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<blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 4114570" data-attributes="member: 1288">Having taken a little while to digest the announcement, I think I can safely say that Paizo's probably in a pretty solid place.By doing this, they have another year to decide if 4E is appropriate to their styles and wants, and to study sales figures and patterns via their partnership with Necromancer. In the interim, they can keep publishing a successful line of adventures, and tap into the market of people who are reluctant to switch.Now, here's the kicker. If they had said &quot;This is our permanent decision,&quot; I'd agree it was a really bad idea. But if they intend to base their business model off of Pathfinder for, say, a year or two, and then reconsider conversion, it may not be a bad model.And I don't think WotC would have any impetus to try to &quot;stop&quot; them, even if they could. As someone else said, there are already other competing systems. (Hackmaster, for instance.) I don't think this is going to hurt 4E in any way, and it may--if handled right--turn out to be a &quot;best of both worlds&quot; circumstance for Paizo.My only disappointment is that since I'm not personally playing or writing 3.5 anymore, it means a personal loss of both high-quality adventures and a potential employer. But I can hope that particular circumstance is only temporary. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />DB, I very much appreciate the support. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> But that said, I really don't think Jason was being any more duplicitous than I was. (That is, not at all.) Rather, I expect that what he offered was his honest assessment of what he'd seen of 4E--and that, if anything, the opinions and gaming tastes of the Paizo staff are part of what led to this decision, as opposed to those opinions being &quot;altered&quot; to support said decision. Jason's always been a pretty solid guy, IME.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mouseferatu, post: 4114570, member: 1288"] Having taken a little while to digest the announcement, I think I can safely say that Paizo's probably in a pretty solid place. By doing this, they have another year to decide if 4E is appropriate to their styles and wants, and to study sales figures and patterns via their partnership with Necromancer. In the interim, they can keep publishing a successful line of adventures, and tap into the market of people who are reluctant to switch. Now, here's the kicker. If they had said "This is our [i]permanent[/i] decision," I'd agree it was a really bad idea. But if they intend to base their business model off of Pathfinder for, say, a year or two, and [i]then[/i] reconsider conversion, it may not be a bad model. And I don't think WotC would have any impetus to try to "stop" them, even if they could. As someone else said, there are already other competing systems. (Hackmaster, for instance.) I don't think this is going to hurt 4E in any way, and it may--if handled right--turn out to be a "best of both worlds" circumstance for Paizo. My only disappointment is that since I'm not personally playing or writing 3.5 anymore, it means a personal loss of both high-quality adventures and a potential employer. But I can hope that particular circumstance is only temporary. :) DB, I very much appreciate the support. :) But that said, I [i]really[/i] don't think Jason was being any more duplicitous than I was. (That is, not at all.) Rather, I expect that what he offered was his honest assessment of what he'd seen of 4E--and that, if anything, the opinions and gaming tastes of the Paizo staff are part of what [i]led[/i] to this decision, as opposed to those opinions being "altered" to support said decision. Jason's always been a pretty solid guy, IME. [/QUOTE]

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