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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4114925" data-attributes="member: 1054">This is going to be interesting.The OGL mean 3x cannot die; people will always produce new, commercial quality, material for it. The main issue is, would this be a smattering of random supplements sold mostly on the net, or would someone decide to support the sizeable fraction of people not planning to immediately switch to 4e? In the past, 'edition resistance' faded because there was no support for old games and people eventualy felt they HAD to switch, except for an insignificant minority of die-hards. This has now changed.By providing a stable, high-quality 'core' for 3x to continue, Paizo has done something which has only happened once before -- with Hackmaster effectively catering to the 1/2x market with a new, upgraded, system that still had the 'flavor' of the old. People 'on the cusp' of 4e now have a real choice, with the promise of high-quality support for 3x and very easy conversion of their existing 3x campaigns to Pathfinder-compatible campaigns. The huge mass of OGL material -- including classic TSR monsters opened due to the Tome Of Horrors -- gives Pathfinder an incredible well to draw from.From my brief skim of the rules, the only thing I don't like is, once again, no skill points -- but I'm "Getting" that I'm the only person on the planet which DID like them.This hurts WOTC, though by how much, I'm not certain. Most people aren't either 100% pro- or anti- 4e. Most are somewhere in the great grey middle, and which way they fall is going to depend on how much they gain from 4e vs. how much they lose by abandoning 3e. If 3e is guaranteed quality support going forward, a good chunk of the uncertain will stick with 3e just a little bit longer...maybe until 4e has bards, or druids, or psionics, or gnomes...and of course the larger the 3e remnant market is, the more publishers will choose to support it, extending its lifespan.It will be amusing to see how this plays out.</blockquote>

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