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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 4036086" data-attributes="member: 9053">I just wanted to say that I think this is a very insightful post, and one that WotC would do well to consider, because it seems like a lot of what you've said has been forgotten by them over the last couple of years.The D20 License and the OGL were tremendous boons for WotC. There is simply no question about it. WotC puts out books that sell one or more orders of magnitude over what smaller publishers do. This happens even when they directly compete with smaller publishers, such as in the case of the environmental books.I simply cannot fathom how they can believe that abandoning the concept of Open Gaming is going to make their situation any better for them. All that's going to happen is that the market is going to fracture.Maybe the thought is that they're going to bring in many new players who've never heard of D&D. If that's the case, the game needs an entirely new marketing campaign that reaches those people. Is their any evidence that this is happening in the slightest?I play a lot of different games, and over the last few years I've mostly played D&D and OGL games, because my groups have found that these games are similar enough so that the time you have to invest to learn a new set of rules is drastically less. As a result, when our group went through its Iron Heroes phase, we still picked up D&D books  that we thought might be relevant to what we were doing. Ditto with Mutants and Masterminds, True20 and BESMD20. In the new edition, all of that is going to be gone. I'm excited about the new edition, but I also know that it means I'm going to end up going and playing a lot of games that have less and less crossover with the new rules. That means less money goes to WotC.I'll also predict that either an existing company or someone entirely new will make a version of D&D using the existing OGL that is 4E with the serial numbers filed off. That company will make a tremendous amount of money.--Steve</blockquote>

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