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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4384777" data-attributes="member: 40961">A number of things.  The inability to release the same product under multiple rulesets, for one.  And the inability to reprint monster stats, for two.  The inability to reprint monster stats basically ensures that 3rd party adventures either 1) are obnoxious to use in comparison to WOTC adventures, or 2) involve near-cognate versions of monsters already in the monster manual (not skeletons, elf skeletons!).I think that the current business situation for many of the larger 3rd party publishers is that D&D license material is not their major revenue generator.  Instead, its material that in some way is derived from d20, but now can stand alone.  As such, releases of 4e material only make sense for them if they can multi-release the same product under a couple of rules systems, or if the product is releasable on the side like an adventure.  Which of course they can't now, so they're looking at their options, and going with their strengths rather than their past.I don't think that the mutability of the agreement is a major concern.  They deal with stuff like that on a daily basis.  Ongoing contracts which govern the parties behavior up until the moment that one party decides to quit are, well, common.  I can think of three that affect my job this very instant.  They don't concern me because I have a pretty good idea of the likelihood that anyone will back out of an ongoing agreement, and that likelihood is low.  This is how it is for a lot of businesses.</blockquote>

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