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<blockquote data-quote="Eridanis" data-source="post: 5176948" data-attributes="member: 275"><p>Welcome to the boards! I hope you enjoy your stay.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think it's a safe bet the game will last. Paizo is a well-regarded company of several years' standing, and they have a staff full of smart and creative people. Pathfinder builds on the past ten years of 3E/d20 material and play experience, and its publication under the OGL guarantees that it will be supported for as long as people are interested in it.</p><p></p><p>A recent thread had stats that estimated that Pathfinder was one of the top three PnP RPG brands in 2009. It has the advantage of being built on a known product, and providing a definite alternative to 4E; WotC has the brand, the marketing dollars, and an excellent creative team of its own to continue pushing D&D down the 4E road, but a quick glance around the Internet will tell you that not everyone wants to follow that path. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> So I don't think it's going anywhere for a while.</p><p></p><p>As for the product lines, they are (very sensibly, I think) being cautious about releasing more than 2 or 3 new hardcover rules expansions a year. Lots of people were burnt out by the amount of 3E product produced by WotC and 3rd party d20 publishers from 2000 to 2008; as others have mentioned on these boards, there's enough so that no one would ever need to buy another book again for the rest of their lives to keep adding surprises to their campaign! Instead, Paizo is supporting their RPG lines with adventures (the monthly Adventure Paths you may know about) as well as world-building books that have a lot of non-rules material, and a small amount of new rules material. It seems to me that they're going to quality, not quantity, with the rules they put out, and I imagine a lot of people appreciate that approach.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eridanis, post: 5176948, member: 275"] Welcome to the boards! I hope you enjoy your stay. I think it's a safe bet the game will last. Paizo is a well-regarded company of several years' standing, and they have a staff full of smart and creative people. Pathfinder builds on the past ten years of 3E/d20 material and play experience, and its publication under the OGL guarantees that it will be supported for as long as people are interested in it. A recent thread had stats that estimated that Pathfinder was one of the top three PnP RPG brands in 2009. It has the advantage of being built on a known product, and providing a definite alternative to 4E; WotC has the brand, the marketing dollars, and an excellent creative team of its own to continue pushing D&D down the 4E road, but a quick glance around the Internet will tell you that not everyone wants to follow that path. :) So I don't think it's going anywhere for a while. As for the product lines, they are (very sensibly, I think) being cautious about releasing more than 2 or 3 new hardcover rules expansions a year. Lots of people were burnt out by the amount of 3E product produced by WotC and 3rd party d20 publishers from 2000 to 2008; as others have mentioned on these boards, there's enough so that no one would ever need to buy another book again for the rest of their lives to keep adding surprises to their campaign! Instead, Paizo is supporting their RPG lines with adventures (the monthly Adventure Paths you may know about) as well as world-building books that have a lot of non-rules material, and a small amount of new rules material. It seems to me that they're going to quality, not quantity, with the rules they put out, and I imagine a lot of people appreciate that approach. [/QUOTE]
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