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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mxyzplk" data-source="post: 4573183" data-attributes="member: 16450">Eh, I think the ship has sailed on having a usable GSL.It's an undeniable fact that the current one is totally undesirable; every company with more than one employee and any IP worth protecting has eschewed it.  So far it's just new solo folks with nothing to lose and extremely limited experiments (Wraith Recon, Apelords) by established companies.  Ronin, Paizo, Necromancer, Troll Lord, Kenzer, Postmortem, Wolfgang Baur, Monte Cook, Sean K. Reynolds, Deep7, Highmoon, and random other guys - all quite reputable companies and noted RPG designers - have decided not to bother with the GSL.  Comments like "the only people that don't like the GSL are people with no stake/knowledge" are patently false.Really it's too late.  All these guys had to plan out a path for their products when all this came up.  And they correctly saw that WotC is not going to address this issue in good faith.  How many times have they promised something about the GSL but "whoops, it just slipped through the cracks again?"  That's not someone you enter into a business relationship with.  And a lot of the reason to go along has faded.  4e hasn't been performing to expectation (at least people like Matt Sprange of Mongoose and other people that might know say so).  Wizards just laid off more of their staff, including 4e designers and people working on the failed digital initiative.  This isn't the D&D of 3e, which was reinvigorating the industry and clearly something to align with.  With a sufficiently nonpredatory GSL you might see more experiments, but I wouldn't be too sure they'd be found compelling by other folks outside the PDF-only crowd.</blockquote>

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