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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 4822720" data-attributes="member: 9053">I don't think it's "hopeful" speculation, since I don't want Pathfinder (or any other RPG) to fail, but it's a simple fact: not everyone who starts playing RPGs keep doing so. Over time, some of the people who were playing 3X and who moved to Pathfinder will move on to other things, just as some of the people who play 4E will. A game has to constantly get new players because of this. You may end up being right. I guess I see Pathfinder in a different light than those other systems. Most people come into the hobby through D&D, and if they stay in it, they decide to try other systems eventually because they discover that this other system is out there that does something different that they want: maybe they want to play super heroes and find M&M or Godlike or HERO or something similar. I guess I'm not seeing the draw for Pathfinder to people who enter the hobby through 4E. I can certainly see how people who want to keep playing 3X and have it be supported will like it, just not how the new blood will come into the game. You may be right, and Pathfinder will just be another system among many, but I wonder if the designers have any thoughts or goals they'd like to share (since some have come by this thread already). This is a bit of a stretch from the original point of the thread, perhaps we should fork it to continue any discussion (which I'm happy to do). --Steve</blockquote>

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