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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4317257" data-attributes="member: 1054">I may have been unclear.Company "B" doesn't register for the GSL. They are a pure OGL company.But the *content* of Evoker Games' 4e Volume Of Monsters is now available under the OGL, alongside their own 4e book, and there's nothing they can do to stop it. It is further interesting that while EG can now never again publish their VoM under the OGL, their competitors can (and in my example, are).The main legal issue is if there was any collusion between EG and "Company B" -- if there wasn't, I can't see any basis for WOTC to declare a breach, even though the end result is exactly what the GSL was engineered to avoid -- simultaneous publication of 4e and OGL material.Do I consider this scenario *likely*? Only if companies with fairly generous OGC declarations "abandon" lines to go 4e, leaving the game content "plunderable". Technically, it always was -- but the financial incentive to publish something which is identical to someone else's existing product but without their marketing or reputation is pretty weak. If, however, they're no longer serving that market...For example, if Necromancer WERE to convert the TOH to 4e, I could see a strong business case for someone grabbing all the OGC and making a Pathfinder version. The fact the TOH "opens" such iconic figures as Orcus and Jubilex (note spelling) is reason enough.</blockquote>