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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6632357" data-attributes="member: 22424">Indeed.That history would indeed have been significantly different. Though how different would also depend on WotC's handling of the OGL with AU4th and also what they did with the magazines (did they spin out Paizo at all, did they renew the license after 5 years, etc).But I have some concerns whether it's actually possible to produce a balanced AU4th on the top of the 3e engine. As far as I can see, it has some fundamental issues (notably surrounding high-level play, multiclassing, magic item creation, and especially caster supremacy) that potentially make it impossible to balance. It seems to me that Pathfinder has gone some way to fixing some of the issues, while both 4e and 5e dealt with them by changing some of the foundations; but 16 years on it doesn't look like anyone has really gotten to the bottom of all the problems.</blockquote>