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I've heard that Steve Jackson Games isn't always the easiest to work with, but I'd definitely buy GURPS 4th edition if it were available on RW.
 
One bit of advice, make sure you pester those other publishers, not just LWD. Paizo and LWD obviously already have a solid working relationship to which build on to leverage RW. But, if you pester those other publishers, like Wizards, to get off their duffs and make the effort, you may just get a surprise!

I am lucky, I am invested in PF for the long haul, but I always hope everyone else gets what they want too, the more RW sales the better for us all!
 
jkthomsen9 said:
That would be unfortunate. The Wizards/Hasbro business model has always been around rolling out a new rule set every couple years. Case in point.

1974 D&D
1977 AD&D
1989 2nd Edition
1995 2nd Edition (revised)
2000 3rd edition
2003 3.5
2008 4th
2010 Essentials
2014 5th edition

As a result I have 2 sea trunks full of obsolete material, as each rule set is incompatible with previous iterations.

By contrast Pathfinder has had one rule set since 2009 and is backward compatible with all 3.5 material......that is 13 years worth of usable material for pathfinder and 2 years of material for 5E. Also you can expect 6E within another 3 years.

As a result of all this I left D&D in 2008 and never looked back.
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To be fair to Wizards and Hasbro (Not that I like Hasbro what so ever), it started with TSR, they just kept the same "makem pay" mentality.
 
jkthomsen9 said:
I would not count on Hasbro being reasonable. In fact Hasbro being unreasonable is the genesis on Pathfinders creation and success. Which is why Pathfinder has a 3 year growth of 153% with reported sails of 11.2 Million in 2013. While Hasbro will not break out Wizards portion of there sales, but we do know that Wizards makes up 10% of there gaming division and and they reported losses during the same period.
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Well best you can hope for is that Hasbro looks over at Lisa, and sees her success. Paizo is a model for gaming publishers, it even sells "competing" products. She is not stupid, gamers play what they love, so why not sell it all and make some money. Solid business women she is.

Maybe, and I stress maybe because it is Hasbro after all, the people buying 5e may have a little voice. If the powers that be keep seeing money being spent on PF and other systems, and how the support of products like HL and RW are helping to fuel that game economy, they may see the "light" and change....Hopefully

The 5e SRD is already the crack in their stupidity, blaming OGL and PF for their downfall with 4e was laughable. But seems 5e is finding a place back on gamer tables. So those gamers want more change? More open materials? HL, RW, or others? Make sure you band together and make your voices and desires heard. Make sure you state how much you love 5e and want to use all these supporting products like PF players, or how much you love 5e but can't play with out such support and are going back to another game system.

If they don't listen? Ask them is they work for Paizo? As that's what product your going to buy now. :)
 
jkthomsen9 said:
I would not count on Hasbro being reasonable. In fact Hasbro being unreasonable is the genesis on Pathfinders creation and success. Which is why Pathfinder has a 3 year growth of 153% with reported sails of 11.2 Million in 2013. While Hasbro will not break out Wizards portion of there sales, but we do know that Wizards makes up 10% of there gaming division and and they reported losses during the same period.
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5e Material is already being sold for multiple competing VTT products (Fantasy Grounds, Roll20, AltSpaceVR, ...) So, why wouldn't they sell through HeroLab and RealmWorks?
 
ALERT! The bashing stops NOW! Any further bashing of individuals or companies will result in the banhammer and/or thread closure. I don't want to do either of those things. Yes, I'm looking at you, @jkthomsen9, but everyone is hereby on notice.

And, for the record, I can categorically state that some of the bashing arguments being made are ill-informed, at best.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled, constructive discussions. Thank you.
 
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Dark Lord Galen said:
Disregard ... I don't wish to confuse any with the facts.....
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I actually saw your original post. I didn't see any "facts" there that contributed in any constructive way to the conversation. Thank you for the retraction. However, your assertion above about the "facts" is specious, at best. Please share your "facts" (aka: opinions) on the subject elsewhere. Thanks! :)
 
rob said:
However, your assertion above about the "facts" is specious, at best. Please share your "facts" (aka: opinions) on the subject elsewhere. Thanks! :)
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Well, if you had a private PM Rob, I would happily share those facts with you. Since I have corresponded with many of those involved throughout the years concerning that particular topic. ie Casey Brown, Gygax, Holan, Mohan, Mona just to list a few. Before you condemn facts you have determined "opinion" (without determining validity) be sure yours isn't the opinion in question.

I get controlling a thread to keep it on topic and agree in monitoring them to keep the flow positive.
So again, as you say, happy to share the facts with you elsewhere.

Best Regards,
DLG
 
Dark Lord Galen said:
Well, if you had a private PM Rob, I would happily share those facts with you. Since I have corresponded with many of those involved throughout the years concerning that particular topic. ie Casey Brown, Gygax, Holan, Mohan, Mona just to list a few. Before you condemn facts you have determined "opinion" (without determining validity) be sure yours isn't the opinion in question.

I get controlling a thread to keep it on topic and agree in monitoring them to keep the flow positive.
So again, as you say, happy to share the facts with you elsewhere.
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The contents of your original post simply assigned blame to a variety of individuals and used a few choice phrases that a court of law would deem as opinion. I have no reason to doubt that you know lots of inside details. I have spoken with many of the same people you cite, plus many others, and there are lots of sordid details that I've been told and that have found their way into other places across the internet. Those details don't belong here on these forums. More importantly, your original post didn't include any of those details as support for your assertions - only the assertions themselves.

I wholly understand the frustrations of long-time D&D players. Heck, I started playing D&D in 1976! And I've had my own experiences dealing directly with Wizards on multiple occasions for business over the past 15+ years. That does NOT mean this is the place to discuss frustrations with Wizards, even if some of them are completely valid. There are other places across the internet that welcome such threads, should you choose to do so.

*THAT* is the point I am making here. So let's PLEASE get this discussion back to its proper purpose. Thanks! :)
 
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