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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8889447" data-attributes="member: 18">Absolutely. I know some DMs who went to PF1 instead of (or in one case, alongside) 4E, and all three of them were fans of the Pathfinder APs already, and had quite a few of them. It was clearly a big factor in getting them off the ground and the extreme compatibility of PF1 and 3.5E (I mean basically the same game, just with EVEN MORE rules!) meant you could just use those APs and so on.One thing I noticed with 3.5E and I think which really hurt 4E in a way WotC didn't expect and which isn't much discussed is that tons of 3.5E DMs had a whole bunch of cool pre-made adventures/campaigns that they still wanted to run. Most at least connected to Paizo - like Age of Worms which was from Paizo-era Dungeon magazine.I think this is part of why 1D&amp;D has wanted to maintain compatibility, because I suspect people have an awful lot of 5E campaigns they'd still like to run one day.(4E's GSL also had a poison-pill clause which meant if you converted any of your stuff to 4E, you could no longer publish any other versions of that stuff, which helped prevent anyone publishing stuff to convert them, too, talk about perverse!)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8889447, member: 18"] Absolutely. I know some DMs who went to PF1 instead of (or in one case, alongside) 4E, and all three of them were fans of the Pathfinder APs already, and had quite a few of them. It was clearly a big factor in getting them off the ground and the extreme compatibility of PF1 and 3.5E (I mean basically the same game, just with EVEN MORE rules!) meant you could just use those APs and so on. One thing I noticed with 3.5E and I think which really hurt 4E in a way WotC didn't expect and which isn't much discussed is that tons of 3.5E DMs had a whole bunch of cool pre-made adventures/campaigns that they still wanted to run. Most at least connected to Paizo - like Age of Worms which was from Paizo-era Dungeon magazine. I think this is part of why 1D&D has wanted to maintain compatibility, because I suspect people have an awful lot of 5E campaigns they'd still like to run one day. (4E's GSL also had a poison-pill clause which meant if you converted any of your stuff to 4E, you could no longer publish any other versions of that stuff, which helped prevent anyone publishing stuff to convert them, too, talk about perverse!) [/QUOTE]

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