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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 1422577" data-attributes="member: 5">Gencon 2006, is my guess, if the last thirty years of a major revision every three years (or effective revision) is guide enough on which to hang a hat.  Expect "leaks" after Gencon 2005 through the WotC announcement of the 2006 release schedule late in 2005.  The only thing I see that might preclude this is the selling of D&D which I don't believe is in the cards (since Hasbro picked up WotC)...but stranger things have happened.The other thing I see as probably happening is a pulling back on the d20 System License (though, of course, the OGL is eternal).  I'm guessing that with the coming of 4th edition the d20 System License will no longer be a freely offered venture, but that a handful of publishers will be encouraged to apply for use of it and any publishers applying will be judged on their track record of producing products that are most likely to have effected the sales of the core books in a positive way, or companies most likely to be able to effect sales of the core books in a positive way.Further, I'm guessing that the SRD for 4th edition will be either severely trimmed compared to the current and previous releases, or possibly non-existent, offered up under the terms of (what will be) the d20 System License (which may or may not be attached to the OGL) and only to those companies that meet the above standard.  Let's not forget that as the progenitors of the material it is their copyright and even if that material is similar to existing OGC it need not be released as OGC if it is not released under the OGL.In short, I believe it is most likely that with the new, 4th edition the d20 System License will be moved away from, or divorced from, the OGL in an effort to consolidate the support of the core rules within a tighter group of publishers that have made their bones or publishers who are willing to show that they have the stones to put their money where their intentions are.Debate as you will but bookmark this thread and let's visit this issue as it begins to unfold a year and a half from now... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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