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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GregoryOatmeal" data-source="post: 5725702" data-attributes="member: 6667661">The consensus seems to be that PF filled this niche.I'm sort of in that group that feels abandoned by WOTC and misses buying stuff from them. Particularly I miss having 3.5 support for products like Dark Sun.In the interest of being inclusive and uniting gamers I think it would simply be awesome if WOTC could produce content for PF and Paizo did the same for 4E. I want Golarion for 4E and beholders in my PF. Really I just want WOTC to reach for the gamers that bought PF, as some sort of token gesture of reconciliation.I think there's a lot of room for WOTC to experiment with the PF framework and apply 4E ideas to PF without breaking comparability or producing a new edition. Some of these ideas aren't really fleshed out and they're all optional. WOTC could produce, for example- A smaller "D&D-Pathfinder"-branded softcover PHB for $35. Keep it under 250 pages, use D&D gods and art and IP, remove the DMing sections. If Paizo can essentially reprint the 3.5 PHB then WOTC should be able to reprint the PF PHB, no?- A digest PHB with 150 pages and a $20 price point. Maybe put all the melee classes in their and put all of the spells in a separate spell compendium/magic supplement. Possibly experiment with applying 4E stat-blocks and straight-forwardness with 3.5 rules (I saw a interesting application of 4E presentation to 3.5 rules on the web very recently).- An optional variant PHB that balances classes using some of the design philosophies of the 4E PHBs within the PF rules system. It would essentially be an entirely new take on the existing classes like Essentials for 4E. You would have two completely different fighter classes within the same rules framework. For example wizards from the WOTC book can select rituals and spells and can cast magic missile at-will in PF (and come with certain disadvantages over PF wizards).- An optional Pathfinder Arcana book that incorporates some of the 4E changes like healing surges/encounter powers into Pathfinder. This could be interesting...- Reprint the best of 3.5/3E with PF crunch.- Reprint WOTC IPs for PF. Setting books, monster books, etc. Dragonlance, Ravenloft, Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk.The 4E/PF audiences are so different that I don't think they're really competing anymore. People have chosen sides. It just seems unfortunate that the companies follow seem to have followed and choose sides as well. They are unable to produce content for the gaming system on the other side of the edition war.Honestly I just miss having WOTC produce products for the game I play.</blockquote>

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