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....I wish the team that made PoE would get the Pathfinder license and make a game using the PoE mechanics. I am playing it now, and while I am enjoying it - game wise and story wise (It really is an upgraded Baulder's Gate!), and the visuals are great, I wish I could play Pathfinder that way too. Heck, just turn APs into modules for DLC.
Ah, a man can dream, can't he?
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You know that PoE creators are cooperating with Paizo? They are making a computer version of Pathfinder Card Game currently, but who knows what the future might hold...
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I could have sworn they already confirmed working on a Pathfinder RPG as well, probably after the card game is finished(or close to finished). That is still a long way off though, but its almost certainly coming.
I haven't heard about them doing anything other than the digital version of the ACG, but it's still exciting to see Paizo and Obsidian work together. I hope if the ACG goes well it bodes for future collaborations too. (Dead Phoenix, I'm wondering if you're thinking of Pathfinder Online, but that's not by Obsidian.)
The classes feel like they have some loose, non-IP traceable, Pathfinder influences... 3e, yes, but also some particular Pathfinder things like the number of auras a Paladin has (even if the aura mechanic is different). So there's a lot to potentially transfer back and forth.
OTOH, I know that part of why Obsidian made Pillars of Eternity was specifically to work with their own IP. They've been burned a lot working with a lot of other people's licensed material, and really wanted to do their own thing. PoE was the result--and is proof to me personally that they were right to go in that direction.
I don't know if they'd be keen on working in a Golarion-based world when they've put so much work into developing their own world. That said, I have a sense Paizo would be much more friendly to work with than, say, Atari or Hasbro. The ACG project is different because they're just programming game mechanics into an app--it's not an RPG, etc.
Just pointing that out as a reminder of where they are, not to dissipate enthusiasm. Paizo and Obsidian are amazing companies and again I hope the ACG collaboration leads to future possibilities.
To all - thanks for the responses! I was NOT aware that they were working with Paizo on the ACG, which I am happy to hear.
Deathquaker - you make absolutely valid points. I thoroughly enjoy the PoE canon and universe, and I am happy they made it. I look forward to buying expansions/DLCs.
I just also really like the mechanics and how they are implemented, and as I personally do not enjoy the online experience in general with it comes to RPGs (my ideal is the BG/IWD/NWN/PoE), I just want to selfishly want a PoE game using the Pathfinder rules and setting. Doesn't even need to be canon, just using the IP.
Again, I can dream....but in the meantime, I will thoroughly enjoy PoE.
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Path 2.0 is here... So is the Expansion... Dammit. Here goes my PayPal balance...