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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 5980183" data-attributes="member: 87792">As one of the 4e fans in question, the main issue is losing the tools.&nbsp; (Even then there's still the Offline Character Builder).&nbsp; And the GSL, unfortunately for WotC, is not that serious a problem.&nbsp; Just ask the OSRIC team quite how far the OGL can be pushed - you can't patent game mechanics.&nbsp; You just need to re-write the fluff almost from scratch.&nbsp; And unfortunately for WotC, 4e is a d20 game so you can grab about half the fluff from the two big SRDs anyway.There's a mint to be made by the first existing RPG company that can come out with a system that's entirely compatable with 4e with re-written mechanics.&nbsp; By the standards of literally anyone in the RPG market other than WotC and possibly Paizo it's a jackpot.And yes, I'm putting together a case for Cubicle 7 to do exactly this.The problem is that &quot;makes everyone slightly happy&quot; won't actually serve that broad market.&nbsp; In order to serve the broad market, 5e needs to be enough of an improvement over existing editions to get people to switch rather than play what they have for the past 5,10,13,21, or however many years.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 5980183, member: 87792"] As one of the 4e fans in question, the main issue is losing the tools. (Even then there's still the Offline Character Builder). And the GSL, unfortunately for WotC, is not that serious a problem. Just ask the OSRIC team quite how far the OGL can be pushed - you can't patent game mechanics. You just need to re-write the fluff almost from scratch. And unfortunately for WotC, 4e is a d20 game so you can grab about half the fluff from the two big SRDs anyway. There's a mint to be made by the first existing RPG company that can come out with a system that's entirely compatable with 4e with re-written mechanics. By the standards of literally anyone in the RPG market other than WotC and possibly Paizo it's a jackpot. And yes, I'm putting together a case for Cubicle 7 to do exactly this. The problem is that "makes everyone slightly happy" [I]won't actually serve that broad market.[/I] In order to serve the broad market, 5e needs to be enough of an improvement over existing editions to get people to switch rather than play what they have for the past 5,10,13,21, or however many years. [/QUOTE]

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