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Archpaladin Zousha wrote:

I'll be honest, part of me's just wondering how much panicking I should be doing right now...like, on the one hand they HAVE to be seeing the amount of negative press this is producing and want to mitigate that, yes, but they also have to be aware that even their most successful competitors don't have the money to go to court, so they may just bullishly go for it anyway, damn the lost sales.

If I am not mistaken some Star Wars rpg also falls under the old ogl. I don’t see them waging war with Disney.

Star Wars would have been their own license with Disney. Since they own the rules, the OGL was not needed for WotC (i.e. they don't have to license it to themselves). This also means that Star Wars is not covered by the OGL for others to use.

It does affect other parties' d20 licensed products (like both Stargate SG-1 RPG).

I'm definitely not in the majority because of this, but I feel PF has overstuffed their classes. You don't need a special ability every level. I like 3.5 for their take on classes a little better.

I prefer to approach things from the opposite direction: start with 3.5 as a base and modify with select things from PF

I would also be in that minority. While Pathfinder isn't bad, I just like 3.5 as a base. I have taken some of the changes from Pathfinder (CMD/B). However, I just find the base classes too powerful. This could be my start with RPing with 3.5 without using the later books (and therefore not seeing the major power creep of later books).

I also agree with your first point as well regarding stuffing classes.

I want to run Iron Gods just so that when I run Starfinder the players will have had direct influence on a key feature of the setting.

I had much the same thought when I read the anouncement. Glad I was not the only one!

If the book was supposed to be released by April/May then they would have had the items description up by now.

According to the Pathfinder wiki, it will be out in September. The original date (according to the catalog) was for May 2015, but obviously that is not the case.

Personally, I would prefer a mixture of new and core races. I would prefer a 50/50 balance or at most a 60/40 balance of core/new races.