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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dmccoy1693" data-source="post: 4707452" data-attributes="member: 51747">3rd Adventure Path. Timeline as I remember it:Oct 07 - WotC missed their first selfmade deadline of having material to 3PPs. Enough details have come out that players are getting nervous. Buhlman begins work on Pathfinder Alpha as a side project on his own time.Early Jan 08 - WotC made a confrence call to the 3pps giving them details of the new license and a 5K upfront fee allowing companies to publish at GenCon. 3PPs sent in NDAs but no license was sent out. Paizo starts a thread asking their customers which edition they expect to be using at the end of 08. Late Jan 08 - WotC announces that the new license will be called the GSL and will be incompatable with the OGL. Paizo pushes off deadline as to when they must make their final decision as to what system Second Darkness will be. Feb 08 - D&DXP happens.  World sees exactly how different 4E is.  Paizo gets solid intel that 4E is not to their tastes.March 08 - 6-ish weeks after Paizo's "we must make a decision by this date" deadline, there is still no license or rules. Wizards moved publication date to Oct 1, 08, well past the expected launch date of the Second Darkness AP. Forum thread has roughly 50% of Paizo's existing customers expecting to still be playing 3E/3.5 at the end of 08, 30% saying they expect to be playing 4E and 20% saying they'll go where Paizo goes. Paizo decides to move forward with Pathfinder RPG Alpha.Early June 08 - 4E is released. Late June 08 - SRD/License is released.</blockquote>

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