With that in mind, LU is kind of trying to follow in Paizo's footsteps. I'm not a roleplaying history expert, but my understanding is that Pathfinder's initial popularity resulted from D&D being in a really vulnerable place at the time, coupled with their uniquely strong position as well-known former D&D publishers. Paizo was already publishing for 3.5 and had a lot of name recognition and popularity, so it was able to capitalize on that position with Pathfinder which "preserved" 3.5E as Wizards moved on to 4E. Given 4E's incredible unpopularity and poor reception, Pathfinder was incredibly well positioned to build its player base and name recognition as D&D floundered. It was able to cement itself as a "classic" TTRPG experience while Wizards was dealing with 4E, and eventually trying to recover and turn things around with 5E. That's a lot of time for Pathfinder to grow and do its thing. There's just not an opening for a Pathfinder-like success story.įor all WotC's and 5E's problems (perceived or actual), 5E is incredibly popular and dominant in the TTRPG world and that popularity only seems to be growing.
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