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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7738104" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>Kind of, but in that same way it would make more sense to say &quot;we're aware of what the competitor is doing, and here are specific ways that what we're doing differs from what they're doing.&quot; Really, there are only two reasons to say &quot;we don't know what our competitors are doing&quot; rather than &quot;we're intentionally doing something different than our competitors.&quot; Either you're actually copying what your competitor is doing and want plausible deniability that you just didn't realize they were doing the same thing you independently came up with, or you genuinely don't know what they're doing. Neither really looks very good from a PR perspective. But in this case I'm pretty sure Paizo is doing the latter. Intentionally copying 5e just wouldn't make any sense given that a significant portion of their audience is playing their game specifically because it's not 5e.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7738104, member: 6779196"] Kind of, but in that same way it would make more sense to say "we're aware of what the competitor is doing, and here are specific ways that what we're doing differs from what they're doing." Really, there are only two reasons to say "we don't know what our competitors are doing" rather than "we're intentionally doing something different than our competitors." Either you're actually copying what your competitor is doing and want plausible deniability that you just didn't realize they were doing the same thing you independently came up with, or you genuinely don't know what they're doing. Neither really looks very good from a PR perspective. But in this case I'm pretty sure Paizo is doing the latter. Intentionally copying 5e just wouldn't make any sense given that a significant portion of their audience is playing their game specifically because it's not 5e. [/QUOTE]

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