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<blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4308297" data-attributes="member: 1054">I want to make sure I'm not over-reacting.Let's say I decide to take a homebrew setting, like my Shattered World campaign (game is going great, I've just been too busy to upgrade the blog), and produce a 4e version of it for commercial sale. Let us then speculate that, somehow, against all odds, it gets picked for some kind of movie/book/whatever deal.Can WOTC basically kill it by sending me a C&amp;D, as well as preventing me from releasing it under a different system? (OGL, my own house rules, whatever.)I am not asking if it's likely that they WOULD; I'm asking if it's possible under the terms of the GSL.'cause if it is, no one is going to risk releasing their 'crown jewel' IP under the GSL, or creating much original or interesting for it -- and maybe that's WOTCs plan, that what they want is very generic supplements which will not develop fan followings of their own, fan followings which will support the game world no matter what system it moves to.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lizard, post: 4308297, member: 1054"] I want to make sure I'm not over-reacting. Let's say I decide to take a homebrew setting, like my Shattered World campaign (game is going great, I've just been too busy to upgrade the blog), and produce a 4e version of it for commercial sale. Let us then speculate that, somehow, against all odds, it gets picked for some kind of movie/book/whatever deal. Can WOTC basically kill it by sending me a C&D, as well as preventing me from releasing it under a different system? (OGL, my own house rules, whatever.) I am not asking if it's likely that they WOULD; I'm asking if it's possible under the terms of the GSL. 'cause if it is, no one is going to risk releasing their 'crown jewel' IP under the GSL, or creating much original or interesting for it -- and maybe that's WOTCs plan, that what they want is very generic supplements which will not develop fan followings of their own, fan followings which will support the game world no matter what system it moves to. [/QUOTE]

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