Open Letter to WotC from Chris Dias

[Vyvyan Basterd]

I will admit that I completely lost interest in Zeitgeist when I saw that it was going to be 4e only.

When Zeitgeist was announced for 4e exclusively, I never bothered to look at it.

I think you're both going to miss out on some good material in the future if you continue with this attitude.

I've used both the Rise of the Runelords adventure path and Council of Thieves in 4th Edition.

I would have missed out on two great Paizo adventure paths if I decided to ignore them because they are exclusively 3E.

 

[enrious]

I think you're both going to miss out on some good material in the future if you continue with this attitude.

I've used both the Rise of the Runelords adventure path and Council of Thieves in 4th Edition.

I would have missed out on two great Paizo adventure paths if I decided to ignore them because they are exclusively 3E.

I happen to know of great Pathfinder material that I'm missing out on right now.

And that's stuff I wouldn't have to bother converting.

 

[Morrus]

I think this is what you are looking for.

There is also the Licensee Forum where ad and promo threads can be started.

That's interesting. I thought - from the tone of this thread - that it was more than that. WotC does exactly the same thing:

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Partnerships

And has its licensee forum here:

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[Vyvyan Basterd]

And that's stuff I wouldn't have to bother converting.

Converting stuff to 3E is a bother. Check.

 

[Wicht]

That's interesting. I thought - from the tone of this thread - that it was more than that. WotC does exactly the same thing:

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Partnerships

And has its licensee forum here:

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Paizo also promotes 3pp on its Store Blog, and in its weekly email/newsletter. And it sells the 3pp material through its own store.

 

[Morrus]

Paizo also promotes 3pp on its Store Blog, and in its weekly email/newsletter. And it sells the 3pp material through its own store.

Yeah, the difference appears to be the existence of a general RPG store, which is a large part of Paizo's business; RPGNow/DTRPG does the same. I sell some 4E stuff at Paizo, too.

 

[renau1g]

However, I do think that there are probably vastly more people looking for WotC rather than typing out "Wizards of the Coast", while there is no equivalent for Paizo.

You could take 5 seconds and see:

Google Trends: "wizards of the coast", wotc

And you'd surprisingly find out that more people type out the name. Perhaps not everyone is as hardcore and knows acronyms for the company?

Now, Wizards also benefits from being the producer of MTG so obviously their results are skewed a bit, and Paizo has an excellent e-store, so that's not a good comparison because both their sites contain extraneous stuff that would alter the searches (at least I think it would).

Pathfinder also can't be used because it's a fairly generic word and I know if I google it I get the Nissan Pathfinder, the 2007 movie Pathfinder, etc.

So, what am I saying? Not sure, but just commenting I suppose.

 

[renau1g]

And it sells the 3pp material through its own store.

Well, wizards doesn't operate a web store, so that could prove difficult for them...

 

[DaveMage]

I think you're both going to miss out on some good material in the future if you continue with this attitude.

I've used both the Rise of the Runelords adventure path and Council of Thieves in 4th Edition.

I would have missed out on two great Paizo adventure paths if I decided to ignore them because they are exclusively 3E.

I think the difference is, you have experience with both systems. Those of us who never played 4E would be fighting rules ignorance while trying to translate.

 

[xechnao]

And you'd surprisingly find out that more people type out the name.

No. People only type wotc. In typed searches wotc totally eclipses "wizards of the coast".
OTOH the presence of the term "wizards of the coast" eclipses the term "wotc" within news articles.