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Heroes of the Feywild Bard Skald. Wizards of the Coast launched 5th edition , the successor to 4th edition, in August Even so, 4th edition is an edition of the game that served to aid the path to its later editions. A line of later 4th edition rulebooks containing simplified rules was called Essentials.

Earlier 4th edition products were made compatible with Essentials via the Essentials update and Essentials update 2 documents offered as free downloads. The 4th edition license for third party publishers originally contained a clause which required 4th edition compatible product lines to stop using 3rd edition's open license. Mike Lescault , community manager for Wizards of the Coast, denied that the clause was a "poison pill", and characterized it as a "conversion clause".

Nevertheless, in , Paizo Publishing declined to extend their open source 3. A number of other third party publishers followed suit. In , Paizo released a complete Pathfinder roleplaying game, based on version 3. A third-party card game entitled Edition Wars satirized this competition. Sales of the June set of core rulebooks exceeded Wizards of the Coast's expectations, requiring them to order additional books to be printed even before the books' release date.

MMORPG designer Michael Zenke , guest blogging for Wired , gave a positive review of 4th edition, mentioning the lack of complicated mechanics such as 3rd edition 's grappling rules, and the martial powers available to fighters being as interesting as magic has always been for spellcasters.

Although, fans of the game were not as nice. Theses changes were to clarify the mechanics of the game, yet fans seemed to have issues with how much focus was on mechanics over lore expansion. Regardless, the real concern was streamlining the character creation process in ways that had fans questioning the design. Even so, this streamlined design paved the path for the streamlined content of 5th edition , which proved to become the most popular edition of the game yet.

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