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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thzero" data-source="post: 7736503" data-attributes="member: 86754">It costs Paizo nothing to keep the 1e PDFs available; its not like they have to print new books.   PF may not have occurred if Wizards had figured that out (guess they still haven't because there aren't PDFs available of its 5e products).   Paizo can't do much about the OGL, but that they are, for now, at least willing to keep the Paizo agreement there to allow people to publish for 1e and indicate its compatible with is a plus.  However unless a company is diehard about it, really the lifespan of more 1e material will be last maybe through 2020 before there is enough swell with 2e that people just aren't buying enough 1e stuff to make it viable to produce it.   Then again, 2e could completely flop.But really same can be said for D&D 3.5.  It is OGL and could have been supported by other companies.   There was some support after 4e started as I recall, but once PF gained traction it was pretty much over.    Because PF is OGL, someone could pull a Paizo. But there were several tries of this with 3.5, but since Paizo had existing business (mags, adventure paths, etc.) that had traction, they really had the upper hand on making 3.75, i.e. PF, a reality.But yes, you are right... fans [all two of them? <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=";)" />] of 4e got screwed.</blockquote>

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