Probably a general unknown. I mean, if one of the big names was gonna do it then the time to do it was years ago. Clearly they either don't want to or realize they don't know how to improve 3e. Paizo didn't know how, but they gave it a good ole college try.Libertad wrote:which third party company will pull a Paizo and take up the mantle of "true 3rd Edition" from then on out?
Or a combination of something old and something new. Maybe the next EP for WotC will try a return to OGL and this time put out a call for someone to submit their new OGL d20 edition instead of a setting bible as resulted in Eberron. I mean it seems like everyone has done their own 3.x version, though usually not to completion. If there was promise of actual reward then I bet someone would polish theirs to make it something worth buying when combined with professional layout and art direction. They'd hopefully fire Mearls and probably the other two people remaining in order to fix the culture, and need to invest in some number crunchers and destructive play testers. But it happened once before.