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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5805381" data-attributes="member: 50895">That's not true. Not saying your LGS might not have had 3.5 books, but they weren't supposed to. WotC ordered all 3.5 books removed from the distribution channel, including books in existing LGSs, a year before Pathfinder was released. My LGS was long out of 3.5 books when I was still looking for some, about the time Pathfinder was still in Beta. Paizo decided to create Pathfinder, as a result of not being able to supply a basic rules set to cover their AP productline. They would not be able to place adventures into distribution channels with a defunct game system, which is what 3.5 was at the time. Had 3.5 not been officially removed from the system, Paizo would not have needed to create Pathfinder. Pathfinder was created to serve their main productline as a basic rules system. Since all their Dragon/Dungeon magazine support was based on WotC's 3.5 rules, they were already familiar with that, and thought it unnecessary to create a non-3.5 based game. So they created Pathfinder instead.</blockquote>