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Just picked up the Pathfinder core rulebook... uh... wtf?

Started by Crüesader, June 25, 2016, 12:14:10 AM

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Matt

#165
July 03, 2016, 02:53:33 PM
Quote from: Ronin;906432OK, seriously you play RPG's, you post on an RPG forum. You've never seen any Pathfinder RPG product cover ever? Really? OK....

I believe it. I've never seen a Pathfinder book either. Never even heard of it until a few years ago. But I don't give a shit about D&D and its assorted knockoffs.

Matt

#166
July 03, 2016, 02:54:34 PM
Quote from: Nexus;906438There's people in this hobby that are only vaguely aware the games aside from whatever version of D and D they're playing exist :)

Right, like Christopher Brady. He's just cashing the welfare checks and buying D&D books.

yosemitemike

#167
July 03, 2016, 04:34:37 PM
Quote from: Ronin;906437Just seems improbable given this hobby

It's difficult for me to believe that anyone who has walked into a game store in the last 5 years has never seen a Pathfinder RPG book cover.  It's easy for me to believe that the person simply glanced over it without taking any notice of it because of lack of interest.  The game store I go to regularly has dozens of products on the shelf and it's a small store in a small town.  I would only recognize a minority of them if you showed them to me.  I have seen them but they didn't interest me so I didn't pay any attention.
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Omega

#168
July 03, 2016, 04:56:36 PM
Quote from: yosemitemike;906628It's difficult for me to believe that anyone who has walked into a game store in the last 5 years has never seen a Pathfinder RPG book cover.

They were never on the shelves of any of the game stores I ever visited here. I really could not find it on shelves. Really weird in retrospect. But then I never saw BESM on shelves either. But did cone across Dominion and Votoms.

On that same note. I've never actually seen a Traveller book on shelves anywhere except once at a WOTC game store and never had a chance to look at it. Come to think of it. I never saw Traveller at GenCon either? (But then its easy to miss stuff there. But not once ever?)

I guess sometimes you just keep drawing a blank or a games presence is patchwork?

yosemitemike

#169
July 03, 2016, 07:04:24 PM
Quote from: Omega;906641They were never on the shelves of any of the game stores I ever visited here. I really could not find it on shelves. Really weird in retrospect. But then I never saw BESM on shelves either. But did cone across Dominion and Votoms.

I guess sometimes you just keep drawing a blank or a games presence is patchwork?

It's a bit strange given that Pathfinder is one of the best selling RPGs and one of only two with a robust organized play structure.  Where is here though?
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Sable Wyvern

#170
July 03, 2016, 07:16:08 PM Last Edit: July 03, 2016, 07:30:30 PM by Sable Wyvern
I do know what Pathfinder is, although I'm not sure I've ever seen the cover. I am pretty sure I haven't been inside a game store in the time since Pathfinder was released. No matter how popular a game is, it's entirely feasible to never see that game if you're not interested in it.

In my early years, before the internet, there were no game stores anywhere near me, and my games were bought via mail-order catalogue. These days, the vast majority of my purchases are via the internet. I have never had any interest in game-store culture, and I rarely see physical products that I don't own.

yosemitemike

#171
July 03, 2016, 07:32:33 PM
If you don't go to game store, they you obviously won't see what is in game stores.  That didn't seem to be the case with the person I was talking to though.
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Sable Wyvern

#172
July 03, 2016, 07:41:46 PM
Quote from: yosemitemike;906697If you don't go to game store, they you obviously won't see what is in game stores.  That didn't seem to be the case with the person I was talking to though.

True -- but the original comment by Ronin that started this discussion indicated that they were incredulous that it's possible to play RPGs and post on RPG forums and not have seen a Pathfinder cover.

Bedrockbrendan

#173
July 03, 2016, 07:46:10 PM
I don't see why it matters whether someone has seen a pathfinder cover, failed to notice them or whatever. Stuff goes over my head all the time in gaming, despite being prevalent, often because it is just white noise until I have a good reason for checking it out.

yosemitemike

#174
July 03, 2016, 08:13:41 PM
Quote from: Sable Wyvern;906698True -- but the original comment by Ronin that started this discussion indicated that they were incredulous that it's possible to play RPGs and post on RPG forums and not have seen a Pathfinder cover.

That was not my position.
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Sable Wyvern

#175
July 03, 2016, 08:20:33 PM
Quote from: yosemitemike;906705That was not my position.

Noted. :)

Natty Bodak

#176
July 03, 2016, 08:43:12 PM
Quote from: JesterRaiin;906391Jesus Christ. Chris, this isn't your week. Seriously.

Let's talk about buying a used copy of a crowdfunded book about monks, with cover art by Wayne Reynolds, and watch somebody shit their straitjacket.
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Nexus

#177
July 03, 2016, 09:45:53 PM
Quote from: yosemitemike;906690It's a bit strange given that Pathfinder is one of the best selling RPGs and one of only two with a robust organized play structure.  Where is here though?

Could be the owner didn't like Pathfinder? Some of the game store owners around here have made some less than rational business choices based on personal preferences and, well, nerd rage.
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yosemitemike

#178
July 03, 2016, 09:47:31 PM
Quote from: Nexus;906738Could be the owner didn't like Pathfinder? Some of the game store owners around here have made some less than rational business choices based on personal preferences and, well, nerd rage.

That's silly but also entirely possible.
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JesterRaiin

#179
July 04, 2016, 03:29:58 AM
Quote from: Natty Bodak;906717Let's talk about buying a used copy of a crowdfunded book about monks, with cover art by Wayne Reynolds, and watch somebody shit their straitjacket.

I want to be in such a thread. Badly. :D

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