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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6328436" data-attributes="member: 8461">In my view, Pathfinder stopped worrying about back-compatibility after the Core Rulebook came out in 2009.Once it had established itself, the Pathfinder RPG ceased worrying about issues of back-compatibility - why should it? It didn't take it very long to scoop up the 3.5 market that didn't want to switch to 4E. After that, it became focused on maintaining compatibility with itself - and in that regard, Pathfinder Unchained probably won't change anything.Pathfinder is about to mark its fifth anniversary, and by all accounts it's still going strong. There's no reason to invalidate their deep bench of existing products, to say nothing of upending their existing fan-base, by dropping hints that they're going to release a second edition of the game. It's not a coincidence that this book's main tease right now are simply tweaked Core classes - not that much different from some new archetypes or just new classes with the same name.I don't think we're going to see anything here that really changes the game mechanics; at least, not more than some small, modular, optional changes which all work alongside the main rules.</blockquote>