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Is there any 4e Retro Clones out there?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6766486" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>Which Paizo didn't have to be with Pathfinder. You could clone 3.5 because the core of 3.5 was sitting out there in the SRD. You could take that and mold it into a facsimile of earlier editions, too, because 3.5 didn't throw away a whole lot of what came before. You can't legally do either of those things to clone 4e, which added a whole lot that was never in the SRD.</p><p></p><p>The size of the RPG market is known, and it's small. </p><p></p><p>Banging out an OGL game is easy, you just pull up the SRD and work with it, and it's perfectly legal. </p><p>You can't clone 4e that way. </p><p></p><p>You could try to skate the letter of the law and come up with something close that didn't technically violate a Hasbro copyright, but if you'd be looking at a legal battle, even if you got it exactly right. No one's bothered to do that in the RPG market since Arduin Grimoire, at the height of the fad. The market just isn't worth fighting such a legal battle over anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6766486, member: 996"] Which Paizo didn't have to be with Pathfinder. You could clone 3.5 because the core of 3.5 was sitting out there in the SRD. You could take that and mold it into a facsimile of earlier editions, too, because 3.5 didn't throw away a whole lot of what came before. You can't legally do either of those things to clone 4e, which added a whole lot that was never in the SRD. The size of the RPG market is known, and it's small. Banging out an OGL game is easy, you just pull up the SRD and work with it, and it's perfectly legal. You can't clone 4e that way. You could try to skate the letter of the law and come up with something close that didn't technically violate a Hasbro copyright, but if you'd be looking at a legal battle, even if you got it exactly right. No one's bothered to do that in the RPG market since Arduin Grimoire, at the height of the fad. The market just isn't worth fighting such a legal battle over anymore. [/QUOTE]
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