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<blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 6014135" data-attributes="member: 6670763"><p>I even suspect that with a 4th Edition SRD, there might never have been a pathfinder. I don't think Paizos prime motivation was their love for the 3rd Edition rules, but plain economic neccessity. From what I understand, a major part of their income was from third party d20 material and their contract with WotC for the magazines. With that falling away, a new source needed to be found, and 4th Edition had taken itself out of the competition.</p><p>If producing adventure paths and supplements for 4th edition had been an option, I'm not sure they would have come up with pathfinder in the first place.</p><p>And all the other smaller companies who were also in the same position of needing a game for which to make supplements had the choice of switching to pathfinder or to... well, certainly not 4th edition, because that wasn't allowed.</p><p></p><p>And imagine how 4th edition might have turned out if customers didn't have the option to look at the new rules once and think "you know what? I think I focus entirely on Pathfinder and no longer care for WotCs products".</p><p>The problem with 4th Edition was never an issue of rules, but of the image. Had people invested some real effort in making 4th Edition work for them, they might even have come to like it eventually and would have provided valuable feedback for Wizards to add what many people felt was missing. Like 3rd party publisher, for example.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yora, post: 6014135, member: 6670763"] I even suspect that with a 4th Edition SRD, there might never have been a pathfinder. I don't think Paizos prime motivation was their love for the 3rd Edition rules, but plain economic neccessity. From what I understand, a major part of their income was from third party d20 material and their contract with WotC for the magazines. With that falling away, a new source needed to be found, and 4th Edition had taken itself out of the competition. If producing adventure paths and supplements for 4th edition had been an option, I'm not sure they would have come up with pathfinder in the first place. And all the other smaller companies who were also in the same position of needing a game for which to make supplements had the choice of switching to pathfinder or to... well, certainly not 4th edition, because that wasn't allowed. And imagine how 4th edition might have turned out if customers didn't have the option to look at the new rules once and think "you know what? I think I focus entirely on Pathfinder and no longer care for WotCs products". The problem with 4th Edition was never an issue of rules, but of the image. Had people invested some real effort in making 4th Edition work for them, they might even have come to like it eventually and would have provided valuable feedback for Wizards to add what many people felt was missing. Like 3rd party publisher, for example. [/QUOTE]
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