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<blockquote data-quote="James Jacobs" data-source="post: 4651708" data-attributes="member: 23937">Of course... if we never publish a 21st-40th level book... then level 20 does sort of become the limit. And unless there's enough demand for an epic book, we won't print it. Despite the vocal support epic level gets (and I am part of that group who likes epic level), the overall picture of how popular epic level play is has traditionally been pretty dismal.Over the past several years I've been at Paizo, I've seen epic level content sell less. I've seen epic level content inspire far fewer authors to submit content for it. And the Epic Level portion of the Beta playtest has been far and above the least-participated in... at least, as far as our messageboards can tell.As a result, while I suspect we'll eventually do some sort of Epic book, I doubt we'll support epic-level play that much, since doing so is more complex and less rewarding than supporting the part of the game that the vast majority of gamers prefer to play.One thing I can guarantee we WON'T do, though, is say that 20th's the limit and you can't go higher. Pathfinder RPG is based on the OGL, and the OGL supports epic level play with the epic level rules SRD, and you'll be able to use those rules with PF RPG, at the very minimum. That does mean that GMs who run epic content will be forced to do more conversions and work on their own... not that I suspect that's something GMs who prefer epic content necessarily think of as a bad thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Jacobs, post: 4651708, member: 23937"] Of course... if we never publish a 21st-40th level book... then level 20 does sort of become the limit. And unless there's enough demand for an epic book, we won't print it. Despite the vocal support epic level gets (and I am part of that group who likes epic level), the overall picture of how popular epic level play is has traditionally been pretty dismal. Over the past several years I've been at Paizo, I've seen epic level content sell less. I've seen epic level content inspire far fewer authors to submit content for it. And the Epic Level portion of the Beta playtest has been far and above the least-participated in... at least, as far as our messageboards can tell. As a result, while I suspect we'll eventually do some sort of Epic book, I doubt we'll support epic-level play that much, since doing so is more complex and less rewarding than supporting the part of the game that the vast majority of gamers prefer to play. One thing I can guarantee we WON'T do, though, is say that 20th's the limit and you can't go higher. Pathfinder RPG is based on the OGL, and the OGL supports epic level play with the epic level rules SRD, and you'll be able to use those rules with PF RPG, at the very minimum. That does mean that GMs who run epic content will be forced to do more conversions and work on their own... not that I suspect that's something GMs who prefer epic content necessarily think of as a bad thing. [/QUOTE]

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