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<blockquote data-quote="Badwe" data-source="post: 5383781" data-attributes="member: 61762">although the GSL is not quite as forgiving as OGL, i suspect the real culprit is that so much of 4e is &quot;plugged in&quot; to things like the compendium and the CB, to which 3PP have no way to integrate with.&nbsp; Assuming there even WAS some way to integrate, it would probably skyrocket the cost of producing the book and expose them to the risk of piracy, for which they have even less recourse and ability to quash than wotc.that being said, i've bought a good number of goodman game's 4e dungeon crawl classics.&nbsp; They are.... very different from the way WotC does adventures, both published and in dragon.&nbsp; for the most part it's refreshing, but some of the early stuff made such mistakes as sending a single level 7 against a party of level 1s.&nbsp; This was right by XP but there's no way they could hit that thing.I think aside from adventures, I would most likely want some sort of creature compendium, but i don't even like to use the monster manuals for more than the nature/knowledge checks and pictures, or possibly injecting one additional type of monster into a fight. if i have to flip we're in trouble.&nbsp; For that reason, a creature compendium that doesn't plug in to the compendium where i can copy+paste stat blocks into word documents isn't useful to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Badwe, post: 5383781, member: 61762"] although the GSL is not quite as forgiving as OGL, i suspect the real culprit is that so much of 4e is "plugged in" to things like the compendium and the CB, to which 3PP have no way to integrate with. Assuming there even WAS some way to integrate, it would probably skyrocket the cost of producing the book and expose them to the risk of piracy, for which they have even less recourse and ability to quash than wotc. that being said, i've bought a good number of goodman game's 4e dungeon crawl classics. They are.... very different from the way WotC does adventures, both published and in dragon. for the most part it's refreshing, but some of the early stuff made such mistakes as sending a single level 7 against a party of level 1s. This was right by XP but there's no way they could hit that thing. I think aside from adventures, I would most likely want some sort of creature compendium, but i don't even like to use the monster manuals for more than the nature/knowledge checks and pictures, or possibly injecting one additional type of monster into a fight. if i have to flip we're in trouble. For that reason, a creature compendium that doesn't plug in to the compendium where i can copy+paste stat blocks into word documents isn't useful to me. [/QUOTE]

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