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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dm4hire" data-source="post: 4115363" data-attributes="member: 14848">Despite supporting 4e at the present moment I’d like to say, “Bravo Erik and everyone at Paizo!  Welcome to the RPG world!”I am truly glad to see you stand up and take the path few have traveled and I believe you’ve taken the correct one.  Anyone who believes WotC will allow anything more than campaign settings and modules is sadly mistaken.  I fully expect the new GSL to include the provision that any company entering the agreement must abandon the OGL completely.  I expect to see Green Ronin, Mongoose, White Wolf, and maybe others to abandon the GSL because of it.  The OGL was created to free D&D from its bonds and encourage its evolvement into a higher form.  The GSL will be written to ensure that WotC and therefore Hasbro gets the majority benefit from the deal, thus stifling the remainder of the industry.  Without the various contributions from other companies there would be no 4e, at least not like it is turning out.What a lot of people aren’t seeing is how between beta testing to evolve 3.x under the OGL will make it a better game to exceed 4e.  Not to mention, as 4e gets the run through the ringer there will arise complaints, about what should have been done differently, those pieces can be picked up.  As long as you don’t pick up the actual pieces of 4e (only grabbing what is missing) then you have a working model to work with between 3.x and 4e which will be free range territory.  If anything it will become a race to see which game will pick up the pieces first.  Pathfinder has the opportunity to become the game everyone wants because it will have the most input.  The worse I see happening is it will carve its own niche within the community to which I will most likely buy the final resulting core book to place on my shelf for source material.Regardless of how it goes I agree the next year or so will be interesting for the entire industry.  I wish Paizo the best on this adventure.</blockquote>

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