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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3654184" data-attributes="member: 11760">The OGL can't ever be revoked. It's there in the license. So now that the horse is out of the barn, unless they scrap the entire system and start with something absolutely different -- and maybe not even then -- people will just modify the D20 system to match 4E and 4E will be OGL, whether or not WotC (or whoever owns D&amp;D then) wants it.And given how big a piece of the pie WotC gets compared to all other sellers of RPGs in general (most of it), and compared to all the other companies in the D20/OGL space (almost all of it), the notion that OGL &quot;hurts&quot; WotC has to use a very specialized definition for the word &quot;hurt.&quot;In the meantime, it's given us Mutants &amp; Masterminds, Midnight, Freeport, Arcana Unearthed, Blue Rose, a zillion great modules from Goodman Games and Necromancer and countless other goodies, especially once you venture into the PDF frontier.Hurt? No one's hurt by OGL. And those gamers who have the courage to wander away from home end up finding a whole lot of cool stuff out there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 3654184, member: 11760"] The OGL can't ever be revoked. It's there in the license. So now that the horse is out of the barn, unless they scrap the entire system and start with something absolutely different -- and maybe not even then -- people will just modify the D20 system to match 4E and 4E will be OGL, whether or not WotC (or whoever owns D&D then) wants it. And given how big a piece of the pie WotC gets compared to all other sellers of RPGs in general (most of it), and compared to all the other companies in the D20/OGL space (almost all of it), the notion that OGL "hurts" WotC has to use a very specialized definition for the word "hurt." In the meantime, it's given us Mutants & Masterminds, Midnight, Freeport, Arcana Unearthed, Blue Rose, a zillion great modules from Goodman Games and Necromancer and countless other goodies, especially once you venture into the PDF frontier. Hurt? No one's [i]hurt[/i] by OGL. And those gamers who have the courage to wander away from home end up finding a whole lot of cool stuff out there. [/QUOTE]

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