rules in print.</blockquote>

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