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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6139152" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>My understanding is that the GSL scared off a huge portion of prospective third-party supporters. Some of those who remained provided their support using the <em>OGL</em> - they either wrote their stuff to be stat-free ("treat these firearms like these crossbows...") or introduced workarounds (see some of the Goodman modules from early 4e). I don't think it's impossible that this could continue.</p><p></p><p>But I suspect that the bulk of ongoing 4e support will take the form of fans sharing their homebrew efforts, probably without any license at all. Unless, that is, someone manages to put together an OGL-compliant retroclone of the edition... but I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.</p><p></p><p>(I don't think an OGL-compliant 4e retroclone is impossible, but I do think it's risky. It's one thing for WotC to turn a blind eye to people providing support of an edition that's decades out of print. But 4e is the current edition, and if it does get a retroclone then it could be a serious threat - and WotC have experience with their old edition becoming their strongest competitor. So you'll have to be <em>very</em> careful to get it right.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6139152, member: 22424"] My understanding is that the GSL scared off a huge portion of prospective third-party supporters. Some of those who remained provided their support using the [I]OGL[/I] - they either wrote their stuff to be stat-free ("treat these firearms like these crossbows...") or introduced workarounds (see some of the Goodman modules from early 4e). I don't think it's impossible that this could continue. But I suspect that the bulk of ongoing 4e support will take the form of fans sharing their homebrew efforts, probably without any license at all. Unless, that is, someone manages to put together an OGL-compliant retroclone of the edition... but I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. (I don't think an OGL-compliant 4e retroclone is impossible, but I do think it's risky. It's one thing for WotC to turn a blind eye to people providing support of an edition that's decades out of print. But 4e is the current edition, and if it does get a retroclone then it could be a serious threat - and WotC have experience with their old edition becoming their strongest competitor. So you'll have to be [I]very[/I] careful to get it right.) [/QUOTE]
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