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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sunshadow21" data-source="post: 6353110" data-attributes="member: 6667193"><p>And people who think that really matters to Paizo, or anyone else, in the long run are fooling themselves. Paizo will continue to battle for #1 just like it did during the time that 4E and Essentials was being produced. It won't be #1 every quarter, but neither will 5E. Paizo will continue to adapt and grow, just like it has since WotC first took the magazines away from them. Since as early as the 3.5 era, WotC has been bleeding D&D customers, who have been buying other products ever since. 5E will stop the bleeding to a large degree, but will not likely do much to win most people back into the fold and away from their now much stronger competitors, both Paizo and others. It's still at it's heart the same D&D, meaning that most existing gamers already have the core of the content in at least one, if not two or three, different versions, so it's not like most people need yet another ruleset built along the same basic ideas. In the end, the name doesn't mean much if the basic gameplay and content is fundamentally the same as something people already have. While Paizo found a ready market for people looking for more of basically the same, I don't see WotC walking into that kind of market. They are going to have to work hard to distinguish themselves from the pack, and will need a lot more than a well known name to do it over the long haul.</p></blockquote><p></p>