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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4041797" data-attributes="member: 22779">It's things like the following quote that makes me not have a whole lot of sympathy for the 3rd party publishers:So, Pramas is patting himself on the back for not violating the OGL?  He had no right to impede the effort.  Not a single leg to stand on.  The guy was doing exactly what he was allowed to do by rights in the OGL.  That this hurts GR's bottom line is besides the point isn't it?  After all that's the arguement we get about WOTC.  WOTC is supposed to give everything away for free and let everyone do whatever they want, but, if it comes around to someone else, whoa nellie!  Back the truck up!  We can't have that at all.I realize that the GSL will not be the OGL.  They will be different licenses.  That's true.  But, that doesn't make 4e closed.  The GSL, apparently, will be a true reference document, without any of the text.  So, if you want to publish a 4e module, you can by the GSL because you can reference the references (See Page X in Book Y), but, what you can't do is republish the actual content.So, yeah, it sucks if you want to make a derivative game off of 4e.  It's likely not going to happen since you can't reprint the text.  But, for support material - new monster manuals, modules, whatever, it's just fine.</blockquote>