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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Mhoram" data-source="post: 4116063" data-attributes="member: 4789">Even before 4th was announced, like a year or two before, I was talking with my wife about the OGL. The gist of the conversation was the fact that with so much material being Open someone could take the 3.x rules and keep that system alive whenever WotC decided a switch to 4th. I thought it would really be interesting how that would work with the market and what kind of things would happen - things like fracturing fan base, or the support of other 3.x OGL publishers.With 4th being so different from third, the fanbase is fractured already. I know many a person in RL who do not plan on going 4th because they have so many 3.x books, and run their own adventures/worlds that they never have to change.So here comes Piazo and does what I was thinking about all those years ago. They saw a segment of the market that was not being served by WotC (the 3.x fan who isn't interested in switching to 4th) and decided that market was big enough to support with books. I can't wait to see how all this falls out. I hope the best for Piazo - I really hope it works, and is really successful for them.&nbsp; I want to see the largest game that was released as open continue and succeed.I stopped playing D&amp;D myself a couple of years ago (it was my secondary system the whole time I played it to begin with), but I like a lot of concepts in it. I fully expect the same from 4th - I plan to buy the rulebooks and adapt those things I like.&nbsp; So I say all this as an interested outsider. I think it will be interesting to see just what all develops.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Mhoram, post: 4116063, member: 4789"] Even before 4th was announced, like a year or two before, I was talking with my wife about the OGL. The gist of the conversation was the fact that with so much material being Open someone could take the 3.x rules and keep that system alive whenever WotC decided a switch to 4th. I thought it would really be interesting how that would work with the market and what kind of things would happen - things like fracturing fan base, or the support of other 3.x OGL publishers. With 4th being so different from third, the fanbase is fractured already. I know many a person in RL who do not plan on going 4th because they have so many 3.x books, and run their own adventures/worlds that they never have to change. So here comes Piazo and does what I was thinking about all those years ago. They saw a segment of the market that was not being served by WotC (the 3.x fan who isn't interested in switching to 4th) and decided that market was big enough to support with books. I can't wait to see how all this falls out. I hope the best for Piazo - I really hope it works, and is really successful for them. I want to see the largest game that was released as open continue and succeed. I stopped playing D&D myself a couple of years ago (it was my secondary system the whole time I played it to begin with), but I like a lot of concepts in it. I fully expect the same from 4th - I plan to buy the rulebooks and adapt those things I like. So I say all this as an interested outsider. I think it will be interesting to see just what all develops. [/QUOTE]

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