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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rushbolt" data-source="post: 9012139" data-attributes="member: 7037578">My post about whether Paizo should release new books was actually on the Paizo forums, not EN World.  The title of the post is "Pathfinder Next Edition Thoughts."  Several posters responded they did not want new books.I was critical of Wizards when they attempted to deauthorize the OGL, but my post in the D&D thread is about streamers basically looking to create a scandal and grow their channels by scouring every single thing Wizards does to see if they can spin it into something dastardly.  In that post, I concede the OGL scandal and the use of the Pinkertons by Wizards were both unacceptable.I took some liberties in assuming that Paizo hid their decision to print a Remastered edition later this year on purpose to sell out their old inventory.  I can't prove this statement and inform anyone reading that the only statements I know of made by Paizo are from Erik Mona on Roll for Combat where he stated they had been working on Pathfinder Remastered for a few months.  He does not give a specific definition of the timeframe and instead leaves it very vague.  Each reader can draw their own conclusion as to what a few months means.  If anyone has a more exact date when the Remaster project was given the green light, I would greatly appreciate it.I concede the January 12 statement is not a lie by omission if you will concede that nearly all the people who read that statement did not think Paizo was referring to a Remastered edition because most of them would not have considered 4 years a long enough time.  I also concede people may have thought that the Core Rulebook may have some slight changes since this is normal.Further confusion can be found earlier in the January 12 statement when Paizo states:"By the time we went to work on Pathfinder Second Edition, Wizards of the Coast’s Open Game Content was significantly less important to us, and so our designers and developers wrote the new edition without using Wizards’ copyrighted expressions of any game mechanics. While we still published it under the OGL, the reason was no longer to allow Paizo to use Wizards’ expressions, but to allow other companies to use our expressions."This also infers that 2E product does not use Open Game Content when it does.  I concede it does not express specifically that Paizo did not use Open Game Content, but it does strongly infer it.I'm not angry at Paizo.  I am disappointed that this statement, which was probably on of the most read statements by Paizo during the OGL scandal, ended up being a very unclear statement that could have been misinterpreted.  Thousands of people interpreted the statement as Paizo assuring them the current 2E books as of January 12 would not need any significant change to be reprinted and might only include errata updates.  Those people then assumed that at least if the Core Rulebooks and other products were reprinted later in the year there would not be a significant difference.I did buy both the Pathfinder Beginner Box and several of the rulebook pdfs, and I assumed those items would be reprinted for several years going forward with minor alterations to include some errata at most.</blockquote>

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