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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 4116142" data-attributes="member: 13892">It's also worth noting that Iron Heroes, Arcana Evolved, and Spycraft don't appear to fill the same niche as Pathfinder RPG. For starters, I'm not certain why Buzz mentioned Spycraft -- it's a game of modern Espionage, not fantasy (if it was mentioned for the as yet unreleased Fantasycraft plug-in, well. . . it's as yet unreleased and, thus, irrelevant). Iron Heroes and Arcana Evolved aren't standalone RPGs but, rather, alternate PHBs for D&D 3.5 (you still need the DMG and MM to gather all of the rules for play). The Pathfinder RPG (at least according to blurbs about Alpha 2 and the already available rules in Alpha 1) appears to be planned as a complete in one volume RPG that is dedicated to being easily compatible with existing D&D 3.5 products. In that respect, it has a leg up on the alternate PHB 'games' because it already contains rules for XP and encounter balancing in one book. It has a leg up on non-fantasy games like Spycraft in that it's much, much, more compatible with standard D&D 3.5 document. And, of course, the obvious edge over as yet unreleased products is. . . I'm certain that everybody can figure it out <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>