As reported by Dicebreaker, when asked whether Pathfinder and Starfinder would receive their own virtual tabletop (VTT) system, Paizo's marketing director Aaron Shanks gave a matter-of-fact response: «No, not at this time.»
This answer arrives among the background radiation of One D&D—the still-unnamed, technically-not-a-new edition revamp to Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition ruleset—and the looming playtests for its VTT slated for later in the year.
Wizards of the Coast's new virtual platform suffered a bumpy introduction to the public eye thanks to some attempted sorcery with an update to its Open Game License (OGL). Some fans saw this as an attempt to hamstring what its competitors—including VTTs—could legally do with the TTRPG monolith, by subjecting them to new restrictions while also rendering the previous OGL void.
In the revision, shared by journalist Linda Codega back in January, Wizards stated that the original OGL: «wasn’t intended to allow people to make D&D apps, videos, or anything other than printed (or printable) materials for use while gaming. We are updating the OGL in part to make that very clear.» Fortunately that's all been walked back, but the OGL's spectre looms over anything One D&D for the foreseeable future.
Paizo are, according to Shanks, employing a different tactic. He continued: «We're prioritising the VTTs that our fans choose, and we want to be all the places they are rather than a single location,» going on to cite its dealings with the Demiplane «digital companion» app as an example.
This philosophy goes hand-in-hand with the recent debut of Paizo's far more lenient version of D&D's scrapped OGL, the «ORC». Their news post calls it a «a system-agnostic, perpetual, and irrevocable open
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