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Yeah. A lot of the people at Paizo had already gotten a big chunk of the fan base paying attention to them, because they were running the magazines. They were writing the public face of „Dungeons & Dragons“. They had a very strong position to say: ‚We're going to continue with the gaming license.’ I don't know if they had much of a choice, because they weren't offered a license for fourth edition that was anywhere near that. The magazine licenses had been taken back. They had run out. What were they going to do? They supported the license that they had.

Yeah, it's a weird bit of history. If Paizo hadn't been given the magazines in the first place, I'd argue that Pathfinder would be a much smaller system. They'd have a much smaller fan base, but because they were in a central seat and Wizards of the Coast didn't seem to realize that killing the print magazines was (...) Really, Wizards of the Coast never seemed to realize when there was going to be a huge fan backlash. It seemed obvious to me. I thought to myself: ‚I worked for the magazine, maybe I'm more invested in that’ but, no. A lot of people said: ‚I’m going to go with Paizo, because they're doing good work in a style that's familiar to me.’ Other people said: ‚I’m going to go with fourth edition, because it's new and I trust Wizards to do something interesting with it.’ They're both good decisions, but it fractured the already small market.