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The announcement states “sharing rules mechanics and encourages innovation and collaboration in the tabletop gaming space.”

Other than a play test how do 3pp publishers contribute to the shared rules mechanics?

Unicore wrote:

The soul of pathfinder is Golarion.

I disagree with this pretty strongly: the soul of the game to me is how customizable it is and it's range of options. 'Infusing' Golarion into the game makes me less, not more, likely to not pick up the game as it makes it inherently less of what makes pathfinder pathfinder to me: it limits customization and limits options when I try to play a game not set in someone else's setting, Golarion.

I agreed with Greystone; Pathfinder’s soul is not Golarion. Golarion is an excellent campaign setting; but it is not Pathfinder dependant. I have seen Gurps, Hackmaster, 4e, and 5e conversions.

Pathfinder’s soul is the Nostalgia of D&D; the feel and flow of character and world exploration as well as the limitless possibility of customization.

Ok guys, come on here, I really wanted to be hands off with this thread, but it seems people here are incapable of keeping to the forum guidelines.

So for the love of Sarrenrae stop with the flame bait posts, we get it, you don't like Pathfinder Second Edition Playtest. You can go and vent the details of your displeasure on a thread dedicated to it, or better yet an appropriate forum, the time has long since past when "I don't like it, give me moar PF1" was valid feedback and I'm sure it's already been noted.

No on the less angry late night venting side, I really do get it, a lot of you feel somewhat betrayed by Paizo, you loved PF1, or at the least you love 3.5. Everyone has that sort of thing and some of you might be going through the stages of grief over the edition change, that's alright, we're all human and getting angry or resentful about change happens to the best of us. but there is a time and a place for everything, and sometimes that time and place is not this exact moment on this exact forum.

Now that said if I keep seeing those kinds of edition warring/ flame baiting posts, I will get this thread locked becasue it clearly has run it's course.

The basis of the post asked for our opinions. How is that flame bait?

If you lock the thread because people have opinions that differ from yours then you do a disservice to Paizo and its customer base.

I buy 5e stuff also. I run a small non-gaming publishing company. I know how the publishing world works. My opinion that Paizo is going in the wrong direction is just that. My opinion. They have made their own decision and ignored a large potion of their customer base.

There is however, nothing that prevents an RPG publisher from doing exactly what Paizo did and revive 3.5 OGL as their own edition and take a divided player base away from them. I do not know if Paizo could support both game systems; but they have pledged to cover Starfinder and PF2; providing support to PF1 players with conversion guides; would keep PF1 players happy and allow Paizo to explore PF2’s possibilities without throwing all of their eggs in a single basket.

I would prefer to see Paizo doing well over the next 20 years and be remembered as fondly by gamers then as D&D players with they brand loyalty.

Pathfinder 1: An improvement on the D&D 3.5 rule set that used small changes to solve large problems. A continuation of a true fantasy RPG that allows the game to be accessible to both new and old gamers.

Pathfinder 2: Is the same mistake that WOTC made when they released 4th Edition; which had innovative elements and a plethora of missteps. The potential end to Paizo Publishing as it divides their player based and follow the continued mistake of D&D 5th Edition.

The smartest move that Wizard’s D&D could make would to release a 6th Edition retro game that is compatible with 3.5.

I will continue with Pathfinder 1; Create & Convert what I need and then when / if I have trouble finding Pathfinder players I will hope for a new edition from Paizo or Wizards that resolves the player divide.

Scott,
You have missed the point of the thread, almost every ones comments and are now just trolling. If you can't play nice don't play.