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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azzy" data-source="post: 8221317" data-attributes="member: 6563">I think a lot (most?) of 4e was a knee-jerk reaction by Hasbro's lawyers to the OGL and the glut of 3PP that capitalized off of the D&D IP. There's the GSL wrich screwed over 3PP. Monsters, cosmology, and other elements got new/changed lore to be different from what came before—likely to hang trademarks on and not be usable under the old OGL. A, in some ways, drastic departure in game mechanics could be controlled and not allowed under the older OGL. Or, at least, that's my conspiracy theory. Not saying that the edition itself or the lore created for it is somehow lesser or undeserving because of this, just that I think that much of 4e came about because of upper management being paranoid and mucking around where they shouldn't have been. I think that the D&D creative team did the best they could with the commandments from above (even if it alienated me and others like me—water under the bridge and all).</blockquote>