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Message: <blockquote data-quote="meomwt" data-source="post: 3848865" data-attributes="member: 47885">Business head. Geek-head  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> My emphasis. Paizo need to be able to make $$ now that WotC have pulled their big sellers from under them. They are publishing new modules and AP books for the current edition of the game (today) which, by all accounts, is high quality and finding a good audience. And Erik's lengthy and thoughtful piece on the Paizo boards wasn't in any way "anti-4e." What it was, in essence, was an essay laying out where Paizo are in terms of the 4e material they need right freakin' now in order to write and produce a Pathfinder or GameMastery adventure in time for GenCon in 2008. And right now, they don't got it. I sympathise with Erik and Paizo. I really do. It seems that they'll still be producing a 3.5e AP for up to a year after the cool new 4e toy comes out (kinda like a video game developer still selling PS2 discs now PS3 is the cool toy). Is that likely to affect their sales and business plan? Heck, yes! Becasue although there will be lots of 3.xE grognards out there, a lot more will want to convert to the new system and play new adventures straight away. I don't believe that it is WotC trying to pull the rug out from under thrid-party developers. I do believe that they've not even considered when third-party developers need the new SRD or OGL. The change to 4e is being handled in a haphazard manner (starting with the denial it was in production) and is ill-thought-out on a number of fronts (DI, for example). Just my two penn'orth.</blockquote>

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