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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 4641407" data-attributes="member: 893">I'll be interested to see how things shake out too.My prediction is that it will never get as tight as it was in the 90's but they're definitely putting some fences up around the pasture.  I won't be surprised if a few people who try and push the boundaries start getting some legal attention.The big thing that works against it though is now there is actual legal president for open gaming.  It would have been tough to use the early Gygax quote he uses in a court case but now there is a legal framework that open gaming (and not exclusively OGL gaming) can take place under.  I expect that we'll see some new systems start to emerge that also take advantage of the open framework.  I suspect that White Wolf might try something to try and capture some of the market but who knows?  Paizo almost certainly going to do something but I don't know enough about Pathfinder to say for certain.Plus there are the companies that are going to keep doing their own D20 derivatives.  I suspect that Green Ronin's True20's going to come out of this well, even if they don't become a huge player.  If Troll Lord survives the loss of Zygag and revise C&C some more they'll probably do OK too.  At any rate, moving beyond D20 and open gaming, Shadowrun is still going strong, Steve Jackon has quietly kept his fanbase loyal, I think that WoD's still doing well, and Burning Wheel has the potential to be big if Luke gets his system a bit more coherent and busts out of the niche he's created for himself...  Of course that's assuming he isn't perfectly happy in his niche, if that's the case then I can see the next Paladium.I don't think we're about to return to the bad old days, just something different.</blockquote>

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