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What was Paizo thinking? 3.75 the 4E clone?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4118604" data-attributes="member: 710"><p>You might be right. I certainly... "forgot" that Mike also created adventures. I am not sure I ever used on of his (but then, I might be the only one in my group that's still runing his own adventures). But I sure played his Iron Heroes, and I liked it. And I also liked what he did for Arcana Evolved, which was mostly rules-related.</p><p></p><p>But note that I <em>said</em> that I don't know if WotC creates good or bad adventures. I just know that I like their game design work. And that I can point to example of Paizo adventure writers showing me stuff that might indicate that their game design skills are not as good as their adventure writing skills. Maybe these are rare events, and it might be selective perception, since, I might never notice well-designed monsters, but I surely notice badly designed monsters.</p><p>On the other hand, I definitely know that I enjoyed the Adventure Paths so far, and that they made up a major part of our past campaigns. So their adventure writing skills are definitely top-notch. </p><p></p><p>And I firmly believe that with practive, whatever the current state of quality of Paizos game designing skills is, it will improve. But I still believe that WotC is better at game design then they are. (And on top of individual qualities of designers, WotC also has the better resources.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 4118604, member: 710"] You might be right. I certainly... "forgot" that Mike also created adventures. I am not sure I ever used on of his (but then, I might be the only one in my group that's still runing his own adventures). But I sure played his Iron Heroes, and I liked it. And I also liked what he did for Arcana Evolved, which was mostly rules-related. But note that I [i]said[/i] that I don't know if WotC creates good or bad adventures. I just know that I like their game design work. And that I can point to example of Paizo adventure writers showing me stuff that might indicate that their game design skills are not as good as their adventure writing skills. Maybe these are rare events, and it might be selective perception, since, I might never notice well-designed monsters, but I surely notice badly designed monsters. On the other hand, I definitely know that I enjoyed the Adventure Paths so far, and that they made up a major part of our past campaigns. So their adventure writing skills are definitely top-notch. And I firmly believe that with practive, whatever the current state of quality of Paizos game designing skills is, it will improve. But I still believe that WotC is better at game design then they are. (And on top of individual qualities of designers, WotC also has the better resources.) [/QUOTE]
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