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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 6554802" data-attributes="member: 957">Yes.Let me ask you this:   if Wizards never puts out another D&D book again, would you go see a blockbuster Pathfinder movie made by Universal? Same goes for the product we want.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Understood and I respect that goal.But I don't think this plan advances that goal.D&D has VERY deep roots and the fan base could abandon it altogether for several years before popular culture stopped using as short hand for "things geeks do for fun".But Pathfinder was already gaining recognition on them.  The needle of the hype meter was not jumping, but it was ticking a little.(And this isn't remotely "RAH! RAH! Pathfinder!", I'm completely on your point about the Universal movie here)They have their own comics, they have a TOR book deal.They are run by smart savvy people.  Frankly, they seem to be WAY more in tune with fans and popular culture than WotC.Give it a few more years at this pace and the Pathfinder movie becomes just as likely as the D&D movie.  Yes, I've got plenty of 5E stuff for decades of game.  That completely misses the point.   I've got plenty of PF stuff for CENTURIES of game.  Should I dump 5E and go back to PF?  I am a big fan of both games.  I've played a ton of PF and 5E is new, so that gives it a leg up.  But every month that passes 5E is still 5E and it has been that much longer since I played PF, so that starts canceling out.  And at the same time, I still buy PF stuff when it looks cool.  And I read stuff and go "this looks fun".  This doesn't appear to be something that will happen much for 5E.I know what makes 5E my game of choice in March 2015.  What difference does my years of backlog make to which game is my preference in March 2017?  Assuming any studio will be interested in a D&D movie in the future is risky.  And keeping 5E fresh and new for the fan base makes a big difference to the success of the brand.Why release 5E at all?</blockquote>

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