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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 3984261" data-attributes="member: 2205">I kinda agree with Whisperfoot, or at least the first half of his post.  GR already has a pretty good thing going with their system neutral Freeport line, True20, MM and the new Fire & Ice Song license.  If I were them, I'd tell Rouse and Co. thanks but no thanks; we'll wait for the free version of the rules and then make 4e compatible material.  Six months is unlikely to give them anything they don't already have in terms of market positioning.  It's a bit of a bummer letting the d20 market go for a few months and focusing on other stuff, especially for the company that had the first d20 module printed, but I think he makes a pretty good point about the risks being worth more than $5000.But then again, I'm too risk averse to be in business for myself writing RPG material, so maybe my advice isn't something he should care about.  And come to think of it, it'd probably be pretty easy to make back $5000 in the early days when only a handful of people will be putting out product.  The bigger risk is that 4e isn't the direction they want to end up going and they hurt their brand and/or image by putting some 4e material out that doesn't deliver what folks expect because they didn't have time to really understand the system or whatever.Seems like the risk of that would be small, though, and in the meantime they can make a short-term wad of cash by being one of the few with product out early.  There's always time to decide it 4e isn't for them or not later.</blockquote>

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