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<blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 4168731" data-attributes="member: 924"><p>I don't think whatever they do with the GSL will hurt the core D&D market. Heck, they could buy the rights to Spawn of Fashan and publish that as 4e and it would still sell millions.</p><p></p><p>But what the OGL does, or did, was expand the user base to people who wouldn't ordinarily buy D&D. </p><p></p><p>Of course, just how much is that worth to WOTC? I'm probably an extreme example, but I have over 200 d20/OGL books and only probably a dozen WOTC 3.x books. They could see that as a plus for WOTC, since they sold me a dozen books I wouldn't have otherwise bought, or they could see that as 200 books not sold to me. The Ryan Dancy WOTC thought the former way, but I think the new Hasbro dominated WOTC thinks the latter way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trancejeremy, post: 4168731, member: 924"] I don't think whatever they do with the GSL will hurt the core D&D market. Heck, they could buy the rights to Spawn of Fashan and publish that as 4e and it would still sell millions. But what the OGL does, or did, was expand the user base to people who wouldn't ordinarily buy D&D. Of course, just how much is that worth to WOTC? I'm probably an extreme example, but I have over 200 d20/OGL books and only probably a dozen WOTC 3.x books. They could see that as a plus for WOTC, since they sold me a dozen books I wouldn't have otherwise bought, or they could see that as 200 books not sold to me. The Ryan Dancy WOTC thought the former way, but I think the new Hasbro dominated WOTC thinks the latter way. [/QUOTE]
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