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<blockquote data-quote="JohnRTroy" data-source="post: 3984723" data-attributes="member: 2732">Out of curiosity...What is the motivation to &quot;reverse engineer&quot; 4e?Wizards is having a 4e, and in 2009 everybody can create content if they follow the rules.&nbsp; That seems pretty straightforward.4e is so different from 3e it is very doubtful people will want to take stuff from 4e to incorporate in 3e.&nbsp; So you're either in the 4e camp or the 3e camp.The only real reason to reverse engineer 4e, since it has its own license, is I guess more or less to &quot;stick it to the man&quot;--screw you guys, I'm gonna steal your content and make it my own.&nbsp; &quot;How DARE you use a different license for the new D&amp;D.&nbsp; I'll show you!&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad&nbsp; &nbsp; :mad:"&nbsp; data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />&nbsp;&nbsp; At least with OSRIC it's to support a &quot;dead game&quot; that's no longer supported by the publisher...I really can't see any altruistic method for doing so.&nbsp; Necromancer and other professional companies are doing this--or choosing not to support 4e, stay with 3e or (gosh) develop their own games.&nbsp;&nbsp; :\</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JohnRTroy, post: 3984723, member: 2732"] Out of curiosity... What is the motivation to "reverse engineer" 4e? Wizards is having a 4e, and in 2009 everybody can create content if they follow the rules. That seems pretty straightforward. 4e is so different from 3e it is very doubtful people will want to take stuff from 4e to incorporate in 3e. So you're either in the 4e camp or the 3e camp. The only real reason to reverse engineer 4e, since it has its own license, is I guess more or less to "stick it to the man"--screw you guys, I'm gonna steal your content and make it my own. "How DARE you use a different license for the new D&D. I'll show you!" :mad: At least with OSRIC it's to support a "dead game" that's no longer supported by the publisher... I really can't see any altruistic method for doing so. Necromancer and other professional companies are doing this--or choosing not to support 4e, stay with 3e or (gosh) develop their own games. :\ [/QUOTE]

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