Editing Paizo (section)

==Founding==
As mentioned above, Paizo got their start writing the old Dragon and Dungeon magazines. Back when [[Hasbro]] bought [[WotC]], a whole bunch of people from the company jumped ship rather than see it get butchered from the inside. About a year after the purchase, Hasbro started slicing off or shutting down a bunch of stuff they got from buying Wizards. Paizo was started up so that the magazines wouldn't die, and took on all the magazine staff still working at Wizards. It was during this time that they started writing their first Adventure Paths (Savage Tide and Age of Worms) and, eventually, the Inner Sea Guide, the origins of what would become Pathfinder.

Along with the D&D mags, Paizo also took over ''Star Wars Insider'' and [[Polyhedron Magazine|Polyhedron]] from Wizards, and later tried starting a generalist gamer magazine ''Undefeated'' and a relaunch of ''Amazing Stories'' -- neither of which lasted more than about a year. SW Insider didn't last that long with Paizo either, moving to a different publisher due to politicking over the official Star Wars fan club.

When [[4E]] was around the corner, Hasbro made Paizo give back the magazines, after which they were replaced with a digital subscription. With nothing better to do, Paizo decided they'd abandon ship and started up [[Pathfinder]] as its own RPG that's based upon their prior work in 3.5E; the rest is history. 

In 2022, Paizo started releasing content for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition starting with a conversion of one of their popular adventure paths, [[Kingmaker]].  While people were quick to accuse this on the failure of their own game's new edition, what they all forgot was the fact that this was a backer goal for Owlcat Games' game of the same AP, and that they had another company port it all to begin with. Hell, that same conversion also had a conversion for PF2E, so it was clear this was just an attempt to loop in more cash.