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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6544790" data-attributes="member: 22424">I don't know. Rationally, WotC should have no concern about someone replicating what Paizo did (because nobody can). Rationally, a third-party publisher should consider a 10-year license to be as good as 'forever' (since most sales happen pretty much right away). But then, rationally, anyone capable of making any meaningful money doing third-party D&amp;D products should really go spend the time making much more money doing other things.My gut feeling is that at this point anything less than the OGL will be seen as underwhelming and will see little use. (That said, I suspect even the OGL would see little more use than it already does.) And I can't see WotC using the OGL - at the very least, they'll want some sort of &quot;communities standards&quot; clauses added (to allow them to block 'problematic' content).This would be my take as well. A third-party license is very much a nice-to-have for us, but it won't bring in any money (directly) to Hasbro, so it's less important than other things. And that's even assuming that the faction within WotC that are pro-OGL won the argument convincingly - if the anti-OGL faction still has influence they may well fight it even against the (D&amp;D team) management position.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6544790, member: 22424"] I don't know. Rationally, WotC should have no concern about someone replicating what Paizo did (because nobody can). Rationally, a third-party publisher should consider a 10-year license to be as good as 'forever' (since most sales happen pretty much right away). But then, rationally, anyone capable of making any meaningful money doing third-party D&D products should really go spend the time making much more money doing other things. My gut feeling is that at this point anything less than [i]the[/i] OGL will be seen as underwhelming and will see little use. (That said, I suspect even the OGL would see little more use than it already does.) And I can't see WotC using the OGL - at the very least, they'll want some sort of "communities standards" clauses added (to allow them to block 'problematic' content). This would be my take as well. A third-party license is very much a nice-to-have for us, but it won't bring in any money (directly) to Hasbro, so it's less important than other things. And that's even assuming that the faction within WotC that are pro-OGL won the argument convincingly - if the anti-OGL faction still has influence they may well fight it even against the (D&D team) management position. [/QUOTE]

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