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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7578894" data-attributes="member: 37579">Sasquatch and Kobold Press never did their own game system, just 3rd Party stuff. Yes, WotC did work with Green Ronin, but it's not like there were many of other options for people who could do the job and do it on time.&nbsp; And it's not like they tapped Paizo to make one of their 5e Adventure books. Plus, have you seen anyone from Green Ronin or Sasquatch Games or even Kobold Press at their media events? Staff are different. It's too small an industry for them to hold grudges like that. I can name a couple former Paizo employees who worked on Pathfinder, left, and found work on 5e. And even during the height of the 4e vs PF edition wars, that was always the fans: the companies never talked smack or called out their competition. WotC was silent on the existence of Paizo for the most part.If Critical Role goes off and does it's own competitive RPG, I'm sure the staff at WotC will wish them the best on a personal level. But they're not going to actively support Critical Role, or do anything to help them. It'll just be that other game they don't talk about run by people who aren't top of their list to be invited to their parties anymore. I didn't use the word &quot;blow up&quot; in regards to the CR &amp; WotC relationship. At least... I don't think I did. But if CR went off and became an active competitor, that would put them at odds with WotC. And while WotC isn't the deadly menace to competition as TSR was, it's not like they WANT more competition, let alone one that can raise one of the best funding Kickstarters, tabletop or otherwise. WotC doesn't want that, and you can bet the staff there are doing their best to keep their relationship with CR friendly and amicable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 7578894, member: 37579"] Sasquatch and Kobold Press never did their own game system, just 3rd Party stuff. Yes, WotC did work with Green Ronin, but it's not like there were many of other options for people who could do the job [U]and[/U] do it on time. And it's not like they tapped Paizo to make one of their 5e Adventure books. Plus, have you seen anyone from Green Ronin or Sasquatch Games or even Kobold Press at their media events? Staff are different. It's too small an industry for them to hold grudges like that. I can name a couple former Paizo employees who worked on Pathfinder, left, and found work on 5e. And even during the height of the 4e vs PF edition wars, that was always the fans: the companies never talked smack or called out their competition. WotC was silent on the existence of Paizo for the most part. If Critical Role goes off and does it's own competitive RPG, I'm sure the staff at WotC will wish them the best on a personal level. But they're not going to actively support Critical Role, or do anything to help them. It'll just be that other game they don't talk about run by people who aren't top of their list to be invited to their parties anymore. I didn't use the word "blow up" in regards to the CR & WotC relationship. At least... I don't think I did. But if CR went off and became an active competitor, that would put them at odds with WotC. And while WotC isn't the deadly menace to competition as TSR was, it's not like they WANT more competition, let alone one that can raise one of the best funding Kickstarters, tabletop or otherwise. WotC doesn't want that, and you can bet the staff there are doing their best to keep their relationship with CR friendly and amicable. [/QUOTE]

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