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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadewyn" data-source="post: 4117781" data-attributes="member: 6340">I am amazed at the "my players play what I want to GM cuase I said so" comments.I have run a weekly game group for 10+ years and if I ever said we are playing X cause I said so I would get laughed at.  My group may play forgotten realms in D&D or greyhawk settings but then tunr around and refuse Planescape or Ravenloft.  If you try and force them they simply dont play or it cuases enough drama to ruin it for everyone.RPGs are a social exparience where everyone should try and have fun, if your ego tripping then something has gone horribly wrong.---As to backward compatible ... if the new Pathfinder is as backward compatible as 3.5 was to 3.0 then my point is already made.   go download their free alpha package.  PCs change FAR more than the 3.0 to 3.5 shift.  That means the DM has to work extra hard to compensate or simply play only the Pathfinder material.  And if your are just playing with Pathfinder material then you are not exactly gettign a lot of good out of your 3.5 splatbooks.  But that point has been beaten to death already.</blockquote>