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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wisdom Penalty" data-source="post: 4553326" data-attributes="member: 13287">I think there are three markets out there right now, two of which are being targeted by companies.You've got your 4e crowd and that's WotC's target audience.You've got your 3e crowd and that's PF's (and T20's) target audience.But you also have another audience out there that doesn't like 3e, or is ready for a change, but also doesn't like 4e.  This is where I feel there's an under-served market. There is a subset of the gaming population that went away from 3e or never liked it in the first place, and these same folks don't feel like drinking from the 4e cup. They don't want PF because it's 3e; they don't want 4e because, well, it's 4e.  This third market doesn't have a game right now. At least not a D&D game.While I'll grant this market may be small, certainly in a comparative sense, would it not be large enough for a 3PP to publish a game taking the best of 3e and 4e and making an altogether new system? No backwards compatibility, not jumping on the GSL, no nothing. Just do it under the OGL with the d20 mechanic.  Could it not be done? Does licensing prevent it? So, coming full circle, this gets back to Grazzt's post. Again, we have rules he doesn't use in his own game but - ala PF - would have to place them in any released products. He mentioned they could, for example, break away to do a Tome with unfettered rules.  But why stop there?  Why not do the same with the PHB, DMG, etc.?  WP</blockquote>

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