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<blockquote data-quote="bhandelman" data-source="post: 5770461" data-attributes="member: 99667">Honestly, if forum post counts mattered 3e would never have been successful because when it came out all I saw were posts about how people weren't switching to a TRPG that was trying too hard to be Diablo.&nbsp; Excuse me if I don't find forum posts on a hard core fan website to be very representative of things as a whole based on prior experiences like that.&nbsp; Add on to that the fact that nearly every post I see talking about Pathfinder being so great is by someone who decided to stick with 3.5 until Pathfinder was released and are mostly people who didn't even bother to read the PHB.&nbsp; I understand your gaming group switched, and I'm sure some did, but I'm not sure that was where most of or even a sizable amount of Pathfinder only groups come from.Please understand, I'm not trying to play Edition War here.&nbsp; I personally prefer to play 4e but I don't have a problem with Pathfinder in any way and plan on playing in a game of it pretty soon just for the heck of it.&nbsp; It's just that where I play, all the DMs running games were running 3.5 games before Pathfinder was released, not 4e, and all of them have played 4e and still play on a fairly regular basis either in Encounters or at the monthly meetup before or after their Pathfinder games.&nbsp; Also, the DM of the 4e game I was in last Saturday played in a Pathfinder game right after he ran our game.I see a lot of blanket statements made here that act as though the whole community feels a certain way, but most people I know at the store don't care at all about things like the OGL vs GSL arguments and just want to game in a fantasy setting.&nbsp; The rules are kind of a secondary thing it seems.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bhandelman, post: 5770461, member: 99667"] Honestly, if forum post counts mattered 3e would never have been successful because when it came out all I saw were posts about how people weren't switching to a TRPG that was trying too hard to be Diablo. Excuse me if I don't find forum posts on a hard core fan website to be very representative of things as a whole based on prior experiences like that. Add on to that the fact that nearly every post I see talking about Pathfinder being so great is by someone who decided to stick with 3.5 until Pathfinder was released and are mostly people who didn't even bother to read the PHB. I understand your gaming group switched, and I'm sure some did, but I'm not sure that was where most of or even a sizable amount of Pathfinder only groups come from. Please understand, I'm not trying to play Edition War here. I personally prefer to play 4e but I don't have a problem with Pathfinder in any way and plan on playing in a game of it pretty soon just for the heck of it. It's just that where I play, all the DMs running games were running 3.5 games before Pathfinder was released, not 4e, and all of them have played 4e and still play on a fairly regular basis either in Encounters or at the monthly meetup before or after their Pathfinder games. Also, the DM of the 4e game I was in last Saturday played in a Pathfinder game right after he ran our game. I see a lot of blanket statements made here that act as though the whole community feels a certain way, but most people I know at the store don't care at all about things like the OGL vs GSL arguments and just want to game in a fantasy setting. The rules are kind of a secondary thing it seems. [/QUOTE]

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