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<blockquote data-quote="GVDammerung" data-source="post: 4368693" data-attributes="member: 33060">QFT.&nbsp; This is the legal, very practical crux of the matter.&nbsp; &nbsp;The GSL offers a publisher the opportunity to publish their IP now and have Wotc tell that publisher later that they can never, ever publish it again. Wotc doesn't grab a publisher's IP, Wotc reserves the right to bury it via the GSL.&nbsp; Only a publisher who has little regard for their IP, or who trusts that somehow &quot;everything will be okay,&quot; would publish their IP under the GSL.&nbsp;For something like The Great City, publishing under the GSL for 4e would be insane.&nbsp; Oone Games produces quality, not throwaway, products.&nbsp; The Great City promises not just quality but continuing viability in the long run, ie its a flagship or signature product.&nbsp; The GSL would threaten the continuing viability of the Great City at Wotc's sole and unfettered discretion.&nbsp; Again, to publish like that takes lots of faith or little sense.&nbsp;Oone Games made the smart choice to publish The Great City under the OGL.&nbsp; It was really the only choice for the long run.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GVDammerung, post: 4368693, member: 33060"] QFT. This is the legal, very practical crux of the matter. The GSL offers a publisher the opportunity to publish their IP now and have Wotc tell that publisher later that they can never, ever publish it again. Wotc doesn't grab a publisher's IP, Wotc reserves the right to bury it via the GSL. Only a publisher who has little regard for their IP, or who trusts that somehow "everything will be okay," would publish their IP under the GSL. For something like The Great City, publishing under the GSL for 4e would be insane. Oone Games produces quality, not throwaway, products. The Great City promises not just quality but continuing viability in the long run, ie its a flagship or signature product. The GSL would threaten the continuing viability of the Great City at Wotc's sole and unfettered discretion. Again, to publish like that takes lots of faith or little sense. Oone Games made the smart choice to publish The Great City under the OGL. It was really the only choice for the long run. [/QUOTE]

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