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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 4386747" data-attributes="member: 2209">By providing additional onerous terms such as OGL product line poison pill that continues after termination, termination of products using terms defined in future updates of the GSL, at will changing of terms, etc. the GSL can narrow down the pool of licensed 4e product creators or products that creators will be willing to make under the GSL compared to what they were willing to make under the OGL.Therefore the GSL can reduce the number of 4e 3pp products. This reduces the volume of product glut.Similarly the GSL can delay the release of 4e 3pp products, leading to less initial glut.It does nothing, however, to drive up the quality of 3pp products or drive them to fill niches not filled by WotC.The restrictions about what types of things you can do or not do seems to drive 3pp to create things that compete directly with WotC products.Straight up adventures seem fine as do class/race/power splat books, monster books, and most campaign settings that correspond to baseline D&D assumptions. (In other words the same types of things that wizards is planning to put out).On second thought, the delay of publishing can be seen as a drive towards quality, to force 3pp to wait a bit before publishing any 4e GSL books gives them some extra time to get familiar with the rules before they write supplements for them.</blockquote>