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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 4204508" data-attributes="member: 158">I'm not sure if this is a huge concern for most publishers. For someone like Green Ronin, who has a bread-and-butter line with Mutants and Masterminds, they simply retool &quot;Bleeding Edge&quot; or similar for 4e adventures and material. If the GSL suddenly later drops a hypothetical &quot;poison pill&quot; in, they stop producing 4e stuff, pure and simple, because the OGL is more profitable. WotC is not likely to do such without a &quot;sell-through&quot; period, just as they're doing now (and did in the past), so the 3e/OGL base is not lost, they're in fact MORE catered to.For companies who switched completely to the GSL, they'd just go along with whatever the GSL 2 said. THe only way they'd lose out is if the GSL 2 said, &quot;THERE IS NO GSL 2&quot;, in other words, it's hereby revoked, and there's no more use of our content at all. This might happen, but it's not as likely.I still forsee some turbulent airlanes ahead for OGL and GSL in general, because there's still a lot of questions to answer legally about the extent to which one can mimic another (in other words, if innovations push the OGL to include some rules similar to 4e, what can happen and how similar can it be), but to me, all this stuff is exciting times, interesting times, instead of &quot;herald of the Dark Times&quot; kind of stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 4204508, member: 158"] I'm not sure if this is a huge concern for most publishers. For someone like Green Ronin, who has a bread-and-butter line with Mutants and Masterminds, they simply retool "Bleeding Edge" or similar for 4e adventures and material. If the GSL suddenly later drops a hypothetical "poison pill" in, they stop producing 4e stuff, pure and simple, because the OGL is more profitable. WotC is not likely to do such without a "sell-through" period, just as they're doing now (and did in the past), so the 3e/OGL base is not lost, they're in fact MORE catered to. For companies who switched completely to the GSL, they'd just go along with whatever the GSL 2 said. THe only way they'd lose out is if the GSL 2 said, "THERE IS NO GSL 2", in other words, it's hereby revoked, and there's no more use of our content at all. This might happen, but it's not as likely. I still forsee some turbulent airlanes ahead for OGL and GSL in general, because there's still a lot of questions to answer legally about the extent to which one can mimic another (in other words, if innovations push the OGL to include some rules similar to 4e, what can happen and how similar can it be), but to me, all this stuff is exciting times, interesting times, instead of "herald of the Dark Times" kind of stuff. [/QUOTE]

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