Tired of making up house rules for crafting (and other stuff) in 5e (or buying splat books for it)? They already made rules for it, in the core rules!
Players don't want to shell out money for a new rulebook? Paizo is literally giving the rules away for free.
There's way more options for everything, the leveling makes more sense, it's more polished, and Paizo staff is unionized.
Free stuff isn’t as much of a selling point since getting PDFs of the DnD rules is trivially easy with a simple google, it’s essentially free for any individual with even an inkling of piracy in their bones.
Every group I’ve ever been in has just shared the relevant PDFs with everyone
While it's easy enough to get D&D's rules for free, I think that, properly emphasised, it is a selling point - they're completely free. Unless you want to buy the art and lore, you can access their official database of every single class, feat, monster, hazard, and item, for free, for ever. It really cannot be understated how much good will WotC bought with the OGL when they released 3rd edition, and Paizo are even more permissive than that.
Tired of making up house rules for crafting (and other stuff) in 5e (or buying splat books for it)? They already made rules for it, in the core rules!
Players don't want to shell out money for a new rulebook? Paizo is literally giving the rules away for free.
There's way more options for everything, the leveling makes more sense, it's more polished, and Paizo staff is unionized.
This one’s big imo
Free stuff isn’t as much of a selling point since getting PDFs of the DnD rules is trivially easy with a simple google, it’s essentially free for any individual with even an inkling of piracy in their bones.
Every group I’ve ever been in has just shared the relevant PDFs with everyone
While it's easy enough to get D&D's rules for free, I think that, properly emphasised, it is a selling point - they're completely free. Unless you want to buy the art and lore, you can access their official database of every single class, feat, monster, hazard, and item, for free, for ever. It really cannot be understated how much good will WotC bought with the OGL when they released 3rd edition, and Paizo are even more permissive than that.
Is that why the free stuff on Foundry is so good for Pathfinder?