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<blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 7369598" data-attributes="member: 4348"><p>There are times when ideas are the same, but it's easy to tell when they are copycats, and when it is actually something both people came up with at the same time. The more things that are the same...the more likely it is a copycat. If it is just a general idea...MAYBE. If it is two things the same...chances are it's not two different ideas from two different places. If it's three things the same...normally it's a dead on ringer that one of them copied the idea of another.</p><p></p><p>In tech courts we have trademark issues (much less patent issues) when the math and rules regarding things get that similar if the two companies are not friendly to each other.</p><p></p><p>WotC and Paizo ARE friendly to each other (as far as I know), so that's not something they have to fear. Fans on the otherhand...some of them are already going crazy just at the thought...if Paizo actually admitted to it blatantly...it might not be pretty.</p><p></p><p>However, the evidence thus far all seems to point to Paizo basically taking the framework of 5e and putting their own spin on it.</p><p></p><p>If they were actually doing their own development I'd expect something a lot closer to 3.5 than to 5e in what they've been putting out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreyLord, post: 7369598, member: 4348"] There are times when ideas are the same, but it's easy to tell when they are copycats, and when it is actually something both people came up with at the same time. The more things that are the same...the more likely it is a copycat. If it is just a general idea...MAYBE. If it is two things the same...chances are it's not two different ideas from two different places. If it's three things the same...normally it's a dead on ringer that one of them copied the idea of another. In tech courts we have trademark issues (much less patent issues) when the math and rules regarding things get that similar if the two companies are not friendly to each other. WotC and Paizo ARE friendly to each other (as far as I know), so that's not something they have to fear. Fans on the otherhand...some of them are already going crazy just at the thought...if Paizo actually admitted to it blatantly...it might not be pretty. However, the evidence thus far all seems to point to Paizo basically taking the framework of 5e and putting their own spin on it. If they were actually doing their own development I'd expect something a lot closer to 3.5 than to 5e in what they've been putting out. [/QUOTE]
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