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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 7823821" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>I don't know if D&D was losing its market share when 4E came out, but this sounds like you're saying that 4E was released as a reaction to Paizo. That wasn't the case; Paizo only went their own way and became a competitor to WotC when WotC cancelled Paizo's license to print Dragon and Dungeon magazines in anticipation of 4E while simultaneously not having finalized their (WotC's) plans for how much the new system would be accessible to third-parties.</p><p></p><p>Now, WotC gave Paizo some advance notice that their license to print the magazines was going to expire, but with no firm plans as to whether or not they'd be able to make 4E-compatible materials, Paizo was left in a slow-motion lurch. Printing requires months of advance notice, so Paizo had to make a decision and fast. With no clear signals coming out of WotC, Paizo eventually decided to go their own way, and so they created Pathfinder...which for its first two years was entirely 3.5 compatible, only becoming its own RPG in August of 2009, over a year after 4E had been released (though they'd announced that it would be its own RPG as early as March of 2008, when they began their open playtest).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 7823821, member: 8461"] I don't know if D&D was losing its market share when 4E came out, but this sounds like you're saying that 4E was released as a reaction to Paizo. That wasn't the case; Paizo only went their own way and became a competitor to WotC when WotC cancelled Paizo's license to print Dragon and Dungeon magazines in anticipation of 4E while simultaneously not having finalized their (WotC's) plans for how much the new system would be accessible to third-parties. Now, WotC gave Paizo some advance notice that their license to print the magazines was going to expire, but with no firm plans as to whether or not they'd be able to make 4E-compatible materials, Paizo was left in a slow-motion lurch. Printing requires months of advance notice, so Paizo had to make a decision and fast. With no clear signals coming out of WotC, Paizo eventually decided to go their own way, and so they created Pathfinder...which for its first two years was entirely 3.5 compatible, only becoming its own RPG in August of 2009, over a year after 4E had been released (though they'd announced that it would be its own RPG as early as March of 2008, when they began their open playtest). [/QUOTE]
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