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<blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 3982364" data-attributes="member: 1054">Since many of the changes seem to be for changes' sake, I can't help but suspect that you're correct. On the main topic of this thread...wow, 8 years on and people STILL don't understand the OGL and the SRD.As it stands now, if the license under which the 4e SRD is released is in any way a new version of OLG 1.0a, the &quot;community standards&quot; rules can be gleefully and merrily ignored by publishers, as they can use older versions of the OGL.If it is not, then no currently open material can be used. This means, for example, that if you wrote a 3.x supplement which used material from the 3.x SRD, you cannot convert it to 4e, as the 3.x material is not licensed under the new OGL. You can, of course, convert original material to which you hold the copyright, re-releasing it under the new license, but if your material uses any open content which is not your own, you have to excise it. I think market fragmentation is going to be major because of this, and WOTC has really shot themselves in the foot. There will be a lot of incentive for small, electronic, publishers to cater to those who don't switch instantly, and the more new material is around for them, the less incentive they have to switch. Maybe WOTC is convinced their new game is so amazingly fantastically better that practically no one will refuse to switch, but if that's their marketing plan, look for a 5e a lot sooner than you might think....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lizard, post: 3982364, member: 1054"] Since many of the changes seem to be for changes' sake, I can't help but suspect that you're correct. On the main topic of this thread...wow, 8 years on and people STILL don't understand the OGL and the SRD. As it stands now, if the license under which the 4e SRD is released is in any way a new version of OLG 1.0a, the "community standards" rules can be gleefully and merrily ignored by publishers, as they can use older versions of the OGL. If it is not, then no currently open material can be used. This means, for example, that if you wrote a 3.x supplement which used material from the 3.x SRD, you cannot convert it to 4e, as the 3.x material is not licensed under the new OGL. You can, of course, convert original material to which you hold the copyright, re-releasing it under the new license, but if your material uses any open content which is not your own, you have to excise it. I think market fragmentation is going to be major because of this, and WOTC has really shot themselves in the foot. There will be a lot of incentive for small, electronic, publishers to cater to those who don't switch instantly, and the more new material is around for them, the less incentive they have to switch. Maybe WOTC is convinced their new game is so amazingly fantastically better that practically no one will refuse to switch, but if that's their marketing plan, look for a 5e a lot sooner than you might think.... [/QUOTE]

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