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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 1823855" data-attributes="member: 93">True, but that's not what I was referring to there.  I was responding to this quote in regards to reasons why he would choose to not redistribute people's OGC:Where he basically says, "I'll take sales away from you if you don't give me free  stuff."  I stand by my characterization.  In other places the implication is that he'll distribute your OGC earlier if you annoy him by crippling the OGC.But if 3E becomes unsupportable because of it (which admittedly, is all highly theoretical) it will get smaller generation by generation.  How tiny of a minority is Diaglo here?  That could be the OGL market twenty-five years.  Could be.That's why I said that one option for WoTC would be to produce a 4.0 DND without an OGL.  Make it different enough, and the majority of players switch, and all that OGL becomes less usable, and the free-DND crowd becomes like the current crop of 1st edition gamers - a very small minority when compared to those playing the current edition.I understand that they can't revoke the 3.0/3.5 OGL.  That doesn't mean they need to follow it or future versions of the game, I would think.This is a tiny industry.  D20 is already hemmoraging publishers.  Do you want to give them an incentive to leave d20, or an incentive to stay?</blockquote>