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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerLurker" data-source="post: 8884182" data-attributes="member: 7031660">Critical Role is largely safe, as they could make an in-house system. They'd benefit from a lighter ruleset. Which would be quick and easy to make.Pathfinder and Paizo is in a harder place. Making a new ruleset takes a loooong time. They spent a year playtesting PF2 and likely another year or two preceding designing the rules. And during the lead to PF2 they could still sell product to pay for office space and the staff making the game. There's no way they have the resources to just design rules for a year or two. If Pathfinder is forced to shut down, Paizo will go into serious debt while they spend 18 months designing a brand new non-d20 game system that is crunchy enough to satisfy their fans but also rigorously balanced. Mass layoffs would be necessary and they'd probably lose their offices and have everyone work from home to save costs. They'd need to bring in lots of outside investors, who would impose restrictions and caveats on the company. If they're not touching the OGL why would said "big dogs" want to negotiate? What could WotC offer them that would be worth 25% of their revenue?</blockquote>