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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 7979709" data-attributes="member: 957">The whole "Pathfinder" name comes directly from their legacy.  They were mostly a magazine company early on.  Maybe more, but I don't recall much.  They did Amazing Stories for a bit, and I think they did a Star Wars gaming bit.  But their big thing was when they got the rights to run Dungeon and Dragon magazines for WotC.Dungeon had some challenges and was lagging, but they started "Adventure Paths" with Shackled City and Age of Worms (another?)  They became a really big hit.  Then WotC yanked the license NOT because anything was bad, but because they had a grand new unified plan for 4E.The conversation to the now famous monthly adventure path publications was an attempt to perpetuate that success over from Dungeon magazine.  It was considered a success.   <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=":)" />    Though it was fairly controversial at the time.  I actually don't recall the timing on the APs vs the announcement of the Pathfinder RPG.  But they didn't start publishing APs specifically for "Pathfinder" until issue #25.  Before that they were all 3.5. All of the above is pretty much from my memory of 13ish years ago.  So don't trust it.  <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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