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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AZRogue" data-source="post: 4149638" data-attributes="member: 3963">Another question that has been mentioned several times but not yet explored (and something different than this eternal "was the OGL good/bad for WotC/Gaming?"):How difficult would it be for someone to release material for 4E using the current OGL?4E is going to be different, we know that, but will it be too different? The game will have levels, hit points, races, classes, feats, and skills. The different factors, like Encounter powers, at-will powers, and daily powers, could be duplicated closely without infringing, couldn't they? I think that certain types of material, namely settings and optional rule books that will, by definition, contain their own alternate rules, will be easy to produce, really. I imagine that WotC would prefer than any company making material for 4E use the new GSL (that we haven't seen yet) instead of coming in through the backdoor by way of the OGL. How would they accomplish this, though? Would it be better and/or easier for WotC at this point to release under the OGL and just limit certain aspects of their IP? I'm not encouraging anyone to go around the GSL by using the OGL, I'm just curious if it's possible and how that impacts what can, and should, be done now. I'm curious what some of you guys think. A lot of you obviously have a lot more knowledge on the subject than I do. I'm interested in your opinions on whether this would be possible and, if so, what it would mean for WotC. Ideally, at this point, I'd kind of like 4E to just be released under the OGL to help mend some of the broken fences. I'm not fond of the fracturing player base. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />EDIT: I apologize. I meant to post this in the OGL forums where the 4E/OGL discussions have been going on. Could a mod please move this for me? I made a mistake with my tabbed browsing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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