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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5487566" data-attributes="member: 42582">Maybe. I don't feel I have enough of a sense of the relevant variables. And I really don't see how they can make Pathfinder go away.I agree with the second half - I think Pathfinder (which is, for all those who didn't start with it but migrated to it from officially branded D&D, 3.x) is here to stay.I'm less sure about the first half. Why did WotC abandon 3E, and abandon the OGL+SRD model? It's possible that the game designers took control of the business planning division, and decided that all of WotC's corporate weight had to be thrown behind this better new game bringing D&D into touch with Forgist indie design sensibilities. But I think it's more likely that the business planners in WotC had already formed the view that WotC's future depended on breaking free from the OGL+SRD model that 3E was intimately bound up with. That is, I think WotC must have already feared that Pathfinder or something similar was coming into being.A big part of the issue here seems to be DDI, which is the enemy of 3PP. I see this as a sort of complement to the abandonment of the OGL+SRD model - the GSL obliges 3PP to publish material that is obviously complementary rather than competing, and DDI means that there is, in effect, no prospect of competition in any event. I think the concern might be more that those PDFs being available actively supports Pathfinder and the retro-clones, and in that way dilutes support for 4e.Perhaps, if what you want is for those old publications to be available for purchase outside the second hand market.</blockquote>

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