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<blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4641825" data-attributes="member: 62992"><p>The irony of all this for me is that a liberal and open GSL would have probably mitigated the problems that 4E is now experiencing (at least with respect to this community). More than one vision of the D&D world, using the same mechanics, is and always was a good idea. I think WoTC is particularly bad at producing adventures and that this is a real deficiency. There is also no-where near enough material, in terms of expansions, to fill the demand, and the 3PPs could have helped with this.</p><p> </p><p>Now, I suspect, other companies will be seeing the money of people who have decided 4E is not for them. </p><p> </p><p>But then that is often what you get when you try to be too controlling. I am not saying GSL should have been as open as OGL; I don't think WoTC needed to have allowed other companies to produce whole new game systems. I just think they should have allowed them to produce expansions, adventures, settings and other things that make the D&D world richer.</p><p> </p><p>After all, most of what Hasbro calls "their IP" in fact started life in the head of a fan. So it is a bit rich to start getting shirty with us when we feel some ownership of D&D.</p><p> </p><p>They needed to crack down on abuse not on use of 4E D&D; a pity that they seem to have gone too far, at least on the first try.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ydars, post: 4641825, member: 62992"] The irony of all this for me is that a liberal and open GSL would have probably mitigated the problems that 4E is now experiencing (at least with respect to this community). More than one vision of the D&D world, using the same mechanics, is and always was a good idea. I think WoTC is particularly bad at producing adventures and that this is a real deficiency. There is also no-where near enough material, in terms of expansions, to fill the demand, and the 3PPs could have helped with this. Now, I suspect, other companies will be seeing the money of people who have decided 4E is not for them. But then that is often what you get when you try to be too controlling. I am not saying GSL should have been as open as OGL; I don't think WoTC needed to have allowed other companies to produce whole new game systems. I just think they should have allowed them to produce expansions, adventures, settings and other things that make the D&D world richer. After all, most of what Hasbro calls "their IP" in fact started life in the head of a fan. So it is a bit rich to start getting shirty with us when we feel some ownership of D&D. They needed to crack down on abuse not on use of 4E D&D; a pity that they seem to have gone too far, at least on the first try. [/QUOTE]
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