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Originally Posted by delericho I do wonder just how closed 4e actually can be. I strongly suspect the rules will be OSRIC'ed pretty quickly. Failing that, I certainly wouldn't be surprised to see some companies at least explore the ability to publish support for 4e under the existing OGL. | I think that "forward engineering" 4e rules to work under the OGL will not be possible. The fact OSRIC exists makes WotC aware that something like this was possible and they would take steps to prevent it.
I see companies trying to explore the ability of publishing 4e under the OGL. However I suspect WotC would be policing this firmly. It's not worth it for small companies to fight a legal battle to release a game regardless of whether they're right or wrong. That said I don't think that WotC will turn into Kevin Semebeida (God, I hope not) or anything with lawsuits.
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