[For Paizo specifically] What direction will you take to make more content?

[Excaliburrover]

So, ok, i know this is stupidly soon too ask with the game basically not even released yet but i keep wondering and i'm sure you have your business plan already in check.

So, my concern is that with the new dedication/archetype system you've pretty much cut the legs of a system that let you print a whole lot of books without ( i mean it in a non-offensive way) too much effort. What i mean is that, after making a class you would have easily printed around 10 archetypes by just shufling its class privileges with the ones of other classes. For example, pretty much every class has the Rage option somehow.

But this won't allow you to create extra content anymore because basically it's baseline. And, don't get me wrong, i love it. With a lvl 2 and a lvl 6 feat expense i can have what ever pc that rages or that have retributive strike. It's amazing.

But how will you print more class archetypes/books in general? Just frontload with hundreds of class feats?

[Dire Ursus]

I mean to be fair the pf1 archetype system functions more like the Class feat system in 2e. So they could just add more class feat-lines to each class and it'd be the same as making a new archetype.

[Shinigami02]

Yeah, PF2e content will probably be feats for days, maybe some archetypes as PF2e defines them, and maybe some day even the PF1e-style archetypes might come back for those odd-level features. There's still plenty of room for printing new mechanics.

And of course, there's still room to introduce whole new classes, which will then of course have their own class feat expansions.

[Unicore]

This would be a great question for the pathfinder Friday twitch stream. (I don't think they are doing one this week, but maybe the following week.)

[MMCJawa]

The system certainly streamlines some options down. A large chunk of the player oriented hardcovers were basically "Take x distinctive mechanic from this class, now give it to the bard as one archetype, the fighter for another, and so on.

But I think there is plenty more that still could be done. We might see "style" archetypes, like archetypes that focus on archery, mounted combat, dueling, what have you. We have prestige archetypes as well. Also, I still expect to see tons of class feats, ancestry feats, skill feats, new classes, races, items, spells, etc.

I wouldn't worry about Paizo having trouble thinking about stuff to fill books.

[Edge93]

Yeah, I think Paizo has already said they're planning an archery archetype.