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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8863751" data-attributes="member: 2209">So for 4th WotC did not release any of it under the OGL. They did not rescind or alter the Open Game License, they just did not put out anything under it that would allow others to easily use the OGL to produce 4e material.They originally were planning on licensing out 4e third party rights for $10,000 per license, then scrapped that and put out the restrictive 4e GSL with no buy in cost, but lots of restrictions including the option of having stuff taken away at any time. WotC revised the 4e GSL at one point to take out an OGL poison pill section that the original GSL had that would have required people to give up publishing anything under the OGL forever for a product line that they used the GSL for, even if their rights under the GSL were terminated.Some 3rd party companies put out some 4e stuff under the OGL. <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/36/Goodman-Games/subcategory/187_9944/DCC-4E-Adventures?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Early Goodman Games 4e stuff was done so</a> while they switched to the GSL for later 4e products. Kenzer whose principal is an IP lawyer and has been publishing D&D compatible stuff since 2e, put out a <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/58027/Kingdoms-of-Kalamar-4th-edition-campaign-setting?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">4e campaign book </a>under no license.A number of companies used the 4e GSL to put out 4e 3rd party products, but it was nowhere near the number that put out stuff for 3e under the OGL or for Pathfinder 1e under the OGL.4e was mechanically fairly different from anything published under the 3e srd, so without an OGC system reference document of open game content 4e base rules to work off of that was clearly authorized under the terms of the OGL, a number of companies were hesitant to touch 4e type stuff under the OGL, or to take up the restrictive GSL, particularly when there was the easy to use Pathfinder SRD OGC OGL material to build off of and pathfinder was doing well.Just going onto say DrivethruRPG if you can narrow a search by product type you can get some numbers for comparison.</blockquote>

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