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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6765622" data-attributes="member: 82106">GSL really is a very LENIENT license, OGL just spoiled people. Very few systems allow even supplements or adventures to be written by 3PPs. You CAN write 4e material of any sort, it just can't reuse terms and material from WotC publications. There's been a decent amount of pretty good stuff, but clearly with 4e no longer a current product there is less demand, and any 3PP is going to go where the most players are, which is PF or 5e nowadays.It would be HARD to make a 'retro clone' of 4e, but maybe not impossible. Its just not a subject of nostalgia, we still HAVE 4e. People make retro clones of 1e and older editions because the originals are hard to find or are more expensive. More than that though OD&amp;D and Basic and its ilk were games of homebrew and variants, and most retro clones are variants more than anything. A 'variant of 4e' is just pretty much a modernistic d20 type game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 6765622, member: 82106"] GSL really is a very LENIENT license, OGL just spoiled people. Very few systems allow even supplements or adventures to be written by 3PPs. You CAN write 4e material of any sort, it just can't reuse terms and material from WotC publications. There's been a decent amount of pretty good stuff, but clearly with 4e no longer a current product there is less demand, and any 3PP is going to go where the most players are, which is PF or 5e nowadays. It would be HARD to make a 'retro clone' of 4e, but maybe not impossible. Its just not a subject of nostalgia, we still HAVE 4e. People make retro clones of 1e and older editions because the originals are hard to find or are more expensive. More than that though OD&D and Basic and its ilk were games of homebrew and variants, and most retro clones are variants more than anything. A 'variant of 4e' is just pretty much a modernistic d20 type game. [/QUOTE]

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