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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 3981557" data-attributes="member: 114">Quote:Originally Posted by PiratecatThe new version of the OGL isn’t as open-ended as the current version. Any 4e OGL product must use the 4e PHB as the basis of their game. If they can’t use the core rule books, it won’t be possible to create the game under this particular version of the OGL.This bit seems strange to me, because it sounds as if - effectively - the d20 license has been renamed to the OGL license, and the old-style OGL license has disappeared.Speculation: With 3e it was anticipated that the majority of companies would go for d20 licensed products, and it was a bit of a surprise that Mongoose, Green Ronin (and others?) have been able to take the OGL side and run with it to bring out whole new, successful product lines; I've got no idea about the actual facts and figures but when I visit my FLGS it seems that there are a lot more OGL than third party d20 products out there.Further Speculation: Direct competitors rather than participators in an add-on market isn't what they want, so in practice WotC want to kill the OGL license and leave only the d20 license there (the one which predicates the use of the PHB alongside the product). For some reason (maybe the OGL name has more traction now?) they want the license to be headlined as 'OGL' even though the new license seems soundly based on the older, more restrictive d20 license.Of course, this breeds the possibility of confusion, because when someone says 'OGL' they won't necessarily know whether it is 'old, unrestricted 3e OGL' or 'new, restricted 4e OGL'.So it seems like a bit of a mess regarding naming standards to me, but it will be interesting to see how things pan out.Cheers</blockquote>

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