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Originally Posted by Pale You mean the supported edition that most people will be buying and stores will bother to stock is a whole new deal?
Isn't this pretty much what they had before the OGL when it came to third parties?
I know that this will keep a lot of bad product from showing up on shelves... but it also prevents the next Necromancer Games, Green Ronin or Privateer Press from seeing the light of day as well.
I think that it also crushes a lot of dreams out there. |
Not quite. ((WARNING = PERSONAL OPINION)) What is means is, you won't have companies like Green Ronin taking the
OGL and the
SRD and building an entirely new game that has nothing to do with D&D that takes players away from D&D while piggybacking on all the mechanics that
WOTC developed.
So, you will see, say, Necromancer Games, a company which produces nothing but D&D material, still produce D&D material. What you won't see is a Mutants and Masterminds, which is completely divorced from D&D, using
4e mechanics.
In other words, indie publishers will be forced to create their own mechanics instead of making yet another d20 clone.