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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7549807" data-attributes="member: 2209">They said at the time it was dual purpose. One to keep D&amp;D alive in perpetuity. This worked when WotC went 4e and Paizo stepped in to keep 3.5 going under the OGL.Two was support material to boost their D&amp;D as the dominant game. This looked successful to me.&nbsp;Just like TSR got a shock when Chaosium put out <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/1712/All-the-Worlds-Monsters-Vol-1?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">All the Worlds' Monsters</a> before TSR got out their <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17002/Monster-Manual-1e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Monster Manual</a>.This delay was just like 4e for me all over again, both times it delayed me buying and diving into the new editions for years until my group got into them. The 3e srd was fantastic for learning the new edition at the time and for looking up rules while the lack of one for 4e and the tons of missing core content in the 5e one meant they did not serve the same purpose. PF2 seems to be for those who felt that 3e d20 just was not fiddly enough. Paizo also avoided it by developing a ton of adventures, adventure paths, and setting material as a big core of what they were about and sold. There were a lot more adventures for Pathfinder than there were for any white wolf game I can think of.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 7549807, member: 2209"] They said at the time it was dual purpose. One to keep D&D alive in perpetuity. This worked when WotC went 4e and Paizo stepped in to keep 3.5 going under the OGL. Two was support material to boost their D&D as the dominant game. This looked successful to me. Just like TSR got a shock when Chaosium put out [URL="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/1712/All-the-Worlds-Monsters-Vol-1?affiliate_id=17596"]All the Worlds' Monsters[/URL] before TSR got out their [URL="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17002/Monster-Manual-1e?affiliate_id=17596"]Monster Manual[/URL]. This delay was just like 4e for me all over again, both times it delayed me buying and diving into the new editions for years until my group got into them. The 3e srd was fantastic for learning the new edition at the time and for looking up rules while the lack of one for 4e and the tons of missing core content in the 5e one meant they did not serve the same purpose. PF2 seems to be for those who felt that 3e d20 just was not fiddly enough. Paizo also avoided it by developing a ton of adventures, adventure paths, and setting material as a big core of what they were about and sold. There were a lot more adventures for Pathfinder than there were for any white wolf game I can think of. [/QUOTE]

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