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<blockquote data-quote="Ximenes088" data-source="post: 4201865" data-attributes="member: 59899"><p>Yeah, that looks to be the case. That's what you get when you hitch your wagon to somebody else's star. If you're looking for some sort of license that gives you perpetual rights to leverage the market leader's product to sell your own, with no way for that leader to curtail or end such leverage, then you're out of luck. WotC hasn't got any reason to guarantee 3PP an iron dice bag. Their motivation is to give 3PP a chance to expand their market coverage by providing niche products that can't profitably be undertaken by them. When 4e goes under in a decade or so, 3PP are just going to have to either trust that WotC will give them an escape hatch into 5e or be ready to homebrew their own system.</p><p></p><p>And I don't really see anything wrong with that. Anything WotC gives is morally and legally pure charity. They've got no special obligation to loan their IP out for someone else to sell on, and this new contract makes clear up-front that it exists at WotC's pleasure. If you think it's a good deal, you take it, and if you don't, you keep with OGL.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ximenes088, post: 4201865, member: 59899"] Yeah, that looks to be the case. That's what you get when you hitch your wagon to somebody else's star. If you're looking for some sort of license that gives you perpetual rights to leverage the market leader's product to sell your own, with no way for that leader to curtail or end such leverage, then you're out of luck. WotC hasn't got any reason to guarantee 3PP an iron dice bag. Their motivation is to give 3PP a chance to expand their market coverage by providing niche products that can't profitably be undertaken by them. When 4e goes under in a decade or so, 3PP are just going to have to either trust that WotC will give them an escape hatch into 5e or be ready to homebrew their own system. And I don't really see anything wrong with that. Anything WotC gives is morally and legally pure charity. They've got no special obligation to loan their IP out for someone else to sell on, and this new contract makes clear up-front that it exists at WotC's pleasure. If you think it's a good deal, you take it, and if you don't, you keep with OGL. [/QUOTE]
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