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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6293685" data-attributes="member: 7006">Yeah, the idea of an OGL 4E is so wide open of a concept that I dare not even attempt to speculate what would have happened.  There's really no way of knowing what would have happened to the marketplace if it existed.Your mentioning of a 3.75d 4E or a 4Ed 3.75 is a very interesting one though, and one that I had never actually considered before.  An Essentials before Essentials as you speculated on it.  That would have made things very interesting indeed, and slammed the door shut on WotC's version of it, because it would have been released a full year or two prior to when WotC did theirs.  So there would have been no point for WotC then.The one thing though I imagine would have happened with almost 100% certainty would be that a Superheroes game would have been made using the 4E engine.  Whether Green Ronin did an M&M variant, or HERO systems did a Champions variant... I saw enough of the 4E engine and what was done through Gamma World that the game was primed to have a superhero game attached to it.  Especially because it would have bridged that gap between the gridded (or more truthfully hexxed) Champions, and the more TotMish Mutants & Masterminds (and other d20 supers).Someone would have a 4E supers game.  Of that, I have no doubt.  <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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