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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4142469" data-attributes="member: 62992">I am sure Scott and the others believed there would be a GSL when they announced it so there are three possible reasons for a backtrack/delay/cancellation;1) Unable to deliver; WoTC seem to work by defining what they want to acheive, then they try and make it a reality. This is what they did with the 4E game engine itself so I suspect that they may have started out with the presmise "GSL will be a restricted OGL that doesn't support standalone games" and announced this. Then they now find they can't actually achieve it legally without undesirable side-effects (letting people use FR or Mindflayers because they wanted no settings books). Or that one legal stategy compromises other projects that they have yet to announce.2) There has been a change of heart at WoTC because of new personnel (New CEO).3) The reaction by 3PPs to the adoption of 4E was so lukewarm at the conference call (or read by WoTC as this) that they decided there was actually no real appetite for a GSL within the 3PP industry.3 seems incredibly unlikely given what Clark at Necro has told us and his very public endorsement of 4E. I would like to know more about the attitude of the parties at that meeting (but it is probably all NDA'ed to hell, so no chance of that).All in all, the delay is not very heartening and nor is the silence. I am hearing alot of static at the moment..sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss</blockquote>

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