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<blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 6014176" data-attributes="member: 6670763">They were against switching to 4th edition becaus doing so would also enforce a number of very restrictive rules on them, that were pretty much prohibitiv for most third party companies.Not denying that they were very clear on not working on 4th edition early on, but I think the business aspects probably played a much bigger role than the rules of the game.If there had been an option to decide between 3rd edition and 4th edition for the same conditions of the OGL, I am not saying they would have picked 4th edition for sure.But they would have had a choice and even the option to just do a few experimental attempts before completely admitting to either system, or even just support both to some degree. But WotC did not offer that choice so it was clear for them that whatever they do, they would not be working with 4th edition. They may still have said &quot;nah, this game sucks&quot; or their 3rd edition material might have vastly outsold the 4th edition stuff because people actually did not want to play with those rules. But with no OGL and SRD, WotC forced that descision with the result we have now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yora, post: 6014176, member: 6670763"] They were against switching to 4th edition becaus doing so would also enforce a number of very restrictive rules on them, that were pretty much prohibitiv for most third party companies. Not denying that they were very clear on not working on 4th edition early on, but I think the business aspects probably played a much bigger role than the rules of the game. If there had been an option to decide between 3rd edition and 4th edition for the same conditions of the OGL, I am not saying they would have picked 4th edition for sure. But they would have had a choice and even the option to just do a few experimental attempts before completely admitting to either system, or even just support both to some degree. But WotC did not offer that choice so it was clear for them that whatever they do, they would not be working with 4th edition. They may still have said "nah, this game sucks" or their 3rd edition material might have vastly outsold the 4th edition stuff because people actually did not want to play with those rules. But with no OGL and SRD, WotC forced that descision with the result we have now. [/QUOTE]

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