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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 7135148" data-attributes="member: 3400">For a somewhat more serious take, it's interesting that there are people on the PF boards who eschew the PF game and are just there to use the setting material and APs. That doesn't mean there isn't plenty of quibbling about specific content in the Golarion materials. There's more than enough to shake a stick at. But I think there may be a difference in the way message board participants approach the game compared to how people approach D&D. D&D's the 800 lb gorilla. If someone has experience playing any RPG, I'd bet a substantial majority has D&D experience as their primary RPG. It has been the recipient of every gamer's or amateur game designer's often-obsessive focus. It often represents all RPGs at once. It's the focus or foil of most of our game design theories, musings, rumination, and bull<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />ting. So every toxic tendency or conflict among RPGers plays out in D&D and its publications.By comparison, Paizo is that adventure-writing game company that kept 3e-style D&D alive in its long-format adventures. It's got a focus and it's focus is lore, stories, adventures - the setting. Yes, that setting is pastiche, a hodgepodge, a kitchen sink and it gives the setting book and AP authors a tremendous diversity of adventure ideas and themes to keep things fresh.</blockquote>

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