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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 5778003" data-attributes="member: 9249">I don't see it happening. People who are playing 4e now like 4e, and many of them don't care for 3.X or Pathfinder; they're not going to switch from a game they like to a game they don't like, or like less, just because the game they like is going OOP. They're going to wait for 5e like the rest of us, and then they're going to decide whether to stick to 4e or to switch to the new hotness.For WotC's sake, I hope they switch to the new hotness, but they're not going to have a company like Paizo waiting in the wings to step up and support them if 5e isn't to their tastes. 4e is going to be another "orphan" edition, like AD&D 2e, that has neither official support nor 3pp clones for its adherents.The only way Paizo is going to get a boost from 5e is if WotC fails to attract significant numbers of 4e fans at all-- and it's going to be a gradual trickle of new players, not a surge. We won't really see the effects until months afterward. On the other hand, as resistant as Paizo is to launching a second edition, a failed 5e would be terrific opportunity for them if they can pick up alienated 4e fans without losing their current fanbase. The differences between the two games are not so irreconcilable that a game couldn't be published to appeal to fans of both, like WotC is trying to do now.</blockquote>