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<blockquote data-quote="mudbunny" data-source="post: 5461017" data-attributes="member: 56746">Yup. At some point in time, the &quot;next big idea&quot; will be old and tired, and the idea that is old and tired now will be &quot;the next big idea&quot;.I am certain that they do. WotC knows their weaknesses and knows their strengths, as does Paizo. They also know that they are not the only source of talented RPG designers out there. I am sure that they look at what Paizo is doing with PFRPG and go &quot;that is really cool&quot; or &quot;that's an interesting way to do that&quot; or &quot;meh&quot;.&nbsp; They know that D&amp;D 5E will show up eventually, as will PFRPG v2.0 or some other game, and it would be phenomenally stupid of them to ignore that.I got the impression (this was only based on the various blog posts he wrote, not of any insider knowledge or anything) that if WotC would have gotten the GSL out in a reasonable time limit, and with reasonable terms (in the view of 3pps), that he would have jumped both feet into 4E. But they didn't, and neither did he. (Personally, while it may have been a loss for D&amp;D for Paizo to not be working on 4E, I think that it was/is good for RPGs as a whole. Now all we need is a kick-ass sci-fi RPG)Agreed.The signal to noise ratios between here and there are dramatically different.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mudbunny, post: 5461017, member: 56746"] Yup. At some point in time, the "next big idea" will be old and tired, and the idea that is old and tired now will be "the next big idea". I am certain that they do. WotC knows their weaknesses and knows their strengths, as does Paizo. They also know that they are not the only source of talented RPG designers out there. I am sure that they look at what Paizo is doing with PFRPG and go "that is really cool" or "that's an interesting way to do that" or "meh". They know that D&D 5E will show up eventually, as will PFRPG v2.0 or some other game, and it would be phenomenally stupid of them to ignore that. I got the impression (this was only based on the various blog posts he wrote, not of any insider knowledge or anything) that if WotC would have gotten the GSL out in a reasonable time limit, and with reasonable terms (in the view of 3pps), that he would have jumped both feet into 4E. But they didn't, and neither did he. (Personally, while it may have been a loss for D&D for Paizo to not be working on 4E, I think that it was/is good for RPGs as a whole. Now all we need is a kick-ass sci-fi RPG) Agreed. The signal to noise ratios between here and there are dramatically different. [/QUOTE]

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