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<blockquote data-quote="epithet" data-source="post: 7779213" data-attributes="member: 6796566"><p>Paizo just wants to sell books, I don't think it matters too much which of their books they're selling. Their books fall into 3 broad categories: system, setting, and adventure. The market for the system books (Pathfinder 1 & 2) is somewhat limited, while the market for the setting and adventure books is potentially as large as the D&D market.</p><p></p><p>Pathfinder's Golarion is, in my opinion, a much better setting than the Forgotten Realms. The adventures published for the setting seem to be at least as good as the stuff coming out for D&D, and I've seen plenty of comments suggesting they're quite a bit better. It seems like a no-brainer, to me, for Paizo to publish a 5e Golarion setting book with some new races, classes, and monsters, followed by 5e versions of their most popular adventure paths. Hell, they can even Kickstart it.</p><p></p><p>Going forward, if their 5e stuff sells well (which I can't imagine it wouldn't) it makes sense for future adventures to be published for PF and 5e, both. Even if the 5e version sells 4 times as many copies, they need to keep supporting the PF game system for the inevitable day when interest in D&D starts to slack off again. This is apparently the conclusion that Monte Cook Games came to, because they recently Kickstarted the Arcana of the Ancients, which is a bid to repackage Numenera material for the 5e crowd. That campaign got half a million dollars for books that, for the most part, re-work existing material to appeal to a larger audience.</p><p></p><p>The simple reality of the RPG market seems to be that D&D is the center around which the hobby orbits. Whether its a sun that radiates life to its satellites or a black hole that gobbles up everything else is debatable, but for now it seems like the best strategy might be to tuck in as the remora to the D&D shark, or the egret to the D&D buffalo. If Paizo can get a significant number of D&D players to run campaigns in Golarion, becoming familiar with the world and pantheon and considering it their setting of choice, then Paizo wins, regardless of what system those campaigns are using.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="epithet, post: 7779213, member: 6796566"] Paizo just wants to sell books, I don't think it matters too much which of their books they're selling. Their books fall into 3 broad categories: system, setting, and adventure. The market for the system books (Pathfinder 1 & 2) is somewhat limited, while the market for the setting and adventure books is potentially as large as the D&D market. Pathfinder's Golarion is, in my opinion, a much better setting than the Forgotten Realms. The adventures published for the setting seem to be at least as good as the stuff coming out for D&D, and I've seen plenty of comments suggesting they're quite a bit better. It seems like a no-brainer, to me, for Paizo to publish a 5e Golarion setting book with some new races, classes, and monsters, followed by 5e versions of their most popular adventure paths. Hell, they can even Kickstart it. Going forward, if their 5e stuff sells well (which I can't imagine it wouldn't) it makes sense for future adventures to be published for PF and 5e, both. Even if the 5e version sells 4 times as many copies, they need to keep supporting the PF game system for the inevitable day when interest in D&D starts to slack off again. This is apparently the conclusion that Monte Cook Games came to, because they recently Kickstarted the Arcana of the Ancients, which is a bid to repackage Numenera material for the 5e crowd. That campaign got half a million dollars for books that, for the most part, re-work existing material to appeal to a larger audience. The simple reality of the RPG market seems to be that D&D is the center around which the hobby orbits. Whether its a sun that radiates life to its satellites or a black hole that gobbles up everything else is debatable, but for now it seems like the best strategy might be to tuck in as the remora to the D&D shark, or the egret to the D&D buffalo. If Paizo can get a significant number of D&D players to run campaigns in Golarion, becoming familiar with the world and pantheon and considering it their setting of choice, then Paizo wins, regardless of what system those campaigns are using. [/QUOTE]
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