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<blockquote data-quote="Tequila Sunrise" data-source="post: 6216329" data-attributes="member: 40398"><p>When discussing the industry, it's fun to think about things that will never happen, like "What if Paizo owned D&D"?</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Assuming that Paizo wrote a ruleset that you personally loved (or stuck with PF if you love it)...</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>...It's an appealing thought. Paizo seems to be a much better company than WotC, in every way I can think of. It doesn't have annual Xmas layoffs, it doesn't suck at PR, and I even heard that they keep boxes of kittens in the office for anyone who's having a bad day. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> If Paizo was in charge of D&D (or PF, whatever), maybe we'd have another edition that broke the decade mark. Maybe we'd have less unwanted rules bloat, and more adventure and setting support instead. (Let's also assume that Paizo is supporting your favorite setting.)</p><p></p><p></p><p>But then again, who's to say that Paizo wouldn't become the next WotC after increasing its revenue stream and seeing the future generation of management? Like how VH1 became the next MTV, after going from MVs to reality garbage just like MTV did. When I see things like that happen, I have to suspect that there's an insidious underlying cause for the pattern. Who's to say that as a big company, there aren't underlying reasons for WotC's behavior other than bad decision-making and callousness?</p><p></p><p>EDIT: For the purpose of this thought experiment, feel free to interchange Paizo with your favorite non-WotC game company.</p><p></p><p>EDIT the Second: For the purpose of this thought experiment, assume that JJ and his team care about the design goals you care about. They woke up from the Matrix or something, and now have the power to make exactly the ruleset you want.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tequila Sunrise, post: 6216329, member: 40398"] When discussing the industry, it's fun to think about things that will never happen, like "What if Paizo owned D&D"? [B]Assuming that Paizo wrote a ruleset that you personally loved (or stuck with PF if you love it)...[/B] ...It's an appealing thought. Paizo seems to be a much better company than WotC, in every way I can think of. It doesn't have annual Xmas layoffs, it doesn't suck at PR, and I even heard that they keep boxes of kittens in the office for anyone who's having a bad day. ;) If Paizo was in charge of D&D (or PF, whatever), maybe we'd have another edition that broke the decade mark. Maybe we'd have less unwanted rules bloat, and more adventure and setting support instead. (Let's also assume that Paizo is supporting your favorite setting.) But then again, who's to say that Paizo wouldn't become the next WotC after increasing its revenue stream and seeing the future generation of management? Like how VH1 became the next MTV, after going from MVs to reality garbage just like MTV did. When I see things like that happen, I have to suspect that there's an insidious underlying cause for the pattern. Who's to say that as a big company, there aren't underlying reasons for WotC's behavior other than bad decision-making and callousness? EDIT: For the purpose of this thought experiment, feel free to interchange Paizo with your favorite non-WotC game company. EDIT the Second: For the purpose of this thought experiment, assume that JJ and his team care about the design goals you care about. They woke up from the Matrix or something, and now have the power to make exactly the ruleset you want. [/QUOTE]
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