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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 4427287" data-attributes="member: 7394">Conventions and word of mouth is the only thing that will work in the current market. When I went to SpoCon a couple weeks ago there was initially no buzz about Pathfinder because nobody knew what the heck it was or who the heck Paizo was. Sure, they remembered Dragon and Dungeon, and when I reminded them that it was done by an outside company called Paizo, there were a few who suddenly identified with it, but most people just gave me blank stares at first. Many of them were carrying around 3.5 books, saying that they didn't like 4E, but weren't completely happy with 4E.I was in a fortuitous position because the even coordinator wanted me to talk about Pathfinder at their 4E panel. It was his idea, not mine, and I was the lone dissenter in the bunch. I kept it positive and focused on the good things about Pathfinder without dissing 4E. By the end of the day, there were at least 5 people who came up to me and wanted to know how they could get Pathfinder. A couple days ago I got a call out of the blue from the guy who invited me there and he also wanted to know how he could get Pathfinder because I had managed, through talking to people and running games, to sell his players that it was the way they wanted to go.The only way to bring new people in for 3PPs is to go out there, talk to people, run the games, and show them how awesome those companies and their products are. With effort, the people online can reach out to the people who aren't online, who can reach out to more people, and it will snowball, but it takes an individual effort on people's part, and unfortunately not everybody has the time to do that. I really don't have the time to do that very often myself, but that's the only way.We, online here, are the seeders if the 3PP forest is ever going to grow. If you want these amazing products to have a presence out there in the real world, go plant some trees.</blockquote>

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