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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cybernetic" data-source="post: 4186128" data-attributes="member: 1542">Actually, Spycraft did it under the old d20 STL license. The first Spycraft book, which I happen to have in my bag right now, did not "Describe a process for Creating a Character". It simply gave different options to use when creating a character and refered you to teh 3rd Edition PHB for the rules to put the peices together.On another note. My personal opinion on the situation, from both the perspective of a writer and a gamer, is that in the end I think this will be good for gaming. I think WotC is playing this round smart. They're obviously very confident and worked very hard on 4th Edition and I think they want any 3PP who supports it to put a lot into their products as well. By forcing 3PP who work with 4th Edition to turn their back on 3.X, it puts their focus on making better products for 4th Edition. It does seem as though it is going to exclude some of the bigger names in 3PP from supporting 4th Edition (which is a shame), but that has a positive side as well. Those companies will be able to focus more on their own systems to give us great non-4th Edition products as well! It'll also give us some new blood and has the potential of giving us a new generation of 3PP.Grymn Studios has been developing an OGL-based game for the passed few years. They system is compete and the setting for the game has been developed. I have faith in the system I created (it is OGL but diverges from d20 quite a bit). However, It is likely that it will never be published, because we will be going 4th Edition. The setting we had developed actually fits perfectly with the feel and implied "setting" of 4th Edition D&D, almost too perfectly <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />. The system I developed (which pre-dates the setting) will either go onto my own personal book self or I'll shop it to a 3.X Publisher down the road.</blockquote>

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