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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6637923" data-attributes="member: 22424">When I was part of a company that got bought out, we all got stock options that were potentially a serious chunk of money... provided we stayed.But there are other ways to sweeten the deal. Most likely, the guys currently working on Pathfinder would find themselves working on exactly the same product (see below), but with D&D on the cover and using 5e mechanics (at least starting with the next Path). So they'd be doing essentially the same thing, but for more money and with a higher profile.And if some key people were still determined to leave, well fair enough. Hasbro would then most likely offer them a package: here's a decent chunk of money, and all you need to do is agree not to work on a competing subscription-based RPG product for 2 years. Given that almost nobody in the industry even does subscription-based products, why not take the money?That's not guaranteed, of course, but they could expect to tie up enough people to prevent a New Paizo forming.It still does: Goodman's DCC RPG, Numenera, and a few others. But the thing is that each of these is distinctly different with their own niche. Half a dozen near-clones of Pathfinder would find themselves fighting to differentiate themselves against all the others. It's unlikely any of them would get much traction.In this scenario, most of them would transition to 5e. And they'd do that because Hasbro, playing on the 'genius' part of "evil genius" wouldn't simply kill Pathfinder dead, but would instead transition the Pathfinder Adventure Path into a monthly D&D Adventure Path, offering essentially the same product but with D&D on the cover and 5e mechanics inside.So those people who buy the APs to read would continue to buy them to read, the people who are loyal to the Paizo staff would continue to buy them to continue supporting those same staff, and those who are too apathetic to cancel their subs would continue to be apathetic. They would, of course, lose some subscribers, but they'd also hold onto a lot.And if they're really not interested in producing a monthly D&D Adventure Path, then they'd gradually bleed away staff. But, again, they'd do it a few at a time, to make sure there's never a nucleus for a New Paizo to form around.</blockquote>

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