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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7895212" data-attributes="member: 12731">Yes, but just because "it won't hit the same spot again" doesn't mean Paizo should have just given up their position as the premiere satellite revolving around WotC's 500 pound gorilla.I know Paizo desperately wanted to get rid of their dependency on WotC. From a corporate viewpoint it makes sense to not rely on a competitor.I also know that every ttrpg publisher outside WotC's shadow is an exceedingly small and obscure player. The corporate thinking doesn't exactly serve such a tiny niche market like ours... Paizo needed to realize that the only reason for their relative size and success is because they've suckled the D&D teat.If Paizo had strived to publish a game relevant to 5E sensibilities they might not have succeeded. They might even have irritated WotC so much the gorilla had rolled over to squash the parasite (=reconsidered their glacial publishing pace and issued an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons themselves).But this way me and every other crunch-starved gamer would have been a winner either way  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And nobody can say this would have been a riskier approach for Paizo, considering that I'm having trouble imagining a publishing decision more risky than the one that led to PF2. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😮" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62e.png" title="Face with open mouth    :open_mouth:" data-shortname=":open_mouth:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

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