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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rasyr" data-source="post: 1860335" data-attributes="member: 2855">Your looking at it the wrong way. The first two editions were done by TSR,  then it was bought by WotC, who in turn was bought by Hasbro. Hasbro sees the business model for M:TG (major release every few years with minor releases inbetween) as being very profitable. Thus, my belief that we will see 4e in either 2006 or 2007 is based on them using the CCG business model for their rpg as well. Remember, 3.5 wasn't due out until 2005 (which would logically put 4E out in 2010), thus a change occured in-house which altered this plan.You can also be sure that no anouncements or hints will be made about 4e until they actually have a finalized manuscript and it is aleady going into the layout phase, as nothing kills sales faster than word of a new edition coming out.heheh  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Yes, that is an interesting question. Chances are that IF WotC did move away from the d20 system, it would also remove the d20 license (the thing that allows the use of the d20 logo), cancelling all such licenses in effect. This would hurt a number of companies whose sales come mainly from having that logo on their products. Several companies have built up their name recognition enough that such a move by WotC would have limited effect (i.e. Mongoose comes to mind, with their "OGL" books which reprint the core rules).Don't count on 4E being put under the OGL. Personally, I think it won't be made OGL (of course, I could be wrong, wouldn't be the first time).</blockquote>

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