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I have no clue whether or not Pathfinder is profitable, to my knowledge Paizo isn't a public company and isn't exactly plastering their financials on billboards. I was just making a tongue-in-cheek response to your statement that if they were experiencing a trend of producing products at a loss...

Yeah, you're right. If that were the case we'd probably start seeing things like a card game, comic books, audio dramas, miniatures, or maybe even an MMO to try to get more direct and licensing based revenue, sort of like what people have been talking about WotC trying to do to maximize the...

Are there any thoughts of adding En5ider to some tier of the EN World site subscription, or adding it to a new tier (Platinum)? I'm interested, but I'd rather bump my Copper sub up to a higher level to get it, rather than having a separate sub to manage.

Yes, but GURPS approach to splatbooks is very different from how 3e, 4e, and Pathfinder do it. GURPS splatbooks are very focused on a particular theme or setting, and any given campaign would only use a select few. For example, a Car Wars campaign would use the core book, Autoduel and...

Four months really doesn't surprise me, especially if they are going through a full RFP process and everything is having to be vetted by Hasbro/WotC Legal at each step. An RFP process for something like a digital tools suite is going to be much more complex than the RFP for a 3rd party developed...

Greyhawk. Lwaxy had mentioned that things like magic item shops were part of the definition of FR, Greyhawk, and Eberron. Staffan talked about the existence of such shops in 2e Waterdeep, and I chimed with how 2e Greyhawk had a very limited magical item market. I feel strongly that the...

I just looked in the 2e City of Greyhawk boxed set, the only "magical item store" listed is the Guild of Wizardry, which is listed with the following information about selling items: It also notes that GMs should set the prices in accordance with other prices in their campaign and that the XP...

GURPS had 4 editions (1st-4th), Hero System had 6 editions (Champions 1st to Hero System 6th), and Savage Worlds had 3 editions (original, Explorer's, and Deluxe), each with relatively little rules drift. Rolemaster also had fairly minor changes between editions, and the latest version in...

My issue is that the fix you are proposing doesn't just buff low level wizards to counter their weakness (real or perceived), the fix you propose will buff wizards across all levels, even levels where they are not weak or are even considered quite powerful. Is it worth disrupting the class...

Just yesterday I was listening to an interview that Fear the Boot did with Ryan Dancey back in 2007, he talked about how the deal for WotC to buy TSR came to be and the transition to 3e. From what he said, there was a "3e" in development before the acquisition, but it didn't really resemble 3e...

Just because you can't guarantee that a product will be evergreen doesn't mean that you shouldn't try. Chess, Backgammon, and Monopoly are evergreen so far, someone who knows how to play Monopoly with a copy they bought last week could easily play with a copy from the 70s, while there have been...

There aren't many low level touch spells for wizards, but there are a number of buff and/or utility spells that are touch that may be useful to cast through a familiar, either because it has faster movement and can get to the target sooner, because it can go places the wizard can't by flying...

They initially said you could download everything to save offline, but they quickly stopped producing the monthly compilations PDFs, meaning you would need to download everything as HTML and hope that the images, styles, etc. didn't get messed up in the process.

I agree with you completely from a player and usability issue, but I was trying to respond to the OP regarding the desire for an OGL type license. Regardless of what people think is or is not D&D, the OGL license is a business construct. We saw when 4e came out that the GSL was far more...

Actually D&D was displaced as the #1 TRPG by something other than D&D, namely Pathfinder, a product produced by one of WotC's largest direct competitors. From a business standpoint Pathfinder and Dungeons & Dragons are not the same game, regardless of whether the players feel they are the same...

No, my original comment was about the Open Gaming License, a specific legal agreement pertaining to the authorized use of intellectual property owned by Wizards of the Coast, and whether Wizards of the Coast will be willing to produce another similar license for the D&D 5e intellectual property...

Not quite. Pathfinder may be descended from D&D, but there is a crucial difference - the money from sales of D&D go to WotC, the money from sales of Pathfinder go to Paizo. From a business perspective it doesn't matter that the new #1 was related to D&D in any way, it only matters that someone...

I like the look of the Dwarven Forge setups, but after investing a fair amount into a couple sets it hasn't made it to the table in years. I don't have the space to preconstruct the setups on the table (we play at the dining room table), and I found that it just took too much time to build the...

Regarding the OGL, I would honestly be very surprised to see anything even vaguely like it again from WotC. The OGL directly enabled the product that replaced D&D as the #1 tabletop RPG, and I can easily see the suits in the executive suite pointing that out as a reason to never do anything...

Things have changed a lot in 40 years. In 1974, kids and adults didn't have the Internet, video games, and hundreds of channels of cable TV consuming large amounts of their time, tended to spend less time on their commute to work, and there was less of a culture of having to keep the kids busy...