Uniting the [Publisher] Fanbase?

[Glade Riven]

Paizo developed Pathfinder RPG to support their bread and butter: the adventure lines. If the licensing for NEXT is decent and enough of the fanbase shifts back to D&D 5e, Paizo will provide what the fanbase wants. After all, that's what makes them the money.

Personally? I don't mind having two "Big Dawgs" on the market. Each keeps the other on it's toes.

 

[Savage Wombat]

Paizo developed Pathfinder RPG to support their bread and butter: the adventure lines. If the licensing for NEXT is decent and enough of the fanbase shifts back to D&D 5e, Paizo will provide what the fanbase wants. After all, that's what makes them the money.

Personally? I don't mind having two "Big Dawgs" on the market. Each keeps the other on it's toes.

This. If 5e is all they want it to be (and a bag of chips), then it should be a snap to convert Pathfinder to 5e as well.

Paizo would lose nothing by designing their adventures to be playable under 5e as well as PF.

Perhaps a specific set of rules modules will be the Pathfinder style.

 

[OnlineDM]

I'd started a thread speculating about Paizo and 5e a few weeks ago. My guess is that if D&D Next is really successful, enough to get folks who like Pathfinder to start playing Next and adapting the Paizo Adventure Paths to it, then Paizo will support D&D Next. Why wouldn't they, if there's a good business opportunity?

I imagine the same logic will apply to other publishers.

Note that this is all preceded by a very big IF about whether D&D Next will in fact be such a huge success. But it could happen.

 

[Argyle King]

For the character builder? I would say "tremendously important" from the 4e groups I know.

...and I'd say 'not at all' from the 4E groups I know.

Of the 3 groups I regularly communicate with, zero members have a DDi account. I have a WoTC account, and there have been a few times when I entertained the idea of subscribing, but I never have.


edit: Then again, most people I've spoken with online seem to think I am some sort of mutant for being able to make a character by hand, so maybe I'm in the minority.

 

[Lord Mhoram]

edit: Then again, most people I've spoken with online seem to think I am some sort of mutant for being able to make a character by hand, so maybe I'm in the minority.

I remember back in the 80s doing Champions characters by hand.

No one I know personally ever bothered with DDI. I had it for Dungeon and Dragon and played around with the character building, but I used some 3PP and I would rather make characters by hand with that info, than use the character builder without.

So lack of 3PP in Character builder made me drop the character builder, not the 3PP/

 

[IanB]

...and I'd say 'not at all' from the 4E groups I know.

Of the 3 groups I regularly communicate with, zero members have a DDi account. I have a WoTC account, and there have been a few times when I entertained the idea of subscribing, but I never have.


edit: Then again, most people I've spoken with online seem to think I am some sort of mutant for being able to make a character by hand, so maybe I'm in the minority.

I'm perfectly able to create a character by hand. The character builder is just far more convenient. No sifting through multiple books for feats, powers, etc.