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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 5989463" data-attributes="member: 37579">No it isn't. And you'll notice the number of now Paizo staff in that list in addition to people who became WotC staff.However, written by a freelancer means they're paying for someone to write the books other than they people they pay regular paycheques to. So they're spending almost twice the amount on staffing. If the staff had not been working on 4e, most of those books would have been written by WotC folk and thus WotC would not have been sending money elsewhere.*That's* the issue, although many of the books are a little shakier, having been written by the minor leaguers. The point is that it cost them a heck of a lot more money in the gamble that 4e would sell well enough that the lost money would be recouped. It likely worked, but it's not something they can manage every five years, let alone the proposed three.</blockquote>