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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LurkMonkey" data-source="post: 5269976" data-attributes="member: 68949">Let me try to answer these points:  Well, Pathfinder isn't 3e. Based on 3e, yes, backwards compatible yes, a straight reprint, no.  Considering the risks of starting up a new OGL-based game system when 4e was starting its run and still had the shiny on, I'm not surprised they had a fairly small print run. It's easier to print a second run than sit on a pile of unsold copies after all. It's been pretty much revealed by the Paizo folks that Pathfinder has done better than they could have imagined. Even going the way they did I would argue was 'wildly ambitious'. And it seems to have paid off bigtime.  Wow. Don't really know what to say about this one. 'hardly a hugely original setting?' I would beg to differ. Golarion is a campaign world where you can find almost any culture from devil-worshiping fascists to French Revolutionary-style fanatics, to anarchic Pirate Kingdoms, to Ancient undead-ruled theocracies all tied together in a way that makes them all seem logical together. I don't know what you mean by 'hardly a hugely original setting'. Is it because these ideas have been used before? Pray, tell me how 4e has invented new tropes?  So cannibalizing past campaign worlds and game systems is 'original?' I do not think this word means what you think it means. Call me when 4e comes up with a completely 'original' campaign world. I am actually surprised they would touch Gamma World with a 39 1/2-foot pole. I love the setting myself, but it has been a kiss of death since its 2nd edition. Hope they have some success with it, best of luck.</blockquote>

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