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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5764144" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>But the GSL went screamingly far in the opposite direction. In addition to closing off the core of the game, they imposed a bunch of weird and confusing restrictions (you can make up new monster statblocks but you can't use ours as listed!), and gave Wizards the right to yank the license at will. A company that built itself on producing adventures for 4E, the way Paizo did in 3E, could be terminated at the whim of WotC's executive of the week.</p><p></p><p>Furthermore, it was delivered months late, and in its original version it tried to prohibit producing GSL and OGL content side by side. This was utterly unacceptable to pretty much everybody, so it got sent back for a rewrite, adding more months. By the time Wizards finally came out with a GSL that <em>some</em> of the big-name 3PPs were willing to sign up for, it was too late.</p><p></p><p>If the GSL had just been "the OGL, but you can't reprint the Player's Handbook any more," things would have been very, very different.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5764144, member: 58197"] But the GSL went screamingly far in the opposite direction. In addition to closing off the core of the game, they imposed a bunch of weird and confusing restrictions (you can make up new monster statblocks but you can't use ours as listed!), and gave Wizards the right to yank the license at will. A company that built itself on producing adventures for 4E, the way Paizo did in 3E, could be terminated at the whim of WotC's executive of the week. Furthermore, it was delivered months late, and in its original version it tried to prohibit producing GSL and OGL content side by side. This was utterly unacceptable to pretty much everybody, so it got sent back for a rewrite, adding more months. By the time Wizards finally came out with a GSL that [i]some[/i] of the big-name 3PPs were willing to sign up for, it was too late. If the GSL had just been "the OGL, but you can't reprint the Player's Handbook any more," things would have been very, very different. [/QUOTE]
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