Comments on: An Interesting Question

By: DarkTiger

DarkTiger — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:50:00 +0000

I think that Pathfinder is going to be a great brand and address a lot of 3.5’s problems. I think it will be a good rally point for new 3.5 material and would love to see Green Ronin use it. But only if they do provide conversion to it. Now on PDFs you could do the conversion through the “comments” system and that way it’d be easy to update if in some way the Pathfinder rules change drastically (which I doubt). As of yet the conversion is pretty minimalistic, of course, I don’t know if all this work is worth the bottom line cost. Still, I think Pathfinder will be the bastion for the classic 3.5 player who hasn’t converted to 4th edition or to True20 (both of which I play).

By: Zapp

Zapp — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:44:00 +0000

Vincennzo Capelli, there’s Pathfinder campaign adventures and there’s Pathfinder, the 3.5 compatible rules system. Both from Paizo, both using the name Pathfinder, completely different products (AFAIK, the Pathfinder adventures are mostly if not wholly under the 3.5 ruleset and not the Pathfinder ruleset which won’t be around for another year, it seems).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:29:00 +0000

If it’s for Pathfinder I expect it to follow Pathfinder and not the OGL. It’d be like claiming it’s for Conan or Arcana Evolved. While the latter is certainly compatible almost right off the bat, there are many aspects, like spells and talents and different skill sets, that mean some work must be done.

By: BlackDiamond

BlackDiamond — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:52:00 +0000

Pathfinder is expected to be a non-starter in my store. I think it garnered some excitement because it was announced during the 4.0 waiting period, when players were anxious for ANYTHING new.

How about a blank sticker to go over the D20 logo of existing products? Novices generally don't deal with 3rd party D&D; products, from my experience, so you're already relying on veterans to figure out what the product is and what it does for them. The D20 logo is overrated and probably has more of a negative stigma than positive at this point.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:53:00 +0000

The thing is, in the same way that you have people not wanting to move to 4th, you are going to have people not wanting to move to pathfinder, and there is likely to be quite a strong anti-pathfinder following. I wonder how large the middle ground of people who want to move forward with 3.5 but not move to 4th is actually going to be.

That said; people not wanting to move forward at all with 3.5 probably are not that profitable to support as they may well be making the choice based upon having a minimal desire to by any new products anyway.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:16:00 +0000

Even though Pathfinder is far away from being completed, generally speaking it's going to be compatible with 3.5.

There shouldn't be 3.5 books that can't be used with Pathfinder. At no point is the Pathfinder RPG going to move away from being basically 3.5 plus a few tweaks.

So you could make an adventure that is written to 3.5 rules and it will also work with the Pathfinder RPG rules. And that's how it will be when it's all done next year.

I know this because he knows this.

By: fliprushman

fliprushman — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:43:00 +0000

I think it would be better to go with a Classic 3 label instead of jumping on the Pathfinder wagon. Pathfinder is too far away to be something that Green Ronin should wait for and it’s a different game from 3.5e. I would like to see other products put out in 3.5e than in Pathfinder.

By: Vincennzo Capelli

Vincennzo Capelli — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:48:00 +0000

I have no clue if Pathfinder will withstand the test of time, but I did note that it was being sold (the adventures anyway) on the shelves of the Barnes & Nobles I was at last night.

I've NEVER seen that before. Of course, I live in Seattle so it's not difficult to imagine that the books were there by virtue of a sales rep talking directly to the store manager or something.

By: Eero Tuovinen

Eero Tuovinen — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:35:00 +0000

If you believe that Pathfinder is going to become a relatively lasting rallying point for the 3.5 rules system, then I guess the best option for all parties would be to develop a secondary Pathfinder brand for old 3.5 material that can’t use the d20 logo anymore, but isn’t updated to full compatibility with Pathfinder, either. Something like “Pre-Pathfinder Classic”, with enough graphical similarity towards the proper Pathfinder logo that nobody can mistake the connection. I’d imagine that Paizo would have little against developing something like that to facilitate this sort of support.

By: Thurston Hillman

Thurston Hillman — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:33:00 +0000

Going against the wind here... I'd have to say that I would like to see GR branded for Pathfinder.

To be honest for my current Pathfinder game I am using most of my old d20 books already. I used some of the Book of Fiends in my latest sessions and found that almost no conversion was necessary, and any that were(mainly skills) could be handled on the fly.

Personally I'd love to see GR and Pathfinder come together like that. Right now I've been running Pathfinder with GR products already, so having the 'stamp of approval' would just be icing!