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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 7781909" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>I would say that what would have happened would still be VERY close to what did happen. Assuming the property were buried in lawsuits and nonsense for a decade or two, I think it quite likely that the guys at Wizards, being fans of D&D - and that being what led them to want to RESCUE it from burial for a decade or two - would simply have written a new RPG that looked just like 3E, and then just given it some other name. The people who had become interested in 3E as it was in development would still have been interested in it under another name. And here's the thing I've repeated for years - no rpg has an expiration date. Just because there may not have been a company formally publishing D&D stuff wouldn't have stopped anybody's game in progress, nor prevented anyone from starting another one, nor buying used books, etc. In fact, it may have been a great catalyst for unchecked internet creativity. With the IP of D&D being buried in legal limbo nobody would likely be in a position to be sending C&D's to people making their modules freely available, or character sheets, or campaign settings, or redrawing a map of Greyhawk or... I'd <em>guess </em>that it would have been open season, the inmates running the asylum, short of somebody just reprinting the 1E PH as-is and trying to sell it.</p><p></p><p>Personally I'd doubt that. GURPS has its fans as just about any RPG, but my perception of SJG has always been that they're an also-ran. In the sudden absence of "official" support for D&D certainly ALL other RPG's would see some amount of benefit, but as I said, no RPG has an expiration date. Simply being forced to now create <em>your own</em> new D&D adventures from your own imagination rather than buy them is closer to how the game began and was intended anyway.</p><p></p><p>But, yeah. All still just speculation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 7781909, member: 32740"] I would say that what would have happened would still be VERY close to what did happen. Assuming the property were buried in lawsuits and nonsense for a decade or two, I think it quite likely that the guys at Wizards, being fans of D&D - and that being what led them to want to RESCUE it from burial for a decade or two - would simply have written a new RPG that looked just like 3E, and then just given it some other name. The people who had become interested in 3E as it was in development would still have been interested in it under another name. And here's the thing I've repeated for years - no rpg has an expiration date. Just because there may not have been a company formally publishing D&D stuff wouldn't have stopped anybody's game in progress, nor prevented anyone from starting another one, nor buying used books, etc. In fact, it may have been a great catalyst for unchecked internet creativity. With the IP of D&D being buried in legal limbo nobody would likely be in a position to be sending C&D's to people making their modules freely available, or character sheets, or campaign settings, or redrawing a map of Greyhawk or... I'd [I]guess [/I]that it would have been open season, the inmates running the asylum, short of somebody just reprinting the 1E PH as-is and trying to sell it. Personally I'd doubt that. GURPS has its fans as just about any RPG, but my perception of SJG has always been that they're an also-ran. In the sudden absence of "official" support for D&D certainly ALL other RPG's would see some amount of benefit, but as I said, no RPG has an expiration date. Simply being forced to now create [I]your own[/I] new D&D adventures from your own imagination rather than buy them is closer to how the game began and was intended anyway. But, yeah. All still just speculation. [/QUOTE]
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