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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eytan Bernstein" data-source="post: 2987434" data-attributes="member: 40103">From my point of view, as a current freelancer for WOTC, it'd be easier (for me) if 3.5 continued for years.  It's just simpler to design using a ruleset with which you are extremely familiar.  That said, I have learned other rulesets in the past quite well - Shadowrun 1E, 2E, 3E, planning to read up on 4E, World of Darkness in its various incarnations, Palladium, etc...If 4E is being planned for 2007, I certainly haven't heard anything about it.  As recently as the last few months, I've been working on project(s) slated for 2007 (some confirmed by the catalog).  It's certainly possible that 4E is coming - I wouldn't be among the early people to know about this by any means.  I hope that if it does come along, the current freelancers (including myself) will continue to work on the new edition's books. It'd be real nice if in the big change, there was room for more full time positions, but I don't do my design work under that assumption.  While it would keep me (and many other designers) in a comfort zone if 3E/3.5 continues, I am ready, if need be, to move on to a new edition.  This is the reason that my company, Silven Publishing, along with many other small press companies, is trying our hand at putting out supplements that are not D20 based (sometimes not setting based at all).  We are still doing some d20 content - which is our bread and butter and the focus of our upcoming several book print run - but we are diversifying so that we can make the transition when it happens.</blockquote>

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