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<blockquote data-quote="Velderan" data-source="post: 8917901" data-attributes="member: 7038056"><p>Short term?</p><p></p><p>As people have pointed out, 3pp with smaller teams will likely find it incredibly hard to shift to a new system with existing projects and probably not find the number of customers they've found with 5e so there's a real risk of a lot of smaller publishers going under. That's obviously bad. Personally, I've been trying to find system neutral products to buy to both support small publishers that I like and send the message that there's a market outside of 5e.</p><p></p><p>Long term?</p><p></p><p>If 1 company changing leadership and deciding to take the industry in a different direction like this can have such a huge impact on other publishers, it's probably not a good thing for that 1 company to have that ability to begin with. I think regardless of what WotC does, smaller publishers would be foolish to base their future around OGL 1.0a or any version that can be revoked now that we've seen what <em>could</em> happen if WotC changes direction.</p><p></p><p>Aside from that, my table short term will likely shift to PF2e for our next campaign but the conversation we had about changing games was essentially there's lots of good stuff out there and people wouldn't mind playing different genres also so we're starting to look at other games.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Velderan, post: 8917901, member: 7038056"] Short term? As people have pointed out, 3pp with smaller teams will likely find it incredibly hard to shift to a new system with existing projects and probably not find the number of customers they've found with 5e so there's a real risk of a lot of smaller publishers going under. That's obviously bad. Personally, I've been trying to find system neutral products to buy to both support small publishers that I like and send the message that there's a market outside of 5e. Long term? If 1 company changing leadership and deciding to take the industry in a different direction like this can have such a huge impact on other publishers, it's probably not a good thing for that 1 company to have that ability to begin with. I think regardless of what WotC does, smaller publishers would be foolish to base their future around OGL 1.0a or any version that can be revoked now that we've seen what [I]could[/I] happen if WotC changes direction. Aside from that, my table short term will likely shift to PF2e for our next campaign but the conversation we had about changing games was essentially there's lots of good stuff out there and people wouldn't mind playing different genres also so we're starting to look at other games. [/QUOTE]
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