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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fireinthedust" data-source="post: 7672182" data-attributes="member: 51930">They kind of did, as they have their stuff indexed online!  As ludite as I enjoy being, PFS games here have been saved by players with ipads finding various rules references for me when I GM.  Saves lots of time, and helps speed things up.  Smart phones, tablets, etc.I keep my old books, from all editions of every game I buy (even 4e, which is what it is/was, and I admit I had fun running it).  While a new edition doesn't stop me from enjoying the old (or, rather, adding one more game to the list of games I wish I could get people to run for me), my games are so personalized it's more a matter of giving me material I can use that's OGL (in case I have a module idea I want to put it in).It's tricky.  I don't think they'd have the breakaway success with a new edition compared to 2008/4e, because there wouldn't be the polarized market.  5e didn't "solve" the edition wars, so much as go back to a quasi-similar way of playing (that other companies say is technically OGL anyway, or close enough they can model it in 3e).  If Paizo goes 2nd ed, they'd be fracturing their own market between 3e loyalists and PF2 players; considering one chunk of their market was gamers who didn't want to shell out for yet another set of books, they'll have to figure out how to sell that new edition vs 5e.</blockquote>