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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JediSoth" data-source="post: 4129582" data-attributes="member: 13882">TSR may not have paid attention to market research, but they did do some. I recall filling out a rather lengthy survey in Dragon magazine in regards to design specifics for the forthcoming 2nd edition of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons.I remember it quite vividly 'cause I thought it was cool that they were asking the customers what we wanted to see in a second edition of the game. I thought it was even cooler that the monster manuals were three-ring binders, since that's the selection I checked on that particular question (my opinion of them has since changed, but that's neither here nor there).The way I see it, Paizo's hand was forced by the tardiness of the GSL. From what I've read, they wanted to have it in hand to evaluated (and would most likely have switched over to 4E), but without it and production schedules being what they are, they have to move forward. They can't move forward to 4E without the legal information in the GSL, so they decided to go this route. That doesn't mean that they won't produce adventure paths for 4E in the future, once they get the GSL, but right now, they can't, even if they want to.I can see very clearly the problem with 3rd party companies producing 4E stuff right now (or at least announcing it before the GSL has been released). What if they spend a lot of time and money creating things only to find out what they've created is not allowed under the GSL? The time spent on those projects is now wasted and that takes away from their bottom line. I would hope no company would be foolish enough to do that, but stranger things have happened.* If I was in Paizo's shoes, I certainly wouldn't commit to publishing anything under a license agreement I haven't seen yet. For all they know they GSL contains language that says anything published under it becomes WotC's Intellectual Property.**JediSoth* I come from a background in publishing, so I'm not just talking out of my lower oriface here, I know all about wasted time on project you're ultimately not going to make money on, and it's something management, board members, and financial gurus really frown upon.** I'm not saying that it does, I'm just being hypothetical.*** It's sad I feel the need to explain comments in footnotes, but after having people jump down my throat for minor 4E criticisms, I feel it's necessary to cover all my bases.</blockquote>

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